Pickering, Timothy, Cabinet offices held by, 228, 229; 231.
Pinckney, Charles C., on X.Y.Z. mission to France, 215, 216; 162, 165, 166, 217.
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, effect of his accession to power, 27, 28; dismissed by George III, 29; his last appearance in the Lords, 119, and death, 120.
Pittsburgh, on site of Fort Duquesne, 34, 255.
President, discussion as to term and method of election of, 167, 168; _W_.'s view of office of, 178; _W_.'s example as preventive of third term for, 223, 224.
Press, the, virulence and indecency of, 219 _ff_.
Privateering, effect of French Alliance on, 108, 120, 121.
Quebec, Battle of, 28, 48; abortive attack on, 71, 72; persistence in project of capturing, 77.
Randolph, Edmund, Attorney-General, 181, 186, 229; Secretary of State, 206,228; his "Vindication," 229, 230; letter of _W_. to, 208, 209; 161, 169, 193.
Representation of States in Congress, question of, settled by compromise, 167.
Revolutionary War. _See_ American Revolution.
Robinson, Mr., Speaker of the House of Burgesses (Va.), quoted, 36.
Rochambeau, Jean B.D. de Vimeure, Count de, 122, 125.
Rockingham, Charles Wentworth, Marquis of, 130.
Rutledge, Edward, on committee to confer with Howe, 79; 59.
Saratoga, Battle of, Burgoyne defeated in, 93; effect of, in France, 99.
Senate of U.S., representation of States in, 167.
Seven Years' War, 27 _ff_.; effect of, 29.
Slave trade, question of, settled by compromise, 165, 166.
Slavery, why _W_. disapproved of, 38, 39, 238; question of, settled by compromise, 164, 165.
Slaves, _W_.'s relations with, 38, 237-239; number of, in Colonies, in 1775, 68.
South Carolina, population of, in 1775, 68; British victories in, 122; 165.
Sparks, Jared, his _Life of Washington_, defects of, 3; quoted, 113,116 and _n_., 146.
Stark, John, defeats Burgoyne at Bennington, 92.
State debts, assumption of, by national government, how secured, 182-185; favored by _W_., 188.
State rights, problem of, 167; a fundamental subject of difference, 187.
States of the Confederation, _W_.'s farewell letter to governors of, 135; after the Revolution, 152, 156; their relations to one another, 152, 153; lack of coherence among, 154, 155; foreign relations of, ignominious, 155; delegates of, in Constitutional Convention, 160-162; ratification by, 175, 174. And _see_ Paris, Treaty of (1783).