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Index to History. 



Pickering, Mr., * ii. 47. 

 Pie Corner, i. 166. 



Piers and wharves in Hingham, ii. 174. 

 Pigeon Plain, i. 182. 



Pilgrims and Puritans, distinction be- 

 tween, and religious sentiments of the, 



i. 206-208. 

 Pilgrim's Progress in verse, Bunyan's, 



ii. 203. 

 Pilgrims' Songs in the Wilderness (a book 



of hymns), ii. 213. 

 Pilgrims, Songs of the, ii. 215. 

 Pine Hill, i. 172. 

 Pine Log Hill, i. 191. 

 Pine Tree Tavern, i. 198. 

 Pirates, capture by, and suffering and 



escape from, ii. 212. 

 Plain Neck, i. 171. 

 Plain, the (Cohasset), i. 159, 163. 

 Planing, sawing, and turning mill, ii. 165. 

 Planter's Fields, / . -,~ Q 

 Planils, \ L 178 - 



Planter's Fields Lane, i. 176. 

 Planter's Fields (old), i. 173. 

 Planter's Hill, i. 172. 

 Pleasant Beach, i. 161. 

 Pleasant Hill, i. 178. 

 Plough, early introduction of the, ii. 183. 

 Ploughs of Hingham manufacture, ii. 



179. 

 Plymouth, an oration pronounced and 



sermon preached at, ii. 212, 214. 

 Plymouth, opening of the Old Colony 



Railroad to, ii. 253. 

 Plymouth, ordination of Rev. Joseph 



Stacy at, ii. 212. 

 Plymouth River, i. 183. 

 Poems, and poetic essays, ii. 199, 212, 



215, 219, 228, 229. 

 Poems, list of, by the author of " Poetical 



Works," ii. 226, 227. 

 Poetry of observation, ii. 212. 

 Poiney, Edwin, i. 366. 

 Police Court of Boston, justice of the, 



ii. 329. 

 Political feeling at the commencement of 



the present century, and its effect upon 



local transportation, ii. 242. 

 Political idea, fidelity to our, ii. 217. 

 Polypetalous exogens, i. 91-107. 

 Pond Rock, i. 168, 169. 

 Ponds of Hingham, i. 1-5. See also Land- 



mRrks 

 Poole, Charles H., i. 354. 

 Poole, Joseph M., i. 352. 

 Poor and school fund, the, ii. 102. 

 Pope, Lemuel, Acting Master U. S. N., 



Post commander, i. 364, 368, 369. 

 Pope's Lane, ) . , Qft 

 Pope's Hole, \ L im 



Population of Hingham at different pe- 

 riods, i. 119, ii. 379. 

 Porphyrite at Nantasket, Rocky Neck, 



and Weir River, i. 30, 31. 

 Portland, Me., ordination sermon preached 



at, ii. 225. 



Portrait of Col. Benjamin Loring given in 

 trust, to be placed and kept in Loring 

 Hall, ii. 284. 



Portraits, address in the House of Repre- 

 sentatives on the presentation of those 

 of Ex-Speakers Sedgwick, Varnum, and 

 Banks, ii. 216. 



Portraits of Madam Derby and Dr. Her- 

 sey, ii. 138. 



Post 104 G. A. R., date of organization, 

 and commanders of, i. 345, 348, 361, 363, 

 369. 



Postmasters, list of, and dates of appoint- 

 ment, ii. 383, 384. 



Post-offices, locations of, ii. 384, 385 



Powder-House, and Powder-House Hill, 

 i. 197. 



Powder-house, location of the first, i. 252. 



Powder manufactured in Hingham, i. 293. 



Powder transported to Hingham, i. .319. 



Pownal, Governor Thomas sails from 

 Boston with a regiment; appointments 

 by, i. 266 ; ii. 44, 339. 



Pratt, Benjamin, t Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court of New York, ii. 339. 



Pratt, Caleb, i. 283, 300. 



Pratt, Edward B., t ii. 339. 



Pratt, Harvey M., i. 348, 361. 



Pratt, John, i. 263. 



Pratt's Corner, i. 167. 



Pratt's Rocks, i. 168. 



Pratt, Thomas, i. 298. 



Prayer Book, A Family, ii. 200. 



Preaching, Hints on Extemporaneous, 

 ii. 228. 



Preamble of the Club of Generous Under- 

 takers, ii. 298. 



Preamble of the Jefferson Debating 

 Society, ii. 299. 



Preceptors and preceptresses of Derby 

 Academy, ii. 141. 



Preliminary remarks on general Geology, 

 i. 6, 7. 



Preliminary remarks on the Botany of 

 Hingham, i. 87-90. 



Preparation of the soil and cultivation of 

 crops, ii. 183, 184. 



Preparatory department at the Derby 

 Academy established, ii. 134, 141. 



Prescott, regiment of Colonel, i. 289, 

 327. 



Presbury, Samuel, * ii. 220. 



President Lincoln a descendant of Hing- 

 ham stock, i. 340. 



Presidents of the Hingham Agricultural 

 and Horticultural Society, ii. 191. 



Preston, Edward L., i. 366. 



Prichet (Prichard), John, i. 298. 



Prichard, Oliver, i. 283. 



Prichart (Prichard), Price, i. 263. 



Prichard, Richard, i. 283. 



Priestley, Life of Joseph, LL. D., ii. 229. 



Prince, Isaac, i. 237. 



Prince, John, i. 228. 



Prince, John, * ii. 47. 



Prisoners at Halifax, i. 308. 



