by Chernow, Ron
24. PAH, vol. 13, p. 338, letter to John Jay, December
18, 1792.
25. Smith, Patriarch, p. 157.
26. Ibid.
27. Mitchell, Alexander Hamilton: The National
Adventure, p. 255.
28. PAH, vol. 11, p. 432, letter to Edward Carrington, May 26, 1792.
29. Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 3, p. 18. 30. PAH, vol. 14, p. 58, “Report Relative to the Loans
Negotiated under the Acts of the Fourth and
Twelfth of August, 1790,” February 13–14, 1793. 31. The William and Mary Quarterly, October
1992.
32. Mitchell, Alexander Hamilton: The National
Adventure, p. 260.
33. Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 301. 34. King, Life and Correspondence of Rufus King,
vol. 1, p. 483.
35. PAH, vol. 14, p. 276, letter to Rufus King, April 2,
1793.
36. Ibid., vol. 13, p. 523, “On James Blanchard,”
January 1793.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., vol. 21, p. 132, letter from Henry Lee, May
6, 1793.
39. PAH, vol. 14, p. 466, letter from John Beckley to
an unnamed recipient, June 22, 1793.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. Freeman, Affairs of Honor, p. 102.
43. PAH, vol. 14, p. 467, letter from John Beckley to
an unknown recipient, July 2, 1793.
44. Ibid., vol. 15, p. 165, letter to Andrew G.
Fraunces, August 2, 1793.
45. Ibid., p. 171, letter to Andrew G. Fraunces, August 3, 1793.
46. The Diary, October 11, 1793.
47. The Daily Advertiser, October 12, 1793. gust 14, 1793, Dunlap’s American Daily Advertiser; vol. 19, p. 519, “American Jacobins,” [1795–1796].
36. Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 357.
37. Ketcham, James Madison, p. 342.
38. Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 3, p. 83. 39. Brookhiser, Gentleman Revolutionary, p. 140. 40. Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 360.
41. Adams, Correspondence Between the Hon. John Adams, and the Late Wm. Cunningham, p. 35. 42. Parton, Life and Times of Aaron Burr, p. 220. 43. Mitchell, Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure, p. 299.
44. Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 344.
45. Mitchell, Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure, p. 227.
46. PAH, vol. 15, p. 74, “Reasons for the Opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary at War Respecting the Brigantine Little Sarah,” July 8, 1793.
47. Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 348. 48. Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 3, p. 114. 49. PAH, vol. 15, p. 77, “Reasons for the Opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary at War Respecting the Brigantine Little Sarah,” July 8, 1793.
50. Ibid., vol. 15, p. 34, “Pacificus No. I,” June 29, 1793.
51. Ibid., p. 67, “Pacificus No. III,” July 6, 1793. 52. Ibid., p. 94, “Pacificus No. V,” July 13–17, 1793. 53. Ibid., p. 92.
54. Ibid., pp. 103, 106, “Pacificus No. VI,” July 17, 1793.
55. Hamilton, Federalist, p. c.
56. Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 362.
57. Ketcham, James Madison, pp. 345–46. 58. Political Science Quarterly, March 1956. 59. Ketcham, James Madison, p. 436.
60. Flexner, Washington, p. 288.
61. Jefferson, Anas of Thomas Jefferson, p. 150. 62. PAH, vol. 15, p. 145, “No Jacobin No. I,” American Daily Advertiser, July 31, 1793.
63. Ibid., p. 282, “No Jacobin No. VIII,” American Daily Advertiser, August 26, 1793.
64. Jefferson, Anas of Thomas Jefferson, p. 157. 65. Ibid.
66. Ibid., p. 158.
67. Ibid., p. 157.
68. Ibid., p. 158.
69. Mitchell, Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure, p. 242.
70. Jefferson, Anas of Thomas Jefferson, p. 162. 71. Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 3, p. 125. 72. PAH, vol. 15, p. 234, letter from Edmond Charles Genêt to George Washington, August 13, 1793.
73. Freeman, Affairs of Honor, p. 97.
74. Ketcham, James Madison, p. 344.
32. Ibid., p. 252, letter to George Washington, April 8, 1794.
33. Ibid., p. 495.
34. Ibid., vol. 21, pp. 241–42, “The Reynolds Pamphlet,” August 1797.
35. NYPL-JAHP, box 1, letter from Alexander Hamilton to Angelica Church, April 4, 1794.
Twenty-two: Stabbed in the Dark
1. Smith, Patriarch, p. 135.
2. PAH, vol. 12, p. 567, letter to John Steele, October 15, 1792.
3. McCullough, John Adams, p. 434.
4. Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 2, p. 457.
5. PAH, vol. 12, p. 342, letter to John Adams, September 9, 1792.
6. Ferling, John Adams, p. 318.
7. Ibid.
8. Kaminski, George Clinton, p. 230.
Twenty-three: Citizen Genêt 1. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 5, p. 213.
2. Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 312.
3. Hamilton, Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton, p. 300.
4. Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 316.
5. Schama, Citizens, p. 615.
6. McCullough, John Adams, p. 438.
7. Ibid.
8. Schama, Citizens, p. 687.
9. Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 3, p. 61. 10. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 5, p. 222.
11. McCullough, John Adams, p. 444.
12. Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 357.
13. Ketcham, James Madison, pp. 337, 338–39. 14. Ibid., p. 341.
15. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, p. 222.
16. PAH, vol. 14, pp. 85–86, letter from Gouverneur Morris, February 6, 1793.
17. Jefferson, Anas of Thomas Jefferson, p. 69. 18. Ketcham, James Madison, p. 338.
19. Ellis, Founding Brothers, p. 170.
20. PAH, vol. 21, p. 450, letter to the marquis de Lafayette, April 28, 1798.
21. Ibid., vol. 14, p. 386, letter from Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox to George Washington, May 2, 1793.
22. Ibid., p. 371.
23. Ibid., vol. 17, pp. 586–87, “The French Revolution,” unpublished fragment, 1794.
24. Ibid., p. 588.
25. Ibid., vol. 14, p. 291, letter to George Washington, April 5, 1793.
26. Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 3, p. 67. 27. PAH, vol. 14, p. 504, “Defence of the President’s Neutrality Proclamation,” May 1793.
28. Ibid., p. 328, “Cabinet Meeting: Opinion on a Proclamation of Neutrality and on Receiving the French Minister,” April 19, 1793.
29. Ketcham, James Madison, p. 342.
30. Lodge, Alexander Hamilton, p. 161.
31. Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 3, p. 70. 32. Political Science Quarterly, March 1956. 33. Ketcham, James Madison, p. 342.
34. Brookhiser, Gentleman Revolutionary,
pp. 139–40.
35. PAH, vol. 15, p. 246, “No Jacobin No. V,” Au
Twenty-four: A Disagreeable Trade
1. McCullough, John Adams, p. 133.
2. Colimore, The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Guide to Historic Philadelphia, p. 46.
3. Mitchell, Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure, p. 282.
4. PAH, vol. 15, p. 324, letter from George Washington, September 6, 1793.
5. Ibid., p. 325, in editorial note.
6. Ibid., p. 331, “To the College of Physicians,” September 11, 1793.
7. Smith, Patriarch, p. 180.
8. Day, Edward Stevens, p. 81.
9. Ibid., pp. 80–81.
10. CU-HPPP, box 267, letter from Philip Schuyler to Abraham Yates, Jr., September 25, 1793. 11. PAH, vol. 15, p. 347, letter to Abraham Yates, Jr., September 26, 1793.
12. Ibid., p. 360, letter from Tobias Lear, October 10, 1793.
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br /> 13. Ibid., p. 361, letter from George Washington, October 14, 1793.
14. Ibid., p. 374, letter to George Washington, October 24, 1793.
15. Day, Edward Stevens, p. 82.
16. PAH, vol. 15, p. 455, letter to Thomas Jefferson, December 11, 1793.
17. Ibid., p. 593, letter to Angelica Church, December 27, 1793.
18. McCullough, John Adams, p. 448.
19. Jefferson, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 26, p. 215.
20. Ibid., vol. 27, p. 449.
21. Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 3, p. 182. 22. Brodie, Thomas Jefferson, p. 263.
23. Ibid.
24. PAH, vol. 11, p. 441, letter to Edward Carrington, May 26, 1792.
25. CU-JCHP, box 20.
26. PAH, vol. 15, p. 593, letter to Angelica Church, December 27, 1793.
27. Ibid., vol. 16, p. 356, letter to ——, April–May 1794.
28. Ibid., vol. 15, p. 465, letter to Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, December 16, 1793.
29. Ibid., vol. 16, p. 49, letter to John Adams, February 22, 1794.
30. Ibid., p. 249, letter from George Washington, April 8, 1794.
31. Ibid., p. 249, letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, April 14, 1794.
Twenty-five: Seas of Blood 1. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 5, p. 450.
2. PAH, vol. 15, p. 671, “Americanus No. I,” January 31, 1794.
3. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 5, pp. 532–33.
4. PAH, vol. 16, p. 134, letter to George Washington, March 8, 1794.
5. Ketcham, James Madison, p. 351.
6. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 5, pp. 532–33.
7. McDonald, Alexander Hamilton, p. 291.
8. PAH, vol. 16, p. 264.
9. Mitchell, Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure, p. 332.
10. Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 3, p. 184. 11. PAH, vol. 16, p. 273, letter to George Washington, April 14, 1794.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., vol. 3, p. 295, “Remarks on the Provisional Peace Treaty,” March 19, 1783.
16. Ibid., vol. 16, p. 281, “Conversation with George Hammond,” April 15–16, 1794.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., p. 381, letter to John Jay, May 6, 1794. 19. Ketcham, James Madison, p. 352.
20. Ellis, Founding Brothers, p. 142.
21. Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 409.
22. PAH, vol. 26, p. 738, “Views on the French Revolution,” [1794].
23. Ibid., p. 739.
24. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 1967.
25. Baxter, Godchild of Washington, p. 224. 26. St. Méry, Moreau de St. Méry’s American Journey, p. 138.
27. Harcourt, Memoirs of Madame de la Tour du Pin, p. 273.
28. Hamilton, Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton, p. 36.
29. PAH, vol. 17, p. 428, letter to Angelica Church, December 8, 1794.
30. Ibid., vol. 15, p. 600, “List of French Distressed Persons,” 1793.
31. Brookhiser, Gentleman Revolutionary, p. 106.
32. Cooper, Talleyrand, p. 28.
33. Schama, Citizens, p. 678.
34. PAH, vol. 16, p. 380, letter from Angelica Church to Elizabeth Hamilton, February 4, 1794.
35. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 7, p. 134.
36. PAH, vol. 16, p. 387, letter from George Washington, May 6, 1794.
37. Baxter, Godchild of Washington, p. 224.
38. Flexner, Young Hamilton, p. 449.
39. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, p. 251.
40. Cooper, Talleyrand, p. 73.
41. Talleyrand, Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand, p. 185.
42. Hamilton, Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton, p. 239.
21. Ibid., p. 159, “Tully No. III,” Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser, August 28, 1794.
22. Smith, Patriarch, p. 214.
23. PAH, vol. 17, p. 285, letter to George Gale, September 28, 1794.
24. Ibid., p. 241, letter to Rufus King, September 17, 1794.
25. Ibid., p. 255, letter to George Washington, September 19, 1794.
26. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, p. 101.
27. PAH, vol. 17, p. 287, letter to Philip A. and Alexander Hamilton, Jr., September 29, 1794. 28. Ibid., p. 309, letter to Samuel Hodgdon, October 7, 1794.
29. Findley, History of the Insurrection in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania, p. 142. 30. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, p. 106.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid., p. 108.
33. PAH, vol. 22, p. 453, letter to Theodore Sedgwick, February 2, 1799.
34. Rakove, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, p. 135.
35. PAH, vol. 17, p. 340, letter to Angelica Church, October 23, 1794.
36. Aurora General Advertiser, November 8, 1794. 37. PAH, vol. 17, p. 366, letter to George Washington, November 11, 1794.
38. Ibid., p. 348, letter to Rufus King, October 30, 1794.
39. Findley, History of the Insurrection in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania, p. 228. 40. PAH, vol. 17, p. 383, “Examination of Hugh Henry Brackenridge,” November 18–19, 1794. 41. Findley, History of the Insurrection in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania, p. 236. 42. Ibid., p. 238.
43. Ibid., p. 245.
44. Ketcham, James Madison, p. 354.
45. Rakove, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, p. 136.
46. Madison, Papers of James Madison, vol. 16, p. 440.
47. Ellis, Founding Brothers, p. 140.
48. MHi-TPP, reel 47, p. 180.
49. NYHS-MM, reel 64, letter from Angelica Church to Elizabeth Hamilton, December 11, 1794. 50. PAH, vol. 17, p. 392, letter from Henry Knox, November 24, 1794.
51. Ibid., p. 428, letter to Angelica Church, December 8, 1794.
52. LC-AHP, reel 29, letter from Angelica Church to Elizabeth Hamilton, January 25, 1795. 53. Hamilton, Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton, p. 164.
54. LC-AHP, reel 30, memo of Timothy Pickering, talk with John Marshall, February 13, 1811. 55. PAH, vol. 18, p. 248, letter from George Washington, February 2, 1795.
56. Ibid., p. 58, Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit, January 16, 1795. 57. PAH, vol. 19, p. 56, “The Defence of the Funding System,” July 1795.
58. Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 3, p. 35. 59. PAH, vol. 18, p. 278, letter to Rufus King, February 21, 1795.
60. Ibid., pp. 278–79.
61. Knott, Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth, p. 238.
62. Lodge, Alexander Hamilton, p. 184.
Twenty-six: The Wicked Insurgents of the West 1. PAH, vol. 4, p. 348, “The Federalist No. 12,” November 27, 1787.
2. National Gazette, June 18, 1792.
3. PAH, vol. 12, p. 306, letter from John Neville to George Clymer, August 23, 1792.
4. CU-HPPP, box 265.
5. Mitchell, Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure, p. 317.
6. PAH, vol. 12, pp. 311–12, letter to George Washington, September 1, 1792.
7. Ibid., p. 390, letter from George Washington, September 17, 1792.
8. Ibid., vol. 16, p. 591, letter to George Washington, July 11, 1794.
9. Ibid., p. 616, letter to George Washington, July 23, 1794.
10. Ibid., vol. 17, p. 16, letter to George Washington, August 2, 1794.
11. Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 475. 12. The Journal of American History, December 1972; Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 479.
13. PAH, vol. 22, p. 552, letter to James McHenry, March 18, 1799.
14. The Journal of American History, December 1972.
15. PAH, vol. 17, pp. 76–77, letter to William Bradford, August 8, 1794.
16. The Journal of American History, December 1972.
17. PAH, vol. 17, pp. 14–15, letter to Elizabeth Hamilton, Aug
ust 2, 1794.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., p. 85, letter to Elizabeth Hamilton, August 12, 1794.
20. Ibid., p. 148, “Tully No. II,” Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser, August 26, 1794.
Twenty-seven: Sugar Plums and Toys
1. The Daily Advertiser, February 28, 1795.
2. Hamilton, Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton, p. 205.
3. PAH, vol. 18, p. 344, letter to Richard Varick, May 12, 1795.
4. Ibid., p. 196, letter from David Campbell, January 27, 1795.
5. Ibid., vol. 17, p. 428, letter to Angelica Church, December 8, 1794.
6. Ibid., vol. 16, p. 356, letter to Angelica Church, April–May 1794.
7. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, p. 213.
8. Custis, Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington, p. 352.
9. LC-AHP, reel 31, Robert Troup, “Additional Facts Relative to the Life, and Character, of General Hamilton,” January 1, 1821.
10. PAH, vol. 18, p. 310, letter from Robert Troup, March 31, 1795.
11. Ibid., pp. 328–29, letter to Robert Troup, April 13, 1795.
12. NYSL, letter from Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, April 8, 1795. 13. PAH, vol. 16, p. 609, letter from John Jay, July 18[–August 5], 1794.
14. Ibid.
15. Political Science Quarterly, March 1956. 16. Rakove, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, p. 137.
17. Ellis, Founding Brothers, p. 136.
18. PAH, vol. 18, p. 383, letter to Rufus King, June 20, 1795.
19. Ibid., p. 391.
20. Ellis, Founding Brothers, p. 137.
21. Lomask, Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, p. 182.
22. Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 375. 23. PAH, vol. 18, p. 531.
24. Ellis, Founding Brothers, p. 137.
25. PAH, vol. 18, p. 399, letter from George Washington, July 3, 1795.
26. Ibid., p. 451, letter to George Washington, July 9–11, 1795.
27. Ibid., p. 461, letter from George Washington, July 13, 1795.
28. Ibid., p. 512, letter to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., June 18, 1795.
29. Madison, Papers of James Madison, vol. 16, p. 9.
30. Mitchell, Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure, p. 341.
31. The Argus, or Greenleaf ’s New Daily Advertiser, July 20, 1795.
32. Ibid.
33. Mitchell, Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure, p. 342.
34. King, Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, vol. 2, p. 20.
35. Malone, Jefferson and His Time, vol. 3, p. 248.
36. Ibid., p. 383.