War of Two : Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Duel That Stunned the Nation (9780698193901)
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Livingston, Edward, 236, 251, 273
Burr and, 301, 370, 386
and election of 1800, 289, 301
Livingston, Henry Brockholst, 26, 136–37, 142, 289
Livingston, Jonathan, 250
Livingston, Maturin, 251
Livingston, Peter R., 250–51
Livingston, Robert R., 110, 142–44, 250–51
on American political landscape, 143–44
Constitution and, 172
and election of 1800, 291
Hamilton and, 184, 204
Manhattan Company and, 273
Washington’s inauguration and, 181–82, 184, 250
Livingston, Walter, 249–50
Livingston, William, 51, 72
Burr and, 128
Hamilton and, 41–43, 45, 47, 128, 142
Livingstons, 43, 142, 144–45, 178, 184, 212, 222, 252, 323, 325
assumption bill and, 204
Burr and, 145, 314
Hamilton and, 138, 203–4
London, 74, 108–9, 129, 181, 250, 263n, 264n, 282–83, 356, 366
Burr and, 236, 270, 316, 372, 395
Hamilton and, 39, 157, 175, 186, 249, 251, 338
Jefferson and, 192–94
Lott, Cornelia, 98
Louis XVI, King of France, 162–63, 231–32, 306n
Louisiana Purchase, 322, 352–53, 361, 370
Louisiana Territory, 232, 277, 360, 365, 370, 372, 377, 379–80, 398
Lyon, Matthew, 274–75
and Alien and Sedition Acts, 278
Burr’s conspiracy and, 361–63, 366
Burr’s Ohio River tour and, 363, 365–66, 369
and election of 1800, 305
Lytton, Ann Faucette, 12–13
Lytton, James, 12–13, 30–31
Lytton, John, 31
Lytton, Peter, 30–31
Lytton family, 36
McDougall, Alexander:
Burr and, 165
Hamilton and, 55, 81–82, 127, 165
Revolutionary War and, 54–55, 71, 81–82, 127, 165
and withdrawal of British troops, 135–36
McHenry, James, 110, 293
Maclay, William, 190
McManus, Jane, 402
Macomb, Alexander, 180, 200, 250
Madison, Dolley Payne Todd, 217–19, 397
Madison, James, 26–27, 176, 228, 308n, 322
assumption bill and, 190–91, 196–97
and Bank of the United States, 198
Burr and, 26, 203–5, 218–19, 236, 239, 268, 304, 307, 397
Constitutional Convention and, 168–69
Constitution and, 169, 234
Continental Congress and, 129, 167
and election of 1800, 304
French Revolution and, 231
Hamilton and, 129, 167, 190–93, 196–97, 204–5, 207, 218, 224, 230, 252
national capital and, 197
Reynolds affair and, 230
sightseeing trip of, 202
women courted by, 218–19
Malcolm, William, 89, 145
Malcolms, 89–92, 94, 104, 145
Manhattan Company, 271–73
as bank, 272–73, 369
Burr and, 271, 273, 282, 369
Hamilton and, 272–73, 282
Weeks case and, 281–83
Mann, Horace, 48n
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 163, 366
Marshall, John, 97, 276, 376, 387–91
Martin, Luther, 388
Maryland, 122, 166–67, 301–3
Massachusetts Historical Society, xv
Mather, Cotton, 11
Mayor’s Court, 142–43
Mead, Cowles, 383
Meade, Richard Kidder, 80, 83, 156
mechanics bill, 165–66
Mechanics Society, 272
Memoirs (Burr), 23, 24n, 49n, 103
Merry, Anthony, 354–56, 372, 376
Mesmer, Anton, xix
Mexico, 369–72, 375, 377–78, 380, 393, 395, 398, 402
Mexico Association, 370–71
Mills, Matthew, 36n
minutemen, 56
Miranda, 373, 395
Mohawks, 3, 8, 53, 264–65
Moncrieffe, Margaret, 103–4, 112
Monmouth Court House, Battle of, 93–94
Monroe, James, 275, 372
Burr and, 235, 239–40, 259, 265
Burr’s wife and, 112
Constitution and, 234
and election of 1800, 287, 296
Hamilton and, 228–29, 255–56, 258–60
physical appearance of, 258
Revolutionary War and, 43n, 258
Reynolds affair and, 255–56, 258–60, 268
Montcalm, Louis-Joseph de, 8
Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne, 306
Montgomery, Richard, 60, 64–65, 69, 147
Monticello, 174, 191, 193, 195, 234, 253–54, 292, 298–301, 309
Montreal, siege of, 60, 64, 114
Montresor, John, 61–62
Moore, Benjamin, 266, 342
Morgan, John, 283
Morris, Gouverneur, 42, 239
Burr and, 297
Constitution and, 170
and election of 1800, 297–98
Hamilton and, 170, 220, 297–98, 343
Morris, Robert, 263
Burr and, 145
Hamilton and, 184
and secretary of treasury selections, 183–84
Morris, Thomas, 269
Mortimer, H. W., iv
Mount Vernon, 174–75, 182, 252
Muhlenberg, Frederick A. C., 227–28, 256–59
Mulligan, Hercules, 71
Napoléon I, Emperor of France, 28, 236, 317, 352–53, 370, 372
Burr’s plan X and, 396–99
Quasi-War and, 275–76
Nassau Hall, xxiv, 9, 23, 26, 46, 79
national debt, 185–89, 197, 200, 243, 322
National Gazette, 203, 218, 231, 233–34
Nature of True Virtue, The (Edwards), 5
Neutral Ground, 104–5
Neutrality Act, 370, 373, 388
Nevis, 12, 28–31, 45, 116, 207, 332
earthquakes in, 17–18
slaves in, 15–18, 29–30, 33
storms in, 17–18, 34–35
New Hampshire, 172, 254
New Jersey, 41, 45, 51, 114–16, 270, 330, 369, 390
Burr and, xxii, 105, 111, 217, 236, 270, 301–3, 348–49, 359, 364, 392
Burr’s father and, 3–4, 9
duel between Hamilton’s son and Eacker in, 312
and election of 1800, 301, 303
Hamilton and, 90, 109, 128, 166–67, 224, 312
Revolutionary War and, 72–75, 79–82, 86, 89–90, 93, 96–97, 111–12, 115–16
New Orleans, La., 265, 352, 360–61, 364–65, 370, 372, 374–75, 377, 379–80, 382–83, 398, 400
Newton, Captain, 33
New York, 4, 12, 14n, 35, 51–54, 101, 190, 200–205, 211–12, 216, 218, 266, 307, 311, 352, 404
and Beekman and Cruger, 31–33
bombardment of, 71, 76
Burr and, xviii–xxi, 21, 26, 78, 88–89, 104, 111, 136–37, 139–41, 145–47, 150–51, 155, 162–63, 165–66, 173, 175, 179–80, 191, 205, 207–8, 220, 222, 235–36, 240, 253–54, 262–63, 267–69, 271, 273, 278, 286–92, 298, 301–3, 305, 308–9, 314, 317, 319–21, 323–27, 332–33, 342, 347–48, 350, 354, 364–65, 370, 382, 386–87, 392, 400–402
coffee shops in, 138
Constitutional Convention and, 167
Constitution and, 171–72
duels in, 329–30
economy of, 187
and election of 1800, 286–91, 293, 295–96, 298, 301–3, 332–33
evacuation of Tories from, 137–38, 141
fires in, 137
as frenzied and bustling, 37
gubernatorial elections in, xviii–xx, 178–80, 204, 221–23, 308–10, 323–27, 350
Hamilton and, iv, xv, xviii–xx, 31, 33, 37–39, 42, 45, 53–54, 67–71, 76, 78, 80, 82, 106, 117, 121–22, 130, 136–44, 146, 155, 157, 166–67, 169–73, 175, 177–79, 182, 184–85, 193, 196, 202–4, 207–8, 221, 234, 249–51, 258–60, 272, 277, 288–91, 301–2, 314, 323–24, 327, 332, 339, 341–43, 347–48, 402
Indians and, 264–65
invasion of, 74–75, 141
Jay Treaty and, 250
Jefferson’s sightseeing trip and, 202–3
Manhattan Company deal and, 271–73
mechanics bill and, 165–66
physical appearance of, 137
population of, 37–38
rebuilding of, 138
Revolutionary War 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
Rutgers case and, 141–42, 144
and wars between France and Great Britain, 8
Washington’s inauguration and, 181–82, 186
wealthy in, 39–40
Weeks case and, 281–83, 285
withdrawal of British from, 135–36, 138
yellow fever in, 271
New-York Commercial Advertiser, 299
New York Democratic Society, 232–33
New-York Evening Post, 310, 314, 317
New-York Gazetteer, 70
New York Insurance Company, 289
New York Leader, 139
New-York Packet, The, 166
New York Society Library, 42
New York State Bank, xvii
Nicholson, James, 251, 291–92, 299
Nicholson, Joseph H., 303
Nicholson, Maria, 299–300
Northern Alliance, 324–25, 327, 408
Northwest Territory, 249
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 253
Nos V & VI of the History of the United States for the Year 1796 (Callender), 255, 257, 268
Ogden, David A., 302
Ogden, Hannah Dayton, 361
Ogden, Matthias:
Burr and, 22, 46–50, 57–60, 62, 73, 88, 361
Revolutionary War and, 57–60, 62, 64, 73, 88
Ogden, Peter, 383
Ogden, Samuel, 373
Ohio River, 68, 376
Burr’s conspiracy and, 352, 381–82
Burr’s tour down, 363–71
Olney, Jeremiah, 225
Orante, Duc d’, 399
Orleans Gazette, 383
Osgood, Samuel, 183, 307
Oswald, Colonel, 172
Otis, Harrison Gray, 211
Otis, Samuel, 178
Otsego County, N.Y., 222
Oxford University, 51
Page, John, 192
Panic of 1792, 180
Paris, 122, 143, 162, 175, 295, 298, 306n
Burr and, 394–95, 397–400
French Revolution and, 231
Jefferson and, 193–94
Revolutionary War and, 125
Parton, James, 111, 139–40, 154, 160, 178, 208, 241, 401
“Passions” (Burr), 26
Pastures, 106, 110, 121, 125, 128, 156
Paterson, William, 25–26, 49n
Patterson, John, 91
Payne, Mary Coles, 217
Pendleton, Nathaniel, 336–37
and duel between Hamilton and Burr, 339, 341
murder charge against, 350
Pennsylvania, 184, 190, 227, 249, 251, 268–69
Burr and, 208–9, 350
economy of, 187
Hamilton and, 279
Revolutionary War and, 79–80, 90–93, 96
Pennsylvania Evening Post, 80
Perkins, Nicholas, 384–85
Peter III, Tsar of Russia, 148–49
Peysters, de, 145
Philadelphia, Pa., 11, 37, 166, 185, 192, 200, 263, 282, 295, 373
and Articles of Confederation, 129–30
and Bank of the United States, 199
Burr and, 20, 26, 86, 151, 205, 208, 216–17, 223, 235–37, 240–41, 265, 267–68, 287, 301, 305, 307, 319–20, 349, 354–55, 364–65, 392
Constitutional Convention and, 167
and Declaration of Independence, 75
funding Continental Army and, 129–30
Genet and, 233
Hamilton and, 80, 86, 129–30, 157, 204, 211, 218, 256–57, 269, 272
physical appearance of, 129
Revolutionary War and, 53, 68, 75, 80, 83, 85–87, 95–96, 129
Reynolds affair and, 211–13, 256–57
social scene in, 211, 217
yellow fever in, 217–18, 271–72
Pickering, Mrs., 257
Pickering, Timothy, 31, 324
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 275, 277
and election of 1800, 291, 293–95, 299
Hamilton and, 299, 313
Pinckney, Thomas, 254, 291
Plato, 238–39
Plumer, William, 324–25
Plutarch, 28, 93
Poe, Edgar Allan, 202
politics, xviii, 4, 38, 41, 46–47, 136–38, 202, 206, 218–24, 227, 254, 295, 355, 357n, 378
American political landscape and, 143–44
and attempted political assassination of Clinton, 178–80
Burr and, xvi, xxii–xxiii, 22–23, 26, 47, 140, 142–43, 146, 148, 163, 165–66, 173, 179–80, 192, 205, 207–8, 219–22, 232, 235, 237, 239, 259, 267–68, 271, 273, 278, 286, 289, 299–300, 302, 306–8, 314, 316–17, 320, 323–24, 326–27, 331, 333, 336, 360–63, 365, 387, 392, 399, 402
Burr’s father and, 3
duels and, iv, 329–30
and election of 1800, 286, 289, 296, 298, 302–3
French Revolution and, 232–33
Genet and, 232–33, 275
Hamilton and, xv–xvi, xix, xxi–xxiii, 18, 42, 52–54, 67–68, 130, 142–44, 155, 158n, 166, 169, 172, 176–77, 184, 189–93, 195–97, 199, 203–4, 207, 209, 215, 218, 224, 229, 234, 242–44, 252, 286, 288–89, 320, 324, 326, 331–32, 342, 405–8
Manhattan Company and, 273
Quasi-War and, 278
Revolutionary War and, 93, 104
Pope, Alexander, 28
Potomac, 168, 174, 295
Hamilton and, 166–67
national capital and, 196–97
Potts, Isaac, 92
Practical Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the State of New York (Hamilton), 128
Prevost, Bartow, 148, 153, 221
Prevost, Frederick, 148, 153, 160
Prevost, James Mark, 112, 116, 127, 148
Prevost, John Bartow, 265, 360
Prevost, Madame, 395
Price, Madeline, 383–84
Prince, Sally, 6–8, 11, 20
Princeton, Battle of, 79–80, 83
Princeton University, 202
awakenings at, 23
Burr and, xxiv, 22–27, 37, 40–41, 44, 46–47, 60, 65, 86, 207, 361, 402
Burr’s father and, xxii, xxiv, 1, 3–4, 6–7, 9, 22
Edwards and, xxiv, 1, 10, 22
finances of, 4
Hamilton and, 35–36, 39–40, 44–45, 207, 331
Nassau Hall at, xxiv, 9, 23, 26, 46, 79
president’s house at, xxiv, 1, 7, 9
, 20
Revolutionary War and, 57, 60
Prussians, 107
Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States, The (Hamilton), 293–94
public credit, 185, 187–90, 243
Putnam, Israel “Ol’ Put,” 76–77, 88–91, 103
Quasi-War, 274–79, 291, 351
Quebec, Battle of, 59–66, 69, 72–73, 88, 91, 106, 135n, 147, 220, 332, 352
Quebec Act, 68
Ramapo Mountains, 89
Randolph, Edmund, 167, 176, 198, 388
Randolph, John, 326
Recovery, 316
Reeve, Sally Burr, 20–22, 48, 49n, 60, 62, 116
Reeve, Tapping, 22, 48
Reign of Terror, 163, 233
Report on Manufactures (Hamilton), 224
Report on the Establishment of a Mint (Hamilton), 201
Report on the Public Credit (Hamilton), 187–89, 243
Republicanism, 192, 242
Republicans, Republican Party, 206, 238, 274, 314–16
and Alien and Sedition Acts, 278–79, 287, 359
assumption bill and, 255
and Bank of the United States, 198
Burr and, xxi, 208, 210, 219–20, 222–23, 232, 253, 267, 270–72, 277, 286–89, 300–302, 314–15, 317, 323–24, 331–32, 371, 376, 382
clothing worn by, xviii
and election of 1800, 286–91, 295–96, 298, 300–305
French Revolution and, 231–33
Genet and, 232–33
Hamilton and, 210, 218, 224–25, 228, 230, 233, 242–43, 251–53, 255, 257, 260, 276, 278–79, 288–91, 310–11
Jay Treaty and, 250–51
Jefferson and, xvi, xviii, 198, 202–3, 219, 224, 228, 253, 255, 267, 287, 291, 303–4
Manhattan Company and, 272–73
Quasi-War and, 275–76, 278–79
Revolutionary War and, 305
Reynolds affair and, 228, 257, 260, 294
Revolutionary War, 43, 52–99, 116, 121–30, 174–77, 211–12, 227, 254, 258, 274, 354, 361
Battle of Brooklyn in, 76–77
Battle of Monmouth Court House in, 93–94
Battle of Princeton in, 79–80, 83
Battle of Quebec in, 59–66, 69, 72–73, 88, 91, 106, 135n, 147, 220, 332, 352
Battle of Saratoga in, 90, 289
Battle of Trenton in, 79, 83, 90
Battles of Concord and Lexington in, 56–58, 67–68
Bayard’s Hill Redoubt in, 77–78
Boston Tea Party in, 53–55
British law and, 141
Burr and, 43n, 57–63, 65–67, 69, 72–73, 76–80, 88–96, 102–6, 111–12, 114–15, 118, 122, 127, 135n, 145, 147, 151, 165, 179, 205, 207, 220, 236, 297, 332, 338, 352, 396, 403
casualties in, 56, 63–65, 76–79, 86–87, 89, 91–92, 94–95, 107, 114–15, 119, 124, 130