Alexander Hamilton (157 page)

65. Ibid., p. 30.

66. Ames,
Sketch of the Character of Alexander Hamilton,
p. 8.

67. Meleny,
Public Life of Aedanus Burke,
p. 194.

68. Ibid., p. 196.

69.
PAH,
vol. 6, pp. 333–34, letter to Aedanus Burke, April 1, 1790.

70. Ibid., p. 336, letter from Aedanus Burke, April 1, 1790.

71. Maclay,
Journal of William Maclay,
p. 227.

Sixteen: Dr. Pangloss

1. Wilson and Stanton,
Jefferson Abroad,
p. 205.

2. Ibid., p. 210.

3. Ibid., p. 279.

4. Maclay,
Journal of William Maclay,
p. 272.

5. Malone,
Jefferson and His Time,
vol. 1, p. 69.

6. Ibid., p. 55.

7. Ibid., vol. 2, p. 77.

8. Bailyn,
Ideological Origins of the American Revolution,
p. 236.

9. Bobrick,
Angel in the Whirlwind,
p. 359.

10. McCullough,
John Adams,
p. 633.

11. Hamilton,
Life of Alexander Hamilton,
vol. 2, p. 168.

12. “Phocion No. IX,”
Gazette of the United States,
October 21, 1796.

13. Wilson and Stanton,
Jefferson Abroad,
p. 11.

14. Malone,
Jefferson and His Time,
vol. 1, p. 201.

15. Ibid., vol. 2, p. 204.

16. Wilson and Stanton,
Jefferson Abroad,
p. 42.

17. Malone,
Jefferson and His Time,
vol. 2, p. 171.

18. Ibid., p. 46.

19. Brodie,
Thomas Jefferson,
p. 216.

20. Ibid., p. 227.

21. Jefferson,
Papers of Thomas Jefferson,
vol. 14, p. 554.

22. Ibid., p. 261.

23. Malone,
Jefferson and His Time,
vol. 2, p. 142.

24.
PAH,
vol. 4, p. 294.

25. Brodie,
Thomas Jefferson,
p. 228.

26. Wilson and Stanton,
Jefferson Abroad,
p. 268.

27. Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
p. 314.

28. Wilson and Stanton,
Jefferson Abroad,
p. 283.

29. Schama,
Citizens,
p. 326.

30. Ibid., p. 436.

31. Wilson and Stanton,
Jefferson Abroad,
p. 292.

32. Ibid., pp. 290–91.

33.
PAH,
vol. 5, p. 425, letter to the marquis de Lafayette, October 6, 1789.

34. Ibid., vol. 11, p. 439, letter to Edward Carrington, May 26, 1792.

35. Wilson and Stanton,
Jefferson Abroad,
p. 215.

36. Ibid., p. 73.

37. Ibid., p. 270.

38. Ferling,
John Adams,
p. 306.

39. Jefferson,
Papers of Thomas Jefferson,
vol. 16, p. 549.

40. Malone,
Jefferson and His Time,
vol. 2, p. 170.

41. Hamilton,
Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton,
p. 49.

42. Jefferson,
Anas of Thomas Jefferson,
p. 30.

43. Ibid., p. 91.

44. Ibid.

45.
The William and Mary Quarterly,
January 1992.

46. Ellis,
Passionate Sage,
p. 64.

47. Ibid., p. 115.

48. Ellis,
Founding Brothers,
p. 53.

49. Jefferson,
Complete Anas of Thomas Jefferson,
p. 32.

50. Ellis,
Founding Brothers,
p. 57.

51.
PAH,
vol. 11, p. 428, letter to Edward Carrington, May 26, 1792.

52. Madison,
Papers of James Madison,
vol. 16, p. 248.

53.
PAH,
vol. 11, p. 440, letter to Edward Carrington, May 26, 1792.

54. Ketcham,
James Madison,
p. 473.

55. Ellis,
Founding Brothers,
p. 149.

56. Ketcham,
James Madison,
p. 360.

57.
PAH,
vol. 12, p. 238, letter to George Washington, August 18, 1792.

58. Ibid., vol. 19, p. 39, “The Defence of the Funding System,” July 1795.

59. Ibid., vol. 12, p. 256, letter to George Washington, August 18, 1792.

60. Flexner,
Washington,
p. 232.

61. Cooke,
Alexander Hamilton,
pp. 225–26.

62. Freeman,
Affairs of Honor,
pp. 27, 234; McCullough,
John Adams,
p. 407.

63. McCullough,
John Adams,
p. 407.

64. Madison,
Papers of James Madison,
vol. 13, p. 146.

65. Maclay,
Journal of William Maclay,
p. 234.

66. Bowen,
Miracle at Philadelphia,
p. 210.

67.
PAH,
vol. 5, p. 209, letter to William Livingston, August 29, 1788.

68. Ibid., pp. 276–77.

69. Maclay,
Journal of William Maclay,
p. 178.

70. Madison,
Papers of James Madison,
vol. 13, p. 145.

71. Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
p. 170.

72. Ellis,
Founding Brothers,
p. 58.

73. Jefferson,
Anas of Thomas Jefferson,
p. 32.

74. NYPL-PSP, reel 17, letter from Philip Schuyler to Stephen Van Rensselaer, May 16, 1790.

75. Maclay,
Journal of William Maclay,
p. 273.

76. Ibid., p. 292.

77. Freeman,
Affairs of Honor,
p. 51.

78. Maclay,
Journal of William Maclay,
p. 299.

79. Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
p. 155.

80. Jefferson,
Anas of Thomas Jefferson,
p. 32.

81. Ibid.

82. Ellis,
Founding Brothers,
p. 49.

83. Freeman,
Affairs of Honor,
p. 49.

84. Malone,
Jefferson and His Time,
vol. 2, p. 303.

85. Maclay,
Journal of William Maclay,
p. 304.

86. Ibid., p. 310.

87. Ibid., p. 331.

88. Freeman,
Affairs of Honor,
p. 32.

89. CU-HPPP, box 262.

90. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure,
p. 83.

91. Ibid.

92. Jefferson,
Anas of Thomas Jefferson,
p. 35.

93.
Gazette of the United States,
September 1, 1790.

Seventeen: The First Town in America

1.
PAH,
vol. 7, p. 608, letter to Angelica Church, January 31, 1791.

2. Hamilton,
Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton,
pp. 42–43.

3.
PAH,
vol. 9, p. 404, letter from Henry Lee, October 18, 1791.

4. CU-HPPP, letter from Tench Coxe to William Duer, September 6, 1791.

5. LC-AHP, reel 29, letter from Angelica Church to Elizabeth Hamilton, April 25, 1792.

6. “Life Portraits of Alexander Hamilton,”
The William and Mary Quarterly,
April 1955.

7. Ibid.

8. Sullivan,
Public Men of the Revolution,
pp. 261–62.

9.
PAH,
vol. 12, p. 571, “Fact No. II,”
National Gazette,
October 16, 1792.

10. Freeman,
Affairs of Honor,
p. 106.

11. Hamilton,
Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton,
p. 241.

12.
PAH,
vol. 24, p. 64, letter from James Wilkinson, November 21, 1799.

13. Ibid., vol. 6, p. 511, letter from Morgan Lewis, July 26, 1790.

14. Ibid., vol. 13, p. 480, letter from James Tillary, January 14, 1793.

15. Ibid., vol. 7, p. 132, letter to Tobias Lear, October 29, 1790.

16. Baxter,
Godchild of Washington,
p. 224.

17. Steiner,
Life and Correspondence of James McHenry,
p. 129.

18. NYHS-NPP, letter from Elizabeth Hamilton to George Cabot, September 20, 1804.

19. Hamilton,
Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton,
p. 227.

20. Ibid., p. 216.

21.
PAH,
vol. 15, p. 432, letter to Angelica Hamilton, November 1793.

22. Menz,
Historic Furnishing Report,
p. 13.

23.
PAH,
vol. 3, p. 468, letter to George Clinton, October 3, 1783.

24. Ibid., vol. 19, p. 460, “Draft of George Washington’s Seventh Annual Address to Congress,” November 28–December 7, 1795.

25. Ibid., pp. 146–47, “Hamilton-Oneida Academy Mortgage,” August 15, 1795.

26. Burrows and Wallace,
Gotham,
p. 305.

27. Furnas,
Americans,
p. 197.

28. St. Méry,
Moreau de St. Méry’s American Journey,
p. 135.

29.
PAH,
vol. 6, p. 545, letter to Walter Stewart, August 5, 1790.

30. Ibid., p. 297, letter to Benjamin Lincoln, March 10, 1790.

31. Ibid., p. 469, letter to George Washington, June 21, 1790.

32. Ibid., vol. 7, p. 31, letter to George Washington, September 10, 1790.

33. Ibid., vol. 6, p. 408, “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” June 1, 1791.

34. Ibid., vol. 8, p. 432, “Treasury Department Circular to the Captains of the Revenue Cutters,” June 4, 1791.

35. Freeman,
Affairs of Honor,
p. 88.

36.
PAH,
vol. 9, p. 370, letter to Otho Williams, October 11, 1791.

37. Madison,
Papers of James Madison,
vol. 13, p. 143.

38.
PAH,
vol. 7, p. 197, letter from Benjamin Lincoln, December 4, 1790.

39. Madison,
Papers of James Madison,
vol. 13, p. 344.

40. Ibid., p. 366.

41. Maclay,
Journal of William Maclay,
p. 385.

42. Ibid., p. 387.

43.
PAH,
vol. 8, p. 375, “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” May 26, 1791.

44. Ibid., vol. 11, p. 77, “Report on the Difficulties in the Execution of the Act Laying Duties on Distilled Spirits,” March 5, 1792.

45. Ibid., vol. 19, p. 41, “The Defence of the Funding System,” July 1795.

Eighteen: Of Avarice and Enterprise

1.
The New York Review of Books,
April 13, 2000.

2.
PAH,
vol. 19, p. 190, “The Defence No. XI,” August 28, 1795.

3. Ibid., p. 32, “The Defence of the Funding System,” July 1795.

4. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure,
p. 351.

5. Ibid., p. 61.

6. Marsh,
Monroe’s Defense of Jefferson and Freneau Against Hamilton,
p. 31.

7. Ellis,
Passionate Sage,
p. 161.

8.
The William and Mary Quarterly,
April 1955.

9. Ellis,
Passionate Sage,
p. 136.

10.
PAH,
vol. 14, p. 112, “Report on the State of the Treasury at the Commencement of Each Quarter During the Years 1791 and 1792,” February 19, 1793.

11. Ibid., vol. 2, p. 414, letter to James Duane, September 3, 1780.

12. Ibid., vol. 7, p. 305, “Report on the Bank,” December 13, 1790.

13. Ibid., p. 308.

14. Ibid., p. 314.

15. Ibid., p. 315.

16. Ibid., p. 321.

17. Ibid., p. 327.

18. Ibid., p. 331.

19.
PAH,
vol. 8, p. 218, “Notes on the Advantages of a National Bank,” March 27, 1791.

20. Miller,
Alexander Hamilton,
p. 272.

21.
PAH,
vol. 8, pp. 218, 221, letter to George Washington, March 27, 1791.

22. Ketcham,
James Madison,
p. 322.

23. Ammon,
James Monroe,
p. 86.

24. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure,
p. 95.

25.
PAH,
vol. 8, p. 113, “Opinion on Constitutionality of Bank,” February 23, 1791.

26. Ibid., p. 290.

27. Smith,
John Marshall,
p. 170.

28. Malone,
Jefferson and His Time,
vol. 2, p. 338.

29. Cooke,
Alexander Hamilton,
p. 77.

30.
PAH,
vol. 12, p. 85, letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, October 1, 1792.

31. Cooke,
Alexander Hamilton,
p. 77.

32.
PAH,
vol. 8, p. 58, letter to George Washington, February 21, 1791.

33. Ibid., p. 62, letter to George Washington, February 23, 1791.

34. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure,
p. 99.

35.
PAH,
vol. 8, p. 97, “Final Version of an Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank,” February 23, 1791.

36. Ibid., p. 98.

37. Ibid., p. 99.

38. Ibid., p. 132.

39. Lodge,
Alexander Hamilton,
p. 103.

40. Cooke,
Alexander Hamilton,
p. xvii.

41.
PAH,
vol. 7, p. 586,
Report on the Mint, January
28, 1791.

42. Ibid., p. 601.

43. Ibid., p. 598.

44. Ibid., p. 577.

45. Ibid., p. 572.

46.
PAH,
vol. 7, p. 451, letter from Thomas Jefferson, January 24, 1791.

47. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure,
p. 104.

48.
PAH,
vol. 7, p. 516, letter to Benjamin Goodhue, June 30, 1791.

49.
New York Historical Society Quarterly,
October 1948.

50. Smith,
Patriarch,
p. 108.

51.
New York Historical Society Quarterly,
October 1948.

52.
PAH,
vol. 8, p. 589, letter from Fisher Ames, July 31, 1791.

53. Ibid.

54. McDonald,
Alexander Hamilton,
p. 223.