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INDEX
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Abenakis, 62n
Abercrombie, Robert, 124
abolitionism, 30
Adair, John, 383
Adams, Abigail, 211, 236, 303
Hamilton and, 254, 257, 293
Adams, Henry, xvi
Adams, John, 38, 80, 142, 176–78, 182–83, 190, 192, 205, 373
and Alien and Sedition Acts, 278
Burr and, xxi–xxii, 268, 277–78, 316, 385, 387
Continental Congress and, 177
French Revolution and, 231
Genet and, 233
Hamilton and, xxii, 18, 51, 177–78, 208, 211, 249, 254, 257, 275–77, 279, 289, 291, 293–94, 309, 331
presidency of, 254, 257, 268, 275–79, 293–94, 303, 309, 314, 316, 322, 351, 356
presidential campaigns of, 253–54, 286–87, 289, 291, 293–96, 305
provisional army and, 276–77
Quasi-War and, 275–78, 351
Revolutionary War and, 56, 68, 177, 286
Reynolds affair and, 257
vice presidency of, 177–78, 183, 208, 210, 220, 236, 253
on women, 103
Adams, John Quincy, 392–93
Adams, Samuel, 56, 220
Africans, Africa, 11, 16–17, 33, 253
Ajax, 29–30
Albany, N.Y., 3, 69, 125–30, 154–56, 171, 178, 260, 265, 267, 269, 271–72, 283, 285, 289, 298–305, 324
Burr’s legal career and, 112, 126–28, 136, 151, 154, 161, 401
Dutch character of, xvii–xviii, 127
Hamilton-Burr dinner in, xvii–xx, 332–33, 336–37
Hamilton’s legal career and, 128, 130, 138
Hamilton’s wife and, 106–7, 119, 136, 155, 186, 213
Revolutionary War and, 60, 90, 114, 121, 125
Albany Register, xx
Alexander, Catharine “Lady Kitty,” 43
Alien Act, 249
Alien and Sedition Acts, 278–79, 287, 322, 359
Alien Law, 263, 269
Allen, Mary “Mama,” 217
Alston, Aaron Burr, 353, 378, 401
Alston, Joseph, 298–300, 305, 364–65, 374, 401
Burr’s conspiracy and, 377–78
Burr’s exile and, 397
Burr’s Ohio river tour and, 365
Burr’s vice presidency and, 314
and duel between Hamilton and Burr, 339, 348
and murder charges against Burr, 350
Alston, Theodosia Burr, 136, 140, 148, 150, 153–55, 297, 318–19, 333n, 354–55, 357–59, 364–65, 379
Brant and, 265–66
and duel between father and Hamilton, 339, 355
education of, 159–64, 237, 311, 339
father’s conspiracy and, 353, 357, 378
father’s exile and, 393–94, 396–97, 399–400
father’s gubernatorial campaign and, 324–27
father’s Ohio River tour and, 364, 370–71
and father’s return to America, 400–401
lost at sea, 401
marriage of, 298–300, 305
mother’s death and, 240–41
mother’s illness and, 237, 239–40
physical appearance of, 163–64
pseudonym of, 393
and threats against father, 349–50
American Bible Society, 43
American Citizen, 316, 326
American Philosophical Society, 202
American Whig Society, 26
Ames, Fisher, 185, 287
André, John, 114–15, 141
Angerstein, John Julius, 263–64, 268
“Answer to the Inquiry Why I Sighed” (Hamilton), 107
Anti-Federalists, 178
assumption bill and, 189
Burr and, 173, 221
Constitution and, 172–73
New York gubernatorial elections and, 179–80
Argus, The, 278–79, 316
Armstrong, John, 397–98
Arnold, Benedict:
Revolutionary War and, 60–65, 69, 72–73, 81, 114, 141, 147, 352
treason of, 114–15, 141, 352
wound of, 65
Arnold, Jacob, 80
Arnold, Mrs., 115
Articles of Confederation, 129–30, 185
and Constitutional Convention, 168
and Hamilton, 166, 171–72
and Madison, 168
Ashley, Robert, 384–85
Asia, 70–71
assumption bill:
Burr and, 191, 204, 243–44
Hamilton and, 189–90, 196–98, 204, 224–25, 243–44, 255, 332
Jefferson and, 191, 195–97
Astor, John Jacob, 354
Aurora, 257, 260, 278–79, 294
Bailey, Theodorus, 221
Bank of England, 187, 275
Bank of New York, 146, 198, 200, 272–73, 285
Bank of the United States:
and Burr, 205, 217
and Hamilton, 198–201, 205, 217, 225, 230, 296, 309
Barbados, 16
Barbot, John, 36n
Bardin’s Tavern, 179
Bartlett, William Henry, 246–47
Bassanno, Duc de, 400
Bastrop, Baron de, 374–75
Bastrop Tract, 374–75, 381, 388
Bayard, James A., 304–5, 318
Bayard’s Hill, Bayard’s Hill Redoubt, 72, 77–78
Beckley, John James, 219, 294
Beekman, David, 32
Beekman and Cruger, 31–33
Beekman family, 39
Belcher, Jonathan, 4, 9
Bellamy, Jonathan, 65–66
Bellamy, Joseph, 47, 65
Benson, Egbert, 142
Bentham, Jeremy, 394
Bequia, 29n
Bible, 3, 22–23, 43, 156, 297, 354n
Biddle, Charles, 327, 392
Binney, Susan, 319
Bird, Savage, and Bird, 249
blacks:
Burr and, 326, 348
Hamilton and, 30–31, 39, 99
Revolutionary War and, 84, 99, 130
see also slaves, slavery
Blackstone, Sir William, 141
Blennerhassett, Harman, 389–91, 402
arrest and trial of, 384
Burr and, 367–69, 377, 381, 384, 391
finances of, 367–69
indictment of, 389–90
&n
bsp; Blennerhassett, Margaret, 367–69, 377, 381, 402
Blennerhassett Island, 367, 369, 377, 390–91
Burr’s conspiracy and, 378, 381
Burr’s trial and, 390
and charges against Burr, 387–88
Bloomfield, Joseph, 349
Bolingbroke, Lord, 168
Bollman, Erich, 376, 387–88
Bonaparte, Jérôme, 236
bonds, 187–90, 200, 264
Boston, Mass., xv, 6, 22, 48, 68, 177, 203, 211, 220, 263, 299, 310, 318–21, 400–401, 406
Revolutionary War and, 53–56, 71, 75
Boston Tea Party, 53–55
Boswell, James, 264n
Boudinot, Anna Maria, 43–44
Boudinot, Annie, 43–44
Boudinot, Elias, 82
Burr and, 59, 145
Hamilton and, 43–44, 59, 145
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 65
Braddock, Edward, 7
Bradford, William, 65
Brandywine Creek, skirmish along, 86–87
Brant-Thayendanegea, Joseph, 264–66
Brissot de Warville, Jacques-Pierre, 182
Brooklyn, Battle of, 76–77
Brown, John, 369
Browne, Joseph, 271, 359–60
Bruff, James, 371–72, 380
Bruin, Peter Bryan, 383
“Building Castles in the Air” (Burr), 27
Bullock, Catherine, 25
Bunker Hill, Battle of, 58, 69
Burdett, Charles, 402
Burgoyne, John, 90
Burke, Aedanus, 270
Burr (Vidal), 333n
Burr, Aaron, Jr., xvi–xxiii, 20–27, 45–52, 57–63, 137, 145–66, 175, 178, 192, 207–10, 216–24, 232, 251–54, 262–74, 282–92, 294–309, 311–12, 314–27, 330–43, 347–408
aliases of, 393, 395–96, 400
ambitions of, xxii, 47–48, 59, 66, 136, 147–48, 159, 208–10, 220, 283, 285, 297, 302, 308, 325, 327, 333, 353, 361, 371, 375, 379, 395, 403, 406
arrests of, 344, 383–86, 395
as assemblyman, xxi, 165–66, 173, 267–69, 271–73, 283, 303, 306, 348, 354, 399
attempts to suppress criticisms of, 316
betrayal of, 381, 383
birth of, 7–8
bravery and heroism of, 65–66, 77, 88–89
childhood and adolescence of, xxii, xxiv, 8, 10–11, 20–25, 33–34, 40–41, 46–50, 59, 66, 332
children and stepchildren of, 136, 140, 148, 150, 153–56, 159–64, 221, 235, 237, 239–41, 265–66, 297–300, 305, 311, 318–19, 324–27, 333n, 339, 349–50, 353–55, 357–60, 364–65, 370–71, 378–79, 386, 391, 393–94, 396–97, 399–402
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