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Alexander Hamilton

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by Ron Chernow

AH’s views on, 32, 294–95, 307, 340, 370–79, 384–88

  Marat, Jean Paul, 432, 434, 439, 459

  Marbury v. Madison, 648

  Marie Antoinette, queen of France, 447

  Marshall, John, 100, 126, 157, 168, 261, 394, 633, 720 on AH, 189–90

  in diplomatic mission to France, 548–51, 592 as Supreme Court justice, 259, 355, 648

  Washington biography by, 351, 479

  Maryland, 262, 330, 473

  election of 1800 and, 636, 638

  Mason, George, 234, 236, 328, 351–52, 403

  Mason, Rev. John, 42, 79, 216, 582

  Mason, Rev. John M., 666, 685, 691, 707, 714, 727

  Massachusetts, 261

  colonial, 54–55, 62–63

  constitution of, 518

  debt of, 322, 323

  farmers’ uprising in, 224–25, 255

  slavery in, 211, 212, 580

  Mathews, John, 150

  Matlack, White, 215

  Meade, Richard Kidder, 92, 140, 167

  Mercer, John F., 422–23

  merchants, 256, 303, 307, 349, 391, 446

  AH’s relations with, 49, 54, 56, 341, 358, 498 in American Revolution, 54, 56, 58, 108 Bank of New York and, 200, 201

  Jay Treaty and, 498, 499

  in New York City, 49, 185, 200, 211, 221, 263, 279, 301, 318, 325, 341, 359, 482, 488, 650, 710–11

  Merchants’ Bank, 380

  Merry, Anthony, 717

  Mexico, 720

  Michaux, André, 437

  Mifflin, Thomas, 414, 438, 439, 441

  Million Bank, 380

  Mills, Matthew, 18–19

  Minerva, 509

  Mint, U.S., 356–57, 451

  Napoleon I, emperor of France, 465, 466, 546, 549, 577, 595, 630, 634, 645, 671

  National Assembly, French, 119, 316, 431–32, 463 national bank, see central banks; specific banks National Gazette, 396–97, 400, 402, 404–7, 414, 425, 433, 445, 453, 476

  nationalism, 4

  AH’s vision of, 3, 4, 92, 108, 157–58, 221, 265, 287, 307, 371, 375, 387, 466, 521, 628, 671–72, 697

  nations, law of, 198–99, 260

  Naturalization Act (1798), 570

  Navy, U.S., 290, 460, 462, 527, 546, 636, 638, 646 Adams’s plans for, 548, 550

  Navy Department, U.S., 553

  Necker, Jacques, 287, 295

  neutrality, U.S, 435–41, 462, 495, 507, 547, 567, 636

  Neutrality Proclamation (1793), 435–43, 445 AH’s defense of, 441–43

  Neville, John, 469, 470

  Nevis, 7–10, 17–20, 22

  AH’s birth in, 4, 7, 17, 19, 522

  natural disasters in, 7, 36

  slavery in, 8, 9, 19, 23

  Newburgh, N.Y., fear of Continental Army mutiny in, 176–80

  New England, 97, 100–102, 288, 371, 389, 452, 514, 517, 725

  Burr’s rounding up of supporters in, 420–21 election of 1800 and, 606, 616–18, 621, 625, 636 secession plans in, 672, 697

  slavery in, 211, 580

  New Hampshire, 211, 580

  ratification of the Constitution in, 262, 266, 268

  New Jersey, 82, 201, 221, 261, 272, 473, 632, 678 in American Revolution, 83–86, 91–94, 104, 113–16, 127–33, 135, 136, 137, 151

  Burr indicted for murder in, 718, 719

  colonial, 42–48

  duels in, 1, 4, 590–91, 652, 662, 696, 699–704, 716, 719

  manufacturing in, 373–74

  slavery in, 211, 581

  New Jersey Plan, 231, 234

  Newton, Sir Isaac, 355, 398

  New Windsor, N.Y., 150–55

  New York (state), 90, 213–22, 273–309, 355, 447 AH as citizen of, 167, 364

  AH as tax receiver in, 170–72

  AH’s proprietary feelings toward, 97–98 in American Revolution, 55–82, 97, 98, 100–104, 140–42, 150–60, 165, 167, 184–85, 197–99, 220 anti-Tory bias in, 169, 183–84, 186, 194–99, 221, 245

  battle over U.S. Constitution in, 215, 216, 235, 237, 239, 243–69, 284, 287, 398

  constitution of, 90–91, 247, 293

  Continental Congress delegates from, 57, 65

  immigrants in, 50

  Manhattan Well Tragedy in, 603–6

  merchants in, 49, 185, 200, 211, 221, 263, 279, 301, 318, 325, 341, 359, 482, 488, 650, 710–11

  as port, 50, 54, 189, 195, 482, 561

  poverty in, 51, 189, 279

  print-shop raid in, 68–70

  prostitutes in, 49–50

  protests against the Jay Treaty in, 489–91, 499

  ratification of U.S. Constitution and, 262

  real estate in, 186, 383

  removal of British traces in, 77–78

  St. Croix trade with, 30, 41

  St. Paul’s Chapel in, 49, 63, 71, 277, 283–85, 712

  size of, 50, 81, 185, 700

  slavery in, 211, 515

  social-service agencies in, 582, 585

  speculation in, 301–4, 318–19, 357, 359, 379–84, 410

  “tea party” in, 54

  Trinity Church in, 205, 542, 640, 660, 706, 711–13, 723, 731

  Wall Street in, 185–86, 204–7, 280, 371, 384, 387, 489

  Washington in, 60, 74–80, 184, 185, 276–83, 292, 295, 338, 489

  Whigs in, 49, 70

  widows and orphans helped in, 464, 582, 585, 728–29

  yellow-fever epidemic in, 585–86, 588–89, 641 New York Common Council, 206, 276, 586, 587, 711 New York Daily Advertiser, 237, 243, 266–67, 274 New-York Evening Post, 5, 604, 649–55, 662, 663, 680–81, 689, 713

  New-York Gazetteer, 58, 66–69

  New-York Journal, 54, 68, 70–72, 118

  New York Manumission Society (New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves), 214–16, 239, 581

  New York Orphan Asylum Society, 728–29 New-York Packet, 157–58, 170, 200, 219

  New York Provincial Congress, 65, 67, 68, 72, 73, 76, 77 New York Ratifying Convention, 5, 246, 261–68, 284 New York Senate, 91, 389, 421, 669

  New York Society Library, 44, 45, 193

  New York Stock Exchange, 202

  New York Supreme Court, 168–69, 670–71, 689, 710 Nicholas, John, 460, 638

  Nicholson, James, 488–91, 608

  Nicoll,Henry,53

  Nicoll, Samuel, 53

  Niemcewicz, Julian, 585

  Noailles, Adrienne de, see Lafayette, Adrienne de Noailles

  Noailles, vicomte de, 165, 464

  North, Lord, 59

  North Carolina, 262, 268, 322

  Northwest Territory, 484

  Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 212, 513 nullification, 573, 574 Ogden, David B., 690, 706–9, 711

  Ogden, Nicholas, 63–64

  Olive Branch Petition (1775), 66–67

  Otis, Harrison Gray, 92, 363, 567–68, 570, 577, 593,

  627

  Otis, Samuel, 273 Paine, Thomas, 70, 95, 507, 519

  Pamphlet Wars, 661–64

  paper money, 292, 348, 380–81, 383

  excess printing of, 108, 124, 137

  pardons, 259, 478, 578–79

  Paris, 44, 204, 205, 515, 518

  French Revolution in, 431–34, 438, 446–47, 463 Jefferson in, 222, 225, 261, 314–16, 515, 518 Parkinson, George, 372, 374

  Parliament, British, 54, 55, 57, 60, 62, 71, 233, 257, 258, 281, 304, 319, 457, 529

  Parrington, Vernon, 158, 371

  Parsons, Theophilus, 398–99

  Parton, James, 193–94, 714, 715–16

  Passaic River, Great Falls of, 373, 386

  patents, 345, 377

  Paterson, N.J., manufacturing in, 14, 373–74, 385–87 Paterson, William, 231, 373

  Peale, Charles Willson, 88, 363

  Peekskill, N.Y., 104, 105

  Pendleton, Edmund, 313

  Pendleton, Nathaniel, 30, 250, 619, 674

  Eliza Schuyler Hamilton’s correspondence with, 724, 725

  Hamilton-Burr duel and, 674, 685, 687–91, 695, 696–97,
700–705, 715, 717

  Pennsylvania, 201, 261, 272, 325–30, 635, 725

  American Revolution in, 84, 85, 98–100, 104, 107–13, 127–28, 151

  Continental Army mutineers in, 180–83

  excise taxes in, 342–43, 460, 468–78

  Fries’s Rebellion in, 578–79

  slavery in, 210, 211, 306, 580

  Supreme Executive Council in, 180, 181

  Whiskey Rebellion in, 342, 468–78, 481

  see also Philadelphia, Pa.

  Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 342 Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 306

  People v. Levi Week, 603–6

  Philadelphia, Pa., 50, 155, 173, 209, 217, 338–59, 362–70, 387, 540, 549, 610, 612, 710

  AH’s homes in, 339, 364, 368

  in American Revolution, 85, 98–100, 108, 112, 121–22, 140, 142, 165

  bank in, 200, 288

  as capital, 325–29, 338–57, 374–79, 452, 485–88, 563 Presbyterians (cont.)

  in New York, 42, 72, 707

  political dissent and, 43, 44, 47

  in St. Croix, 34–36

  president, U.S., 244, 259, 310

  Constitutional Convention and, 230–32, 234, 238

  impeachment of, 234, 258

  pardons issued by, 259, 478, 578–79

  protocol of, 278–79

  veto of, 258–59, 351, 352

  press:

  Alien and Sedition Acts and, 570–72, 574–77, 667–69

  freedom of, 667–71

  Prevost, Theodosia, see Burr, Theodosia Prevost Price, Richard, 156

  Prime, Nathaniel, 715

  primogeniture, 216–18

  Princeton, 46–49, 175, 191, 229, 337

  requirements of, 42–43

  Princeton, Battle of (1777), 84–85, 104 Princeton, N.J., 181, 182, 183

  prison ships, British, 194, 396

  Prospect Before Us, The (Callender), 612, 663, 667–68

  prostitutes, 11, 49–50, 126, 366

  Provisional Army, 553

  see also Army, U.S.

  Purdy, Ebenezer, 674–75

  Putnam, Israel, 74, 101, 103, 104

  Constitutional Convention in, 227–42, 246, 259, 261, 321, 423

  description of, 338

  Federalist-Republican clashes in, 569–70

  First Continental Congress in, 55, 57

  French refugees in, 463–67

  Genêt in, 438–41

  mint in, 357

  Pennsylvania mutineers in, 180–83

  protests against Jay Treaty in, 487, 491, 495

  “scrippomania” in, 357, 358, 359

  Second Continental Congress in, 65, 66, 77, 121–22, 173–83

  sensual pleasures in, 362–63

  Treasury offices in, 338–39

  yellow-fever epidemics in, 448–53, 455, 597 Physiocrats, 376

  Pickering, Mrs. Timothy, 536

  Pickering, Timothy, 27, 90, 156, 334, 478, 611, 614–17, 624, 638, 727

  AH’s correspondence with, 619–20

  in army organization battles, 556, 557, 560, 561, 595

  secession threat and, 678

  as secretary of state, 504, 523, 524, 535–36, 546, 547, 549, 550, 567, 572, 575, 593, 595, 611, 614 Pierce, William, 229, 238, 240

  Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 228, 238, 662, 719

  AH’s correspondence with, 600–601, 655

  army organization and, 557–60, 562, 563

  in diplomatic mission to France, 548–49, 592

  in election of 1800, 612, 616–18, 621, 623, 625–26, 632

  French expulsion of, 546, 548

  Pinckney, Thomas, 510–11, 514, 516

  pirates and privateers, 11, 18, 68, 396, 460

  French Revolution and, 435, 437–38, 440, 441, 445, 462, 546, 549, 553, 651

  Pitt, William, the Elder, 33

  Pitt, William, the Younger, 432–33, 459

  Pittsburgh, Pa., 469–71, 478

  Plumer, William, 192, 504, 624, 646, 718, 719 Plutarch, 24, 111–12, 196, 493

  political parties:

  emergence of, 5, 306, 330, 349, 351, 390–92

  negative view of, 390–91

  see also specific parties

  Polk, James K., 730

  Pollock, Elizabeth, see Hamilton, Elizabeth Pollock Pope, Alexander, 24, 34, 38, 71

  populism, 186, 220, 221, 255, 259, 398, 400, 401 Postlethwayt, Malachy, 110–11, 156, 296, 347 Post Office, U.S., 356, 399, 448

  Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 171, 263–68

  “Practical Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the State of New York” (Hamilton), 168–69 Presbyterians, 34–36, 42, 43, 44, 47, 173, 707

  in New Jersey, 43, 44, 47

  Quakers, 173, 210, 307

  Quasi-War, 553–66, 578, 592–95, 630, 651, 657 Quebec, 140, 364, 692

  Quebec Act (1775), 66

  Quincy, Mass., Adams’s escapes to, 420, 525, 558,

  578, 579, 594, 596–97, 638 Randall, Robert Richard, 640

  Randolph, Edmund, 223–24, 307

  as attorney general, 289, 351, 352, 354, 397, 440 at Constitutional Convention, 230, 234 as secretary of state, 458, 460, 471, 473, 474, 485, 504

  Whiskey Rebellion and, 471, 473, 474

  Randolph, John, 568

  Reeve, Tapping, 43, 192

  refugees, French, 463–67, 502–3

  Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit (Hamilton), 480

  Report on Manufactures (Hamilton), 32, 365, 368, 374–79, 384

  Report on Public Credit (Hamilton), 288, 295–308, 342, 343

  funding scheme in, 297–308, 310, 319–32

  Report on the Mint (Hamilton), 355–56

  Roosevelt, Franklin, 505, 508

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 4, 220, 249, 378, 609

  Royal Danish American Gazette, 32, 33–34, 36–39, 208 reports on American Revolution in, 68–69, 72, 74, 75, 79–80

  Royal Gazette, 70, 185

  Royal Navy, British, 67, 70, 76–77, 78, 79, 98, 162, 295, 370

  Rush, Benjamin, 92, 100, 163, 182, 273, 278, 303, 324–27, 420, 520, 522, 532

  AH’s correspondence with, 655–56

  yellow-fever epidemic and, 449–53

  Rutgers, Elizabeth, 197–99

  Rutgers v. Waddington, 197–99

  Rutledge, John, Jr., 617–18

  Republicans, Republican party, 330, 391–92, 395, 405,

  414–17, 419–28, 458–62, 478, 485–99, 503–7,

  523, 525, 536, 539, 566, 606–12, 644–49, 657–78 Adams’s courting of, 610–11, 614–15

  AH’s death and, 716

  Alien and Sedition Acts and, 570–77

  Burr army appointment and, 561–62

  electoral tie of 1801 and, 635–38

  on Federalist army plans, 459–60

  Federalists’ violent clashes with, 569–70, 590 French Revolution and, 431–34, 438–39, 547–50,

  554, 569–70, 592, 593, 628

  Jay Treaty and, 485–88, 491, 493, 494, 496 Jefferson’s resignation as viewed by, 453–54 Manhattan Company and, 586–88

  Pamphlet Wars and, 661–64

  public debt and, 480

  Reynolds scandal and, 414–17, 529–32, 535, 583 war and standing armies as viewed by, 552–53, 558 Washington criticized by, 497–98, 530–31 see also National Gazette; specific elections “Republican” (“Democratic”) societies, 438, 445,

  478, 489

  Residence Act (1790), 329, 338

  Revere, Paul, 54

  Revolutionary War, see American Revolution; Continental Army; specific battles

  Reynolds, James, 237, 364–70, 409–18, 491, 529 AH blackmailed by, 368–69, 409, 411, 412, 413,

  416, 418, 530, 532–34, 575

  Reynolds, Maria (Mary Lewis):

  AH’s affair with, 237, 362, 364–70, 373, 406,

  409–18, 422, 424, 428–29, 470, 479, 502, 509,

  529–46, 554, 558, 572, 576–77, 583, 600, 622,

 
624, 645, 712, 724, 727

  AH’s correspondence with, 366, 368, 370, 410–11,

  416

  Reynolds, Susan, 366

  Reynolds pamphlet (Hamilton), 533–36, 540–44,

  622, 624

  Rhode Island, 121, 176, 211, 225, 229, 262, 268, 371,

  580

  election of 1800 in, 617–18, 632

  Richmond Hill, 74, 278, 675, 683, 687, 691–92, 697,

  698, 714–15, 718

  Riedesel, Baroness, 136

  Riedesel, Friedrich von, 136

  Rights of Man, The (Paine), 519

  Ring, Catherine, 603–6

  Ring, Elias, 603–6

  Rivington, James, 58, 59, 66–70, 185

  Robespierre, Maximilien de, 432, 434, 439, 446–47,

  459, 470, 539

  Rochambeau, comte de, 139, 140, 148, 154, 160, 161,

  434

  Rodgers, Rev. John, 34–35, 42, 216, 304, 582 Roman Catholicism, 66

  St. Croix, 9–12, 20–39, 207–10, 697

  AH in, 2, 4, 7, 11, 17, 21–39, 48, 85

  hurricane in, 36–37, 39

  slavery in, 12, 20, 23, 32–33

  trade in, 23, 27, 29–32

  St. Kitts (St. Christopher), 9–10, 12, 14–17, 19, 36 St. Leger, Barrimore, 100

  St. Méry, Moreau de, 338, 464

  St. Simons Island, 717–18

  St. Thomas, 147, 208

  St. Vincent, 40, 492, 526, 527, 580

  Sands, Gulielma, 603–6

  Saratoga, Battle of (1777), 100–102, 104–5, 112,

  135–36, 140, 556, 607

  Scammell, Alexander, 150

  Schieffelin, Jacob, 641

  Schuyler, Angelica, see Church, Angelica Schuyler Schuyler, Catherine, 129, 147, 159–60

  Schuyler, Catherine Van Rensselaer, 129, 135, 136,

  147, 159, 183, 204, 210

  death of, 667, 693, 723

  Schuyler, Cornelia, see Morton, Cornelia Schuyler Schuyler, Elizabeth (wife), see Hamilton, Elizabeth

  Schuyler

  Schuyler, Gertrude, see Cochran, Gertrude Schuyler Schuyler, John Bradstreet, 129, 135, 582

  Schuyler, Margarita, see Van Rensselaer, Margarita

  Schuyler

  Schuyler, Philip, 97, 102–3, 128–31, 134–37, 165,

  166, 198, 204, 217, 246, 281, 282, 288, 294, 336,

  363, 399, 461, 483, 601, 667

  AH’s correspondence with, 136, 151, 152, 363,

  584

  AH’s relationship with, 134–37, 149, 171, 640, 723 capital site selection and, 327, 330

  Continental Congress and, 65, 135, 149 death of, 723–25

  Eliza’s correspondence with, 136–37, 654, 668 finances of, 136, 146, 693, 695, 724–25

  as general, 66, 97, 102, 128, 129, 131, 135–36, 149 George Clinton’s feud with, 91, 149, 220, 273–75 Senate, U.S. (cont.)

  Burr’s presiding over, 638, 660, 718–19

 

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