Lathrop, Gurdon W., 395
Latin America, 372, 375, 394–95. See also Spanish America
Latrobe, Benjamin, 305
Laurens, John, 46, 47, 48
Lawrence, Nathaniel, 101, 102
Lee, Gen. Charles, 24, 32, 35, 45, 46–48, 65
Lee, Charles (jurist), 277–78, 339
legal profession, 87–88
Le Guen, Louis, 189, 390
Le Guen v. Gouverneur and Kemble, 189–91
Lewis, Meriwether, 409
Lewis, Morgan, 252, 254, 255, 257, 268, 301, 391
Lewis, Susan (daughter of Maria Reynolds), 121, 242
Lewis, William, 132
Lewis and Clark expedition, 369, 409
Lewisites, 301
Lincoln, Abraham, 397
Lincoln, Levi, 226
Linn, James, 218, 249
Lisle, Lady, 360
Liston, Robert, 161
Liverpool, Lord, 380
Livingston, Anne, 233
Livingston, Brockholst, 93, 189–90, 192, 193, 198, 199, 252
Livingston, Edward (Ned), 135, 172, 218, 219, 226, 228, 249, 296, 303, 314, 325
Livingston, Col. Henry Beekman, 48
Livingston, Janet (Mrs. Richard Montgomery), 24, 25, 106
Livingston, John, 234
Livingston, Robert R. (chancellor of New York State 1777–1801), 26, 85–86, 93, 100, 105–6, 107, 142, 143, 144, 147, 148, 151, 201, 226, 228, 229, 231, 234, 251, 364
Livingston, William (governor of New Jersey 1776–90), 8, 58–59, 62, 66, 67, 76; daughters of, 69
Livingston, Col. William Smith, 101
Livingston clan and faction, 8, 24, 85–86, 87, 99, 143, 185, 198, 227, 228, 229, 231, 234, 252, 254, 256
Long Island, battle of, 33, 40
Louisiana Purchase (1803), 252, 284, 286
Louisiana Territory, 269, 283, 284, 286–87, 288, 289, 302, 313, 308, 406
Love, William, 359
Low, Nicholas, 188
Loyalists, 49, 63, 64, 67, 71, 86, 88, 90
Lyon, Matthew, 173, 293, 294, 296, 297
McClane, Allen, 177
McCorckle, Samuel, 12–13
McDougall, Gen. Alexander, 41, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52–53, 98
McHenry, James, 64, 66, 203
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 311, 354
McKean, Sally, 234–35
McKean, Thomas, 149, 274, 358
Mackenzie, Henry, 376
McManus, Jane, 401–3
Macomb, Alexander, 91, 110
MacPherson, John, 13, 20, 25–26
McRae, Alexander, 339, 344, 361, 384
Madison, Dolley Payne Todd, 124, 127, 235, 384, 385, 409–10
Madison, James, 11, 12, 56, 137, 142, 148, 166, 167, 273, 393, 398, 406, 410
—as a U.S. congressman (1789–97), 106–7, 116, 117–18, 124, 126, 135; and election of 1796, 147, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154
—and election of 1800–01, 207, 215, 217, 398
—as secretary of state (1801–09), 226, 230, 234, 273, 285, 306, 308, 371; and election of 1804, 230, 256
—as president (1809–17), 135, 381, 392
Malcolm, William, 37, 38, 41–42, 43, 44, 48, 89, 90, 93, 103
Manhattan Bank, 256
Manhattan Company, 180, 183–86, 187–88, 192, 198, 205
Marie Antoinette, queen of France, 67, 126
marriage, eighteenth-century, 71–72
Marshall, John, 168, 213, 311, 323, 326, 329, 330, 335–38, 341, 345, 346, 350, 352–53, 354, 360, 362, 363, 368, 370
Martin, Luther, 13, 20, 278, 319, 339, 340, 343, 344, 345, 346–47, 350, 354, 362, 368, 399
masculine code of conduct, 29–30
Mason, Rev. John, 266
Mason, Stevens Thomson, 136, 138
Massachusetts, 92, 96
Massachusetts Resolutions, 186
Mead, Cowles, 316, 319–20, 325
mechanics, 99, 179, 186
Mechanics’ Bill, 99
Mechanic Society, 138
Melville, Henry Dundas, Lord, 291, 292, 371–72, 379
Merry, Anthony, 290, 291–92, 302, 375
Mexican Society of New Orleans, 296–97
Mexico, 271, 283, 285, 287, 289–90, 291, 292, 293, 294, 296, 297, 298, 302, 303, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 330, 335, 342, 355, 356, 365, 369, 372, 382, 383, 394–96, 406
“middling” classes, 85, 99, 183, 184
Military Committee, 168, 181
Million Dollar Bank, 93
Miranda, Francisco de, 283, 337
Mississippi River, 149, 150, 283, 292, 300
Mitchill, Samuel, 279
Monmouth, battle of, 45, 46, 48, 64, 68
Monroe, Elizabeth, 124
Monroe, James, 93, 113, 116, 171, 172, 197, 364; as a Continental officer, 63, 66, 68, 393; as a U.S. senator (1790–94), 116, 117–18, 120, 124, 126, 134, 135; as minister to France (1794–96), 126–27, 136, 150, 162–63, 284; confrontation with Hamilton (1797), 163–67; as secretary of war (1814–15), 392–93, 394
Montgomery, Janet Livingston, 24, 25, 106
Montgomery, Gen. Richard, 18, 19–20, 21, 22, 24–27, 28, 30, 49, 68, 200, 283, 385
Moore, Bp. Benjamin, 266, 267
Moreau de Saint-Méry, 233
Morgan, George, 303–4, 357–58, 364
Morgan, John, 303, 357–58
Morgan, Thomas, 303, 357–58
Morning Chronicle, 247–48, 249, 251, 253, 284
Morris, Gouverneur, 126–27, 190–91, 209, 211, 213, 246, 267
Morris, Mary White, 122
Morris, Robert (financier), 92–93, 122, 156, 157
Morris, Robert (jurist), 66, 68
Morris, Thomas, 182
Mott, Capt. Gershom, 27
Muhlenberg, Frederick, 120, 163, 165
Mulgrave, Lord, 371–72
Nancy (AB’s slave), 264
Napoleon, 283, 291, 300, 372, 382, 383, 392
Nassau Hall, Princeton, xx, 10
Naturalization Act (1798), 172
Neville, Presley, 358; son of, 304
“Newburgh Address” (Armstrong), 229
New England, 150, 252
“New Light” Presbyterians, 8, 10, 57
New Orleans, 150, 282, 283, 284, 287, 288, 296, 300, 305, 311–12, 313, 319, 325, 349, 370; battle of, 294, 393
New York City, 32, 33, 34–35, 36, 45, 67, 76, 78, 88, 122, 233, 253; harbor fortification, 168–69, 170–71, 181
New York City Chamber of Commerce, 179, 181
New York City Common Council, 179, 180, 184, 185
New York City Mayor’s Court, 88, 89, 90
New York Democratic Society, 126, 130, 134, 135, 138, 140, 171, 187
New-York Journal, 101
New York Manumission Society, 91
New York State, 85–87, 92, 96, 99–100, 101, 102, 196–97, 243, 255–56; gubernatorial elections (1777), 103; (1789), 103–4, 142; (1792), 108–11, 142, 229; (1795), 141–45; (1804), 252–55, 256–57, 391, 411
New York State Assembly, 88, 105, 178–79, 196, 290
New York State Council of Appointment, 229, 255
New York State Council of Revision, 86, 185
New York State Court of Chancery, 86, 90, 124, 156
New York State Court of Errors, 189, 190
New York State Land Office Commission, 110
New York State Senate, 105, 186–87
New York State Supreme Court, 104, 117, 388
Nicholas, John, 219
Nicholas, Wilson Cary, 340
Nicholson, Hannah (Mrs. Albert Gallatin), 134, 160, 208
Nicholson, James, 134, 140, 200, 201–2, 208, 229
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Nicholson, John, 92–93, 116, 117, 118, 125, 156–57, 160, 177
Nicholson, Joseph H., 214, 273–74
Nicholson, Maria, 160
Nirdlinger, Charles, The First Lady of the Land, 409–10
Ogden, Aaron, 6, 8, 399
Ogden, David A., 182, 218, 249–50
Ogden, Frances (Mrs. Pierpont Edwards, Jr.), 97
Ogden, Hannah Dayton (Mrs. Matthias), 8
Ogden, Mary, 97
Ogden, Matthias, 6, 8, 15, 19, 22, 23–24, 31–32, 33, 34, 38, 59, 60
Ogden, Peter V., 313, 314, 350
Ogden, Rhoda (Mrs. Timothy Edwards), 6, 8
Ogden, Robert, Jr., 8
Ogden, Robert, Sr., 8
Ogden, Samuel G., 337
Ogden family, 8–9, 182
“Old Bachelor’s Masterpiece, The,” 234
Oliver, Richard, 100
Orleans Territory, 286n, 287, 296, 297
Osgood, Samuel, 229
Otis, Harrison Gray, 210, 235
Otsego Patent, 94, 396
Panopticon, 374–75
Parton, James, 86, 178
Paterson, William, 13–14, 16, 20, 26, 37, 56, 62, 67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 126
Patriotic Ten, 138, 140
Payne, Mary, 124
Peacock, Virginia, Famous Belles of the Nineteenth Century, 409
Peale, Charles Willson, 63; portrait of Wilkinson, 270
Pendleton, Nathaniel, 259–60, 262, 264, 265
Pennsylvania, 118, 146, 214
Pennsylvania Population Company, 117
Perkins, Nicholas, 320–21, 322, 330
Phelps, Oliver, 253
Philadelphia, 36, 42, 45, 122, 123, 233, 234
Philadelphia Aurora, 138, 172, 175, 198, 214, 219, 299, 351
Pickering, John, 274
Pickering, Timothy, 30, 163, 203, 252
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 153, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 235, 285
Pinckney, Thomas, 146, 150, 151–52, 153, 154
Pinckney Treaty, 150
Platt, Lt. Richard, 26–27, 28, 51–52
Plumer, William, 27, 252, 273, 275, 276–77, 331, 332
“Portrait of Burr” (anon.), 411–12
Presbyterians, 8
Presbyterian Academy, Elizabethtown, 8, 9
presidential elections, 146, 196–97, 208–9; (1792) 3, 115–19, 263; (1796) 118, 145, 146–49, 150–54, 155, 160, 197, 208; (1800–01), 118, 135, 146, 157, 160, 175, 177–78, 196–220, 230, 249–50, 256, 299, 374, 398, 411; (1804), 230, 250–51, 256; (1808), 256; (1812), 393; (1816), 394
Prevost, Gen. Augustine, 93, 371
Prevost, Maj. Augustine, 93–96, 97–98, 112, 282, 395–96
Prevost, Augustine James Frederick (called Frederick) (AB’s stepson), 70, 76, 103, 159, 254, 264
Prevost, Sir George, 371
Prevost, Lt. Col. James Marcus (Theodosia’s first husband), 61, 65–66, 69–71, 76, 93
Prevost, John Bartow (AB’s stepson), 70, 76, 123, 124, 127, 136, 159, 254, 264, 287
Prevost, Lt. Col. James Marcus (Theodosia’s first husband), 61, 65–66, 69–71, 76, 93
Prevost, Theodosia (AB’s wife). See Burr, Theodosia Prevost
Prevost family, 65
Princeton. See College of New Jersey
prison reform, 374–75
Proclamation of Neutrality, 125
prostitution, 233
Putnam, Gen. Israel, 33, 34, 35, 36–37, 40, 41–42, 47, 48, 49, 53, 68
Putnam, Rufus, 53
Quasi-War (1798–99), 168, 186, 355, 399
Quebec, siege of (1775), 18, 19–20, 22, 26–28
Queen’s Rangers, 49
quids, 299, 300, 306, 337
Quincy, Dorothy (Dolly) (later Mrs. John Hancock), 60
Randolph, David Meade, 369, 370
Randolph, Edmund, 113, 329, 334, 339, 341, 344–45
Randolph, John, 261, 274–75, 276, 277, 278, 322–23, 326–27, 342, 349
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 398
Randolph dynasty, 337–38
Reed, Joseph, 35
Reeve, Sally Burr (AB’s sister), 4–5, 6, 7, 8, 21, 23, 30, 31, 47, 53, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61, 69, 70, 72, 73, 76
Reeve, Tapping (AB’s brother-in-law), 8, 9, 21, 28, 31, 47, 59, 61, 73, 77, 113
Reeves, John, 371, 376
Reid, Samuel Chester, 395
“Republican Court,” 78, 104
Republicans (Democratic-Republicans), 87, 106, 113, 114, 115–16, 124–25, 126, 127, 129, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 140, 146, 147, 148–49, 154, 162–63, 171, 172, 175, 177; New York vs. Virginia wings, 108, 117–18, 148, 152–53, 154, 207–8, 255–56, 393–94. For election contests, see also New York State: gubernatorial elections; presidential elections
Revolution. See American Revolution; French Revolution
Revolution of 1800, 298
Reynolds, James, 120, 121, 166–67
Reynolds, Maria, 120, 121, 166, 167, 242; daughter of, see Lewis, Susan
Reynolds Affair, 120–21, 163, 165, 166–67, 168, 232, 242
Richardson, Samuel, 167
Richmond Hill estate, New York, 33, 157, 158–59
Rio Grande border, 289
Ritchie, Thomas, 362
Rittenhouse, David, 149
Roberts, Samuel, 358
Rodney, Caesar, 320, 329, 335
Rodney, Thomas, 320
Rogow, Arnold, A Fatal Friendship, 410
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 16, 64, 65, 74–75, 79, 80, 91, 133, 374; Confessions, 125; Emile, 1, 74, 75, 237, 293
Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 16, 115–16, 233, 365
Rutgers, Col. Henry, 198
Rutgers v. Waddington, 89
Rutledge, John, 214
St. Clair, Gen. Arthur, 40, 108
Saint-Mémin, C.-B.-J. Févret de, 340
Sands, Gulielma, 191–92, 193, 195–96
Sansay, Madame Leonore, 239, 240–41
Sansay, Louis, 240–41
Schlegel, Friedrich von, 381
Schuyler, Elizabeth (Mrs. Alexander Hamilton), 97, 109, 266, 391
Schuyler, Philip, 1, 25, 86, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 109, 130, 141–42, 143, 144, 181, 182, 185, 263
Schuyler faction. See Hamilton-Schuyler faction
Scott, Major, 206
Scott, Walter, 376
Sedgwick, Theodore, 29, 101, 107–8, 114, 115, 151, 155, 203, 209, 210–11, 214
Sedition Act (1798), 171–72, 274, 326
Senat, Madame de, 125–26
Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson, 113
Seton, Anya, My Theodosia, 409
Sevier, John, 149, 151
sexual deviance and inversion themes, 248
sexual mores, 233–35
sexual writing and allusion, 13–14, 56, 57, 412–13
Shaw, Gabriel, 292, 293
Shippen, Dr. William, 6
Silliman, Col. Gold Selleck, 35
Simcoe, John Graves, 161
slaves and slavery, 90–91, 137
Smith, John, 293, 296, 300, 304, 305, 307, 309, 325, 350, 381
Smith, Melancton, 87, 100, 101, 112, 116, 117–18, 119, 126, 130, 140, 143, 152, 156, 161, 179, 180
Smith, Rebecca Moore, 389
Smith, Richard, 112
Smith, Robert, 226, 343
Smith, Samuel, 133, 203–4, 208, 209, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219–20, 226, 279, 284
Smith, Thomas, 73
Smith, Rev. William (educator), 389
Smith, William (Loyalist), 67
Smith, William Loughton, 148, 160
Smith, William S., 337
Society of the Cincinnati banquet, 262
South America, 291, 394–95
Spain, 149, 150, 272, 282, 283, 284–86, 288–89, 290, 291, 293, 302, 305, 311, 325, 330, 342, 355, 369, 370, 372, 375
Spanish America (New Spain), 285, 296, 370, 371, 383. See also Floridas; Latin America; Mexico
Spanish Conspiracy of 1788, 150, 288
Spanish Juntas, 372, 375, 380
Sparks, Jared, 399
Spring, Samuel, 12, 21, 22, 27, 28
Steele, John, 120, 125
Sterne, Laurence, 14
Stevens, Ebenezer, 168–69
Stewart, Robert, 56
Stirling, William Alexander, Lord, 33, 63, 66, 68, 393
Stoddert, Benjamin, 203–4
Street, Joseph Monfort, 306, 310
Stuart, Gilbert, portrait of Burr, 1–2
Sullivan, Gen. John, 33, 40
Swan, James, 150, 151
Swanwick, John, 130
Swartwout, John, 226, 244, 247, 249, 264, 268, 312
Swartwout, Robert, 180, 186, 198, 249, 385, 386
Swartwout, Samuel, 249, 269, 312, 313, 314, 326, 327, 330, 333, 336, 346, 349–50, 351, 353, 355, 363, 368, 369, 370, 386, 402
Sweden, 380–81
Sweeney, Thomas, Aaron Burr’s Dream for the Southwest, 408
Taggart, Samuel, 277
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de, 168
Tammany Society, 125, 138
Tarkington, Booth, Colonel Satan, 408
Taylor, John, 252
Taylor, Peter, 356–57
Taylor of Caroline, John, 132, 135, 136, 145, 154, 204, 208, 340
Tazewell, Henry, 136, 138, 141, 154, 251
Tazewell, Littleton, 251
Tennessee, 149, 150
Texas, 289
Thompson, Alexander, 388
Thompson, Catherine B., 388
Tiffin, Edward, 315, 328, 370
Tilgham, William, 358
Time Piece, The, 171, 198
Todd, Dolley Payne. See Madison, Dolley
Toledo, José Alvérez de, 394–95
Tom (AB’s slave), 91
Tompkins, Daniel, 394
Tories, 88, 89. See also Loyalists
Tracy, Uriah, 252, 275
treason, 272, 321–326, 328–334, 336, 339–40, 343, 348–52, 354–55, 357–61
Treaty of Paris (1783), 137
Trenton, raid on, 68
Trespass Act of 1783, 88, 89, 99
Tripolitan Campaign, 307
Troup, Robert, 48, 66, 68, 69, 72, 73, 88, 93, 105, 107, 111, 112, 115, 129, 155, 162, 167, 170, 175, 178–79, 188, 189, 190, 210, 236, 246, 261
Trumbull, John, 38; The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, 18, 19, 26, 27
Trumbull, Jonathan, 114, 115
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