Notes
1. Chernow, Ron, Alexander Hamilton, (New York: The Penguin Press, 2004), 43.
2. Chernow, Ron, Washington: A Life, (New York: The Penguin Press, 2010), 32.
3. Chernow, Ron, Washington: A Life, 40.
4. George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, September 20, 1765, Colonial Series, http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/GEWN-02-07-02-0252-0001.
5. According to one expert on Alexander Hamilton, the story about Martha Washington naming her cat for Hamilton can be traced back to a satirical piece written by a British Captain Smythe in January of 1780, which was “designed to embarrass the American revolutionaries” (see Stephen F. Knott, “The Adams Family’s Revenge Against Alexander Hamilton,” in http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/08/the-adams-familys-revenge-against-alexander-hamilt (accessed October 20, 2015). Hamilton the tomcat was also mentioned in Preble, History of the Flag of the United States of America, 264n1, which cites the Journal of Captain Smythe, R.A., January 1780. And Ives, Washington’s Headquarters, 212; Rogow, A Fatal Friendship, 56-57.
6. Chernow, Ron, Washington: A Life, 290.
7. Chernow, Ron, Washington: A Life, 393.
8. Chernow, Ron, Alexander Hamilton, 159.
9. Chernow, Ron, Washington: A Life, 701.
10. Chernow, Ron, Washington: A Life, 702.
11. Chernow, Ron, Alexander Hamilton, 74.
12. Chernow, Ron, Alexander Hamilton, 562.
13. George Washington to “The People of the United States of America,” September 19, 1796, https://www.mountvernon.org/education/primary-sources-2/article/washingtons-farewell-address-1796/.
14. Chernow, Ron, Washington: A Life, 781.
15. Chernow, Ron, Washington: A Life, 811.
16. Chernow, Ron, Washington: A Life, 816.
17. “From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 4 July 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0001-0248. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, 1 May 1802 – 23 October 1804, Additional Documents 1774–1799, Addenda and Errata, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, p. 293.]
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