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Settlements

Social Gospel

Poorhouses, 156, 213, 775, 1161

Poor’s, 1046

Pope Day. See Guy Fawkes Day

Popular sovereignty, 283

Populism, 1203-6

Pornography, 535, 682-83, 1013-16

Porridge Tavern, 188

Port Morris, 656, 745, 1220

Port of New-York Society for Promoting the Gospel Among Seamen, 496

Porter House restaurant, 461

Portraits, 721

Portuguese, 829

Postal service, 46, 79, 107, 290, 389, 510-11, 560, 608, 798, 932, 939, 94!-42, 969, 1015, 1116

Potter’s field, 368

Pottery works, 307

Poughkeepsie Convention (1788), 291-92, 293, 295, 296, 305, 317

Pound Ridge, 39

Poverty. See Poor relief

Poor/poverty

Preliminary Articles of Peace, 256

Prenuptial contracts, 818

Presbyterian Hospital, 1217

Presbyterian University of the City of New York, 532

Presbyterians: blacks as, 547, 548-50, 855, 857

and British occupation of New York, 250

in colonial New York, 115, 117, 130, 132, 157, 158, 179-80

and Cornbury’s administration, 115

in early nineteenth century, 452, 454, 478-79, 480, 482, 496, 530, 531-32, 535

and education, 531-32

in 1830s, 543, 547, 548-50, 551, 556

and Great Awakening, 157, 158

as immigrants, 130, 132

in late nineteenth century, 976, 1082, 1130, 1168, 1170

and loyalism, 220

in mid-nineteenth century, 619-20, 628, 629, 630, 717

in New Amsterdam, 67

and politics, 117, 179-80

and ratification of Constitution, 291

and reform, 530, 531-32, 535

in revolutionary New York, 208-9

schools for, 547

Scot-Irish as, 130, 250, 257, 630

in 1790s and early 1800s, 365, 395, 397. See also specific person

President Street, 1123

Presidential mansion, 296, 300, 301, 329

Press gangs, 182, 193, 250

Press. See Newspapers

Prices: and British occupation of New York, 251

and city development, 950

and Civil War, 866, 878, 883, 901

in colonial New York, 141, 181, 183, 192

and Crash of 1873, 1035

and development of financial district, 940, 941

in early nineteenth century, 485, 519, 521

in 1830s, 599, 607, 609-11

fixing of, 1042

in late nineteenth century, 930, 933, 940, 941, 950, 1035, 1100, 1151, 1185

in mid-nineteenth century, 770, 843

and Panic of 1857, 843

and Panic of 1861, 866

in post-revolutionary New York, 269, 274, 280

in proprietary New York, 85

in revolutionary New York, 225, 229

in 1790s and early 1800s, 388

Priests, 105, 162, 163, 889, 894, 1106

Prime, Ward, and King, 447, 615

Prince Street, 364, 480, 503, 546, 565, 585, 622, 668, 671, 723, 855, 1006, 1123

Prince’s Bay, 662

Princess Street, 363

Princeton: battle at, 243-44

Princeton University, 180, 1086

Printers Legion, 1105

Printers/printing: in early nineteenth century, 339, 442, 475, 515

expansion of, 442

in late nineteenth century, 988, 990, 1027, 1091

in mid-nineteenth century, 676-81, 742, 772, 802, 845, 933, 947

presses for, 678-79

and reform, 496-97

in 1790s and early 1800s, 392, 393

strikes in, 772. See also Magazines; Newspapers

Publishing

Printing House Square, 679, 1065

Prison Association of New York (male), 806

Prison labor, 604–5

Prison Ship Martyrs, 708

Prison ships, 253-54, 255

Prisoners: and British occupation of New York, 252-54, 255

during Civil War, 884, 886

in Connecticut, 231

political, 886

as strikebreakers, 884

Prisoners of war, 185, 898

Prisons: blacks in, 367, 549

in early nineteenth century, 503, 504, 505-6, 508, 534

in 1830s, 549, 593

in late nineteenth century, 1032

in mid-nineteenth century, 605, 623, 636, 775, 807, 827

in 1790s and early 1800s, 365-67, 385

and Tammany, 827

and vagrancy, 1032

women in, 1032. See also Debtors’ prison

Jails

Private schools, 1086

Privateering: and British occupation of New York, 247, 250

in colonial New York, 159, 169-70, 176, 182, 185, 191, 200, 201

in early nineteenth century, 318, 321, 325, 341

French, 325

in New Netherland, 63

in proprietary New York, 105-7, 110

and resistance to British colonial policies, 200

and War of 1812, 426

Procter & Gamble, 1049

Produce Exchange, 1004, 1033,