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Napoleon I, emperor of France

National Assembly, French

national bank

see
central banks
specific banks

National Gazette

nationalism
AH’s vision of

nations, law of

Naturalization Act (1798)

Navy, U.S.

Adams’s plans for

Navy Department, U.S.

Necker, Jacques

neutrality, U.S

Neutrality Proclamation (1793)
AH’s defense of

Neville, John

Nevis

AH’s birth in
natural disasters in
slavery in

Newburgh, N.Y., fear of Continental Army mutiny in

New England

Burr’s rounding up of supporters in
election of 1800 and
secession plans in
slavery in

New Hampshire

ratification of the Constitution in

New Jersey

in American Revolution
Burr indicted for murder in
colonial duels in
manufacturing in
slavery in

New Jersey Plan

Newton, Sir Isaac

New Windsor, N.Y.–55

New York (state)

AH as citizen of
AH as tax receiver in
AH’s proprietary feelings toward
in American Revolution
anti-Tory bias in
battle over U.S. Constitution in
constitution of
Continental Congress delegates from
debt of
education in
elections in
import duties inland grants in law in
legislature of
see also
New York Assembly; New York Senate
political families in
secession threat and
slavery in
Society of the Cincinnati in
Tories in

New York Assembly

AH as candidate for
AH in
Burr in
New York City AH’s arrival in
AH’s funeral in
AH’s homes in
see also
Grange, the (Hamilton estate)
AH’s vision for
Assembly Room of
“bancomania” in banks in
Bayard mansion in
British occupation of
as capital
coffeehouses in
colonial evacuation of
Common (The Fields) in
Constitution welcomed in
Continental Congress in
defense preparations in
described elections of 1800 in
espionage in
Evacuation Day (Nov. 25) in
Federal Hall (City Hall) in
fires in
flight of Tories from
Fourth of July in
Fraunces Tavern in
hangings in
immigrants in
Manhattan Well Tragedy in
merchants in
as port
poverty in
print-shop raid in prostitutes in
protests against the Jay Treaty in
ratification of U.S. Constitution and
real estate in
removal of British traces in
St. Croix trade with
St. Paul’s Chapel in
size of slavery in
social-service agencies in
speculation in
“tea party” in
Trinity Church in
Wall Street in
Washington in
Whigs in
widows and orphans helped in
yellow-fever epidemic in

New York Common Council

New York
Daily Advertiser

New-York Evening Post

New-York Gazetteer

New-York Journal

New York Manumission Society (New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves)

New York Orphan Asylum Society
New-York Packet

New York Provincial Congress

New York Ratifying Convention

New York Senate

New York Society Library

New York Stock Exchange

New York Supreme Court

Nicholas, John

Nicholson, James

Nicoll, Henry

Nicoll, Samuel

Niemcewicz, Julian

Noailles, Adrienne de,
see
Lafayette, Adrienne de

Noailles

Noailles, vicomte de

North, Lord

North Carolina

Northwest Territory

Notes on the State of Virginia
(Jefferson)

nullification

Ogden, David B.

Ogden, Nicholas

Olive Branch Petition (1775)

Otis, Harrison Gray

Otis, Samuel

Paine, Thomas

Pamphlet Wars

paper money

excess printing of

pardons

Paris

French Revolution in
Jefferson in

Parkinson, George

Parliament, British

Parrington, Vernon

Parsons, Theophilus

Parton, James

Passaic River, Great Falls of

patents

Paterson, N.J., manufacturing in

Paterson, William

Peale, Charles Willson

Peekskill, N.Y.

Pendleton, Edmund

Pendleton, Nathaniel

Eliza Schuyler Hamilton’s correspondence with
Hamilton-Burr duel and

Pennsylvania

American Revolution in
Continental Army mutineers in
excise taxes in
Fries’s Rebellion in slavery in
Supreme Executive Council in
Whiskey Rebellion in
see also
Philadelphia, Pa.

Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

People v. Levi Week

Philadelphia, Pa.

AH’s homes in
in American Revolution
bank in
as capital
Constitutional Convention in
description of
Federalist-Republican clashes in
First Continental Congress in
French refugees in
Genêt in mint in
Pennsylvania mutineers in
protests against Jay Treaty in
“scrippomania” in
Second Continental Congress in
sensual pleasures in
Treasury offices in
yellow-fever epidemics in

Physiocrats

Pickering, Mrs. Timothy

Pickering, Timothy

AH’s correspondence with
in army organization battles
secession threat and as secretary of state

Pierce, William

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth

AH’s correspondence with
army organization and
in diplomatic mission to France
in election of 1800
French expulsion of

Pinckney, Thomas

pirates and privateers

French Revolution and

Pitt, William, the Elder

Pitt, William, the Younger

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Plumer, William

Plutarch

political parties:

emergence of
negative view of
see also specific parties

Polk, James K.

Pollock, Elizabeth,
see
Hamilton, Elizabeth Pollock

Pope, Alexander

populism

Postlethwayt, Malachy

Post Office, U.S.

Poughkeepsie, N.Y. “Practical Proceedings in the SupremeCourt of the State of New York” (Hamilton)

Presbyterians

in New Jersey
in New York
political dissent and
in St. Croix

president, U.S.

Constitutional Convention and
impeachment of
pardons issued by
protocol of
veto of

press:

Alien and Sedition Acts and
freedom of

Prevost, Theodosia,
see
Burr, Theodosia Prevost Price, Richard

Prime, Nathaniel

primogeniture

Princeton

requirements of

Princeton, Battle of (1777)

Princeton, N.J. prison ships, British

Prospect Before Us, The
(Callender)

prostitutes

Provisional Army
see also
Army, U.S.

Purdy, Ebenezer

Putnam, Israel

Quakers

Quasi-War

Quebec

Quebec Act (1775)

Quincy, Mass., Adams’s escapes to

Randall, Robert Richard

Randolph, Edmund

as attorney general
at Constitutional Convention
as secretary of state
Whiskey Rebellion and

Randolph, John

Reeve, Tapping

refugees, French

Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit
(Hamilton)

Report on Manufactures
(Hamilton)

Report on Public Credit
(Hamilton)

funding scheme in

Report on the Mint
(Hamilton)

Republicans, Republican party

Adams’s courting of
AH’s death and
Alien and Sedition Acts and
Burr army appointment and
electoral tie of 1801 and
on Federalist army plans
Federalists’ violent clashes with
French Revolution and
Jay Treaty and
Jefferson’s resignation as viewed by
Manhattan Company and
Pamphlet Wars and
public debt and
Reynolds scandal and
war and standing armies as viewed by
Washington criticized by
see also National Gazette
;
specific elections

“Republican” (“Democratic”) societies

Residence Act (1790)

Revere, Paul

Revolutionary War,
see
American Revolution; Continental Army;
specific battles

Reynolds, James

AH blackmailed by

Reynolds, Maria (Mary Lewis):

AH’s affair with
AH’s correspondence with

Reynolds, Susan

Reynolds pamphlet (Hamilton)

Rhode Island

election of 1800 in

Richmond Hill

Riedesel, Baroness

Riedesel, Friedrich von

Rights of Man, The
(Paine)

Ring, Catherine

Ring, Elias

Rivington, James

Robespierre, Maximilien de

Rochambeau, comte de

Rodgers, Rev. John

Roman Catholicism

Roosevelt, Franklin

Roosevelt, Theodore

Royal Danish American Gazette

reports on American Revolution in

Royal Gazette

Royal Navy, British

Rush, Benjamin

AH’s correspondence with
yellow-fever epidemic and

Rutgers, Elizabeth

Rutgers v. Waddington

Rutledge, John, Jr.

St. Croix

AH in

hurricane in

slavery in

trade in

St. Kitts (St. Christopher)

St. Leger, Barrimore

St. Méry, Moreau de

St. Simons Island

St. Thomas

St. Vincent

Sands, Gulielma

Saratoga, Battle of (1777)

Scammell, Alexander

Schieffelin, Jacob

Schuyler, Angelica,
see
Church, Angelica Schuyler

Schuyler, Catherine

Schuyler, Catherine Van Rensselaer

death of

Schuyler, Cornelia,
see
Morton, Cornelia Schuyler

Schuyler, Elizabeth (wife),
see
Hamilton, Elizabeth

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