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difficulties respecting the exchange of, ii. 605; commissioners appointed to regulate the exchange of, ii. 606.

Privateers fitted out by order of Washington, i. 740; decision of Washington's cabinet, in 1793, respecting, iii. 270; act of Congress in relation to, in 1798, iii. 496.

Proclamation issued by Washington, enjoining neutrality, in 1798--language of (_note_), iii. 241; approved by the "solid men" of Philadelphia, iii. 250; controversy respecting, between Hamilton and Madison, iii. 262.

Proclamations issued by Washington in 1794, addressed to the insurgents in Pennsylvania (_note_), iii. 311, 314.

Property of Washington directed by his will to be sold, iii. 542; notes of Washington in relation to, iii. 544.

Prophecy, Indian, respecting the destinies of Washington, iii. 48.

Prospect hill, shell thrown to, from Boston, by the British, ii. 62.

Providence, Washington's acknowledgment of a, i. 387.

Provincials, admirable conduct of, at the battle of the Monongahela, i. 167, 169.

Provost, Doctor, prayers offered by, at the inauguration of Washington, iii. 96.

Pulaski, Count, awaiting an appointment to a troop of horse, ii. 497; conspicuous bravery of, at the battle of the Brandywine, ii. 510; force of infantry under the command of, surprised and massacred by Ferguson, ii. 643; mortally wounded at the siege of Savannah, ii. 663.

Putnam, Colonel Rufus, appointed brigadier under Wayne in 1791, iii. 197.

Putnam, General Israel, at the defeat of Dieskau, i. 182, 184; with Abercrombie at Ticonderoga, i. 262; taken prisoner by the French and Indians in 1758, i. 266; at Cambridge with a body of Connecticut men, i. 543; appointed by Congress associate major-general with Philip Schuyler