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INDEX
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“Act Repealing . . .” (1791), 27, 258n
Adams, John, on Pennsylvania’s constitution, 36
Addison, Alexander, 127, 170, 187, 224, 239, 252n, 269n
Alamance, Battle of, 84, 182, 260n
Allegheny County, Pa., 23, 97, 103, 106, 119, 145
Allegheny River, 12
Allegheny Valley, 74
American Revolution, 22, 132
debts of, 8, 29, 32, 40, 53, 55
Forks area in, 15
McFarlanes in, 151–52, 154
R. Morris’s financial dealings in, 32
R. Morris’s view of, 36
Washington’s land speculations legitimized by, 139
see also Newburgh crisis
Ames, Fisher, 62
Anglicans, 71, 72, 73, 75, 77–78, 79, 80
Anti-federalists, 107, 108, 110, 137
Apocalypse, 75–76
Army, British:
at Fort Pitt, 13–14
forts in U.S. territory maintained by, 1
Army, Continental, 28
Army, U.S., 139
A. Hamilton’s command of, 239
Bower Hill defended by, 150, 151, 152
Articles of Confederation, 37, 39
bank, central:
A. Hamilton’s plan for, 111, 133
R. Morris’s plans for, 36–37
Baptists, 74, 80
Bear Inn, 127
Bedford, Pa., 94, 97, 118, 165, 191, 216–17, 274n
Bill of Rights, 219
bills of exchange, 35
Black, John, 156–58
Black Act, 34
blackfaced gangs, 14, 20–23, 27, 34, 106, 117, 132, 143–44, 180, 203
Black Horse Tavern, 235–36
bonds, federal, 8, 30–31, 56, 59, 61, 62, 63
bonds, state, 38, 56
Pennsylvania, 55
speculators’ investments in, 61
Bower Hill, 97, 99–100, 132, 146, 151, 262n
first rebel attack on, 147–48, 150, 267n–68n
second rebel attack on, 152–56, 161, 163, 165, 166, 167, 185, 197, 221, 226, 246n, 268n–69n
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 11–12, 17–18, 110, 113, 122, 144–46, 149–50, 152, 154–55, 157–59, 171, 175, 176, 177, 197, 198, 204, 205, 214, 229, 233, 242–43, 267n, 269n
A. Hamilton’s questioning of, 233–35
appeal to Congress of, 106
as army chaplain, 17
article on French Revolution by, 138, 169
as author of Modern Chivalry, 109, 115, 170, 243
at Braddock’s Field, 173–77
childhood of, 16–17
eastern speculators as viewed by, 19
election to the Pennsylvania legislature of, 106
federal troops’ hatred of, 207–8
Federalists in Pittsburgh disparaged by, 108, 109
at first anti-excise convention, 23–25, 105
in first meeting with Husband, 25–26, 71, 252n
and Gallatin, 197, 272n
humanity as viewed by, 11, 20
and Indians, 18–19, 109, 229, 276n
letter to Coxe by, 181–82, 194–95, 198
memoir of rebellion by, 246n
at Mingo Creek church meeting, 161–65
National Gazette articles of, 110–12, 115, 228
Nevilles’ campaign against, 227–33, 238, 274n
Parkinson’s Ferry congress and, 181–82, 201–2
Pennsylvania’s revised constitution opposed by, 110
Presley Neville and, 100, 148–50, 180–81, 191, 233–34
R. Morris’s finance policy favored by, 107, 108
on rebel negotiating committee, 193, 197, 198, 200
second marriage of, 108–9
squatters defended by, 19
views on western development of, 18
vision for America of, 17, 71
Westsylvanian secession opposed by, 16
Brackenridge, Sabina Wolfe, 108–9, 262n
Braddock, General Edward, 14, 98
Braddock’s Field, 168, 169, 171, 172–76, 176–177, 180, 185, 190, 205, 220, 226, 227, 234, 235, 238, 269n
Bradford, David, 151, 167–68, 170, 171, 178, 180, 197, 224, 227, 231–32, 238, 242, 259n, 268n
at anti-excise conventions, 24, 123
at Braddock’s Field, 174–76
Brownsville speech of, 201
escape of, 220, 227
at Mingo Church meeting, 163, 165
on rebel negotiation committee, 193, 197, 205
Ross and, 171
secessionist views of, 168
support for Faulkner attack of, 124
submission vote and, 202
in Washington County democratic society, 137, 138, 151
Washington courthouse speech of, 169
Bradford, William, 141, 142, 144, 193–94, 237, 266n, 267n, 273n
as A. Hamilton’s cabinet ally, 136, 199–200
and Brackenridge 197, 232
Findley correspondence with, 208
military intelligence gathered by, 194
negotiation urged by, 189
on presidential negotiating commission, 190–94, 198, 202–3, 204
Brison, James, 171, 172, 177
Brison family, 101
Brownsville, Pa., 23, 122, 200–202, 252n, 273n
Brush Creek, 12
Bunker Hill, Battle of, 17
Butler, Major, 171, 176
Canada, British troops in, 15
canals, 5, 139, 140, 209–10
Canonsburg, Pa., 167–68
Carlisle, Pa., 206, 209, 210, 213, 240
Catholics, 76
Cervantes, Miguel de, 17
Charleston, S.C., 99
Chartiers Creek, 147
Cherokees, 140
Chesapeake Bay, 71, 72
Chickasaws, 6
Clymer, George, 126–28, 129, 187, 252n, 264n, 265n
Common Sense (Paine), 36
Concord, Battle of, 98
congress, grand western, see Parkinson’s Ferry congress
Congress, U.S., 57, 238
A. Hamilton investigated by, 112, 133–136
A. Hamilton’s reports to, 60–61, 62–64, 67
Brackenridge’s anti-excise appeal to, 106, 110–11
excise-enforcement law passed by, 185
excise seen as betrayal by some in, 27–28
excise trial rules reformed by, 142
first taxes imposed by, 58
Gallatin in, 170
impost passed by, 52, 58
Indian attacks and, 57
militia act of, 112
presidential war council kept secret from, 195
rebel demands and, 195
1791 whiskey tax passed by, 68, 70
1792 whiskey tax passed by, 115
Wells’s claims on, 245n
whiskey tax petition received by, 105
Congress, confederation:
impost and, 37, 39, 47
IOUs of, 38–39
Newburgh crisis and, 44, 45–47
R. Morris’s control of, 33
war bonds of, 30–31
Connor, John, 103–4, 117, 262n
Constitution, English, 82
Constitution, Pennsylvania, 36, 54, 59, 87, 94, 110, 122, 126, 186, 254n
Constitution, U.S.:
Brackenridge’s support for, 11, 108, 109, 110
Husband’s views of, 93, 261n
impact on populists of, 58
Pennsylvania’s ratification of, 11, 108
ratification of, 57, 109, 117, 126
taxing power in, 58
Constitutional Convention, 107, 188, 189
Continental Army, Morris’s control of, 33
Continental Congress, 98
Continental paper currency, 31–32
Couch’s Fort, 148, 149–50, 152, 155, 166, 268n
Coxe, Tench, 181–82, 194, 198, 258n, 259n, 266n, 268n, 270n
Craig, Isaac, 100, 101, 114, 156, 161, 163, 170, 175, 178, 185, 190, 197–98, 227–28, 245n, 262n, 275n
creditors, 37, 186, 253n–54n
A. Hamilton’s congressional report and, 60
concerns regarding bonds’ stability of, 56
Congress’s payments to, 33
Constitutional ratification and, 107–8
debtors’ conflict with, 33–34
in Pennsylvania assembly, 54–55, 59, 109–10
Washington’s suspicions of, 48
Creeks, 140
Cromwell, Oliver, 34
Cumberland, Fort, 128–29, 206, 210, 216, 219
Cumberland, Pa., 54
Cumberland County, Va., 203
currency, paper, 30–32, 35–36, 38
gold standard and, 88
taxes and, 53
Daniel, Book of, 26, 71, 76, 77, 80, 81, 89, 90–91, 94, 259n, 260n–61n
“Dash to the Mountains, Jersey Blue” (song), 212
Day, Edward, 171, 172, 177
Day family, 101
debt, federal, 60, 61, 135–36
A. Hamilton’s plan for, 59, 256n; see also Hamilton, Alexander, whiskey tax and
Morris’s plan for, 38, 40, 62, 254n
in war effort, 8, 29, 32, 40, 53, 55
debtors, 52, 253n—54n
creditors’ conflicts with, 33–34
Pennsylvania politics and, 53–56
violence of
, 52–53
debts, state, 60, 61, 62
Deep River, 79
Delaware Indians, 13
democratic societies, 137, 138, 141, 204, 213, 254n
Democratic Society of the County of Washington in Pennsylvania, 137–38, 141, 151, 266n
Detroit, 140
diggers, 80, 88
Dreadful Night, 220–21, 222
Duer, William, 111
duties, import, 52, 62–63
Edwards, Jonathan, 74, 78
Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, 151
England, 30
excises, 27–28, 37, 39, 52, 62–63, 105
see also whiskey tax
Ezekiel, Book of, 26, 71, 76, 89, 90–91, 197
Fairfax, Lord, 98
farms, farmers:
Congressional IOUs to, 38
federal bonds and, 8
Pennsylvania bank and, 54
Whiskey Rebellion perpetrators and, 8
whiskey tax and, 68
Farrago, Captain, 109
Faulkner, Mrs., 121–22
Faulkner, William, 119–21, 123–24, 128, 151, 264n
Fayette, Fort, 101, 114, 119, 127, 149, 171, 191, 262n
arms stored at, 194
D. Bradford’s threat against, 168
fortification of, 169–7
militias’ threat to, 174
Powers held at, 226
prisoners held at, 223
Fayette, Pa., 23, 97, 122, 128, 170
Federalist, The, 107
Federalists, 57–58, 108, 141, 231
Finance Department, confederation Congress, 33
Findley, William, 122, 170, 201, 223–24, 262n, 263n, 273n, 274n, 277n
as A. Hamilton’s enemy, 115, 170, 208, 214, 225, 242
A. Hamilton’s investigation of, 225–26, 230, 233, 238
and Brackenridge, 106, 109, 229
excise tax reduction promoted by, 115
excise trial reform promoted by, 142–43
on Gallatin, 272n
Gazette letter of, 107
history of rebellion by, 245n
moderation of, 170
Nevilles’ statement against, 227
in Pennsylvania assembly, 54, 55, 106
U.S. Constitution opposed by, 108
W. Bradford’s correspondence with, 208
Washington’s and Hamilton’s meeting with, 207, 209, 214–16, 274n
First Pennsylvania Regiment, 151
Florida, A. Hamilton’s invasion plan for, 239
Foreign Affairs Department of confederation Congress, 33
Forks of the Ohio, viii, 13, 40, 105, 115, 142, 251n
A. Hamilton’s plans for military action against, 124–25
A. Hamilton’s views on people of, 238
American Revolution and, 15
first excise office in, 120
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