Alexander Hamilton (161 page)
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Authors: Ron Chernow
Lafayette, Adrienne de Noailles, 96–97
Lafayette, George Washington, 96, 502–3
Lafayette, marquis de, 263
AH’s correspondence with, 168, 172, 317–18, 434, 503
AH’s relationship with, 95–97, 119, 150, 502
in American Revolution, 87, 88, 95–97, 113, 114, 119, 128, 139, 140, 141, 149, 150, 151, 160–62, 373
in French Revolution, 316–18, 433–34, 502–3
Yorktown siege and, 160–62
Lamb, John, 56, 201
land, foreigners’ ownership of, 589
land banks, 200, 201
land grants, 177, 206, 299
Lansing, John, Jr., 674
McComb, John B., Jr., 605, 641–42
McCulloch v. Maryland,
355, 648
McCullough, David, 521, 525, 593, 625
McDonald, Forrest, 168, 210–11
McDougall, Alexander, 54, 55–56, 68, 70, 72, 85, 169 AH’s correspondence with, 86
Bank of New York and, 200, 201
McHenry, James, 90, 92–93, 127, 133, 134, 140, 141, 148, 335, 624, 626–27
AH’s correspondence with, 152, 553, 595, 596, 615–16
army organization and, 557, 558, 559, 563, 565, 566
Reynolds affair and, 414, 425, 535
as secretary of state, 639, 671, 718
secretary-of-state position rejected by, 458 Shays’s Rebellion and, 225
slavery and, 175, 213, 306–7, 581, 628
as strict constructionist, 252, 350, 443
Virginia Resolutions and, 573–74
war and standing armies rejected by, 552–53 Washington’s break with, 498, 499
on Whiskey Rebellion, 478
Malone, Dumas, 311, 573
Manhattan Company, 585–90, 603, 604, 633
Manhattan Well Tragedy, 603–6, 642, 649
Manning, Martha,
see
Laurens, Martha Manning
Mansfield, Lord, 94
manufacturing, 45, 277, 646
AH’s views on, 32, 294–95, 307, 340, 370–79, 384–88
Marat, Jean Paul, 432, 434, 439, 459
Marbury v. Madison,
648
Marie Antoinette, queen of France, 447
Marshall, John, 100, 126, 157, 168, 261, 394, 633, 720 on AH, 189–90
in diplomatic mission to France, 548–51, 592 as Supreme Court justice, 259, 355, 648
Washington biography by, 351, 479
Maryland, 262, 330, 473
election of 1800 and, 636, 638
Mason, George, 234, 236, 328, 351–52, 403
Mason, Rev. John, 42, 79, 216, 582
Mason, Rev. John M., 666, 685, 691, 707, 714, 727
Massachusetts, 261
colonial, 54–55, 62–63
constitution of, 518
debt of, 322, 323
farmers’ uprising in, 224–25, 255
slavery in, 211, 212, 580
Mathews, John, 150
Matlack, White, 215
Meade, Richard Kidder, 92, 140, 167
Mercer, John F., 422–23
merchants, 256, 303, 307, 349, 391, 446
AH’s relations with, 49, 54, 56, 341, 358, 498 in American Revolution, 54, 56, 58, 108 Bank of New York and, 200, 201
Jay Treaty and, 498, 499
in New York City, 49, 185, 200, 211, 221, 263, 279, 301, 318, 325, 341, 359, 482, 488, 650, 710–11
Merchants’ Bank, 380
Merry, Anthony, 717
Mexico, 720
Michaux, André, 437
Mifflin, Thomas, 414, 438, 439, 441
Million Bank, 380
Mills, Matthew, 18–19
Minerva,
509
Mint, U.S., 356–57, 451
Napoleon I, emperor of France, 465, 466, 546, 549, 577, 595, 630, 634, 645, 671
National Assembly, French, 119, 316, 431–32, 463 national bank,
see
central banks;
specific banks National Gazette,
396–97, 400, 402, 404–7, 414, 425, 433, 445, 453, 476
nationalism, 4
AH’s vision of, 3, 4, 92, 108, 157–58, 221, 265, 287, 307, 371, 375, 387, 466, 521, 628, 671–72, 697
nations, law of, 198–99, 260
Naturalization Act (1798), 570
Navy, U.S., 290, 460, 462, 527, 546, 636, 638, 646 Adams’s plans for, 548, 550
Navy Department, U.S., 553
Necker, Jacques, 287, 295
neutrality, U.S, 435–41, 462, 495, 507, 547, 567, 636
Neutrality Proclamation (1793), 435–43, 445 AH’s defense of, 441–43
Neville, John, 469, 470
Nevis, 7–10, 17–20, 22
AH’s birth in, 4, 7, 17, 19, 522
natural disasters in, 7, 36
slavery in, 8, 9, 19, 23
Newburgh, N.Y., fear of Continental Army mutiny in, 176–80
New England, 97, 100–102, 288, 371, 389, 452, 514, 517, 725
Burr’s rounding up of supporters in, 420–21 election of 1800 and, 606, 616–18, 621, 625, 636 secession plans in, 672, 697
slavery in, 211, 580
New Hampshire, 211, 580
ratification of the Constitution in, 262, 266, 268
New Jersey, 82, 201, 221, 261, 272, 473, 632, 678 in American Revolution, 83–86, 91–94, 104, 113–16, 127–33, 135, 136, 137, 151
Burr indicted for murder in, 718, 719
colonial, 42–48
duels in, 1, 4, 590–91, 652, 662, 696, 699–704, 716, 719
manufacturing in, 373–74
slavery in, 211, 581
New Jersey Plan, 231, 234
Newton, Sir Isaac, 355, 398
New Windsor, N.Y., 150–55
New York (state), 90, 213–22, 273–309, 355, 447 AH as citizen of, 167, 364
AH as tax receiver in, 170–72
AH’s proprietary feelings toward, 97–98 in American Revolution, 55–82, 97, 98, 100–104, 140–42, 150–60, 165, 167, 184–85, 197–99, 220 anti-Tory bias in, 169, 183–84, 186, 194–99, 221, 245
battle over U.S. Constitution in, 215, 216, 235, 237, 239, 243–69, 284, 287, 398
constitution of, 90–91, 247, 293
Continental Congress delegates from, 57, 65
immigrants in, 50
Manhattan Well Tragedy in, 603–6
merchants in, 49, 185, 200, 211, 221, 263, 279, 301, 318, 325, 341, 359, 482, 488, 650, 710–11
as port, 50, 54, 189, 195, 482, 561
poverty in, 51, 189, 279
print-shop raid in, 68–70
prostitutes in, 49–50
protests against the Jay Treaty in, 489–91, 499
ratification of U.S. Constitution and, 262
real estate in, 186, 383
removal of British traces in, 77–78
St. Croix trade with, 30, 41
St. Paul’s Chapel in, 49, 63, 71, 277, 283–85, 712
size of, 50, 81, 185, 700
slavery in, 211, 515
social-service agencies in, 582, 585
speculation in, 301–4, 318–19, 357, 359, 379–84, 410
“tea party” in, 54
Trinity Church in, 205, 542, 640, 660, 706, 711–13, 723, 731
Wall Street in, 185–86, 204–7, 280, 371, 384, 387, 489
Washington in, 60, 74–80, 184, 185, 276–83, 292, 295, 338, 489
Whigs in, 49, 70
widows and orphans helped in, 464, 582, 585, 728–29
yellow-fever epidemic in, 585–86, 588–89, 641 New York Common Council, 206, 276, 586, 587, 711 New York
Daily Advertiser,
237, 243, 266–67, 274
New-York Evening Post,
5, 604, 649–55, 662, 663, 680–81, 689, 713
New-York Gazetteer,
58, 66–69
New-York Journal,
54, 68, 70–72, 118
New York Manumission Society (New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves), 214–16, 239, 581
New York Orphan Asylum Society, 728–29
New-York Packet,
157–58, 170, 200, 219
New York Provincial Congress, 65, 67, 68, 72, 73, 76, 77 New York Ratifying Convention, 5, 246, 261–68, 284 New York Senate, 91, 389, 421, 669
New York Society Library, 44, 45, 193
New York Stock Exchange, 202
New York Supreme Court, 168–69, 670–71, 689, 710 Nicholas, John, 460, 638
Nicholson, James, 488–91, 608
Nicoll,Henry,53
Nicoll, Samuel, 53
Niemcewicz, Julian, 585
Noailles, Adrienne de,
see
Lafayette, Adrienne de Noailles
Noailles, vicomte de, 165, 464
North, Lord, 59
North Carolina, 262, 268, 322
Northwest Territory, 484
(Jefferson), 212, 513 nullification, 573, 574
Ogden, David B., 690, 706–9, 711
Ogden, Nicholas, 63–64
Olive Branch Petition (1775), 66–67
Otis, Harrison Gray, 92, 363, 567–68, 570, 577, 593,
Otis, Samuel, 273
Paine, Thomas, 70, 95, 507, 519
Pamphlet Wars, 661–64
paper money, 292, 348, 380–81, 383
excess printing of, 108, 124, 137
pardons, 259, 478, 578–79
Paris, 44, 204, 205, 515, 518
French Revolution in, 431–34, 438, 446–47, 463 Jefferson in, 222, 225, 261, 314–16, 515, 518 Parkinson, George, 372, 374
Parliament, British, 54, 55, 57, 60, 62, 71, 233, 257, 258, 281, 304, 319, 457, 529
Parrington, Vernon, 158, 371
Parsons, Theophilus, 398–99
Parton, James, 193–94, 714, 715–16
Passaic River, Great Falls of, 373, 386
patents, 345, 377
Paterson, N.J., manufacturing in, 14, 373–74, 385–87 Paterson, William, 231, 373
Peale, Charles Willson, 88, 363
Peekskill, N.Y., 104, 105
Pendleton, Edmund, 313
Pendleton, Nathaniel, 30, 250, 619, 674
Eliza Schuyler Hamilton’s correspondence with, 724, 725
Hamilton-Burr duel and, 674, 685, 687–91, 695, 696–97, 700–705, 715, 717
Pennsylvania, 201, 261, 272, 325–30, 635, 725
American Revolution in, 84, 85, 98–100, 104, 107–13, 127–28, 151
Continental Army mutineers in, 180–83
excise taxes in, 342–43, 460, 468–78
Fries’s Rebellion in, 578–79
slavery in, 210, 211, 306, 580
Supreme Executive Council in, 180, 181
Whiskey Rebellion in, 342, 468–78, 481
see also
Philadelphia, Pa.
Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 342 Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 306
People v. Levi Week,
603–6
Philadelphia, Pa., 50, 155, 173, 209, 217, 338–59, 362–70, 387, 540, 549, 610, 612, 710
AH’s homes in, 339, 364, 368
in American Revolution, 85, 98–100, 108, 112, 121–22, 140, 142, 165
bank in, 200, 288
as capital, 325–29, 338–57, 374–79, 452, 485–88, 563 Presbyterians (
cont.
)
in New York, 42, 72, 707
political dissent and, 43, 44, 47
in St. Croix, 34–36
president, U.S., 244, 259, 310
Constitutional Convention and, 230–32, 234, 238
impeachment of, 234, 258
pardons issued by, 259, 478, 578–79
protocol of, 278–79
veto of, 258–59, 351, 352
press:
Alien and Sedition Acts and, 570–72, 574–77, 667–69
freedom of, 667–71
Prevost, Theodosia,
see
Burr, Theodosia Prevost Price, Richard, 156
Prime, Nathaniel, 715
primogeniture, 216–18
Princeton, 46–49, 175, 191, 229, 337
requirements of, 42–43
Princeton, Battle of (1777), 84–85, 104 Princeton, N.J., 181, 182, 183
prison ships, British, 194, 396
Prospect Before Us, The
(Callender), 612, 663, 667–68
prostitutes, 11, 49–50, 126, 366
Provisional Army, 553
see also
Army, U.S.
Purdy, Ebenezer, 674–75
Putnam, Israel, 74, 101, 103, 104
Constitutional Convention in, 227–42, 246, 259, 261, 321, 423
description of, 338
Federalist-Republican clashes in, 569–70
First Continental Congress in, 55, 57
French refugees in, 463–67
Genêt in, 438–41
mint in, 357
Pennsylvania mutineers in, 180–83
protests against Jay Treaty in, 487, 491, 495
“scrippomania” in, 357, 358, 359
Second Continental Congress in, 65, 66, 77, 121–22, 173–83
sensual pleasures in, 362–63
Treasury offices in, 338–39
yellow-fever epidemics in, 448–53, 455, 597 Physiocrats, 376
Pickering, Mrs. Timothy, 536
Pickering, Timothy, 27, 90, 156, 334, 478, 611, 614–17, 624, 638, 727
AH’s correspondence with, 619–20
in army organization battles, 556, 557, 560, 561, 595
secession threat and, 678
as secretary of state, 504, 523, 524, 535–36, 546, 547, 549, 550, 567, 572, 575, 593, 595, 611, 614 Pierce, William, 229, 238, 240
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 228, 238, 662, 719
AH’s correspondence with, 600–601, 655
army organization and, 557–60, 562, 563
in diplomatic mission to France, 548–49, 592
in election of 1800, 612, 616–18, 621, 623, 625–26, 632
French expulsion of, 546, 548
Pinckney, Thomas, 510–11, 514, 516
pirates and privateers, 11, 18, 68, 396, 460
French Revolution and, 435, 437–38, 440, 441, 445, 462, 546, 549, 553, 651
Pitt, William, the Elder, 33
Pitt, William, the Younger, 432–33, 459
Pittsburgh, Pa., 469–71, 478
Plumer, William, 192, 504, 624, 646, 718, 719 Plutarch, 24, 111–12, 196, 493
political parties:
emergence of, 5, 306, 330, 349, 351, 390–92
negative view of, 390–91
see also specific parties
Polk, James K., 730
Pollock, Elizabeth,
see
Hamilton, Elizabeth Pollock Pope, Alexander, 24, 34, 38, 71
populism, 186, 220, 221, 255, 259, 398, 400, 401 Postlethwayt, Malachy, 110–11, 156, 296, 347 Post Office, U.S., 356, 399, 448
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 171, 263–68
“Practical Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the State of New York” (Hamilton), 168–69 Presbyterians, 34–36, 42, 43, 44, 47, 173, 707
in New Jersey, 43, 44, 47
Quakers, 173, 210, 307
Quasi-War, 553–66, 578, 592–95, 630, 651, 657 Quebec, 140, 364, 692
Quebec Act (1775), 66
Quincy, Mass., Adams’s escapes to, 420, 525, 558,
Randall, Robert Richard, 640
Randolph, Edmund, 223–24, 307
as attorney general, 289, 351, 352, 354, 397, 440 at Constitutional Convention, 230, 234 as secretary of state, 458, 460, 471, 473, 474, 485, 504
Whiskey Rebellion and, 471, 473, 474
Randolph, John, 568
Reeve, Tapping, 43, 192
refugees, French, 463–67, 502–3
Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit
(Hamilton), 480
Report on Manufactures
(Hamilton), 32, 365, 368, 374–79, 384
Report on Public Credit
(Hamilton), 288, 295–308, 342, 343
funding scheme in, 297–308, 310, 319–32
Report on the Mint
(Hamilton), 355–56
Roosevelt, Franklin, 505, 508
Roosevelt, Theodore, 4, 220, 249, 378, 609
Royal Danish American Gazette,
32, 33–34, 36–39, 208 reports on American Revolution in, 68–69, 72, 74, 75, 79–80
Royal Gazette,
70, 185
Royal Navy, British, 67, 70, 76–77, 78, 79, 98, 162, 295, 370
Rush, Benjamin, 92, 100, 163, 182, 273, 278, 303, 324–27, 420, 520, 522, 532
AH’s correspondence with, 655–56
yellow-fever epidemic and, 449–53
Rutgers, Elizabeth, 197–99
Rutgers v. Waddington,
197–99
Rutledge, John, Jr., 617–18
Republicans, Republican party, 330, 391–92, 395, 405,
414–17, 419–28, 458–62, 478, 485–99, 503–7,
523, 525, 536, 539, 566, 606–12, 644–49, 657–78 Adams’s courting of, 610–11, 614–15
AH’s death and, 716
Alien and Sedition Acts and, 570–77
Burr army appointment and, 561–62
electoral tie of 1801 and, 635–38
on Federalist army plans, 459–60
Federalists’ violent clashes with, 569–70, 590 French Revolution and, 431–34, 438–39, 547–50,
554, 569–70, 592, 593, 628
Jay Treaty and, 485–88, 491, 493, 494, 496 Jefferson’s resignation as viewed by, 453–54 Manhattan Company and, 586–88
Pamphlet Wars and, 661–64
public debt and, 480
Reynolds scandal and, 414–17, 529–32, 535, 583 war and standing armies as viewed by, 552–53, 558 Washington criticized by, 497–98, 530–31
see also National Gazette
;
specific elections
“Republican” (“Democratic”) societies, 438, 445,
478, 489
Residence Act (1790), 329, 338
Revere, Paul, 54
Revolutionary War,
see
American Revolution; Continental Army;
specific battles
Reynolds, James, 237, 364–70, 409–18, 491, 529 AH blackmailed by, 368–69, 409, 411, 412, 413,
416, 418, 530, 532–34, 575
Reynolds, Maria (Mary Lewis):
AH’s affair with, 237, 362, 364–70, 373, 406,
409–18, 422, 424, 428–29, 470, 479, 502, 509,
529–46, 554, 558, 572, 576–77, 583, 600, 622,
624, 645, 712, 724, 727
AH’s correspondence with, 366, 368, 370, 410–11,
416
Reynolds, Susan, 366
Reynolds pamphlet (Hamilton), 533–36, 540–44,
622, 624
Rhode Island, 121, 176, 211, 225, 229, 262, 268, 371,
580
election of 1800 in, 617–18, 632
Richmond Hill, 74, 278, 675, 683, 687, 691–92, 697,
698, 714–15, 718
Riedesel, Baroness, 136
Riedesel, Friedrich von, 136
Rights of Man, The
(Paine), 519
Ring, Catherine, 603–6
Ring, Elias, 603–6
Rivington, James, 58, 59, 66–70, 185
Robespierre, Maximilien de, 432, 434, 439, 446–47,
459, 470, 539
Rochambeau, comte de, 139, 140, 148, 154, 160, 161,
434
Rodgers, Rev. John, 34–35, 42, 216, 304, 582 Roman Catholicism, 66
