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by Ron Chernow


  149–54, 207, 209–10, 313, 488, 555

  as AH’s alleged father, 86, 245

  AH’s correspondence with, 158–59, 162, 177–80,

  235, 236, 237, 270–71, 271, 302, 304, 349, 350,

  403–6, 440, 449, 455, 456, 459, 462, 465,

  470–71, 474, 487, 488, 494, 498, 504, 505, 506,

  508, 531, 542, 555, 556–57, 578, 593, 595,

  598–99, 600, 687, 727

  AH’s disputes with, 143, 144, 149–54, 163, 185,

  237, 271

  AH’s relationship with, 88–89, 153, 173, 179–80,

  237, 270–72, 289–90, 395, 402, 499–500, 524,

  530–31, 555–60, 600–601

  AH’s sex scandal and, 2, 537

  in American Revolution, 61, 65, 66, 74–129,

  137–47, 149–55, 158–65, 169, 172, 177–80, 207,

  209–10, 259, 373, 518, 538, 555, 557, 616 appearance of, 86, 128, 277, 279, 402, 505 army organization and, 555–64, 566, 567, 593,

  595

  background of, 86–88

  Whiskey Rebellion and, 469–78, 578–79 Yorktown siege and, 160–64, 169

  Washington, Lawrence, 87

  Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis, 87, 93, 107, 126, 150, 205, 283, 292, 337, 449, 503, 601, 655 Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton on, 131, 277, 335 Watt, James, 370

  Weaver, P. T., 562–63

  Webster, Daniel, 189, 302, 355, 670

  Webster, Noah, 3, 509, 535, 622, 649

  Weehawken, N.J., duels in, 1, 4, 662, 696, 699–704 Weeks, Ezra, 605, 641–42

  Weeks, Levi, 603–6, 641–42

  West, Benjamin, 206, 282

  western lands, 212, 299, 563, 724

  West Indies, 7–12, 14–41, 54, 119, 165, 436 British, 7–10, 17–20, 22, 23, 142, 295, 341, 458, 462, 485, 486, 487, 580

  emancipated blacks relocated to, 212

  epidemics and medicine in, 9, 448, 449, 452–53 French, 30, 160, 161, 459

  New York City’s links with, 211, 221

  U.S. trade with, 295, 341, 458, 485, 486, 487 see also Nevis; St. Croix; St. Kitts

  West Point, 140–42, 565

  Whigs:

  in England, 293, 465

  in New York, 49, 70

  political views of, 43, 46, 47, 49

  whiskey, excise tax on, 342–44, 403, 423, 460, 468–78, 480

  Whiskey Rebellion, 342, 468–78, 481, 507, 542, 578–79

  controversy after, 476–77

  multistate militia in, 471, 473–77

  spreading of, 473

  White House, 635–36, 646, 730

  White Plains, Battle of (1776), 81–82

  Whitney, Eli, 730

  Wilkinson, James, 105, 106, 334, 568, 598 Willett, Marinus, 56, 201, 243

  Williamson, Charles, 484

  Willing, Thomas, 453

  Wills, Garry, 47, 399–400, 497, 574

  Wilson, James, 272, 471

  Wilson, Woodrow, 3, 345, 509

  Winstanley, William, 337

  Witherspoon, John, 47–48, 49, 56, 175, 296 Wolcott, Mrs. Oliver, Jr., 584

  Wolcott, Oliver, Jr., 292, 334, 381, 382, 452, 584, 624, 626–27, 676

  AH’s correspondence with, 488, 491, 503–4, 546–47, 548, 562, 565, 572, 578, 621, 632, 633

  army organization and, 556, 558–59, 565 Hamilton-Burr duel and, 696, 706, 708 Jay Treaty and, 487, 488, 495

  XYZ Affair, 549–52, 569–70, 573, 592, 595, 651 Yard, James, 27

  Yates, Abraham, Jr., 451–52

  Yates, Robert, 266–67

  Constitutional Convention and, 227, 228, 230–32, 235–36, 241, 267

  in election of 1789, 273–76

  yellow-fever epidemics, 9, 388, 448–53, 455, 570–71, 585–86, 588–89, 597, 641

  York, duke of (son of George III), 237

  Yorktown, Battle of (1781), 160–65, 169

 

 

 


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