collaborations between Hamilton and, 140, 282
conspiracy of, 344, 352–59, 361–66, 369–88, 391–92, 402, 408
conspirators’ approaches to, 324–25, 327, 408
death of, 24n, 150, 241, 401–2
demise of, 307, 315, 317, 323, 326–27, 334, 401, 403
derided by Hamilton, xix–xxiii, 204, 207, 209–10, 243–44, 259, 285, 297–98, 324–25, 333–37, 401, 406
divorce of, 402
domestic life of, 155–56, 159–60, 236, 394
duel between Hamilton and, iv, xvi–xvii, xxi–xxiii, 26n, 246–47, 331–33, 335–36, 338–43, 347–49, 351, 355, 373, 382, 392, 394, 398, 401–6
education of, xxiv, 22–23, 26–27, 37, 40–41, 44, 46–48, 52, 58–59, 63, 65, 86, 112–13, 126–27, 207, 229, 361
and election of 1800, xxi, 286–92, 294–307, 317–18, 331–34, 337, 357n, 361, 374
exile of, 21, 393–400
fame and popularity of, 26, 139–40, 216, 348, 359, 370, 382
family of, xxii, xxiv, 4–11, 20–22, 24–25, 40, 45–50, 60–62, 66, 71, 88, 112–13, 115–16, 126, 128, 136, 147n, 148, 209, 240, 262, 271, 298–300, 305, 314, 319, 339, 347–48, 350, 353, 359–60, 364–65, 369, 373–74, 377–78, 390, 393, 397, 401–2
feminism and, 102–3, 113, 148–50, 160, 237, 297, 319, 394
finances of, xxi, 18, 22, 46, 73, 126, 128, 140–41, 145–48, 150, 152, 159, 180, 201, 208, 217, 262–67, 269–70, 273, 282–83, 285, 299, 316, 321, 331, 334, 354, 365, 367–69, 374, 377, 380, 386, 391–95, 397–400, 402
gubernatorial campaign of, xviii–xx, 323–27, 350
Hamilton derided by, xxii, 325, 327
Hamilton’s death and, 343, 347–48, 359, 394, 398, 401
Hamilton’s dinner with, xvii–xx, 332–33, 336–37
Hamilton’s first awareness of, 40
Hamilton’s first contact with, 78
heritage of, xxii, xxiv, 3–6, 21, 82, 102, 332
honor and honors of, 65, 246, 330–32, 335, 337, 347, 356, 379, 389
illnesses of, 8, 10, 20–21, 59, 79, 94, 105, 112, 126, 151, 217, 235, 397, 399, 402
indictment of, 389–90
land speculation of, 147, 151–53, 180, 262–63, 265, 269–70, 353–54, 361, 374–75, 388
lawsuits against, 263, 395
legal career of, 73, 112, 126–28, 136, 138–43, 145, 147–48, 150–51, 154, 161, 163, 165, 179, 191, 200, 207, 218, 235, 262, 264, 282–85, 320, 362, 401, 403
military career of, 24, 43n, 58–63, 65–67, 69, 72–73, 76–80, 88–96, 102–6, 111–12, 114–15, 118, 122, 127, 135n, 145, 147, 151, 165, 207, 220, 236, 277–78, 297, 332, 338, 352, 403
moods of, 105, 140, 153, 379
murder charges against, 24n, 350, 356, 359–60, 364, 368, 392
nickname of, 26, 63
opportunism of, 173, 271, 300
parents of, xxii, xxiv, 3–11, 20–26, 30, 35, 46–47, 59, 61, 79, 402
physical appearance of, xxii–xxiii, 8, 22, 27, 47, 49, 62–63, 83, 89, 93–94, 103, 127–29, 139, 163–64, 205, 219, 264, 332, 334, 340–41, 349, 369, 384–86, 388–89, 400–401
plan X of, 396–99
press on, xvii, xix–xx, 139, 317, 326–27, 343, 349, 354, 360, 371–72, 376–79, 382
proposed alliance between Hamilton and, 221–22
reading of, 67, 113, 127, 148, 153–54, 156, 159, 314, 319, 347, 399
religion and, 21, 23, 25, 40, 47–48, 60–61
return to America of, 400–401
secretiveness of, xxiii, 49n, 73, 94, 103, 114–15, 169, 173, 194, 237, 262, 265, 344, 353–55, 359, 379–81, 383, 387, 393, 397
senatorial career of, 204–5, 207, 216, 219–24, 235, 237, 239, 243, 265, 267, 348, 357
sense of humor of, 216, 325
sexuality and love life of, 24–26, 34, 41, 46, 48–51, 62n, 73, 102–5, 111–16, 148, 216–17, 241, 318–21, 326–27, 331, 333, 355, 359, 364–65, 368, 383–84, 394–96, 399, 402
speeches of, 26–27, 188, 219, 290, 360–62, 382
as state attorney general, 180, 203, 348
suspicions about, 306–7, 315–17
temper of, 333n, 337, 373
threats against, 92, 166, 349–50, 392
treason charges against, 24n, 344, 378–79, 382–84, 386–91
trials of, 378–79, 386–93
vice presidency and, xvi, xviii–xix, xxi–xxii, 147, 208–10, 223, 253–54, 292, 296, 301–2, 305–9, 314–23, 325–27, 334, 348–52, 355–56, 357n, 359–61, 368, 371–72, 374, 378, 384–86, 392, 397
wedding of, 128
West and, 352–53, 356, 362, 365–66, 370–78, 381–82, 385, 398, 408
wives of, 111–16, 126–28, 136, 140, 145, 148–55, 157–64, 171, 205, 216–17, 221, 235–41, 266, 297, 299, 395, 402
writing of, xvii, xx–xxi, xxiii, 21, 23, 24n, 25–26, 34, 49n–50n, 62, 94, 103, 105, 112–16, 126–27, 148, 150–54, 157, 159–63, 171, 205, 208, 216–17, 235, 237–40, 265–66, 268–70, 307–9, 314, 316, 318–20, 324, 335–37, 339, 341n, 344, 348–50, 353–55, 358–59, 370, 378–81, 383, 387, 389, 391, 393–97, 399–400
Burr, Aaron, Sr., xxii, xxiv, 1, 3–7, 9–10, 20–25, 30, 35-36, 46–47, 59, 61, 79, 402
Burr, Aaron Columbus, 402
Burr, Eliza Jumel, 402
Burr, Esther Edwards, 4–11, 20–21, 26, 30, 61
Burr, Sally, 148
Burr, Sarah, 7, 10–11
Burr, Thaddeus, 48–49
Burr, Theodosia Bartow Prevost, 111–16, 136, 145, 148–55, 157–64, 171, 205, 235–41, 299, 395, 402
burial of, 241
children of, 148, 153–54, 159–64, 221, 236–37
death of, 112, 163–64, 240–41
domestic life of, 160–61, 236–37
feminism and, 148–50, 160, 237, 297
Fort Johnson and, 151–53
hemlock taken by, 238–39
husband’s legal career and, 126–27, 140, 154
illnesses of, 112, 148, 161–62, 216–17, 235–40, 266
injuries of, 154
physical appearance of, 111, 128, 154, 159
wedding of, 128
Burrites, 208, 220–21, 232–33, 254, 268, 300, 309, 314, 317, 402
Burr’s gubernatorial campaign and, 326
and election of 1800, 288, 291–92, 302, 307–8
Hamilton and, 220, 327
Butler, Pierce, 357–58
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 34, 125, 148
Calhoun, John C., 48n
Callender, James Thomson, 255, 257–59, 268, 278, 310
Campbell, Archibald, 81, 124
Canada, 16, 138, 232, 356, 398
France vs. Great Britain in, 264–66
Hamilton and, 68
Revolutionary War and, 59–66, 69, 72–73, 88, 91, 106, 114, 135n, 147, 220, 332, 352
Cape’s Tavern, 136
Carleton, Guy, 135
Casa Yrujo, Marqués de, 371, 373, 376
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, 148–49
Catholics, Catholic Church, 68, 371
Catiline, xxi, 297, 321
Cazenove, Théophile, 269
Central Park, 14n
Chadd’s Ford, Battle at, 83, 86–87, 123
Charleston, siege of, 118–19
Chase, Samuel, 359–60, 388
Cheetham, James, 273, 316–18, 325–26
Chesterfield, Lord, 99, 113, 149, 156, 159–60
Christians, Christianity, 3–10, 20, 30, 35, 55, 194, 265, 265–66, 369
Burr and, 21, 23, 25, 60–61
Burr’s father and, 3, 7
Edwards and, 4–8
Hamilton and, 28, 39, 45, 52–53, 256, 342
West Indies and,
17
Christiansted, 12, 14, 17, 29, 32
Christie, Gabriel, 301
Church, Angelica Schuyler, 107–10, 157–58, 175, 259–60, 313, 342
garter of, 186
Jefferson and, 110, 194–95, 234, 253
Reynolds affair and, 260
Church, John Barker, 108–10, 157, 186, 195, 249, 258–60
duel between Burr and, 270–71, 311–12, 330, 334
and duel between Hamilton and Burr, 338
and duel between Hamilton’s son and Eacker, 311–12
Manhattan Company and, 272–73
Cicero, xxi
Clarissa Ann, 393
Clark, Daniel, 371
Clark, William, 353
Clay, Henry, 378
Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser, 252–53, 282, 289
Clingman, Jacob, 227–28, 259
Clinton, DeWitt, 178, 308–9, 398
Burr and, 314, 316–18
duel between Swartwout and, 317–18
gubernatorial elections and, 323, 325
Clinton, George, 136
attempted political assassination of, 178–80
Burr and, 180, 203–4, 208, 210, 221, 223, 289, 292, 309, 314, 323, 325, 333
Constitutional Convention and, 167
Constitution and, 169–70, 172, 177–80, 209
and election of 1800, 289, 291–92
Genet and, 234
Hamilton and, 144, 167, 169–70, 172, 177–79, 203–4, 209, 221–22, 308–9, 325
Revolutionary War and, 81
Rutgers case and, 144
vice presidency and, 208, 210, 322–23
Clintonians, 144, 167, 172, 208, 222–23, 309, 314
Cliosophic Society, 26–27, 52
Clossey, Professor, 52
Coast Guard, U.S., 185n
Cochran, Gertrude and John, 107
Colden, Cadwallader D., 282–84
Coleman, William, xix, 310, 317, 352
Collins, Eliza, 219
Columbia University, see King’s College
Commentaries on the Laws of England (Blackstone), 141
committees of correspondence, 53, 179
Concord, Battle of, 56–58, 67–68
Congress, U.S., 317, 330, 353
and Alien and Sedition Acts, 278
assumption bill and, 243
and Bank of the United States, 198
Burr and, 373, 382
and election of 1800, 303
Hamilton and, 182–83, 185, 187–90, 257, 276
provisional army and, 276
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Connecticut, 22, 47, 65, 91, 180, 244, 274–75, 347
Burr and, 208–9
Hamilton and, 166, 169
Connecticut Compromise, 169
Constitution, U.S., 44, 140, 191, 234, 286, 322, 359–61, 370
and Alien and Sedition Acts, 278
and Bank of the United States, 198
Burr and, 173, 180, 209, 272, 292, 315, 360–61, 378
and election of 1800, 296
final draft of, 170
Hamilton and, 169–73, 176–79, 189, 192–93, 199, 209, 252, 361
implied powers and, 199
presidential elections and, 176–77
promotion of, 170–71
ratification of, 169–72, 174, 178–79
on slavery, 192–93
Supremacy Clause of, 143n
on treason, 387, 390
Constitutional Convention, 44, 144, 357n
Hamilton and, 167–70, 178
Contentment, 13
Continental Army, 58, 68, 74, 87, 97, 128–30, 352
Continental Congress, 43–44, 48, 53, 59, 82, 112, 119n, 177
and Articles of Confederation, 129–30
Burr and, 151
Hamilton and, 55, 118, 128–30, 142–43, 167–68, 178, 188
Revolutionary War and, 68, 85–87, 92
and Treaty of Paris, 142–43
Conway, Thomas, 92
Conway Cabal, 92–93, 104, 177
Cooper, Charles D., xix–xx, 332–36
Cooper, James Fenimore, 8n
Cooper, Myles, 51, 56, 58, 70
Cooper, William, 304
Cornwallis, Charles, 121–25, 135
Cosway, Maria, 193–95
Cosway, Richard, 193
Croucher, 284–85
Cruger, Nicholas, 32–33
Cruger family, 39
currencies, 33, 185, 201, 243–44
Custis, Nelly, 299
Daviess, Joseph Hamilton, 374, 376–79
Davis, John, 164
Davis, Matthew Livingston:
Burr and, 23–25, 49n, 59, 103, 113–14, 221, 237, 271, 288, 291, 308–9, 318, 350
and election of 1800, 288, 291, 302
Revolutionary War and, 58, 103
Dawson, John, 304
Dayton, Jonathan, 240, 369
Burr’s conspiracy and, 361–62, 373, 376, 380
indictment of, 390
“Death of General Montgomery, in Storming the City of Quebec, The” (Brackenridge), 65
Declaration of Independence, 68n, 75–76, 177, 189, 191
Delaware, 169, 304
Denmark, 13–14, 19
Denniston, David, 316
Drummey, Peter, xv
Duane, James, 190
Hamilton and, 142, 184, 203
Rutgers case and, 142, 144, 184
dueling pistols, iv, 109, 270, 329–30, 338–39
duels, 36n, 329–36
animating sentiments of, iv, 329–30
avoided by Hamilton, 251, 259
between Church and Burr, 270–71, 311–12, 330, 334
between Clinton and Swartwout, 317–18
between Hamilton and Burr, iv, xvi–xvii, xxi–xxiii, 26n, 246–47, 331–33, 335–36, 338–43, 347–49, 351, 355, 373, 382, 392, 394, 398, 401–6
between Hamilton’s son and Eacker, 310–12, 330–31, 338–39
history of, 329
between Laurens and Lee, 95
rules in, 330
Duer, William:
Hamilton and, 179, 185, 200, 201n, 250
speculation of, 200–201, 214
Dumas, Alexander, 85
Dürer, Albrecht, 175
Eacker, George I., duel between Hamilton’s son and, 310–12, 330–31, 338–39
Eaton, William, 374, 387
economics, economy, 38–40, 174, 197, 324
Burr and, 243–44
crises in, 180, 200
and disparity between rich and poor, 39
Hamilton and, xvi, 33, 52, 55, 93, 99, 128, 184–90, 200–201, 218, 224, 228, 252, 296, 304, 310, 322, 343, 403–4, 408
Revolutionary War and, 55
Edict of Nantes, 12
Edwards, Dr., 235
Edwards, Jonathan, 4–11, 47, 147n, 393, 402
Burr’s sexual history and, 24–25
death of, 11, 21
fame of, xxii, 4–5
Great Awakening and, 4, 61
Princeton and, xxiv, 1, 10, 22
sermons of, 4–6, 8
smallpox inoculation of, 10–11
spider of, 6, 40
and wars between France and Great Britain, 8–9
Edwards, Lucy, 11
Edwards, Pierpont, 48, 240, 319
Edwards, Rhoda Ogden, 21–22, 46
Edwards, Sarah, 10–11, 20
Edwards, Timothy, 21, 46–48, 60, 147n
Elizabeth River, 21–22, 41, 46, 332
Elizabethtown, N.J., 3, 9,
21, 51
Burr and, 25–26, 41, 46, 58–59, 61, 102–3, 207, 332, 361, 369
Hamilton and, 41–43, 70, 145, 207
Elizabethtown Academy, 22–23, 40, 44
Ellsworth, Oliver, 244
Émile (Rousseau), 159
Éon, Mademoiselle la Chevalièr d’, 193
Epps, Mr., 386
Essays Upon the Law of Evidence (Morgan), 283
Eustis, William, 163, 299, 318–21
Evening Post, xix–xx
“Farmer Refuted, The” (Hamilton), 55
Faucette, John, 12–13
Faucette, Mary, 12–13, 15, 29
Faucette, Rachel, 12–19, 28–32, 44, 99, 213
Federal Hall, 132–33, 181, 187–88, 250, 282
federalism, 273
Constitutional Convention and, 167
Constitution and, 169, 171–72
Hamilton and, 171–72, 189
Federalist Papers, 170–72, 175
Federalists, Federalist Party, xx, 42, 46–47, 178, 206, 270–76, 314–17, 322, 352, 378
and Alien and Sedition Acts, 359
assumption bill and, 189, 204
Burr and, xxi–xxii, 208, 220–23, 253, 267–68, 270–72, 288, 290, 297, 300–305, 309, 314–15, 317, 323–24, 333, 348–49, 361, 371, 376, 382, 387, 402
clothing worn by, xviii
Constitution and, 172–73
and election of 1800, 286–91, 293–94, 296–305
French Revolution and, 231–33
Genet and, 232–33
Hamilton and, iv, xxi, 189, 203–4, 207–8, 218, 221–22, 225, 228, 230–31, 253–54, 256–57, 272, 276, 286–89, 291, 293–94, 297–99, 301–2, 310, 323–24, 328, 331–32, 342–43, 348
Jay Treaty and, 251
Manhattan Company and, 272–73
New York governorship and, 179–80
Quasi-War and, 275
Reynolds affair and, 256–57, 294
Federal style, 46–47, 175, 181
Fenno, John, 203
Fielding, Henry, 156
First Church of Newark, 3
Fleming, Captain, 67, 71
Floyd, Kitty, 218–19
Ford, Jacob, 97
Fort Duquesne massacre, 7
Fort George, 70–71, 75–76
Fort Johnson, 151–53
Fort Lee, 79
Fort Oswego, 8
Fort Ticonderoga, 60, 71
Fort Washington, 79
40 for 1 scheme, 243–44
France, 62n, 92, 95, 98, 113, 136, 160, 162–64, 181–83, 230–34, 268, 311, 319, 352
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