James Madison: A Life Reconsidered (66 page)

35
. Malone,
Jefferson,
3:150, 156–57.

36
. Drinker,
Extracts from the Journal,
194–207;
PMC,
15:90, from Jefferson, Sept. 1, 1793.

37
. Drinker,
Extracts from the Journal,
209–10.

Chapter 11:
D
OLLEY

1
. Murphy,
American Plague,
99;
PMC,
15:xxviii, Madison Chronology; 15:167, “Commercial Discrimination,” Jan. 3, 1794.

2
. Bemis,
Jay’s Treaty,
210–68; Varg,
Foreign Policies of the Founding Fathers,
101;
ASP-FR,
1:428–29, letters communicated to Congress, March 25, 1794.

3
.
Annals,
3rd Cong., 1st sess., 433, Feb. 6, 1794.

4
. Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
392;
PMC,
15:288, 294–95, to Jefferson, March 24 and 26, 1794.

5
. “After-Dinner Anecdotes of James Madison,” 257.

6
.
PMC,
15:57, from Jefferson, Aug. 11, 1793; 15:338, to Jefferson, May 25, 1794.

7
. Cutts,
Queen of America,
94–95.

8
. Holly Shulman, “History, Memory, and Dolley Madison,” in Cutts,
Queen of America,
46; UVA, Papers of James Madison Project, Anonymous, Essay Prepared for Mrs. George Hammond, June 1809.

9
. Allgor,
Perfect Union,
21–23; Cutts,
Queen of America,
91–92.

10
. Cutts,
Queen of America,
95;
PDM,
from Coles, June 1, 1794.

11
.
PDM,
from Wilkins, 1794.

12
.
PDM,
to Elizabeth Lee, Sept. 16, 1794.

13
.
PDM,
from James Madison, Aug. 18, 1794; Cutts,
Queen of America,
97.

14
.
PDM,
to Lee, Sept. 16, 1794; Brant,
Madison,
3:410, 501n15; De Coppet Collection, Madison to Delaplaine, memo, Sept. 1816.

15
. Brant,
Madison,
3:411.

16
. Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
462–63.

17
. Malone,
Jefferson,
3:121;
ASP-FR,
1:24–25, “Speech of President Washington,” Nov. 19, 1794.

18
.
PMC,
15:153, “Madison in the Third Congress: Editorial Note”; 15:396, to Jefferson, Nov. 30, 1794; 15:406, to Monroe, Dec. 4, 1794.

19
.
Annals,
3rd Cong., 2nd sess., 899, Nov. 24, 1794;
PMC,
15:391, 388n1, Addresses of the House of Representatives to the President, Nov. 27 and 21, 1794; 15:397, to Jefferson, Nov. 30, 1794;
ASP-FR,
1:27, president’s reply.

20
.
PMC,
15:397, to Jefferson, Nov. 30, 1794.

21
.
PMC,
15:428, from Jefferson, Dec. 28, 1794; 15:479, to Madison Sr., Feb. 23, 1795; 15:473, to Jefferson, Feb. 15, 1795; Ketcham,
Madison,
384;
Aurora General Advertiser,
Feb. 25, 1795.

22
.
PMC,
15:479, 415, 16:228, 434, to Madison Sr., Feb. 23, 1795, Dec. 14, 1794, Feb. 21 and Dec. 19, 1796.

23
.
PMC,
15:153, “Madison in the Third Congress: Editorial Note”; 15:432, “Naturalization,” Jan. 1, 1795.

24
.
PMC,
15:488, to Monroe, March 11, 1795; 16:15, from Butler, June 12, 1795.

25
.
PMC,
16:94, to Henry Tazewell, Sept. 25, 1795.

26
.
PMC,
16:168, to Monroe, Dec. 20, 1795; Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
420; Stahr,
John Jay,
336; Adams and Cunningham,
Correspondence,
36; Malone,
Jefferson,
3:248; Gordon S. Wood,
Empire of Liberty,
198; Chernow,
Hamilton,
487, 490.

27
.
PMC,
16:168, to Monroe, Dec. 20, 1795; 11:311, from Francis Corbin, Oct. 21, 1788; Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
420–21; Randolph,
Vindication,
49–75.

28
. Bowers,
Jefferson and Hamilton,
326–28; Brant, “Edmund Randolph, Not Guilty!,” 185–86; Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
425–29.

29
.
PMC,
16:169, to Monroe, Dec. 20, 1795; Combs,
Jay Treaty,
165–70; Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
429.

30
. Brant, “Edmund Randolph, Not Guilty!,” 187–88;
PMC,
16:204, to Monroe, Jan. 26, 1796.

31
.
PMC,
16:88, from Jefferson, Sept. 21, 1795; Bemis,
Jay’s Treaty,
265–91; Varg,
Foreign Policies of the Founding Fathers,
103–4.

32
.
PMC,
16:88–89, from Jefferson, Sept. 21, 1795; 16:62–69, “Draft of the Petition to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia: Editorial Note.”

33
.
PMC,
16:163, to Jefferson, Dec. 13, 1795.

34
.
Annals,
4th Cong., 1st sess., 400, March 2, 1796;
PMC,
16:259, “Jay’s Treaty,” March 10, 1796.

35
.
PMC,
16:256–62, “Jay’s Treaty,” March 10, 1796.

36
.
PMR,
1:604, “Detatched Memoranda,” ca. Jan. 31, 1820;
Annals,
4th Cong., 1st sess., 771, April 6, 1796; Remini,
House,
57–58.

37
.
PMC,
16:313–25, “Jay’s Treaty,” April 15, 1796.

38
.
PMC,
16:333, to Monroe, April 18, 1796 (most words encoded); 16:343, to Jefferson, May 1, 1796; Kurtz,
Presidency of John Adams,
63.

39
. Kurtz,
Presidency of John Adams,
67–69;
PMC,
16:335, to Jefferson, April 23, 1796.

40
.
Annals,
4th Cong., 1st sess., 1259–60, April 28, 1796.

41
. Ibid., 1263; Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive, John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 30, 1796. Ames lived another twelve years, ill most of that time.

42
. Hess,
America’s Political Dynasties,
156;
Annals,
4th Cong., 1st sess., 1280, April 29, 1796; Kurtz,
Presidency of John Adams,
71.

43
. Kurtz,
Presidency of John Adams,
71; Maier,
Ratification,
472.

44
. Morison and Commager,
Growth of the American Republic,
1:308; Beschloss,
Presidential Courage,
31;
PMC,
16:325, “Jay’s Treaty,” April 15, 1796; Cross,
History of England and Greater Britain,
834.

45
.
PMC,
16:343, 364, to Jefferson, May 1 and 22, 1796.

46
.
PMC,
15:493, to Jefferson, March 23, 1795.

47
.
PMC,
15:428, from Jefferson, Dec. 28, 1794; 15:493, to Jefferson, March 23, 1795; 16:232–33, to Monroe, Feb. 26, 1796 (most words encoded); Malone,
Jefferson,
3:273–74.

48
.
PJ,
29:187, to William Booker, Oct. 4, 1796; “Monticello (House) FAQ,” Monticello, http://www.monticello.org/site/house-and-gardens/monticello-house-faq#when;
PMC,
16:404, to Monroe, Sept. 29, 1796 (most words encoded); Malone,
Jefferson,
3:278.

49
. Chernow,
Hamilton,
510.

50
. Pasley, “Journeyman, Either in Law or Politics,” 532–34, 553; Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
520.

51
.
PMC,
16:422, to Jefferson, Dec. 5, 1796; Kurtz,
Presidency of John Adams,
177–91; Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
520–21. Elkins and McKitrick note that delayed returns accounted for the loss of the one vote, 860n81.

52
.
PMC,
16:424, to Jefferson, Dec. 10, 1796.

53
.
PJ,
29:235, to Adams, Dec. 28, 1796;
PMC,
16:455–56, to Jefferson, Jan. 15, 1797.

54
. “James Madison’s Autobiography,” 203; Kennedy,
Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt,
1:246.

55
. Malone,
Jefferson,
3:296; Brant,
Madison,
3:451.

56
. Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive, John Adams to Abigail Adams, Jan. 14, 1797.

Chapter 12:
R
EIGN OF
W
ITCHES

1
.
ASP-FR,
2:64, from Rufus King, April 19, 1797.

2
. Ketcham,
Madison,
373.

3
. Green and Miller,
Building a President’s House,
5–6, 14–15, 21.

4
. Hunt-Jones,
Dolley and the “Great Little Madison,”
61–62, 67–68; Green and Miller,
Building a President’s House,
6, 14–15.

5
.
PMC,
17:63, 123, to Jefferson, Dec. 25, 1797, and April 29, 1798; 17:128, from Jefferson, May 10, 1798.

6
.
PMC,
17:74, to Monroe, Feb. 5, 1798;
PDM,
to Lee, Oct. 1794–97.

7
. Monroe Papers, from Burr, March 10, 1796; Tissot,
Traité de l’épilepsie,
29; Ketcham,
Madison,
370–71, 477. Jefferson purchased Tissot’s
Oeuvres
in seventeen volumes in 1783 and purchased another seventeen-volume set in
1788. Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive, “1783 Catalog of Books,” 65; Coolidge Collection of Jefferson Manuscripts, Froulle account statement for Jefferson, 1788.

8
.
PMC,
8:328, to Randolph, July 26, 1785; Ketcham,
Madison,
372–74, 389;
PMC,
16:174, 17:147, to Madison Sr., Dec. 27, 1795, and June 9, 1798; Kat Imhoff, “Slave Quarter Excavation at James Madison’s Montpelier,” video, National Endowment for the Humanities, www.neh.gov.

9
. Chernow,
Hamilton,
537–41; Marsh, “Hamilton and Monroe,” 467;
PMC,
17:50, from Monroe, Oct. 15, 1797; 17:53, to Monroe, Oct. 19, 1797.

10
.
PMC,
17:145, 146n1, from Monroe, June 8, 1798; 17:148–49, to Monroe, June 9, 1798; 17:60, from Monroe, Dec. 10, 1797; 17:61–62, to Monroe, Dec. 17, 1797.

11
.
ASP-FR,
2:157–63, dispatches from the envoys to Timothy Pickering, April 3, 1798; Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
561;
PMC,
17:113, to Jefferson, April 15, 1798.

12
. Toll,
Six Frigates,
99; Abigail Adams,
New Letters,
171, to Mary Cranch, May 10, 1798.

13
. Toll,
Six Frigates,
101.

14
.
PMC,
17:133–34, to Jefferson, May 20, 1798.

15
. James Morton Smith,
Freedom’s Fetters,
200;
PMC,
17:162n2, from John Dawson, July 5, 1798.

16
. Taylor Diary, July 2, 1798.

17
.
PMC,
17:134, to Jefferson, May 20, 1798;
PJ,
30:389, to John Taylor, June 4, 1798; Koch and Ammon, “Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions,” 152.

18
. James Morton Smith,
Freedom’s Fetters,
442.

19
. Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
710; James Morton Smith,
Freedom’s Fetters,
226, 258–60, 270–71; Gordon S. Wood,
Empire of Liberty,
260–61; Banning,
Sacred Fire of Liberty,
385–86; Ames,
Works,
1:247, to Christopher Gore, Dec. 18, 1798.

20
. Koch and Ammon, “Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions,” 157–58; Malone,
Jefferson,
3:401–4;
PJ,
30:550–55, “Resolutions Adopted by the Kentucky General Assembly,” Nov. 10, 1798.

21
. Koch and Ammon, “Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions,” 159;
PMC,
17:175, from Jefferson, Nov. 17, 1798; 17:188–90, “Virginia Resolutions,” Dec. 21, 1798.

22
.
PMC,
17:187–88, “Virginia Resolutions: Editorial Note”; 17:191n2, “Virginia Resolutions,” Dec. 21, 1798; Ketcham,
Madison,
397; Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
720–24.

23
. Gordon S. Wood,
Empire of Liberty,
271; DeConde,
Quasi-war,
161;
PMC,
17:184; to Jefferson, Dec. 11, 1798; 17:193, 195n3, 209, 223, 225, from Jefferson, Jan. 3, 16, and 30 and Feb. 5, 1799.

24
. Kurtz,
Presidency of John Adams,
307; John Adams,
Works,
8:613, to McHenry, Oct. 22, 1798; Chernow,
Hamilton,
555–58.

25
.
PH,
22:452–53, to Sedgwick, Feb. 2, 1799.

26
. Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
615–16; Billias,
Elbridge Gerry,
297; microfilm edition of Adams Papers, Adams to Harrison Gray Otis, May 9, 1823.

27
. McCullough,
John Adams,
523;
PMC,
17:234, from Jefferson, Feb. 19, 1799;
PWRT,
3:389, from Pickering, Feb. 21, 1799; Elkins and McKitrick,
Age of Federalism,
618; Kurtz,
Presidency of John Adams,
282.

28
.
PMC,
17:245–46, from Taylor, March 4, 1799; 17:227–28, from Walter Jones and others, Feb. 7, 1799; Taylor Diary, April 24, 1799.

29
.
PMC,
17:287, “Election of James Monroe,” Dec. 6, 1799.

30
. Lear,
Letters and Recollections of George Washington,
130–35.

31
. Malone,
Jefferson,
3:444;
PMC,
17:295, “Death of George Washington,” Dec. 18, 1799; Royster,
Light-Horse Harry Lee,
202.

32
.
PMR,
1:603, “Detatched Memoranda,” ca. Jan. 31, 1820.