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2.
PAH,
vol. 10, p. 557, letter from Maria Reynolds, January 23–March 18, 1792.

3. Ibid., vol. 11, p. 177, letter from Maria Reynolds, March 24, 1792.

4. Ibid., p. 176, letter from James Reynolds, March 24, 1792.

5. Ibid., p. 222, letter from James Reynolds, April 3, 1792.

6. Ibid., p. 254, letter to James Reynolds, April 7, 1792.

7. Ibid., vol. 21, p. 244, “The Reynolds Pamphlet,” August 1797.

8. Ibid., p. 246.

9. Ibid., vol. 11, p. 297, letter from James Reynolds, April 17, 1792.

10. Ibid., p. 330, letter from James Reynolds, April 23, 1792.

11. Ibid., p. 354, letter from James Reynolds, May 2, 1792.

12. Ibid., p. 354, “The Reynolds Pamphlet,” August 1797.

13. Ibid., p. 481, letter from Maria Reynolds, June 2, 1792.

14. Ibid., p. 482, letter to James Reynolds, June 3–22, 1792.

15. Ibid., p. 491, letter to David Ross, September 26, 1792.

16. Ibid., vol. 26, p. 682, letter to Tobias Lear, September 6, 1792.

17. Ibid., vol. 12, p. 543, letter to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, October 10, 1792.

18. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure,
p. 403.

19.
PAH,
vol. 21, p. 264, “The Reynolds Pamphlet,” August 1797.

20. Ibid., p. 130.

21. Ibid., p. 268.

22. Ibid., p. 269.

23. Jefferson,
Papers of Thomas Jefferson,
vol. 18, p. 635.

24. Callender,
History of the United States for 1796,
p. 216.

25. Ibid.

26.
PAH,
vol. 21, p. 257, “The Reynolds Pamphlet,” August 1797.

27. Ibid., p. 258.

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid., p. 135.

30. Callender,
History of the United States for 1796,
p. 218.

31.
PAH,
vol. 21, p. 134.

32.
Gazette of the United States,
January 5, 1793.

33.
PAH,
vol. 14, p. 267, “For
Gazette of the United States,
” March–April 1793.]

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.

9.
PAH,
vol. 12, p. 387, letter from Rufus King, September 17, 1792.

10. Ellis,
Founding Brothers,
p. 175.

11. Tripp, “Robert Troup,” p. 105.

12.
PAH,
vol. 12, p. 408, letter to an unnamed correspondent, September 21, 1792.

13. Ibid., p. 480, letter to an unnamed correspondent, September 26, 1792.

14. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure,
p. 209.

15. Ibid.

16. Ammon,
James Monroe,
p. 44.

17.
PAH,
vol. 13, p. 227, letter from David Ross, November 23, 1792.

18. Ibid., vol. 12, p. 573, letter from John F. Mercer, October 16[–28], 1792.

19. Ibid., vol. 13, p. 513, letter from John F. Mercer, January 31, 1793.

20. Jefferson,
Anas of Thomas Jefferson,
p. 186.

21.
Gazette of the United States,
December 8, 1792.

22. Smith,
Patriarch,
p. 152.

23. McCullough,
John Adams,
p. 441.

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.

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,” August 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.

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.

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.

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-five: Seas of Blood

1. Hamilton,
Life of Alexander Hamilton,
vol. 5, p. 450.

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