diseases in, 58–59, 92, 107, 124
duels during, 95
finances of, 168, 184, 187–89, 232
Hamilton and, 45, 53–58, 67–72, 74–84, 86, 88, 90–99, 105, 110, 114, 117–27, 130, 135n, 142–43, 155–56, 176, 179, 183–84, 187–88, 203, 207, 224, 229, 297, 331–32, 338, 403
Hamilton’s wife and, 106–7
Jefferson and, 202, 253, 286
Malcolms in, 89–92, 94, 104, 145
mutinies in, 92, 119
New York and, 52–54, 56, 67–72, 74–80, 85, 88–90, 96, 103–5, 111, 117–18, 121–22, 125–26, 135–38, 141, 144, 146, 182
peace negotiations in, 125, 129, 142–43, 177, 265, 305, 356
planning for peace after, 67, 93
prisoners in, 81, 89–90, 93, 111–12, 114, 118–19, 122, 137, 202–3
and retrieval of patriots’ cannons, 70–71
Rutgers case and, 141–42
siege of Yorktown in, 121–25, 127, 264, 331
skirmish along Brandywine in, 86–87
spies in, 70, 74, 103, 114–15, 122, 141
Valley Forge encampment in, 90–93, 96
Westchester County in, 104–5, 127, 165, 220
and withdrawal of British troops, 135–36, 141
Reynolds, James, 211–14, 225–29, 255–56, 320
Reynolds, Maria:
blackmailing of, 214–15, 227–29
Hamilton and, 211–16, 225–30, 243, 253, 255–60, 268, 275, 278, 294, 302, 320, 324, 331, 335, 348
Reynolds, Susan, 320
Reynolds Pamphlet, 213, 259–60, 294, 348
Richmond Hill, 72–73, 78, 146–47, 232, 236–37, 241, 265, 281, 298, 326, 334, 338–40, 347–48, 351, 354
Ring, Elias, 284–85
Rivington, 70
Robertson, Robert, 17
Rodgers, John, 39–40
Rodney, Caesar, 388
Rodney, Thomas, 383–84, 388
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 113, 127, 150, 159–60, 232
Royal Danish American Gazette, 35
Rush, Benjamin, 188
Burr and, 219–20
Burr’s wife and, 237–40
Hamilton and, 218, 238
Russell, Mr., 400
Russian Empire, 148–49
Rutgers, Elizabeth, 141–43
Rutgers Case (Rutgers v. Waddington), 141–44, 169, 184, 234
Rutgers v. Waddington (Rutgers Case), 141–44, 169, 184, 234
Saba, 35
Safford, William Harris, 367–68
Saint Andrew’s Society, 203
Saint Croix, xxii, 12–15, 29, 31–32, 35–36, 42, 74, 98, 116, 185, 218
duel in, 36n
Hamilton’s departure from, 36
population of, 38
trade and, 32, 38
Saint Kitts, 12, 14–15, 17, 29, 36n
Hamilton’s employment in, 31–35
Saint Paul’s Chapel, 51
Saint Simons, 357–58
Sands, Gulielma, 281–85
Sansay, Leonora, 319–20
Sansay, Louis, 319–20
Saratoga, Battle of, 90, 289
Schuyler, Catherine, 107, 260
Schuyler, Catherine Van Rensselaer, 106, 109, 156–57
Schuyler, John, 108
Schuyler, Peggy, 121, 186
Schuyler, Philip, 144, 222, 334
Burr and, xix, 106, 127
Clinton and, 178
and election of 1800, 291
Hamilton and, xix, 69, 106–9, 117, 119–20, 156–57, 184, 203–4, 207, 213, 221
land speculation and, 269
physical appearance of, 69
Revolutionary War and, 60, 69, 106, 121
Schuylers, 106, 109, 127, 144
Hamilton and, 110, 117, 121, 125, 128, 178, 249, 314
scriptomania, 199–200
Seabury, Samuel, 55
Sedgwick, Theodore:
and Alien and Sedition Acts, 279
Burr and, 46–47, 51–52, 66, 205, 239–40, 262, 266, 297, 300, 305
and election of 1800, 297, 300, 303–5
Hamilton, xv–xvi, 51–52, 205, 293, 297, 405–8, 407
Revolutionary War and, 66
Senat, Madame de, 162–63
Senate, U.S., iv, 48n, 169, 178, 181–84, 194, 251, 268, 323–25, 369, 378, 383, 390, 402
Burr and, xxi, 204–5, 207, 216, 219–24, 235, 237, 239, 243, 265, 267, 305, 314–15, 348, 357, 359–62
Chase’s trial and, 359–60
Hamilton and, xix, 184, 189, 203, 207
Washington and, 182–83
see also Congress, U.S.
Seton, William, 200
Seward, William, 401
Shakespeare, William, 28, 128, 368
Shaw, Gabriel, 365–66
Shays’ Rebellion, 168, 186–87
Shelley, Mary, 102, 148
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 148
Shippen, William, 11, 20–21
Silliman, Gold Selleck, 78, 88
sinking funds, 200
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Edwards), 6
slaves, slavery, 11, 140, 237, 295
abolitionism and, 30
Burr and, 165, 359, 381
Butler and, 357–58
cruel treatment of, 16–17, 33
fugitive, 138
Hamilton and, 29–30, 33, 192–93
Jefferson and, 191–93, 195, 253, 322
in Nevis, 15–18, 29–30, 33
Revolutionary War and, 124
slave trade and, 16–17, 33
Washington and, 174
smallpox, 10–11, 58, 107, 124
Smith, Dr. Samuel, 27
Smith, John, 369, 402
Smith, Melancton, 173, 208, 221, 264
Smith, Richard R., 222
Smith, Samuel, 300–301, 318
Smith, Thomas, 381–82
Smith, William, 373
Smith, William Loughton, 257
Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, 224, 270
Society of the Cincinnati, 288, 338
Socrates, 238–39
Sons of Liberty, 54, 71, 135–36, 147, 165, 221, 264
Spain, 33, 163, 173, 379–80
American West and, 356–57
Burr and, 357, 369–75, 377, 380, 382–83, 388, 390, 393, 395, 397–98
Hamilton and, 277
Spanish Florida, 277, 369, 377
Burr and, 356–59, 370, 372, 375
Spring, Samuel, 60–62, 65
Staël, Madame de, 376
Stamp Act, 38
State Department, U.S., 185
Burr and, 205
Jefferson and, 183, 191, 196, 198, 203, 207
Sterne, Laurence, 168
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 107
Stevens, James, 31
Stevens, Ned, 31, 33–34, 45, 52, 83, 218
Stevens, Thomas, 31–33, 82
Stirling, William Alexander, Lord:
Hamilton and, 43, 45
Revolutionary War and, 43, 72, 79, 93–94
Stockbridge, Mass., 20, 46, 407
Burr and, 8, 19, 47, 66
Burr’s father and, 3–5, 9
Edwards’s death and, 11
and wars between France and Great Britain, 6, 8–9
Stockbridge Indians, 5, 8, 46–47, 147n
Street, Joseph M., 376
Stuart, Gilbert, 163
Style Committee, 170
sugar, 13–14, 16, 29, 32, 38
Supreme Court, N.Y., xviii, 127–28, 178, 208, 273, 282
Supreme Court, U.S., 25, 48n, 65, 9
7, 169, 222, 250, 359, 387–88
Swartwout, Henry, 268, 288, 302
Swartwout, John, 221, 268, 288, 302, 308
duel between Clinton and, 317–18
hiding of, 350
Swartwout, Robert, 268, 288, 302
Swartwout, Samuel, 268, 288, 302, 348, 376, 379–80, 383, 387–88
Sweden, 396
Swift, Jonathan, 156
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de, 236, 265
Burr and, 398
Hamilton and, 28, 398
Quasi-War and, 275–76, 291
Tammany Hall, 288
Tappan family, 144
taxes, 168, 199, 225
Hamilton and, 130, 187, 198, 242, 279
Revolutionary War and, 52–53
Tayler, John, xvii–xix, 332–33
Tea Act, 38
Tennessee, 362–65, 369–70, 372
Thayer, Captain, 63
Tilghman, Tench, 80
Todd, John, 217
Tontine coffee house, 138, 324, 341
Townsend, Peter, 303
trade, 199, 275
duties and, 38, 166–67, 180, 185, 225
Hamilton and, 31–35, 38, 67, 93, 171–72, 185, 192, 225
New York and, 45
Revolutionary War and, 53, 55
slave trade and, 16–17, 33
smuggling and, 185
sugar and, 13–14, 16, 38
West Indies and, 13–14, 16, 32, 38
Treasury Department, U.S., 183–91, 303, 308, 322
Burr’s conspiracy and, 373
Hamilton and, 45, 132–33, 146, 184–91, 196–201, 204, 207–8, 213–14, 218, 226, 228, 230–31, 242–44, 249–52, 255, 259, 275, 309–10, 327
Reynolds and, 213–14
Treaty of Paris, 129, 142–43, 177, 356
Trenton, Battle of, 79, 83, 90
Trespass Act, 142, 144–45, 167
Trinity Church, 137, 157, 241, 250, 343
Troup, Robert:
Burr and, 51, 105, 299, 317
and election of 1800, 290, 294
Hamilton and, 51–55, 128, 136, 139, 142, 179, 201n, 202, 249, 251, 257, 277, 289, 294, 313
legal career of, 142
Revolutionary War and, 53–54, 56
Reynolds affair and, 257
Trumbull, John, 18, 109–10, 195, 338
Truxtun, Thomas, 349, 354–55, 374, 390
Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, 93
Valley Forge, Pa., 90–93, 96
Van Buren, Martin, 326
Vanderlyn, John, 298, 319, 398
Van Gaasbeck, Peter, 146, 216–17, 221
Van Ness, John, 317
Van Ness, William Peter, xx, 316–17, 335–37
and duel between Hamilton and Burr, 339–40, 341n
murder charges against, 350
Van Rensselaer, Philip, 127
Van Rensselaer, Stephen, xviii–xix, 222, 269
gubernatorial campaign of, 308, 310
Hamilton and, xix
Van Rensselaers, 109, 144
Varick, Richard, 249, 272
Venable, Abraham, 228, 256, 258–59
Ver Plank’s house, 146
Vidal, Gore, 333n
Vigilant, 400
Vindication of the Rights of Women, A (Wollstonecraft), 102, 149–50
Virgil, 164
Virginia, 129, 208, 228, 230, 255, 259, 300, 308n, 392
and Alien and Sedition Acts, 279
Burr and, 220, 325–26, 381, 388–90
Constitutional Convention and, 169
Constitution and, 172
Hamilton and, 81, 166–67, 218
Jefferson and, 130, 192, 194, 196–98, 234, 253–54, 258, 279, 292, 322
national capital and, 196–97
Washington and, 58, 68–69, 95, 174, 177
Visme, Catherine de, 128
Volney, Compte de, 265, 398
Voltaire, 113
Volude, Nathalie de Lage de, 162–64, 265
Waddington, Joshua, 141–43
Walker, Betsey, 194–95
Walker, John, 194–95
Walterstorff, Ernst Frederick, 36
War Department, U.S., 293, 303
Knox and, 183, 185, 207–8, 256
War of 1812, 14n
Washington, George, 43, 146, 192, 206, 265, 299, 388
and Bank of the United States, 198–99
Burr and, xxi–xxii, 58–59, 73, 76–78, 88, 91, 94, 104–5, 111, 205, 220–21, 236, 239, 268, 277–78, 287, 315, 323, 382
cabinet selections of, 183–85, 191, 193
celebrating birthday of, 315
Constitutional Convention and, 168
Constitution and, 176–77
currencies and, 201
death of, 234, 252, 280–81, 343
and Declaration of Independence, 75
fame and popularity of, 175–76
farewell address of, 252–53
farewell to officers of, 136–37
funding Continental Army and, 129–30
Genet and, 232–33
Hamilton and, 74, 78–84, 86, 88, 90–91, 93–98, 106–7, 109, 114, 117–21, 123, 129–30, 132–33, 136, 156, 158n, 170, 174–76, 182–85, 189–90, 193, 196, 199, 207, 218, 228, 233, 240, 242, 249–50, 252, 254, 257, 276, 309, 331–32, 343
illnesses of, 81–82, 175, 190, 279–80
inauguration of, 132–33, 181–82, 184, 186, 250
Jay Treaty and, 250, 252
presidency of, 174–78, 183–85, 187, 189–91, 193, 208, 210, 232–34, 249–50, 252, 268, 307, 309–10, 332
provisional army and, 276–77
Quasi-War and, 351
retirement of, 252
Revolutionary War and, 58–60, 62n, 68–69, 72–88, 90–97, 104–7, 111, 114, 117–23, 174–76, 183–84, 236, 332
semiretirement of, 174–75
threats against, 74, 92–94, 104, 177
and withdrawal of British troops, 135–36
Washington, Martha, 97–98, 119, 174, 182, 219, 279
Washington City, 181, 263, 309, 381
Burr and, 305–6, 317–19, 353, 359, 362, 364, 382
and election of 1800, 298, 301, 303–4
physical appearance of, 295
Washington Federalist, 360
Watkins, Joseph, 284–85
Watson, James, 221
Webster, Daniel, 189
Weehawken, N.J., 317, 404
duel between Hamilton and Burr in, xvi, xxi, xxiii, 246–47, 340–41, 347, 392, 401, 403
Weeks, Ezra, 282
Weeks, Levi, 281–85
Werring, Mrs., 321
Westchester County, N.Y., 55, 104–5, 127, 165, 220
Western Inland Lock Navigation Company, 269
Western World, 376, 379
West Indies, xxii, 12–18, 36, 39, 116, 274–75, 332
slavery in, 15–18
sugar and, 13–14, 16, 32, 38
West Point, N.Y., 114, 151
Wharton, Mr., 362
Whigs, 143–44
Whiskey Rebellion, 242
Whitefield, George, 61
Wickham, John, 388
Wilkinson, James, 360–62, 376–84, 402
arrests made by, 383
Burr and, 344, 351–54, 357, 361–62, 365, 370–72, 376–77, 379–84, 387–89, 391
Hamilton and, 351–52
military command of, 351–53, 377, 379
Ohio River tour and, 365–66
West and, 352–53
Willett, Marinus, 221, 264, 350
Williamson, Charles, 249, 354
–56, 372
Wills, Garry, 357n
Windy Hill Manor, 383
Winstanley, William, 175
Wirt, William, 390
Witherspoon, John, 23, 35–36, 44–45
Wogdon, Robert, iv, 109, 338
Wolcott, Oliver, Jr., 228, 275
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 102, 113, 149–50, 237, 297, 319, 394
Wood, John, 316–17
Woodbury, Levi, 48n
Wright, Francis, 320
XYZ Affair, 276, 311
Yale University, 5, 275
Yard, James, 31
Yates, Robert, 178–79, 204, 221
yellow fever, 12, 127, 201n, 217–18, 238, 271–72
York Gazette, The, 127
Yorktown, Va., 155
siege of, 121–25, 127, 264, 331
withdrawal of British from, 135
* The cruel duplicity finds its way into James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Last of the Mohicans.
* Back in 1750, when Belcher had been stricken with “the Common paralytic disorder,” or palsy, he had, at Burr’s instigation, been given shock treatments inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s electrical globe. His health, however, only worsened.
* John Church Hamilton was Alexander Hamilton’s fifth child and the one most devoted to his memory. William Henry Harrison’s aide-de-camp in the War of 1812, he married the daughter of a wealthy New York merchant, freeing him to write a series of unreadable tomes about his father, and to place a bust of him in Central Park.
* Davis compiled his memoirs shortly after Burr’s death—and after Burr had been charged with both murder and treason, which may have colored Davis’s judgment.
* Another one was about a duel involving a Colonel Gardiner who, when challenged, retorted: “I have courage to fight with feeble man, but I am afraid to sin against Almighty God.” This would be Hamilton’s attitude later.
* By one account, he had ended up on the tiny Caribbean island of Bequia, not far from the South American coast, where he had somehow acquired twenty-five acres of land that proved useless, as sugarcane could not be grown. He likely died there of starvation.
* It’s not clear what Hamilton took with him, but he likely took this: the story of an unusual duel. Although it had taken place three years before Hamilton was born, it was a legend on the island. It involved a peppery local lawyer named John Barbot and a brusque planter from Saint Kitts, Matthew Mills. Squabbling over a piece of land, Mills called Barbot “an impertinent puppy,” a remark that brought the men to the dueling ground. There Barbot rushed his fire and shot Mills in the chest, killing him instantly. While duels were legal, it was not allowed to practice ahead of time or to shoot a man before he was ready. A jury found Barbot to have done both, and it sent him to the gallows.
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