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	Peter Puget - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Puget was an officer in the British Royal Navy.
		Puget served under Captain James Cook in the West Indies and as a lieutenant under Captain George Vancouver during his exploration of North America's Pacific Coast from 1791-94 aboard the HMS Discovery.
		Peter Puget lived from 1765-1822, and achieved the rank of Rear Admiral (1821) and was knighted.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Puget (144 words)

	Puget Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Puget Sound (pronounced IPA [ˈpjuʤɨt]) is a fjord connected to the Pacific Ocean via the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
		Originally, the name Puget Sound only referred to the southern reaches beyond Poverty Bay explored by Peter Puget, and the central and northern reaches familiar to Washington State Ferry riders was called Admiralty Inlet.
		During World War II the Puget Sound area became a focus for the war industry, with Boeing producing many of the nation's heavy bombers and the ports of Seattle, Bremerton and Tacoma available for shipbuilding.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Puget_Sound (1180 words)

	21st Century Learning Initiative
		Peter Puget was his lieutenant, the man responsible for sailing the ship across the north and south Atlantic, around the Cape of Good Hope and, taking advantage of the prevailing winds, right across to Australia and then further across the Pacific.
		Peter Puget would have found a conversation with an 11th century sailor easier than with a steamship captain of 50 years later, for by the mid-19th century most people were becoming sufficiently specialist in their daily activity to be effectively ignoring many of these attributes which in previous times ensured their full and complete development.
		By the age of 12 Nelson, and probably Peter Puget, would have internalized the processes of classical and biblical thought; by 13 or 14 they would have done the same with trigonometry, geography, and much of the lessons of the sea, and by 15 they were fast becoming men of stature.
	www.21learn.org /arch/articles/peter_puget.html (3978 words)

	ReefNews Goes To Washington's Puget Sound
		And one of its most remarkable natural resources is the Puget Sound, a network of deep-water bays and inlets where the Pacific Ocean reaches inland into what were once mountain valleys.
		The Washington coast is part of the "Ring of Fire." The Ring of Fire is a name for the northern coast all around the Pacific Ocean, where volcanoes and earthquakes are common.
		Puget Sound is a branch off the south end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
	www.reefnews.com /reefnews/oceangeo/washngtn/pugetsnd.html (474 words)

	Peter Puget on Puget's Sound
		Second Lieutenant Peter Puget was twenty-seven or twenty-eight his exact birthday is unknown and had spent half his life in the Navy, having entered service as a midshipman in 1778.
		The day had cleared; it was hot and muggy, Puget's thermometer registering 90 degrees, very warm for May. Early in the afternoon they put into a small cove, probably the lagoon at the mouth of Minter Creek, to dine.
		Puget ordered one of the swivel guns to be fired across the water as a demonstration of the power of cannon.
	www2.tacomapubliclibrary.org /v2/nwroom/morgan/Puget.htm (4002 words)

	Puget Sound - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		PUGET SOUND [Puget Sound], arm of the Pacific Ocean, NW Wash., connected with the Pacific by Juan de Fuca Strait, entered through the Admiralty Inlet and extending in two arms c.100 mi (160 km) S to Olympia.
		Along its shores are important ports and commercial cities; the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is at Bremerton.
		The Puget Sound lowland, which extends south from the sound, is the most densely populated area of Washington; Seattle and Tacoma are the principal cities.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-pugets1ou.html (332 words)

	Admiral Puget
		The Puget family were descended from Huguenot ancestors who settled in London and Ireland after the persecutions of Louis XIV.
		Peter Puget was the sixth child of seven and on the death of the father a career as a naval officer was probably seen as a sensible option for a younger son with few expectations.
		Puget quickly established himself as skillful surveyor and was given command of the armed tender Chatham by Vancouver in 1793.
	history.powys.org.uk /history/prest/puget.html (363 words)

	European Settlement in Puget Sound
		The history of Europeans and the subsequent settlers in Puget Sound is inextricably linked to the 1792 expedition of Captain George Vancouver (seen in the picture to the right) and Lt. Peter Puget on the British ship Discovery.
		The presence of Europeans also meant the presence of European diseases and it is estimated that the Native American population in the Puget Sound area decreased from 20,000 in the late 1700's to 7,000 by 1833.
		The shipbuilding industry of Puget Sound saw a large boon during the wartime periods of the mid 1900's.
	www.uvm.edu /~ksjennin/nr260/europeans.html (698 words)

	Tacoma Washington CVB : Hotels, Attractions, Travel and Vacation Planning
		Puget Sound Indian tribes, such as the Puyallup and Nisqually, called the Pierce County area home for centuries before the first European explorers arrived.
		Primarily a hunting-gathering culture, these indigenous people called Mount Rainier "Tacobet," meaning "Mother of Waters." However, "Tacobet" was interpreted by the white man as "Tahoma," which later became the name of a pioneer city, Tacoma.
		Captain George Vancouver was the first white man to sail into Puget Sound in 1792; he named the peak Mount Rainier after one of his friends.
	www.traveltacoma.com /static/index.cfm?contentID=269 (578 words)

	48° North - Kopachuck and Cutts Island
		Familiar names explored Puget Sound 214 years ago; Lt. Peter Puget and Sailing Master Joseph Whidbey in May 1792, 15 years before Lewis and Clark began their incredible expedition across the country.
		Puget and Whidbey, part of Capt. George Vancouver's contingent exploring the Northwest Coast of North America, were aided in their amazing seven-day voyage through the entire sound by friendly, extremely knowledgable local Indians who shared their nautical expertise and meals.
		Peter Puget named it Crow Island after his men breakfasted on crow stew on the second morning of their expedition into the Sound.
	www.48north.com /feb_2006/kopachuck.htm (1191 words)

	TacomaScene.com presents KALAKALA and her return to Puget Sound; plus - Hotel, Motel, Restaurant, Nightclub, Bar, ...
		Peter's goals were to generate continued support for the vessel and to share his vision of this former icon with the Seattle community.
		Peter hopes to see the ferry docked at the Washington Street Pier near Seattle's Pioneer Square district, but there are still many looming challenges before the Kalakala becomes a permanent fixture in Seattle.
		Peter believes the students' interior design plans will help generate support for the ferry and let community members see the importance of restoring the Kalakala as a pivotal part of Northwest history once again.
	www.tacomascene.com /kalakala/history.html (12771 words)

	Economic History of Thurston County
		In 1792, a surveying team under Lieutenant Peter Puget of the Vancouver expedition put its longboats ashore in south Puget Sound.
		Though growth was impeded by the Indian War of 1855-56 and the tendency of the men to rush off to California's gold fields, the founding generation had established Olympia as a significant port and trading center on south Puget Sound by the 1860s.
		Puget Sound was essentially an enormous virgin wilderness of fir trees.
	www.olympiahistory.org /texts/rainey_economic.html (2685 words)

	Alaska place-names
		Peter Puget was a lieutenant in Vancouver's expedition.
		Elrington was the maiden name of Peter Puget's wife, Hannah, whom he married in 1797.
		Thomas Bainbridge was the partner of Peter Puget's brother, John Puget, in the company Puget and Bainbridge (they were merchant bankers).
	pages.quicksilver.net.nz /jcr/~vancouver4.html (4198 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Smallpox epidemic ravages Native Americans on the northwest coast of North America in the 1770s.
		On May 21, 1792, Peter Puget discovered further signs of this disease on the Puget Sound residents.
		While Lieutenant Puget explored the southern reaches of the sound soon to receive his name, he met some Indians in a canoe.
		Worldwide studies show that the fatality rates to people never before exposed to smallpox are at least 30 percent of the entire population and sometimes as high as 50 to 70 percent.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=5100 (1771 words)

	County Connection - Community events and Web sites for Snohomish and Island counties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		Peter Puget Chapter Edmonds, WA Our Chapter chose the name Peter Puget in honor of Second Lieutenant Peter Puget, the second officer on board the HMS Discovery, commanded by Captain George Vancouver from 1757-1798.
		In May of 1792, while on a four-year voyage around the word, they sailed through the Straits of Juan de Fuca to discover a "sea in the Forest." Lieutenant Puget was assigned to job of exploring and surveying the shorelines of this inland sea.
		Shortly after Peter Puget Chapter was organized, the burial site of Admiral Puget was discovered in small a country churchyard in Woolley, a suburb of Bath, Somerset, England.
	www.countyconnection.net /sites/index.cfm?siteid=848 (179 words)

	Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		It is named after Peter Puget who is buried some 12 miles from Bristol.
		Second Lieutenant Peter Puget was the second officer on board the HMS Discovery, commanded by Captain George Vancouver from 1757-1798.
		Admiral Puget is buried in a small a country churchyard in Woolley, near Bath about 12 miles from Bristol.
	pages.prodigy.net /rodney.broome/american18wash.htm (234 words)

	EXPLORERS Washington
		He then sailed to Puget Sound (near what is now Seattle); Vancouver named Puget Sound (he named it for Lieutenant Peter Puget who was sailing under Captain Vancouver on the ship "Discovery").
		George Vancouver's 1792 investigations of Puget Sound and environs were for the purpose of seeking scientific and commercial information.
		Puget's exertions, the south extremity of it I named Puget's Sound." Over time, despite the name Admiralty Inlet on government charts, the entire inland sea is generally but incorrectly called Puget Sound.
	home.pacifier.com /~helenp/Eoutput.html (2772 words)

	Town of Steilacoom : History : Historic Timeline
		Peter Puget of Captain George Vancouver's crew explored and mapped Puget Sound and met Native Americans offshore from Steilacoom.
		Steilacoom’s port was the busiest on Puget Sound, with travelers and ships in the harbor carrying lumber, barrel hoops and goods from San Francisco in exchange for cut timber from the surrounding forests.
		Today’s residents enjoy historic homes with views of Puget Sound and the mountains and share a unique sense of community in Washington’s first town.
	www.townofsteilacoom.com /history/timeline.htm (1305 words)

	General Information for Puget Sound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		Filled with the saltwater of the ocean, this sound extends nearly 90 miles from Olympia on the south to the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the north and affords over 2,000 miles of shoreline.
		Captain George Vancouver named this extensive waterway when he visited in May, 1792, calling it Puget Sound in honor of Peter Puget, leader of the expedition to the southern portion of the sound.
		Although much of Puget Sound is deep, the southernmost waters culminate in shoals and drying flats.
	www.boattravel.com /sample/01110gen.htm (168 words)

	Browns Point History
		In the spring of 1792, Captain George Vancouver and his men, who were exploring in the name of King George III of England, became the first white men to view the twin points.
		On May 20th Capt. Vancouver sent Peter Puget on the launch and Mr.
		Whidbey on the cutter, which were two of their long boats, on a mission to explore the southern part of the extensive arm of water he called Puget Sound.
	www.pointsnortheast.org /browns.html (2241 words)

	Maple Valley WA Homes, Puget Sound Home for Sale, Seattle Condos, Kent Properties, Washington State Real Estate, Realty ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
		The Native American name for the Puget Sound in the Lushootseed language, used by the regional Native Americans tribes, is "Whulge." Its current name was given by George Vancouver for Lieutenant Peter Puget, who explored its southern end in May 1792.
		As you would expect, Puget Sound real estate is highly valued and available homes and properties sell quickly.
		Puget Sound real estate includes a wide variety of homes for sale, condos for sale, water access properties (waterfront, riverfront, lake view), active adult communities, horse farms and executive properties.
	marleneandtomconran.com /puget_sound_real_estate.htm (584 words)

	Map Puget Sound-Map San Juan Islands-Washington
		Puget Sound was given its name by George Vancouver for Lieutenant Peter Puget, who explored its southern end in 1792.
		Puget Sound Washington was concidered at one time the body of water extending south from the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
		Along Puget Sound shores are cities and towns running north from Olympia to the Canadian border, East to the Casacade Mountains, West to the Pacific Ocean.
	www.sanjuanislandsdirectory.com /history_map.htm (396 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Vancouver begins British survey of Puget Sound on May 19, 1792.
		The following morning, Capt. George Vancouver (1757-1798) dispatches Lt. Peter Puget and Master Joseph Whidbey to conduct a detailed survey of the waters to the south.
		This is the first penetration of "Puget's Sound" by white men.
		Murray Morgan, Puget's Sound: A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979); Edmond S. Meany, History of the State of Washington (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1909); Clarence Bagley, History of Seattle (Chicago: S. Clarke Publishing Co., 1916).
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=5230 (315 words)

	Hammersley Inlet \| Washington Sea Kayak Tours
		Preview: The skinniest of major Puget Sound inlets, Hammersley is a saltwater river ride if you time the currents right to transport you from one end to the other.
		There is the possibility of making a fairly easy round trip by coordinating your return with the tidal exchanges, enjoying a snack and exploring the shoreline at your turnaround while you await the current’s reversal.
		Hammersley Inlet was completely overlooked by Peter Puget’s expedition and not discovered for another 50 years, possibly due to the overlapping points of Cape Horn and Cape Cod near the inlet’s entrance, which mask its true character.
	www.trails.com /tcatalog_trail.asp?TrailID=CGW028-001 (182 words)

	Encyclopedia Search
		Sound is an arm of the Pacific Ocean in the...United States.
		Sound is named by George Vancouver for Lieutenant Peter-
		Sound region and the adjacent rivers of the Cascade Range.
	www.encyclopedian.com /search.php?searWords=Puget (84 words)

	2004 executive of the year Peter Rose - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
		The chairman and CEO of Expeditors International didn't want to be singled out as Executive of the Year.
		Rather, his reluctance to accept Puget Sound Business Journal's annual honor was as traditional as Expeditors' business is innovative.
		As a leader who demonstrates an almost-tribal allegiance to the 8,500 people who operate Expeditors International of Washington Inc., Rose said he'd simply prefer the credit be spread among them.
	seattle.bizjournals.com /seattle/stories/2004/12/27/focus1.html (956 words)

	Research Indians pg5
		The first European foreigners to journey into Puget Sound were two British explorers, Peter Puget and Joseph Whidbey, who were part of the Vancouver expedition.
		This meant that the Indians living there were now under the control of the United States, without their consent.
		As more settlers came to South Puget Sound, it became clear that there was a problem.
	www.ci.tumwater.wa.us /researchindianspg5.htm (279 words)

	Peter Richings
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		RICHINGS, Peter, actor, born in London, England, 19 May, 1797 ; died in Media, Pennsylvania, 18 January, 1871.
		His full name was Peter Richings Puget, and his father was Vice-Admiral Puget, of the British navy.
	www.famousamericans.net /peterrichings (553 words)

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