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Rush’s correspondence with

Boudinot, Elisha

Boxwood Hall

boycott of British goods

Brackenridge, Hugh Henry

Braddock, Edward

Bradford, William

Bradhurst, Samuel

Brandywine Creek, Battle of (1777)

Brissot de Warville, J. P.

Brooklyn, Battle of (1776)

Brooks, John

Brown, Andrew

Brown, Moses

Browne, Joseph

Bunker (Breed’s) Hill, Battle of (1775)

Burgoyne, John (Gentleman Johnny)

Burke, Aedanus

Burke, Edmund

Burr, Aaron, Jr.

AH compared with

AH’s duel with
AH’s feud with,
see
Hamilton-Burr duel
AH’s first contact with
AH’s rivalry with
ambition of
in American Revolution
army appointment considered for
background of
bribery charges against
Church’s duel with
debts of
divorce of education of
in election of 1789
in election of 1792
in election of 1796
in election of 1800
in election of 1801
in election of 1804
electoral tie of 1801 and
French Revolution and
inauguration of
intrigue and secrecy of
Jay Treaty and
Jefferson’s relationship with
as lawyer
libel suit of
Manhattan Company and
marriages of
Monroe’s correspondence with
Monroe’s relationship with
in New York Assembly
as New York attorney general
opportunism of

Philip Schuyler defeated by

political affiliation of
political comeback attempt of
as political outcast
public debt bill and
reading of
Reynolds affair and
slavery and
on Stirling
Troup’s friendship with
as vice president
Washington’s relationship with
womanizing and sexual escapades of

Burr, Aaron, Sr.

Burr, Esther Edwards

Burr, Theodosia,
see
Alston, Theodosia Burr Burr, Theodosia Prevost

Burwell, William A.

Butler, Pierce

Cabot, George

Cadwalader, John

Caesar, Julius

Callender, James Thomson

in Pamphlet Wars

Camillus

Campfield, Jabez

Canada

Capet, Louis,
see
Louis XVI, king of France

capital, U.S., selection of location for

Caribbean,
see
West Indies;
specific islands

Carlisle, Pa.

carriage tax

Carrington, Edward

Carroll, Charles

Cato
(Addison)

central banks

Adams’s views on
AH’s views on
functions of
see also
Bank of England; Bank of the United
States

Ceracchi, Giuseppe

Chamber of Commerce, New York City

Chambers, David

Chappell, Alonzo

Charleston, Battle of (1780)

Charleston, S.C.

Charlestown

Chase, Samuel

impeachment of

Chastellux, marquis de

Chatterton’s Hill

Cheetham, James

election of 1804 and

child labor

Christian Constitutional Society

Christiansted

Church, Angelica Schuyler

AH’s affectionate relationship with
AH’s correspondence with
AH’s death and
death of
Eliza’s correspondence with
Eliza’s relationship with
in Europe
French aristocracy and
Jefferson’s correspondence with
Jefferson’s relationship with
marriage of
men enchanted by
on Philip Hamilton’s funeral
portrait of
slavery and
U.S. visits of

Church, Catherine

Church, John Barker

AH’s correspondence with
AH’s death and
AH’s loan from death of dueling of
in Europe
Hamilton-Burr duel and
Manhattan Company and
slavery and

Church, Philip

Church of England (Anglicanism)

Cicero

Cincinnatus

Citation Act (1782)

Civil War, U.S.

Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser

Clement, Maria,
see
Reynolds, Maria

Clingman, Jacob

Clinton, Cornelia,
see
Genêt, Cornelia Clinton

Clinton, De Witt

Clinton, George

AH’s correspondence with
AH’s feud with
background of
as brigadier general
Constitutional Convention and
as deterrent to national unity

in election of 1792

Clinton, George (
cont.
)

in election of 1800
in election of 1801
on Hamilton-Burr duel
King’s candidacy and
as New York governor
New York Ratifying Convention and
Philip Schuyler’s feud with
as presidential candidate
retirement of
as vice presidential candidate

Clinton, Sir Henry

AH’s alleged secret letter to

Clossy, Samuel

Coast Guard, U.S.

Cobb, David

Cobbett, William

Cochran, Gertrude Schuyler

Cochran, John

Coercive (Intolerable) Acts (1774)

coffee, taxes on

Coke, Sir Edward

Colbert, Louis

Colden, Cadwallader

Coleman, William

College of New Jersey

see also
Princeton

College of Physicians

Columbia College

Columbia University Press

Committee of Public Safety, French

committees of correspondence

Common Council, New York City

Common Sense
(Paine)

Concord, Mass.

Confiscation Act (1779)

Congress, U.S.

Adams’s speeches to
Alien and Sedition Acts and
in Germantown
Jefferson’s relationship with
military approved by
in New York City
petitions to
in Philadelphia
Republican majority in
“scrippomania” and
slavery and
tax-levying powers of
treasury secretary reports to
war powers of
Washington’s annual address to
see also
House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

Connecticut

American Revolution in

Connecticut Compromise

Constitution, New York

Constitution, U.S.

AH’s concessions and
amendments to
broad interpretation of
central bank and change of government seat and
“common defence and general welfare” clause of
explication of,
see Federalist Papers, The
“God” omitted from
Jay Treaty and
Jefferson’s vacillations about
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and
“necessary and proper” clause of
New York battle over
preamble to
presidential electors in
ratification process for
strict construction of

Constitutional Convention

AH at
AH’s calls for
AH’s June 18 speech at
AH’s June 29 speech at
breakup of New York delegation to
Committee of Style and Arrangement at
Connecticut Compromise at
description of delegates to
end of
Federalist
and
lawyers at
New Jersey Plan at
road to
secrecy of
slavery and
Virginia Plan at

Continental Army

AH as Washington’s adjutant in
“camp ladies” of
disorder and morale problems in
duels in
fear of Newburgh mutiny in
Gates-Washington rivalry in
Lafayette’s rise in
in New Jersey
Northern Department of
passwords in
Pennsylvania mutineers in
pensions in
refurbishment of
reorganization of retreats of
social life of
Southern Army
state militias vs.
Steuben’s stewardship of
supply problems in
Washington made head of
Washington’s farewell to

Continental Association

Continental Congress

First
Second (Confederation),
see
Second Continental

Congress

“Continentalist, The”(Hamilton)

Conway, Thomas

Conway Cabal

Cooper, Charles D.

Cooper, Myles

mob action against

Copley, John Singleton

Cornwallis, Lord

Yorktown siege and

corporations, creation of

Cosway, Maria

Cosway, Richard

cotton

court-martials

Coxe, Tench

credit

British
central bank and
private
public, AH’s report on

crime

Croswell, Harry

Croucher, Richard

Cruger, Henry, Jr.

Cruger, Henry, Sr.

Cruger, John

Cruger, Nicholas

Cruger, Tileman

currency:

dollar as
minting of coins and
paper,
see
paper money
uniform

Custis, Martha Dandridge,
see
Washington, Martha

Dandridge Custis

Customs Service, U.S.

Dallas, Alexander J.

Dana, Francis

Danish West India and Guinea Company

Danish West Indies

see also
St. Croix

Danton, Georges Jacques

Davie, William

Davis, Matthew

Dawson, Henry

Day, Thomas

Dayton, Jonathan

Deas, William

debt

AH’s alleged buying back of
English public
of farmers
foreign loans in repayment of
national
public, retirement of
of states
war
see also specific people

Dechman, James

Declaration of Independence

slavery and

Declaration of the Rights of Man, French

“Defence, The” (Livingston, Livingston, and Hamilton)

Defoe, Daniel

de Haert, Balthazar

de la Tour du Pin, Madame

Delaware

Delaware River

democracy

AH’s fears about
American Revolution and
Montesquieu’s theory of

“Democratic” (“Republican”) societies

Denmark, colonialism of,
see
St. Croix

de Nully, Bertram Pieter

De Peyster’s Point, N.Y.

d’Estaing, Jean Baptiste

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