Preceding the numbered notes in each chapter are background subjects, each with sources that I found especially valuable and pertinent. Full particulars of each work together with other readings carefully considered are listed in the bibliography.
Fatal Duel and Death: PAH, 26:235-349; Syrett, Interview in Weehawken; Mitchell, AH, 1:533-37; Fleming, Duel, 321-45; McDonald, AH, 355-63; Hen-drickson, Hamilton, 2:624-47.
1. Dr. David Hosack to William Coleman, Aug. 17, 1804, PAH, 26:344-47.
2. Bishop Benjamin Moore to William Coleman, Aug. 12, 1804, PAH, 26:314-16.
AH Orphaned: PAH, 1:1-3; Mitchell, AH, Youth to Maturity (hereafter Youth), 1-18; Hendrickson, Hamilton, 1:1-19.
1. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 1:16.
2. PAH, 1:2-3.
3. AH to William Hamilton, May 2, 1797, PAH, 21:77.
Caribbean Origins: PAH, vol. 1; Mitchell, AH, Youth, 1-14; Hendrickson, Hamilton, 1:1-19; Flexner, Young Hamilton, 8-33; Lodge, Works of AH, vol. 6; L. Gipson, British Empire, 2:181-290; Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, in the West Indies, of the British Colonies, 1; Pares, West-India Fortune.
1. AH to William Jackson, Aug. 26, 1800, PAH, 25:80.
2. Quoted in Gipson, British Empire, 2:222-23.
3. Ibid., 223.
4. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 3.
5. Quoted in Hendrickson, Hamilton, 1:19.
6. AH to ESH, [1781], PAH, 3:235.
7. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 6.
8. “Historic Keeps and Castles and Stately Homes of Ayrshire,” Kilmarnock Standard, April 5, 1924.
9. AH to William Hamilton, May 2, 1797, PAH, 21:503-05.
10. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 11.
11. J.C. Hamilton, Life of AH, 1: 3.
12. Ibid., 7.
13. Quoted in Lodge, 6:243.
14. Royal Danish-American Gazette, Jan. 23, 1771.
15. AH to James Hamilton, June 22, 1785, mss., NYPL.
Apprenticeship: PAH 1:39; Mitchell, AH, Youth, 15-34; McDonald, AH, 1-10; PNJHS, 69 (1951) 88-114; Flexner, Young Hamilton, 34-52; Hendrickson, Hamilton, 1:20-36; Mulligan and Troup, “Narrative;” Princetonians, 1:101-05.
1. Quoted in Mitchell, AH, Youth, 23, 27
2. AH to Edward Stevens, Nov. 11, 1769, PAH, 1: 4.
3. Royal Danish-American Gazette, April 6, 1771.
4. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 28.
5. AH to Tileman Cruger, Nov. 16, 1771, PAH, 1:12-13.
6. AH to William Newton, Nov. 16, 1771, PAH, 1:14.
7. Ibid., Nov. 27, 1771, PAH, 1:17-18.
8. AH to Nicholas Cruger, Nov. 12, 1771, PAH, 1:11.
9. Ibid., Jan. 10, 1772, PAH, 1:21.
10. AH to Newton, Feb. 1, 1772, PAH, 1:24.
11. AH to H. Cruger, Feb. 24, 1772, PAH, 1:25-6.
12. N. Cruger to Thomas Thomas, May 25, 1772, PAH, 1:33.
13. Princetonians, 1:103.
14. Boston Post-Boy, Sept. 28, 1741.
15. Quoted in Mitchell, Youth, 488, n20.
16. PAH, 1:81; Knox, Select Sermons, 34-35.
17. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 665.
18. Hugh Knox to AH, Oct. 27, 1783, PAH, 3:474-75.
19. Royal Danish-American Gazette, Oct. 17, 1772, PAH, 1:38-9.
Prep School Days: PAH, 1:40-44; Mitchell, AH, Youth, 36-53; McDonald, AH, 10-12; Flexner, Young Hamilton, 45-63; Hendrickson, Hamilton 1:37-56; Kalm, Travels in North America; Sabine, Loyalists, 1:302-35; O’Brien, Hercules Mulligan, 41-47; Mulligan and Troup, “Narrative,” WMQ 3rd series, 4 (1947): 203-25; Green, Life of the Rev’d John Witherspoon; Brandt, American Aristocracy.
1. Boston Gazette, Oct. 12, 1772.
2. Ibid., Nov. 2, 1772.
3. Quoted in Flexner, Young Hamilton, 17.
4. Massachusetts Gazette, Oct. 1, 1772.
5. Kalm, Travels, 123.
6. New York Gazette, Jan. 1, 1772.
7. Quoted in Mitchell, AH Youth, 74-5.
8. Mulligan, “Narrative,” mss., Hamilton Papers, LOC.
9. Green, Life of the Rev’d John Witherspoon, 128.
Student Revolutionary: PAH: 1:43-182; Mitchell, AH, Youth, 57-81; Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 4-6; Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 191-230; O’Brien, Hercules Mulligan, 41-47; Flexner, Young Hamilton, 20-99; Hendrickson, Hamilton, 1:57-101; Mulligan and Troup, “Narrative,” WMQ, 3rd series, 4 (1947): 203-25; Thomas, “King’s College Building,” QN-YHS, Jones, History of New York; Abbott, New York in the American Revolution; Flick, Loyalists in New York; Stokes, Iconography of Manhattan Island.
1. Mulligan and Troup, “Narrative,” 219.
2. Abbott, New York in the American Revoluton, 15.
3. Quoted in Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 217.
4. Thomas, “King’s College Building,” 24.
5. Livingston, Independent Reflector.
6. New York Gazette, Jan. 10, 1774.
7. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 501, n60.
8. Thomas, “King’s College Building,” 34-5.
9. Ibid., 36.
10. Mulligan and Troup, “Narrative,” 213.
11. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 63-64.
12. PAH, 1:85.
13. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 63-4.
14. JJ to A. McDougall, Dec. 4, 1775, LDC, 2:437.
15. New York Gazette, Dec. 16, 1773.
16. AH to McDougall, PAH [1774], 26: 353-54.
17. PAH, 1:43-44.
18. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 67.
19. PAH, 1:46.
20. New York Gazetteer, Dec. 22, 1774.
21. Mulligan and Troup, “Narrative,” 214.
22. Ibid., 211.
23. PAH, 1:47.
24. Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 217-8.
25. Mulligan and Troup, “Narrative,” 219.
26. Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 224.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid., 228.
29. Mulligan and Troup, “Narrative,” 219.
30. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 75-76.
31. New York Journal, Dec. 28, 1775.
32. Ibid., Jan. 4, 1776.
33. AH to JJ, Nov. 26, 1775, PAH, 1:177.
34. JJ to McDougall, Dec. 4, 1775; LDC, 2:437.
35. AH to JJ, Jan. 4, 1776, PAH, 1:181.
36. Mulligan and Troup, “Narrative,” 210.
37. Mitchell, AH; Revolutionary Years, 5-6.
Artilleryman: PAH, 1: 182-210; PGW, Revolutionary War Series, vols. 4-7; Mitchell, AH, Youth, 74-99; AH; Revolutionary Years, 1-62; Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 223-44; Hendrickson, Hamilton, I:91-117; Fleming, 1776, Year of Illusions; Randall, GW, 287-330.
1. Mulligan and Troup, “Narrative,” 210.
2. AH to New York Provincial Congress, May 26, 1776, PAH, 1:182.
3. AH to New York Convention, Aug. 12, 1776, PAH, 1:187.
4. AH to New York Convention, Sept. 14, 1776, PAH, 1:188.
5. J.C. Fitzpatrick, GW Himself, 22.
6. Quoted in Mitchell, AH, Youth, 86.
7. Quoted in Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 231, 234.
8. Quoted in Mitchell, AH, Revolutionary Years, 15.
9. Ibid., 18.
10. GW to Lund Washington, Oct. 6, 1776, PGW, Revolutionary War Series, 6:495.
11. GW to John Hancock, Dec. 1, 1776, PGW, Revolutionary War Series, 7:245.
12. O’Brien, Hercules Mulligan, 87; Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 29.
13. William Howe to G. Germain, Dec. 20, 1776, Colonial Office Papers, 5/94.
14. J. Grant to J. G. Rall, Dec. 1776, Force, Am. Archives, 5:11, 1317.
15. Wilkinson, quoted in Stryker, Battles of Trenton and Princeton, 32.
16. Quoted in Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 55.
17. Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 55; Mitchell, AH, Youth, 105.
18. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 109.
19. Ibid., 112.
20. Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 58-59.
21. Oswald Tilghman, Memoir of Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman, 147.
22. Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 59.
23. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 112-13.
24. Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 62.
25. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 112.
Aide-de-camp: PAH, 1:195-411; LDC, vols. 6-8; Nelson, General Horatio Gates; PGW, Revolutionary War Series, vols. 7-10, WW, vols. 9-10; Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 63-121; Wilkinson, Memoirs of My Own Times; Mitchell, AH, Youth, 53-130; Flexner, Young Hamilton, 125-205; Hendrickson, Hamilton, 1:119-72; Randall, GW, 306-57; Carp, To Starve the Army at Pleasure; Busch, Winter Quarters.
1. GW to Archibald Campbell, March 3, 1777, PGW, Revolutionary War Series, 8:493.
2. GW to Benedict Arnold (hereafter BA), March 3, 1777, PGW, Revolutionary War Series, 8:495.
3. AH to New York Committee of Correspondence, March 22, 1777, PAH, 1:211.
4. Ibid., April 5, 1777, PAH, 1:219-22.
5. Ibid., April 20, 1777, PAH, 1:233-36.
6. AH to GM, May 19, 1777, PAH, 1:254-36.
7. Ibid., Apr. 28, 1777, PAH, 1:240-41.
8. Hugh Knox to AH, April 30, 1777, PAH, 1:244-45.
9. AH to GM, Sept. 1, 1777, PAH, 1:321.
10. AH to JH, Sept. 18, 1777, PAH, 1:326-28.
11. Quoted in Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 82-83.
12. John Adams to Abigail Adams, Sept. 30, 1777, LDC, 8:27.
13. Quoted in Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 82.
14. GW to JH, Oct. 30, 1777, PAH, 1:347-48.
15. Quoted in Plumb, “French Connection.”
16. GW to AH, Oct. 30, 1777, PAH, 1:347-48.
17. AH to GW, Nov. 2, 1777, PAH, 1:349-50.
18. James Lovell to HG, Nov. 27, 1777, mss., HGP, NYHS.
19. AH to GW, Nov. 6, 1777 PAH, 1:353-55.
20. Hendrickson, Hamilton 1: 246.
21. AH to HG, Nov. 5, 177, PAH, 1:350.
22. HG to GW, Nov. 5, 1777, mss, HGP, NYHS.
23. AH to Israel Putnam, Nov. 9, 1777, PAH, 1:356.
24. AH to GW, Nov. 10, 1777, PAH, 1:357-60.
25. GW to AH, Nov. 15, 1777, PAH, 1:365.
26. Hugh Hughes to HG, Dec. 5, 1777, mss., HGP, NYHS.
27. HG to Thomas Conway, Dec. 3, 1777, in Sparks (ed.), Writings of Washington, 5:495, HG to James Wilkinson, in Wilkinson, Memoirs, 1:395, HG to GW Dec. 8, 1777, mss., HGP, NYHS.
28. HL to GW, quoted in Massey, JL and the American Revolution.
Army Reforms: PAH vols. 1-2; LDC, vols. 8-10; WW, vols. 11-12; McDonald, AH, 14-20; Hendrickson, Hamilton, 1: 210-259; Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 122-64; Mitchell, AH: Youth, 143-81; Flexner, Young Hamilton, 139-243; Massey, JL and the American Revolution 86-127.
1. AH to GW, [Jan. 29, 1778], PAH, 1:414-21.
2. GW to JH, Feb. 1, 1778, WW, 10: 414; AH to GC, Feb. 13, 1778; PAH, 1:426.
3. Freeman, GW, 4:566-68; AH to Steuben, [March-April 1778], PAH, 1:448.
4. GM to AH, May 16, 1777, PAH, 1:253-54.
5. AH to GC, Feb. 13, 1778, PAH, 1:425-28.
6. GC to AH, March 5, 1778, PAH, 1:436-37.
7. AH to GM, May 19, 1777, PAH, 1:254-56.
8. AH to GC, March 12, 1778, PAH, 1:440-42.
9. Quoted in Massey, JL and the American Revolution, 95.
10. JL to HL, Feb. 2, 1778; PHL, 12:367-68.
11. AH to JJ, March 14, 1779, PAH, 2:17-19.
12. AH, April 10-11, 1778, PAH, 1:460-472.
13. GW, “Commission,” April 4, 1778, PAH, 1:493-94.
14. Fish, in Mulligan, “Narrative,” AH Papers, LOC.
15. AH to GC, March 12, 1778, PAH, 1:442.
16. AH to William Duer, June 18, 1778, PAH, 1:497-501.
17. 17 Council of War to GW, June 24, 1778, WW, 12: 115-17,
18. AH to EB, June 26, 1778, PAH, 1:505.
19. McHenry, Journal, mss., Emmet Coll., NYPL.
20. “Euloguim on Major-General Greene,” July 4, 1789, Works, 8, 68.
21. Quoted in Mitchell, AH, Youth, 162.
22. AH to GW, [June 26, 1778], PAH, 1:504-05.
23. AH to GW, June 26, 1778, PAH, 1:506.
24. AH to Elias Boudinot, July 5, 1778, PAH, 1:510-14.
25. McHenry, Journal, mss., Emmet Coll., NYPL.
26. GW to John Sullivan, GW Papers, LOC.
Courtship and Perfidy: PAH, vol. 2; WW, vols. 13-20; Flexner, Young Hamilton, 244-48; Mitchell, AH, Youth, 182-221; Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 185-216; McDonald, AH, 14-23; Randall, BA, 513-70; Van Doren, Secret History of the Revolution; J.R. Maguire, “Self-Portrait.”
1. GW to Gouverneur Morris, Oct. 4, 1778, WW, 13: 21.
2. AH to JL, [April, 1779], PAH, 2:34-38.
3. JL to AH, Dec. 18, 1779, PAH, 2:231.
4. John Brooks to AH, July 4, 1779, PAH, 2:90-92.
5. Francis Dana to AH, July 25, 1779, PAH, 2:108-09.
6. William Gordon to AH, Aug. 25, 1779, PAH, 2:141-43.
7. AH to Gordon, Sept. 5, 1779, PAH, 2:153-56.
8. AH to JL, Sept. 11, 1779, PAH, 2:165-69.
9. AH to Catherine Livingston, April 11, 1777, PAH, 1:225-27.
10. PAH, 2:261-62.
11. Quoted in Flexner, Young Hamilton 271.
12. Ibid., 277.
13. AH to Catherine Livingston and ESH, [Jan.-Feb., 1780], PAH, 2:262.
14. AH to ESH, [Mar. 17, 1780], PAH, 2:285-87.
15. PS to AH, April 8, 1780, PAH, 2:305-07.
16. Quoted in Flexner, Young Hamiton 278.
17. S to AH, April 8, 1780, PAH, 2:305-07.
18. AH to Catherine Van Renssalaer Schuyler, [April 14, 1780], PAH, 2:309-10.
19. AH to JL, [June 30, 1780], PAH, 2:348.
20. AH to ESH, [June-Oct. 1780], PAH, 2:350.
21. Ibid., July 6, 1780, PAH, 2:353.
22. Ibid., Aug. 1780, PAH, 2:397-98.
23. Ibid., Sept. 3, 1780, PAH, 2:418.
24. Quoted in Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 252.
25. Ibid., 252-54.
26. Quoted in Wallace, Traitorous Hero, 221.
27. BA to Nathanael Greene, quoted in Van Doren, Secret History, 310.
28. AH to JL, [Oct. 11, 1780], PAH, 2:460-70.
29. BA to Beverley Robinson, Sept. 18, 1780, Van Doren, Secret History, 483.
30. Mss., British Headquarters Papers, Lord Dorchester Coll., WLCL.
31. Richard Varick, Court of Inquiry, 189-93.
32. AH to GW, [Sept. 25, 1780], PAH, 2:438-9.
33. AH to Nathanael Greene, Sept. 25, 1780, PAH, 2:440-1.
34. AH to GW, [Sept. 25, 1780], Mss., NYPL.
35. Varick, Court of Inquiry, 189-93.
36. AH to ESH, Sept. 26, [1780], 441-42.
37. Ibid.
38. GW to Joseph Reed, [Oct. 18, 1780], WW, 20: 213-15; GW to William Heath, Sept. 26, 1780, WW, 20: 88-89; AH to JL, [Oct. 11, 1780], PAH, 2:460-70.
39. AH to ESH, Sept. 26, [1780], PAH, 2:441-42; Oct. 2, 1780, 2:448-49.
40. AH to JL, [Oct. 11, 1780], PAH, 2:467.
41. AH to ESH, Oct. 2, 1780, PAH, 2:449; Oct. 5, 1780, 2:455-56; Oct. 13, 1780, 2:473-75; Oct. 27, 1780, 2:492-44.
42. AH to JL, [Oct. 11, 1780], PAH, 2:465-68.
Breaks with GW: PAH, vols. 2-3 McDonald, AH, 23-43; Hendrickson, Hamilton, 1, Mitchell, AH, Youth Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years; WW, vol. 20; Randall, GW, 389-99; Leake, I.Q. John Lamb, 270-80.
1. AH to ESH, Oct. 5, 1780, PAH, 2:455-56.
2. Marquis de Fleury to AH, Oct. 20, 1780, PAH, 2:481-82.
3. AH to GW, [Nov. 22, 1780], PAH, 2:509-10.
4. Marquis de Lafayette to AH, Dec. 9, 1780, PAH, 2:519.
5. Quoted in Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 220.
6. PAH, 2:520-24.
7. J. McHenry to AH, Dec. 16, 1780, PAH, 2:524.
8. Nathanael Greene to AH, Jan. 10, 1781, PAH, 2:529-33.
9. AH to Margarita Schuyler, Jan. 21, 1781, PAH, 2:539-40.
10. PS to AH, Jan. 25, 1781, PAH, 2:542-43.
11. ASC to ESH, quoted in Flexner, Young Hamilton, 329.
12. AH to PS, Feb. 18, 1781, PAH, 2:563-68.
13. AH to J. McHenry, Feb. 18, 1781, PAH, 2:569.
14. ML to GW, Feb., 1781, WW, AH to PS, Feb. 18, 1781, PAH, 2:563-68.
15. PS to AH, Feb. 25, 1781, PAH, 2:575-77.
16. AH to GW, [April 27, 1781], PAH, 2:600-01.
17. GW to AH, Apr. 27, 1781, PAH, 2:601-02.
18. Hume, Philosophical Works, 2:264; A. Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments, 80.
19. AH to [SPS], Dec. 1779-March 1780, PAH, 2:236-51.
20. McDonald, AH, 39.
21. AH to JL, Sept. 11, 1779, Jan. 8, June 30, Sept. 12, 1780, ibid., 2:167, 255, 347, 428.
22. AH to RM, April 20, 1781, PAH, 2:604-35.
23. AH to ESH, [July 10, 1781], PAH, 2:647.
24. PAH, 2:658.
25. AH to GW, Aug. 7, 1781, PAH, 2:659-60.
26. AH to ESH, Aug. 22, 1781, PAH, 2:667.
27. Ibid., Aug. 25, 1781, PAH, 2:668-69.
28. Ibid., [Sept. 15-18, 1781], PAH, 2:675.
29. AH to ESH, [Oct. 12, 1781], PAH, 2:677-78.
30. Quoted in Mitchell, AH: Revolutionary Years, 275-76.
31. AH to ESH, Oct. 16, 1781, PAH, 2:682.
32. Mitchell, Revolutionary Wars, 283.
33. Ibid., 285.
Congressman Hamilton: Julius Goebel, Jr., ed., Law Practice of AH, vol.1 PAH, vol. 2 Mitchell, AH, Youth, 262-345; Hendrickson, Hamilton, 1:338-450; O’Brien, Hercules Mulligan, 106-16; McDonald, AH, 43-90; Massey, JL and the American Revolution 220-34; Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 255-87; Randall and Nahra, Thomas Chittenden’s Town, 1-9, 55-94, Gordon, Hamilton’s Blessing, 1-14.
1. AH to ML, Nov. 2, 1782, PAH, 3:192.
2. JL to AH, July, 1782, PAH, 3:121.
3. AH to JL, Aug. 15, 1782, PAH, 3:144-45.
4. Capt. William McKennan and Nathanael Greene quoted in Massey, JL and the American Revolution, 227; John Adams to HL, Nov. 6, 1782, Kendall Coll., HL Papers, Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharons, Mass.; AH to Nathanael Greene, Oct. 12, 1782, Goebel, Law Practice of AH, 1:5-6; PAH, 3:183-84.
5. AH to Richard Kidder Meade, Aug. 27, 1782, PAH, 3:150-51; March, 1782, PAH, 3:69-71.
6. “Suspension of the Rule,” April 26, 1782, PAH, 3:82-83.
7. RN to AH, April 15, 1782, PAH, 3:72; “Warrant to Receive Money as Continental Receiver,” April 15, 1782, ibid., 74.
8. Quoted in McDonald, AH, 53.
9. Goebel, Law Practice of AH, 1: 128, 81, 82, 83, 109.
10. Vattel, Law of Nations, xli-xlii; PAH, 3:122; Blackstone, Commentaries, 1:161-62, 4:67, 1:125-26.
11. PAH, 3:75-82.
12. AH to Robert R Livingston, Aug. 23, 1783, PAH, 3:431, AH to GM, April 7, 1784, PAH, 3:528-29.
13. Benjamin Vaughan to Lord Shelburne, April 10, 1782, Mss., Lansdowne Papers, WLCL.
14. Undated mss., GW Papers, microfilm reel 84, LOC.
15. Van Closen, Revolutionary Journal, 199-200, 272.
16. AH to HK, June 7, 1782, PAH, 3:91-3.
17. Stryker, Capture of the Blockhouse at Toms River, 24-31; JCC, Oct. 15, 1782.
18. AH to RM, Aug. 13, 1782, mss., NYPL.
19. AH to [John Lawrence], Dec. 12, 1782, PAH, 3:212.
20. AH to ESH; Dec. 18, 1782, PAH, 3:226.
21. Randall and Nahra, Thomas Chittenden’s Town, 6, 57-8.
22. GW to Thomas Chittenden, Jan. 1, 1782, WW, 23: 419-22.
23. “Motion on Vermont,” Dec. 5, 1782, PAH, 3:205-06.
24. AH to [John Laurence], Dec. 12, 1782, PAH, 3:212.
25. Quoted in Mitchell, AH, Youth, 287.
26. GC to AH, Dec. 29th, 1782; AH to GC, Jan. 1, 1783, PAH, 3:236; Jan. 12, 1783, PAH, 3:240-41.
27. AH to ESH, Dec. 1782, PAH, 3:235.
28. AH to ESH, Jan. 8, 1783, PAH, 3:238.
29. “Report on Army Memorial,” Jan. 22, 1783, PAH, 3:245-46.
30. “Remarks on Raising Funds,” Jan. 27, 1783, PAH, 3:245-46.
31. “Remarks on the Collection of Funds,” Jan. 28, 1783, PAH, 3: 246-47.
32. “Motion on the Establishment of Permanent Funds,” Feb. 12, 1783, PAH, 3:252-53.
33. AH to GW, Feb. 13, 1783, PAH, 3:253-5.
34. GW to AH, March 4, 1783, PAH, 3:277-79.
35. AH to GW, March 25, 1783, PAH, 3:306.
36. “Remarks on the Provisional Peace Treaty,” March 19, 1783, PAH, 3:294-95.
37. GW “Circular Letter,” March 30, 1783, WW, 25:270-72.
38. GW to AH, March 12, 1783, WW, 26: 216-18.
39. AHGC, June 29, 1783, PAH, 3:407-8; AH to ESH, July 22, 1783, PAH, 3:413.
40. AH to ESH, July 22, 1783, PAH, 3:413.
41. AH to JJ, July 25, 1783, PAH, 3:416-17.
42. McHenry to AH, Oct. 22, 1783, PAH, 3:472.
43. WW, 27:255-590; Freeman, GW, 5:451-68.
Lawyer and Lawmaker: PAH, 3:476-701; Mitchell, AH, Youth, 1:330-88; Hen-drickson, Hamilton, 1, 406-50; O’Brien, Hercules Mulligan; McDonald, AH, 62-94; LDC, vols. 9-11; Crary, Price of Loyalty; Randall, A Little Revenge, Necker, Treatise on the Administration of the Finances of France, vols. 1-3.
1. T. Jones, History of New York, 2:783.
2. Quoted in O’Brien, Hercules Mulligan 122-24.
3. Quoted in Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 285-87.
4. AH to JD, Aug. 5, 1783, PAH, 3:430.
5. RRL to AH, Aug. 30, 1783, PAH, 3:434-35.
6. “Letter from Phocion to the Considerate Citizens of New York, January, 1784,” PAH, 3:483-97.
7. New York Journal, January 1784.
8. McDonald, AH, 65.
9. Goebel, Law Practice of AH, 1:317-93.
10. AH to GC, June 1, 1783, PAH, 3:367-72.
11. “Second Letter from Phocion,” April 1784, PAH, 3:530-58.
12. Robert L. Livingston to AH, Aug. 30, 1783, PAH, 3:434-35.
13. AH to John B. Church, March 10, 1784, PAH, 3:520-23.
14. Necker, Treatise, 1:xclvi-xclvii.
15. ML to AH, Oct. 8, 1784; PAH, 3:580-81.
16. AH to GW, Nov. 25, 1785, PAH, 3:635-36, 3:51.
17. AH to ESH, March 17, 1785, PAH, 3:589.
18. ASC to AH, 1785, quoted in Hendrickson, H, 1:530-34.
19. AH to ASC, Aug. 3, 1785, mss, ASC Papers, UVA.
Confederation Years: PAH, 3:617-701; PGW, Confederation Series, vols. 4-5; PTJ, vols. 9-10; McDonald, AH, 90-115; Mitchell, AH, Youth, 356-465; Hendrickson, Hamilton, 2: 442-559; Belleisles, Revolutionary Outlaws, 245-65; Szath-mary, Shays Rebellion; Freeman, GW, 6; R. Scigliano, ed. Federalist, Randall and Nahra, Forgotten Americans, 103-20.
1. AH to Richard Varick, [Sept. 1, 1786], mss., NYPL; AH to ESH, Sept. 18, 1786; PAH, 3:684.
2. WW, 27: 340.
3. “Appointment as Commissioner,” May 5, 1786, PAH, 3:665-66.
4. “Address,” Sept. 14, 1786, PAH, 3:686-89.
5. Quoted in Belleisles, Revolutionary Outlaws, 245-47.
6. Ibid., 248-51.
7. “First Speech,” Jan. 19, 1787, PAH, 4:12.
8. “Second Speech,” Jan. 19, 1787, PAH, 4:13-17.
9. Quoted in Freeman, GW 6:15.
10. Belleisles, Revolutionary Outlaws, 252-3.
11. AH, “Remarks,” Feb. 8, 1787, PAH, 4:39.
12. March 14, 1787; PAH, 4:115-18.
13. Belleisles, Revolutionary Outlaws, 253.
14. AH, “Address,” June 18, 1787, PAH, 4:187-95.
15. Ibid., 207-11.
16. Quoted in McDonald, 105.
17. AH to GW, July 3, 1787, PAH, 4:223-24.
18. GW to AH, July 10, 1787, PAH, 4:225; PAH, 4:229-32.
19. AH, “Remarks,” Sept. 6, 1787, PAH, 4:243.
20. AH, “Remarks,” Sept. 17, 1787, PAH, 4:253.
21. AH, “Conjectures about the New Constitution,” Sept. 17-30, 1787, PAH, 4:275-77.
22. AH to GW, Oct. 11, 1787, PAH, 4:280-81; GW to AH, Oct. 18, 1787, PAH, 4:284-85.
23. ASC to AH, Oct. 2, 1787, PAH, 4:279-80.
24. AH, Federalist No. 1, Oct. 27, 1787, Scigliano, Federalist 3.
25. Ibid., 4.
26. AH, Federalist No. 15, Dec. 1, 1787, Scigliano, Federalist 86-7
27. AH, Federalist No. 85, Aug. 13-16, 1788, Scigliano, Federalist 560-61.
28. GW to AH, Aug. 28, 1788, PAH, 5:207.
29. AH, “Remarks,” June 20, 1788, PAH, 5:16.
30. Mitchell, AH, Youth, 455, 642n.
31. AH, “Third Speech,” June 28, 178, PAH, 5:124; Mitchell, AH, Youth 462.
32. Ibid., 463-4.
Federalist: PAH, 5:220-579; PGW, Presidential Series; PTJ, vols. 16-26; Hen-drickson, Hamilton, 2; Mitchell, AH, National Adventure, 1-373; McDonald, AH, 117-307; McCullough, John Adams; Randall, TJ; Randall, GW; Randall and Nahra, Forgotten Americans, 103-20; Gordon, Hamilton’s Blessing, 11-14; Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 270-312.
1. AH to GW, Aug. 13, 1788, PAH, 5: 201-02.
2. GW to AH, Aug. 28, 1788, PAH, 5: 206-08; AH to GW, September 1788, PAH, 5: 220-22.
3. GW to AH, Oct. 3, 1788, PAH, 5: 222-24.
4. AH to JM, Nov. 23, 1788, PAH, 5: 235-7,
5. AH, “H.G. Letters,” PAH, 5: 263-306.
6. AH to James Wilson, Jan. 25, 1789, PAH, 5:247-49.
7. Quoted in McDonald, AH, 128.
8. Randall, GW, 445-49.
9. AH to GW May 5, 1789, PAH, 5: 335-37; 337-38.
10. Cash Book, PAH, 3:55-56.
11. JA to AH, July 21, 1789, PAH, 5:363-4.
12. Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 276.
13. Quoted in Randall, TJ, 487.
14. AH to ML, Oct. 6, 1789, PAH, 5: 425-27
15. Hamilton, IL, xx.
16. McDonald, AH, 145-49.
17. John Witherspoon to AH, Oct. 26, 1789, PAH, 5: 464-5.
18. William Bingham to AH, Nov. 25, 1789, PAH, 5: 538-57.
19. AH to ASC, Nov. 8, 1789, mss., ASC Papers, UVA.
20. AH to Henry Lee, Dec. 1, 1789, PAH, 5:1.
AH’s “Blessing: PAH, vols. 7-26; PTJ, vols. 18-26; McDonald, AH, 163-363; Miller, AH: Portrait in Paradox; Mitchell, AH, National Adventure; Hendrickson, AH, vol. 2; Randall, TJ; Randall, GW; McCullough, John Adams; Brookhiser, AH, American; Fleming, Duel; Stourzh, AH and the Idea of Republican Government; Syrett, Interview in Weehawken; Sharp, American Politics in the Early Republic; JCH, 4; Lomask, Aaron Burr, vol. 2; Gordon, Hamilton’s Blessing; Rossiter, AH and the Constitution; Cooke, AH; Elkins and McKittrick, The Age of Federation.
1. AH to ASC, Jan. 7, 1790, Mss., ASC Papers, UVA.
2. AH, “Report on the Public Credit,” Jan. 9, 1790, PAH, 6:51-168.
3. Maclay, Diary, 183-84.
4. TJ, “Anas,” quoted in Cunningham, In Pursuit of Reason, 139.
5. A. M. Hamilton, Intimate Life of AH, 315.
6. AH, “Report on the Bank,” Dec. 13, 1790, PAH, 7:236-342.
7. AH, “Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank,” Feb. 23, 1791, PAH, 8:63-134.
8. GW, May 1791, PTJ, 20:291-92.
9. “Report on Manufactures,” Jan. 1791, PAH, 7.
10. “Draft of the Reynolds Pamphlet,” Aug. 25, 1797, PAH, 21:226.
11. Maria Reynolds to AH, Dec. 26, 1791, and Dec. 28, 1791, PAH, 10:557.
12. Robert Troup to AH, March 19, 1792, PAH, 11:155-58; William Duer to AH, March 12, 1792, PAH, 11-126.
13. AH to William Seton, March 19, 1792, PAH, 11:154-55.
14. AH to Edward Carrington, May 26, 1792, PAH, 11:432-33.
15. PAH, 21:258.
16. Mss., Schuyler Papers, NYPL.
17. TJ to JM, June 30, 1793, L&B, 7:420-22, TJ to JM, July 7, 1793, L&B, 7:436.
18. PAH, 12:312.
19. TJ to JM, quoted in Elkins and McKittrick, 435.
20. JM to TJ, Oct. 20, 1797, PTJ, 18:684-85.
21. AH, N.Y. Court of Errors, Feb. 1804, quoted in Fleming, AH in His Own Words, 394-95.
22. T. Fleming, Duel, 325.