Alexander Hamilton (144 page)

Five: The Little Lion
1. Wood,
American Revolution,
p. 78.
2. Brookhiser,
Alexander Hamilton,
p. 32.
3. Custis,
Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington,
p. 344.
4. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity,
p. 96.
5. Bobrick,
Angel in the Whirlwind,
p. 229.
6.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 200, letter to the Convention of the Representatives of the State of New York, March 6, 1777.
7. Bobrick,
Angel in the Whirlwind,
p. 235.
8. Hamilton,
Life of Alexander Hamilton,
vol. 1, p. 137.
9. Ibid.
10. Flexner,
Young Hamilton,
p. 132.
11.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 195.
12. Brookhiser,
Alexander Hamilton,
p. 29. 13.
PAH,
vol. 22, p. 37, letter to George Washington, July 29[–August 1], 1798.
14. Ibid., vol. 1, p. 209, letter to the New York Committee of Correspondence, March 20, 1777. 15. Ibid., vol. 2, p. 359, letter to Hugh Knox, July 1[–28], 1777.
16. Ibid., vol. 1, p. 202, letter to Alexander McDougall, March 10, 1777.
17. Smith,
Patriarch,
p. 4.
18.
The Wall Street Journal,
February 10, 2000. 19. Custis,
Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington,
p. 214.
20. Ferling,
John Adams,
p. 136.
21. McCullough,
John Adams,
p. 593.
22. Smith,
Patriarch,
p. 8.
23. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity,
p. 108.

24. Hamilton,
Life of Alexander Hamilton,
vol. 1, p. 177.
25. Steiner,
Life and Correspondence of James McHenry,
p. 572.
26. MHi-TPP, reel 51, p. 189.
27.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 255, letter to Gouverneur Morris, May 19, 1777.
28. Kaminski,
George Clinton,
p. 21.
29. Custis,
Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington,
pp. 345–46.
30. Flexner,
Young Hamilton,
p. 143.
31. Ibid., p. 146.
32. Ibid., p. 148.
33. Otis,
Eulogy on Alexander Hamilton,
p. 7.
34. Graydon,
Memoirs of His Own Time,
p. 276.
35. Hamilton,
Life of Alexander Hamilton,
vol. 1, p. 170.
36. Graydon,
Memoirs of His Own Time,
p. 277.
37.
PAH,
vol. 3, p. 150, letter to Richard Kidder Meade, August 27, 1782.
38. Ibid., vol. 1, p. 551, letter from James McHenry, September 21, 1778.
39. Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 53–54, letter to John Laurens, May 22, 1779.
40. Flexner,
Young Hamilton,
p. 149.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 225, letter to Catharine Livingston, April 11, 1777.
44. Ibid., p. 259, letter to Catharine Livingston, May 1777.
45. Wallace,
Life of Henry Laurens,
p. 470.
46.
PAH,
vol. 2, p. 17, letter to John Jay, March 14, 1799.
47. CU-JCHP, box 20.
48. Hamilton,
Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton,
p. 245.
49. Lafayette,
Lafayette in the American Revolution,
vol. 3, p. 302.
50. Emery,
Alexander Hamilton,
p. 244.
51. Baxter,
Godchild of Washington,
p. 225.
52. Van Doren,
Benjamin Franklin,
p. 578.
53. Wilson and Stanton,
Jefferson Abroad,
p. 123.
54.
PAH,
vol. 2, p. 321.
55. Hamilton,
Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton,
p. 245.
56. Lafayette,
Lafayette in the American Revolution,
vol. 3, p. 310.
57. Flexner,
Young Hamilton,
p. 316.
58. Bobrick,
Angel in the Whirlwind,
p. 253.
59. Flexner,
Young Hamilton,
pp. 166–67.
60. Gerlach,
Proud Patriot,
p. 309.
61.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 314, letter to Robert R. Livingston, August 18, 1777.
62. Ibid., p. 285, letter to John Jay, July 5, 1777.
63. Ibid., p. 300, letter to Hugh Knox, July 1777.
64. Ibid., p. 321, letter to Gouverneur Morris, September 1, 1777.
65. Ibid., pp. 326–27.
66. Ellis,
Passionate Sage,
p. 111.
67.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 330, letter from George Washington, September 21, 1777.
68. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity,
p. 121.
69. Bobrick,
Angel in the Whirlwind,
p. 244. 70. Flexner,
Young Hamilton,
p. 185.
71.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 347, letter from George Washington, October 30, 1777.
72. Ibid.
73. Ibid., p. 350, letter to George Washington, November 2, 1777.
74. Ibid., p. 351, letter to Horatio Gates, November 5, 1777.
75. Ibid., p. 353, letter to George Washington, November 6, 1777.
76. Ibid., vol. 2, p. 36, letter to John Laurens, April 1779. 77. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity,
p. 138.
78. Gerlach,
Proud Patriot,
p. 304.
79. Lomask,
Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President,
p. 45.
80. Burrows and Wallace,
Gotham,
p. 236.
81.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 356, letter to Israel Putnam, November 9, 1777.
82. Ibid., p. 365, letter from George Washington, November 15, 1777.
83. Ibid., pp. 360–61, letter to George Washington, November 12, 1777.
84. Flexner,
Young Hamilton,
pp. 204–5.
85. McCullough,
John Adams,
p. 173.
86. Flexner,
Young Hamilton,
p. 210.
87. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity,
p. 149.
88. Ibid., p. 150.
89. Ibid., p. 151.
90.
PAH,
vol. 2, p. 420, letter to James Duane, September 6, 1780.
91. Ibid., vol. 1, p. 428, letter to George Clinton, February 13, 1778.
92. Wallace,
Life of Henry Laurens,
p. 267.
93. Bobrick,
Angel in the Whirlwind,
p. 306. 9. Bobrick,
Angel in the Whirlwind,
p. 333. 10.
PAH,
vol. 1, pp. 497–98, letter to William Duer, June 18, 1778.
11. Ibid., vol. 3, p. 588, letter to John Jay, December 7, 1784.
12. Lodge,
Alexander Hamilton,
p. 241.
13.
PAH,
vol. 3, p. 101, “The Continentalist No. VI,” July 4, 1782.
14. Ibid., vol. 1, p. 411, “Pay Book of the State Company of Artillery.”
15. Ibid., p. 373.
16. Ibid., p. 381.
17. Ibid., p. 390.
18. Ibid., p. 397.
19.
The American Historical Review,
January 1957. 20.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 400.
21. Ibid., pp. 399–400.
22. Ferling,
John Adams,
p. 206.
23. Hamilton,
Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton,
p. 295.
24. Hamilton,
Reminiscences of James A. Hamilton,
p. 11.
25. Rosenfeld,
American Aurora,
p. 356.
26.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 510, letter to Elias Boudinot, July 5, 1778.
27. Flexner,
Washington,
p. 120.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid., p. 121.
30.
PAH,
vol. 1, pp. 507–8, “Proceedings of a General Court-Martial for the Trial of Major General Charles Lee, July 4, 1778.”
31. Flexner,
Young Hamilton,
p. 231.
32. Bobrick,
Angel in the Whirlwind,
p. 345. 33. Ibid.
34. Custis,
Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington,
p. 220.
35. Ibid., p. 221.
36.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 512, letter to Elias Boudinot, July 5, 1778.
37. Ibid.
38. Custis,
Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington,
pp. 232–33.
39.
PAH,
vol. 23, pp. 546–47.
40. Ibid., vol. 1, p. 513, letter to Elias Boudinot, July 5, 1778.
41. Ibid.
42. Lee,
Charles Lee Papers,
p. 62.
43. Davis,
Memoirs of Aaron Burr,
vol. 1, p. 135. 44. Lee,
Charles Lee Papers,
p. 393.
45.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 593, letter from John Laurens, December 5, 1778.
46.
Journal of the Early Republic,
spring 1995. 47.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 603, “Account of a Duel Between Major General Charles Lee and Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens,” December 24, 1778. 48. Lee,
Charles Lee Papers,
p. 285.
49.
PAH,
vol. 1, p. 603, “Account of a Duel Between Major General Charles Lee and Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens,” December 24, 1778. 50. Ibid., pp. 562–63, first “Publius” letter, October 16, 1778.
51. Ibid.
52. Ibid, p. 569, second “Publius” letter, October 26, 1778.
53. Ibid., p. 580, third “Publius” letter, November 16, 1778.
54.
PAH,
vol. 19, p. 521, “Relations with France,” [1795–1796].
55. Hamilton,
Life of Alexander Hamilton,
vol. 1, p. 563.
56. Kennedy,
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson,
p. 103. 57. Hamilton,
Life of Alexander Hamilton,
vol. 2, p. 36. 58. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity,
p. xv.
59. LC-AHP, reel 30, “Robert Troup Memo on the Conway Cabal,” October 26, 1827.
60.
PAH,
vol. 1, pp. 246–47, letter to William Duer, May 6, 1777.
61. Ibid., vol. 20, p. 509, “The Warning No. II,” February 7, 1797.
62. Ibid., vol. 2, p. 53, letter to John Laurens, May 22, 1779.
63. Ibid., p. 35, letter to John Laurens, April 1779. 64. Wallace,
Life of Henry Laurens,
p. 474.
65.
PAH,
vol. 2, pp. 17–18, letter to John Jay, March 14, 1779.
66. McCullough,
John Adams,
p. 133.
67. Bobrick,
Angel in the Whirlwind,
p. 101. 68. Ibid., p. 102.
69.
PAH,
vol. 2, p. 166, letter to John Laurens, September 11, 1779.
70. McDonough,
Christopher Gadsden and Henry Laurens,
p. 240.
71.
PAH,
vol. 2, pp. 34–35, letter to John Laurens, April 1779.
72. Ibid., p. 165, letter to John Laurens, September 11, 1779.
73. Ibid., p. 91, letter from John Brooks, July 4, 1779. 74. Ibid., p. 99, letter to Francis Dana, July 11, 1779. 75. Ibid., p. 154, letter to William Gordon, September 5, 1779.
76. Ibid., p. 167, letter to John Laurens, September 11, 1779.

7. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity,
p. 198.
8. Lossing,
Hours with the Living Men and Women of the Revolution,
p. 140.
9. Van Doren,
Benjamin Franklin,
p. 544. 10. Humphreys,
Catherine Schuyler,
p. 136. 11.
PAH,
vol. 2, p. 270, letter to Margarita Schuyler, February 1780.
12. Flexner,
Young Hamilton,
p. 277.
13. Chastellux,
Travels in North America,
p. 375, and Warville,
New Travels in the United States of America,
p. 148.
14. Hamilton,
Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton,
p. 105.
15. Ibid., p. 106.
16. Baxter,
Godchild of Washington,
p. 222. 17.
Atlantic Monthly,
August 1896.
18.
The William and Mary Quarterly,
January 1955. 19.
PAH,
vol. 2, p. 354, letter to Anthony Wayne, July 6, 1780.
20. Hamilton,
Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton,
p. 126.
21. CU-HFP, box 1, letter from Elizabeth Hamilton to Philip Church, n.d.
22. LC-AHP, reel 30, letter from Elizabeth Hamilton to Mrs. Cochran, October 25, 1819.
23.
PAH,
vol. 2, p. 348, letter to John Laurens, June 30, 1780.
24. Ibid., p. 431, letter to John Laurens, September 16, 1780.
25. Ibid., vol. 21, p. 177, letter to Elizabeth Hamilton, July 21, 1797.
26. Steiner,
Life and Correspondence of James McHenry,
p. 45.
27. Ibid.
28.
PAH,
vol. 21, p. 481, letter to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., June 2, 1798.
29. Riedesel,
Letters and Memoirs Relating to the War of American Independence,
p. 196.
30. Humphreys,
Catherine Schuyler,
p. 88
31. Graydon,
Memoirs of His Own Time,
p. 144. 32. Gerlach,
Proud Patriot,
p. 320.
33.
PAH,
vol. 2, pp. 286–87, letter to Elizabeth Schuyler, March 17, 1780.
34. Ibid., pp. 309–10, letter to Catherine Schuyler, April 14, 1780.
35. Hamilton,
Life of Alexander Hamilton,
vol. 2, p. 336.
36. Ketcham,
James Madison,
p. 90.
37.
PAH,
vol. 2, p. 250, “Letter on Currency,” December 1779–March 1780.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid., p. 242.
40. Ibid., p. 237.
41. Emery,
Alexander Hamilton,
p. 48.
42.
PAH,
vol. 2, p. 422, letter to Elizabeth Schuyler, September 6, 1780.
77. Ibid., p. 539, letter to Margarita Schuyler, January 21, 1781.
78. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity,
p. 202.
79. Gerlach,
Proud Patriot,
p. 403.
80. Ibid., p. 191.
81. Mitchell,
Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity,
p. 568.
82.
PAH,
vol. 2, p. 509, letter to George Washington, November 22, 1780.
83. Ibid., p. 255, letter to John Laurens, January 8, 1780.
84. Ibid., p. 565, letter to Philip Schuyler, February 18, 1781.
85. Ibid., p. 549, letter to John Laurens, February 4, 1781.
86. Ibid., pp. 563–64, letter to Philip Schuyler, February 18, 1781.
87. Ibid., p. 564.
88. Ibid., p. 565.
89. Ibid., pp. 566–67.
90. Ibid., p. 569, letter to James McHenry, February 18, 1781.