Alexander Hamilton
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Ames, Ezra, 656
Ames, Fisher, 306, 346, 358, 431, 459, 599, 620 on Adams, 521, 611, 617
on AH, 51, 187, 190, 308, 400, 460, 496, 534, 555, 627
on Jefferson, 633
Amory, Hester, see Stevens, Hester Amory
“Anas” scrapbook (Jefferson), 397–98, 399, 423, 429, 434, 445
Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 230, 476, 507, 529 death of, 570–71, 575, 585
Bache, Margaret, 575, 576
Bacon, Sir Francis, 110, 398
Bailyn, Bernard, 252, 518–19
Baldwin, Luther, 575
Baltimore, Md., 185, 341, 491
bancomania, 380–81
Bank of Amsterdam, 347
Bank of England, 138, 156, 295, 347, 370
Bank of Massachusetts, 358
Bank of New York, 219, 276, 288, 292, 358, 360, 380, 385, 586, 587, 710
founding of, 5, 199–202
House investigation of AH and, 456–57 Manhattan Company compared with, 588
Bank of North America, 157, 200, 288, 292
Bank of the United States, 344–55, 380, 389, 446, 453, 502, 586
board of, 348–49
congressional approval of, 349–51
constitutionality of, 350–54
Gallatin’s views on, 639, 646, 647
House investigation of AH and, 456–57 loans of, 425
location of, 350
Second, 355, 647, 717, 726
stock of, 349, 357–61, 379, 404, 425
banks, 307, 344, 499
land, 200, 201
money, 200, 201
prejudice against, 201, 220, 346–48, 351–52, 521, 588
private, 346, 347, 349
Republican, 586–88
see also central banks; specific banks
baptism, 26, 35, 205, 542
Barbados, Washington’s visit to, 86, 87
Barber, Francis, 42, 161
Barbot, John, 18–19
Bard, Samuel, 203
Bayard, James A., 611–12, 634–35, 637–38, 659
Bayard, William, 334, 705
Beaumetz, chevalier de, 465
Beckley, John, 341, 408, 422, 427–29, 496, 511, 622 Reynolds affair and, 417, 428–29, 531–32, 536, 537, 538, 622
Beckwith, George, 294–95, 333, 394, 437
Beekman, David, 23, 31, 38
Beekman and Cruger, 23, 27, 29–31
Benson, Egbert, 198, 222, 334, 666
Bentham, Jeremy, 720
Burgoyne, John (Gentleman Johnny), 97, 98, 100, 135–36
Burke, Aedanus, 284–85, 306, 308–9, 590
Burke, Edmund, 30
Burr, Aaron, Jr., 44, 143, 190–94, 278, 488, 603–10, 631–39, 672–78, 714–22
AH compared with, 169, 186, 191–92, 418, 562
AH’s duel with, see Hamilton-Burr duel
AH’s feud with, 1, 5, 35, 418, 421–22, 461, 632, 645, 672–78, 680–83
AH’s first contact with, 43
AH’s rivalry with, 190–91, 193–94, 634, 661, 701
ambition of, 276, 562, 590, 607, 610
in American Revolution, 74, 115, 192, 691
army appointment considered for, 561–62
background of, 191–92
bribery charges against, 589–91, 633
Church’s duel with, 589–91, 698
debts of, 586, 633, 697–98, 716, 718
divorce of, 722, 726
education of, 43, 48, 168, 191–92
in election of 1789, 273, 276
in election of 1792, 420–22
in election of 1796, 511, 632
in election of 1800, 607–10, 621, 625, 631–35
in election of 1801, 635–38, 644–45
in election of 1804, 672–78, 680–82
electoral tie of 1801 and, 635–38, 644, 677–78, 681
French Revolution and, 561
inauguration of, 638–39
intrigue and secrecy of, 74, 192, 389–90, 421, 632, 637
Jay Treaty and, 486
Jefferson’s relationship with, 610, 632, 644, 660, 672, 677, 718
as lawyer, 168, 169, 186, 188, 190–91, 193–94, 418, 603–6, 649, 720
libel suit of, 673, 675–76
Manhattan Company and, 585–90, 603, 604, 633
marriages of, 142, 169–70, 722
Monroe’s correspondence with, 531, 541
Monroe’s relationship with, 541–42, 561
in New York Assembly, 581, 586, 588, 590
as New York attorney general, 276
opportunism of, 192–93, 276, 286
Philip Schuyler defeated by, 389, 421
political affiliation of, 191, 561–62, 581, 586, 590, 645, 661, 662, 672
political comeback attempt of, 672–78
as political outcast, 717, 719
public debt bill and, 480, 481
reading of, 193, 721–22
Reynolds affair and, 414, 418, 529, 531, 541–42
slavery and, 214–15, 581, 675, 698–99, 716, 717
on Stirling, 45
Troup’s friendship with, 53, 720
Cabot, George, 611, 617, 621, 624
Cadwalader, John, 106
Caesar, Julius, 398, 407, 512, 571
Callender, James Thomson, 509, 529–38, 572, 612,
650, 667–68, 718
in Pamphlet Wars, 663–64
Camillus, 493
Campfield, Jabez, 128
Canada, 7, 66, 97, 495, 674
Capet, Louis, see Louis XVI, king of France capital, U.S., selection of location for, 182, 324–31, 592 Caribbean, see West Indies; specific islands
Carlisle, Pa., 474–75
carriage tax, 491, 501–2
Carrington, Edward, 261, 401–2
Carroll, Charles, 623–24
Cato (Addison), 107
central banks, 344–55
Adams’s views on, 346
AH’s views on, 4, 6, 124, 138, 156, 170, 344, 347–55, 466
functions of, 347
see also Bank of England; Bank of the United
States
Ceracchi, Giuseppe, 2
Chamber of Commerce, New York City, 482, 587 Chambers, David, 475
Chappell, Alonzo, 163
Charleston, Battle of (1780), 123, 138
Charleston, S.C., 437, 440, 487, 491
Charlestown, 17
Chase, Samuel, 117–18, 248, 379
impeachment of, 718–19
Chastellux, marquis de, 119, 128, 130, 147
Chatterton’s Hill, 81
Cheetham, James, 199, 657, 662–63, 699
election of 1804 and, 673, 675–76
child labor, 376–77, 386
Christian Constitutional Society, 659
Christiansted, 11–12, 20–39
Church, Angelica Schuyler, 129, 133–34, 159–60,
335, 337, 347, 543, 653, 723
AH’s affectionate relationship with, 133–34, 159, 173, 204–5, 281, 282–83, 315, 466–67, 522, 527,
528–29, 536, 543–44, 583–84, 706
AH’s correspondence with, 133, 203–5, 281,
282–83, 301, 332, 453, 455, 457, 464, 476,
478–79, 483, 512, 527, 528, 583–84
AH’s death and, 706, 711
death of, 727
Eliza’s correspondence with, 282, 333, 336, 465,
466–67, 478, 479, 527–28, 543, 587, 641 Eliza’s relationship with, 134, 281, 282, 283, 315,
726–27
in Europe, 200, 203–5, 281–82, 292, 457, 464, 465,
485, 536
French aristocracy and, 464–67
Jefferson’s correspondence with, 318, 319, 453,
569
Jefferson’s relationship with, 315–16, 319, 407 marriage of, 134, 136
men enchanted by, 133–34, 204, 282, 315–16, 485 on Philip Hamilton’s funeral, 654
portrait of, 583–84
slavery and, 211, 581
U.S. visits of, 204,
205, 281–83, 292, 315–16 Church, Catherine, 543
Church, John Barker, 134, 136, 159, 200, 527–29,
539, 587–91, 653
AH’s correspondence with, 542–43
AH’s death and, 711, 712
AH’s loan from, 492
death of, 727
dueling of, 589–91, 652, 698, 701
in Europe, 200, 204, 281, 282, 457, 727
Hamilton-Burr duel and, 691, 695, 701–2, 704 Manhattan Company and, 587, 588, 590 slavery and, 211, 581
Church, Philip, 563–64, 583, 585, 595, 726–27 Church of England (Anglicanism), 44, 46, 47, 58 Cicero, 42, 110
Cincinnatus, 216
Citation Act (1782), 195, 199
Civil War, U.S., 574, 581, 678, 683, 726
Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser, 507 Clement, Maria, see Reynolds, Maria
Clingman, Jacob, 409–10, 412–18, 428–29, 529, 538,
540
Clinton, Cornelia, see Genêt, Cornelia Clinton Clinton, De Witt, 650, 661–62, 673, 680
Clinton, George, 65, 272–76, 303, 325, 631 AH’s correspondence with, 108, 109, 158, 177,
210–11, 220
AH’s feud with, 91, 109, 176, 220–21, 236–37,
244–45, 253, 272–76, 309, 675
background of, 220
as brigadier general, 220, 274
Constitutional Convention and, 236–37 as deterrent to national unity, 108–9, 221, 224 in election of 1792, 420–23
Clinton, George ( cont.)
in election of 1800, 607, 610
in election of 1801, 644–45, 650
on Hamilton-Burr duel, 688
King’s candidacy and, 285–86
as New York governor, 3, 26, 91, 108–9, 176, 177,
184, 201, 219–21, 224, 236–37, 244–45, 253,
262, 265, 267, 268, 273, 274, 337, 420, 421, 483 New York Ratifying Convention and, 262, 263,
265, 267, 268
Philip Schuyler’s feud with, 91, 149, 220, 273–75 as presidential candidate, 272, 273
retirement of, 672
as vice presidential candidate, 672, 675, 719 Clinton, Sir Henry, 102, 112, 123, 164
AH’s alleged secret letter to, 143–44
Clossy, Samuel, 52, 57
Coast Guard, U.S., 4, 32, 292, 340
Cobb, David, 536–37
Cobbett, William, 499
Cochran, Gertrude Schuyler, 128
Cochran, John, 128
Coercive (Intolerable) Acts (1774), 54–55, 57 coffee, taxes on, 300
Coke, Sir Edward, 72
Colbert, Louis, 170
Colden, Cadwallader, 576
Coleman, William, 604–6, 649–50, 654, 662, 663,
680–81
College of New Jersey, 35, 42
see also Princeton
College of Physicians, 450
Columbia College, 206, 337, 651, 692
Columbia University Press, 5
Committee of Public Safety, French, 446–47 committees of correspondence, 55, 90
Common Council, New York City, 206, 276, 586,
587, 711
Common Sense (Paine), 70, 95
Concord, Mass., 61, 62, 68, 94
Confiscation Act (1779), 195, 199
Congress, U.S., 238, 245, 256, 294, 339–40, 423, 453,
478, 507, 725
Adams’s speeches to, 548, 549, 550, 593 Alien and Sedition Acts and, 570–73
in Germantown, 452
Jefferson’s relationship with, 647, 671
military approved by, 553, 554, 555, 596, 602 in New York City, 274, 276, 277, 280–81, 295–307,
319–31, 338
petitions to, 364
in Philadelphia, 341–44, 347–49, 355–56, 364,
374–79, 430
Republican majority in, 455
“scrippomania” and, 358
slavery and, 306–8
tax-levying powers of, 183, 297, 501–2
“camp ladies” of, 126
disorder and morale problems in, 80–83, 97, 100, 107–9, 114, 116, 127, 151
duels in, 106, 116–17
fear of Newburgh mutiny in, 176–80
Gates-Washington rivalry in, 104–6, 272 Lafayette’s rise in, 95, 96
in New Jersey, 83–86, 91–94, 113–16, 127–33, 135, 136
Northern Department of, 97, 102, 134
passwords in, 129, 164
Pennsylvania mutineers in, 180–83
pensions in, 165, 176, 725
refurbishment of, 99–100
reorganization of, 109
retreats of, 79–80, 83–84, 114, 116
social life of, 93–94, 126, 128–33
Southern Army, 138, 284
state militias vs., 108, 138, 157, 180–82, 284, 553 Steuben’s stewardship of, 109–10, 113, 206, 564 supply problems in, 107–8, 374–75, 566, 595 Washington made head of, 65, 66, 518
Washington’s farewell to, 185, 616
Continental Association, 57–58
Continental Congress, 44, 45, 47, 81, 293, 518, 555 First, 55, 57–59, 87
Second (Confederation), see Second Continental Congress
“Continentalist, The” (Hamilton), 157–58, 170, 171, 257
Conway, Thomas, 105–6
Conway Cabal, 106, 107, 113, 272
Cooper, Charles D., 680–83, 686–88
Cooper, Myles, 49–53, 56–58, 61, 72, 293
mob action against, 63–64, 68, 69
Copley, John Singleton, 56
Cornwallis, Lord, 82, 138, 284, 313
Yorktown siege and, 160–62, 164
corporations, creation of, 354
Cosway, Maria, 315, 317
Cosway, Richard, 315
cotton, 10, 14, 211
court-martials, 74–75, 115–16
Coxe, Tench, 371–72, 375
credit, 124, 127, 138, 393, 481, 636
British, 156, 313, 393
central bank and, 347, 348
private, 155–56
public, AH’s report on, 288, 295–306
crime, 266, 355, 603–6
Croswell, Harry, 667–71, 673, 685
Croucher, Richard, 605
Cruger,Henry,Jr.,30
Cruger,Henry,Sr.,30
Cruger, John, 30
Cruger, Nicholas, 23, 30, 31, 32, 38, 48, 269, 483 Cruger, Tileman, 31
currency:
dollar as, 201, 355, 356
minting of coins and, 355–57
paper, see paper money
uniform, 32, 201, 347
Custis, Martha Dandridge, see Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis
Customs Service, U.S., 4, 32, 221, 244, 292, 339–41, 354, 438, 448, 459, 646
De Peyster’s Point, N.Y., 154
d’Estaing, Jean Baptiste, 119, 120, 434
Dewhurst, John, 384, 385
Dexter, Samuel, 189–90
Dickinson, John, 58, 60, 181, 234, 627
Dipnall, Thomas, 24
Directory, French, 546, 548–51, 597, 598, 602 Discourses on Davila (Adams), 519
Duane, James, 57, 155, 168, 184, 216, 263, 276, 283,
304
AH’s correspondence with, 138–39, 232, 347 Rutgers v. Waddington and, 198–99
in Senate race, 285–86
Duane, William, 622
duels, 134, 238, 308–9, 423, 491–93, 539–41, 621,
664, 683–85
AH’s opposition to, 189, 652–53, 685, 689, 707,
708
Burr-Church, 589–91
in Continental Army, 106, 116–17
delope in, 653, 689–90, 715
Hamilton-Burr, see Hamilton-Burr duel in Nevis, 18–19
outlawing of, 654–55, 700
of Philip Hamilton, 650–55, 685, 689, 701 political quarrels settled by, 662–63
Duer, Catharine Alexander (Lady Kitty), 45, 93, 293,
379
Duer, William, 45, 216, 304, 334, 368, 429 downfall of, 381–84
Federalist Papers and, 247, 248
in prison, 382–83, 385, 387–88, 410
SEUM and, 373, 379–80, 384–86, 387, 388, 411 speculation of, 358, 360, 361, 379–84, 410, 428 in Treasury Department, 293–94, 360, 371 Dunlap, John, 77
Dunmore, Lord, 122
du Pont, Victor, 268
du Pont de Nemours, Samuel, 268
Dutch Reformed Church, 132, 147, 148, 169 Dutch West India Company, 50
Dutch West Indies, 35
duties, import, 180, 292, 299–300, 339, 341, 394 AH’s advocacy of, 170, 176, 221, 226
in Federalist, 254, 255, 256
in New York, 221, 244
treasury secretary reports to, 281, 288, 295–306, 341–44, 347–49, 355–56, 374–79, 480
war powers of, 436, 442
Washington’s annual address to, 419, 504
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S. Connecticut, 211, 221, 261, 272
American Revolution in, 68
Connecticut Compromise, 236
Constitution, New York, 90–91, 247, 293
Constitution, U.S., 90, 237–74, 280, 285, 288, 345, 348, 391, 397, 401, 446, 473, 484, 538, 637–38, 649, 651, 678, 679, 712
AH’s concessions and, 242
amendments to, 280, 572
broad interpretation of, 352–54, 378–79, 671
central bank and, 350–54
change of government seat and, 452
“common defence and general welfare” clause of, 378–79
explication of, see Federalist Papers, The
“God” omitted from, 235
Jay Treaty and, 494, 496–97
Jefferson’s vacillations about, 310–11, 407, 408, 610, 633
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and, 573–74
“necessary and proper” clause of, 350, 352, 354
New York battle over, 215, 216, 235, 237, 239, 243–69, 284, 287, 398
preamble to, 240–41, 574
presidential electors in, 271–72, 606
ratification process for, 241, 249, 261–62, 574
strict construction of, 252, 350, 352, 354, 379, 443, 628, 671
Constitutional Convention, 44, 47, 222–43, 259, 304, 321, 324, 351, 353–54, 423, 552, 573–74
AH at, 4, 5, 222, 227–43, 245, 265, 266–67, 321, 353–54, 406, 657
AH’s calls for, 139, 157, 171, 183, 223–24
AH’s June 18 speech at, 231–35, 245, 265
AH’s June 29 speech at, 235
breakup of New York delegation to, 235–36
Committee of Style and Arrangement at, 239–41, 285
Connecticut Compromise at, 236
description of delegates to, 229
end of, 241
Federalist and, 247, 248
lawyers at, 167, 229
New Jersey Plan at, 231, 234
road to, 222–27
secrecy of, 228, 236, 244, 245, 248, 354, 499
slavery and, 213, 216, 238–39, 306
Virginia Plan at, 230–32, 234, 238, 248
Continental Army, 65–66, 74–76, 78–86, 149–55, 158–66, 176–85, 225, 293