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Prospect Hill, American bivouac upon, i. 153; American flag first
raised on, i. IBS.
P.salm-Booli, Bay, tirst boolt printed in Nortli America (note),
i. 70.
Psalm, Hundredtli, sung in Indian atNaticli, ii. 200.
Psalms, Indian version of, ii. 201.
Pulling, Captain John, signals to Paul Revere (note), i. 117.
Punkatasset Hill, provincials posted on, i. 122.
Putnam, General Israel, arrives at Concord, i. 128; reconnoitres
Charlestown, i. 133; fortiHes Prospect Hill, i. 154 ; commands
American centre, i. 156; enters into command of Boston,
i. 167.
Putnam, Rufus, engineer at Dorchester Heights, i. 1G5.
Pynchon, William, character of, i. 26.
Quakers, persecution
of, i. 83.
Quonapowitt, Lake, v
Boston, i. 76; conti
amed, ii. 274.
Railroad, Western, remarks of Abbott Lawrence on, i. 193; Fitchburg,
beginnings of, i. 193; Boston and Maine, account of, i.
194; opened in Reading, ii.281; Boston and Albany, stage-ride
over route, i. 192; beginning and progress of, i. 191; Lowell,
first projection of, i. 190; general description of, i. 191;
begun, ii. 67; Saugus Branch, opened in Everett, i. 4.30;
station, in Boxborough, i. 273; first, in Holliston, i. 478;
location of, in .South Reading, i. 400.
Railniad, Horse, Middlesex, noticed, i. 430; begun at Lowell, ii.
92; in Somorville, ii. 319.
P.ailroads, opening of, in Cambridge, i. 355: beginning of, in
Concord, i. .398; first built through Somerville, ii. 314; con-
nection of, with Westford, ii. 487.
Rale, Jesuit, killed at Norridgewock, i. 99.
Randolph, Edward, arrives from England, i. 89; sent back for
trial, i. 94.
Reading, history of toivn of, ii. 270; original grant of, i. 71; ac-
tion of, during siege of Boston, ii. 278; various annals of, ii.
2S0; action of, in Rebellion, ii. 282; South, incorporated as
400.
Rebellion, .Shays's, effect of, upon Ashby, i. 224: action of Concord
in, i.391; action of Bedford upon, i. 246 : Shirley men
enga..lvcs adopted by Middlesex Convention, i. 107.
Revere, Paul, sent to Lexington bv Warren, i. 113: rides at night
to Concord, i. 114; and others, British officers take, i. 118.
" Revere's Alarm." story of, ii. 19.
Revolution, men of Ashby in. i. 223; action concerning, in Acton,
i. 199; movement toward, in Billerica, i. 263; events in Cambridge
preceding, i. 339; action before, in Chelmsford, i. 374:
relation nf Concord to opening of, i. 385: preparation for, in
W: 445.
Richardson, Rev. Jos( ^ of, i 208.
INDEX. 569
Ripley, Rev. Samuel, dissatisfaction with, ii. 426.
River, Assabet, mills upon, ii. 156; chief stream in Stow, ii. 351;
Sudbury and other streams described, ii. 372; Squamcook
and others, in Townsend, ii. 381.
Rivers, Connecticut and Merrimac, hinder commerce, i. 188.
Roads, early, in Melrose, ii. 178.
Robinson, Rev. John, pastor Leyden congregation, i. 33.
Robinson, , commands right flank on Bunker Hill, i. 149.
Rockbottom, manufactures at, ii. 356.
"Rogers' Rangers," Lexington men with, ii. 15.
Rogers, Rev. Mr., forced to declaration, ii. 49.
Rosewell, Sir Henry, and his patentees, i. 18.
Rowson, Mrs. Susanna, at Medford, ii- 168; at Newton, ii. 231.
Roxburv, first settlement of, i. 46 ; or