by Chernow, Ron
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