Index of Names

Compiled by Patrick Newman

Adams, John 36, 60, 105–07

Constitutional Convention 139

Rightward shift 39, 284–86, 309

Vice-president 284, 287

Adams, Sam

Constitutional Convention 140

Massachusetts Resolves 35–36

Ratification 237–46

Rightward shift 39, 69–70, 123, 242, 309

Akin, Jonathan 280

Allen, Ethan 91, 107

Allen, Ira 107

Allen, Thomas 117

Ames, Fisher 241, 246, 292, 299

Armstrong, John 222

Arnold, Benedict 265

Arnold, Jonathan 62

Ashley, John 238

Atherton, Joshua 235, 253

Austin, Benjamin 237

Bacon, John 238

Baldwin, Abraham 170–71, 193

Barrell, Nathaniel 242, 244

Bassett, Richard 158

Bauman, Sebastian 216

Beard, Charles 141, 250, 309

Bedford, Gunning 155, 158, 170–71, 177

Benson, Egbert 131, 136, 272, 292

Billings, Joel 115

Blair, John 154, 158

Bland, Theodorick 299

Bloodworth, Timothy 133, 288

Blount, William 95, 101, 103, 140, 212, 288–89

Bonaparte, Napoleon 285

Bowdoin, James 60–61, 115–17, 123, 236

Boyd, Alexander 222

Brearley, David 159

Brennan, William 304

Brown, John 102

Brown, John (Harpers Ferry) 313

Brown, Nicholas 63–64

Bryan, George 133, 223–24, 230

Bryan, Samuel 222–23, 229

Burgh, James 64

Burke, Aedanus 250–52, 300

Butler, Pierce 146–47, 153–55, 160, 174, 177–78, 183, 185, 187, 196–97, 206

Butler, Richard 225

Campbell, Arthur 94–96

Carroll, Charles 140, 189, 199–200

Caswell, Richard 95, 101

Chase, Samuel 140, 249–50

Chittenden, Thomas 122

Clark, Abraham 131, 220

Clark, George Rogers 101

Clinton, DeWitt 269

Clinton, George

Constitutional Convention 133–36

Impost of 1783 65

Ratification debates 42, 217, 256, 267, 269, 272–74, 277–78, 281, 284, 287, 309

See also Clintonians

Clymer, George 137, 195, 201, 221

Collins, John 62, 292

Connolly, John 103

Constable, William 80

Coxe, Tench 131, 222

Craigie, Andrew 80

Cromwell, Oliver 155

Cutler, Manasseh 87

Dallas, Alexander J. 228

Dane, Nathan 128, 137–38, 214, 237–38, 244

Davie, William 171, 175

Day, Luke 115, 118–21, 123

Dayton, Jonathan 169, 175

Dexter, John S. 294

Dickinson, John 131

Constitutional Convention 150, 152, 155, 158, 183, 186, 189, 191, 194, 205

Dodge, John 91

Dorchester, Lord 103

Duane, James 136

Duer, William 80, 87

Ellsworth, Oliver 160, 166, 169–71, 175, 180–81, 183, 186, 193–94, 232

Ely, Benjamin 113, 117

Ely, Samuel 69–70, 111

Emlen, George 55

Fassett, Jonathan 122

Findley, William 54–55, 226–27, 229

Fitzsimmons, Thomas 137

Franco, Francisco 311

Franklin, Benjamin

Constitutional Convention 153, 168, 171, 183–84

Diplomacy 105–06

Opportunist 137, 184, 308

Overrated 37

Ratification Debates 223

Franklin, John 91–92

Gadsden, Christopher 309

Gallatin, Albert 230

Gardoqui, Don Diego de 98–101, 104

Garrison, William Lloyd 313

Gerry, Elbridge 61, 133, 140, 147, 149, 160, 162, 168, 170, 172, 176, 179–80, 185–88, 198, 200–02, 207, 212, 225, 237–38, 309

Gibbons, Thomas 231

Gilman, Nicholas 235

Gold, Thomas 113

Goldberg, Arthur 304

Gordon, Thomas 33, 64

Gorham, Nathaniel 176, 179, 181, 190, 195–96, 198, 214, 242

Graham, William 94

Grayson, William 265, 299–300

Greene, Christopher 294

Grosvenor, Leicester 117

Grover, Thomas 118–19

Hamilton, Alexander

Annapolis Convention 131–34

Bill of Rights 302

Constitutional Convention 41, 134–46, 147–48, 155–56, 161, 163–68, 170, 183, 187, 201, 205, 207, 212–13, 216, 222

Impost of 1781 39

Ratification Debates 269–70, 275, 277, 283–84, 287, 294

Shays’ Rebellion 124–25

Hamlin, Perez 121

Hampton, Wade 95

Hancock, John 36, 69, 123, 140, 236–37, 242–44, 257, 267, 284, 309

Harmar, Josiah 90, 225

Harris, James 71

Harrison, Benjamin 255

Hastings, John 113

Hawley, Joseph 69–70

Hazard, Ebenezer 216

Henry, Patrick

Bill of Rights 297–99, 309–10

Constitutional Convention 133–34, 139–40

Impost of 1783 63

Jay-Gardoqui Treaty 100

Land 94

Ratification debates 42, 217, 255–59, 261–62, 264–65, 271, 281

Virginia Resolves 35–36

Higginson, Stephen 62

Hinds, Joseph 115

Holmes, Oliver Wendell 19, 304

Holten, Samuel 243

Hopkins, Joseph 232

Howell, David 63, 86

Houston, Samuel 94

Houston, William 170

Hyde, Caleb 117

Ingersoll, Jared 137

Innes, Harry 102

Iredell, James 288, 290

Izard, Ralph 297, 300

Jackson, Andrew 103

Jackson, James 299

Jackson, Jonathan 240–42

Jarvis, Charles 243

Jay, John 49, 98–99, 104–07, 137, 269, 275

Jefferson, Thomas

Administration 230

Bill of Rights 298

Constitutional Convention 139, 146, 161

Declaration of Independence 38

Diplomacy 105–06

Jay-Gardoqui Treaty 100

Land Policy 11, 89

Ratification Debates 255

Shays’ Rebellion 125–26

See also Jeffersonians

Johnson, Thomas 249

Johnson, William Samuel 168, 207

Jones, Samuel 277, 281

Jones, Willie 140, 288

Kent, James 280

King George III 35

King, Rufus 137–38, 157, 165, 169, 172–73, 175–76, 187, 189, 199–201, 207, 214

Knox, Henry 120, 124

Lamb, John 256, 267, 270, 286, 288

Langdon, John 186, 300

Lansing, John 136, 148, 166, 174, 212, 267, 278

Laurens, Henry 140

Ledlie, Hugh 232

Lee, Charles 37

Lee, Henry 100, 120, 255

Lee, Richard Henry 36, 61, 63, 100, 133–34, 139, 214, 255–56, 261, 265, 284, 308–09

Lee, Silas 244

Lloyd, Thomas 228

Lincoln, Benjamin 120–22, 246

Lincoln, James 250

Livermore, Samuel 235, 253, 299

Livingston, Chancellor 136

Livingston, Gilbert 280

Locke, John 32–33, 38

Lowndes, Rawlins 250–51

Lusk, Thomas 71

McCalmont, James 234

McClurg, James 156, 158, 178, 188

McDougall, Alexander 309

McGillivray, Alexander 231

McHenry, James 250

McKean, Thomas 228, 230

Madison, James

Annapolis Convention 130–32

Bill of Rights 16, 42, 297–305

Constitutional Convention 13, 41, 134–35, 142, 146, 148–51, 153–58, 161–62, 164–65, 167, 169–71, 173–77, 179, 183–90, 195–96, 199–200, 202–04, 206–07, 211, 213–14

Impost of 1783 61

Jay-Gardoqui Treaty 100

Ratification Debates 263–65, 269–71, 281, 283

Shays’ Rebellion 125–26

The Federalist Papers 150

Marshall, Humphrey 260

Marshall, John 260, 263

Martin, Alexander 288

Martin, Luther

Constitutional Convention 41, 160, 165–66, 168–69, 171, 175, 177–79, 185–86, 189, 192–93, 195, 197–98, 200, 212

Ratification Debates 249–50, 263, 309

Mason, George

Bill of Rights 297, 299

Constitutional Convention 133, 135, 140, 149, 154–56, 158, 161, 166, 171, 178, 183, 186–89, 192–93, 197–98, 200–02, 205–06, 212, 214

Impost of 1783 62–63

Ratification Debates 255–57, 265

Mercer, John Francis 186, 249

Mifflin, Thomas 137

Miley, Jacob 222

Minot, George Richards 237–38

Miró, Esteban 102

Monroe, James 60–61, 266, 297

Montesquieu 286

Morris, Gouverneur 39, 56, 80, 137

Constitutional Convention 147–48, 161–62, 167, 171–80, 183–84, 186–91, 192, 194–96, 199–200, 202–04, 206–07

Morris, Robert 39, 53–54, 56, 65, 68, 78, 87, 131, 137, 145, 288, 300, 308

Morrison, Robert 121

Muter, George 102

Nicholson, John 222

Nicola, Lewis 225

Osgood, Samuel 242, 244

Otto, Louis 128

Paca, William 249

Paine, Thomas

Common Sense 38, 56

Constitutional Convention 140

Rightward shift 39, 56, 309

Parker, Daniel 80

Parker, Oliver 118

Parsons, Eli 120–21, 123

Parsons, Samuel Holden 86, 88

Paterson, William 159, 162, 171–73, 180

Pendleton, Edmund 255

Pentecost, Dorsey 91

Person, Thomas 62, 288, 309

Pettit, Charles 137

Phelps, Oliver 242

Pinckney, Charles 129, 153, 155–58, 160, 183–87, 193–95, 197–98, 200, 202, 206

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth 147, 166, 170, 173–75, 193, 195–97

Pitt, William 107

Platt, Zephaniah 280

Powers, John 119

Putnam, Rufus 86

Pynchon, William 113

Randall, Thomas 49

Randolph, Edmund 102, 132, 135

Constitutional Convention 146, 153, 154, 158, 173–75, 177–78, 181, 183, 191, 199–202, 205, 212

Ratification Debates 255–57, 260–61, 265, 267

Read, George 148, 150, 152, 158, 165, 167, 186

Revere, Paul 36, 243

Rittenhouse, David 223

Roane, Spencer 256

Robertson, James 102–03

Ronald, William 260

Rothbard, Murray

Acton, Lord 28, 30, 139

Beard, Charles 141, 250, 309

Austro-libertarianism 25

Dorfman, Joseph 27, 141

Conceived in Liberty 26

Historian 27–31

Mises, Ludwig von 27–28

Nock, Albert Jay 28, 30

Rush, Benjamin 222, 227, 309

Rutledge, John 153, 156, 160, 171, 174, 177, 181, 187–88, 193, 195–96, 201, 203, 205

Schoonmaker, Cornelius 272

Schuyler, Peter 136

Schuyler, Phillip 65

Schuyler family 273

Sears, Isaac 309

Sebastian, Benjamin 102

Sedgwick, Theodore 113, 117, 141, 237–38, 284

Sevier, John 94–95, 102

Shattuck, Job 115, 118, 120

Shaw, Isaac 244

Shaw, Samuel 49

Shays, Daniel 116, 118–21, 123

Shepard, William 116, 120–21

Sherman, Roger 149, 153–56, 160–61, 166–68, 172, 174, 177–78, 186–89, 191, 194, 198, 202–03, 205, 207, 232, 299

Singletary, Amos 239–40

Smallwood, William 249

Smilie, John 54–55, 226–27, 229–30

Smith, Jonathan 240

Smith, Melancton 86, 214, 256, 267, 278–81

Smith, Robert 250

Spencer, Herbert 19, 304

Sprague, John 244

St. Clair, Arthur 87–90, 225

Stebbins, Benjamin 121

Stone, Francis 121

Strong, Caleb 176, 237

Sullivan, John 234

Swartwout, Jacobus 280

Symmes, John Cleves 89

Symmes, William 243

Trenchard, John 33, 64

Thompson, Ezra 280

Thomson, Charles 282–83

Tillinghast, Charles 270

Tredwell, Thomas 278

Tucker, Thomas 300

Turner, Charles 243

Van Cortlandt, Pierre 136

Van Rensselaer, Jeremiah 267

Varnum, James 138

Warren, Earl 304

Warren, James 62, 133, 238, 246, 309

Washington, George 216, 225, 235

Administration 217, 257, 284, 287, 299

Annapolis Convention 130

Constitutional Convention 134–35, 145, 154, 170, 207

Impost of 1783 63

Jay-Gardoqui Treaty 100

Military commander 37

Ratification Debates 249, 255, 261, 263, 265, 269, 281

Shays’ Rebellion 122, 124–25

Wayne, Anthony 225

Webster, Noah 124, 222

Webster, Pelatiah 54, 56, 74

White, James 101–02

Whiting, William 116–17

Whitehill, Robert 54, 222–23, 226–27, 230

Whitney, William 238

Wilkinson, James 101–03

Willett, Marinus 267, 276, 281

Williams, William 232

Williamson, Hugh 173, 198

Wilson, James 56, 137, 302

Constitutional Convention 148–50, 152–61, 165–67, 169–72, 175–76, 178–79, 181, 183, 187, 189, 194, 196, 199, 201, 205–06

Ratification Debates 222, 226, 228, 230, 244, 263–65

Winthrop, James 237–38

Winthrop, John 243

Witherspoon, John 55

Wolcott, Oliver 91

Workman, Benjamin 223, 229

Wright, Justus 70

Wythe, George 154, 265

Yates, Abraham

Constitutional Convention 136

Impost of 1783 64–65

Land 87

Ratification Debates 272–73, 282

Yates, Robert

Constitutional Convention 136, 146–48, 171, 174, 212