• The Farmer Refuted, published in February 1775, was Alexander Hamilton's second published work, a follow-up to his 1774 A Full Vindication of the Measures...
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    the upcoming revolution ("The Schuyler Sisters"). Loyalist bishop Samuel Seabury argues against the revolution ("Farmer Refuted") and King George III insists...
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  • pamphlet, The Farmer Refuted, on February 23, 1775. With these two pamphlets, Hamilton "embraced wholeheartedly the 'radical' American side" of the growing...
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  • was the second child and eldest daughter of Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton, who was the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding...
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    Samuel Seabury (redirect from A.w. farmer)
    Hamilton completed the exchange by writing "The Farmer Refuted" (1775). The three "Farmer's Letters" are forceful presentations of the Loyalist claim, written...
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    The Hamilton–Reynolds affair was the first major sex scandal in United States political history. It involved Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton...
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    Eliza Hamilton Holly (category People from the East Village, Manhattan)
    1799 – October 17, 1859) was the seventh child and second daughter of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and his wife...
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  • Constitutional History of the American Revolution (4 vols., 1986–1993), III:140. Alexander Hamilton, "The Farmer Refuted" (February 23, 1775), The Papers of Alexander...
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    Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (category American members of the Dutch Reformed Church)
    published a pamphlet, later known as the Reynolds Pamphlet, admitting to his one-year adulterous affair in order to refute the charges that he had been involved...
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    Hamilton (play) (category Plays set in the United States)
    starred Arliss in the title role. It follows the attempts of Hamilton to establish a new financial structure for the United States following the Confederation...
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    Greenback (1860s money) (category 1861 establishments in the United States)
    emergency paper currency issued by the United States during the American Civil War that were printed in green on the back. They were in two forms: Demand...
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    The Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (also known as the Declaration of Colonial Rights, or the Declaration of Rights) was a statement...
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  • Declaration of Rights and Grievances (category 1765 in the Thirteen Colonies)
    In response to the Stamp and Tea Acts, the Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document written by the Stamp Act Congress and passed on October...
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    Thoughts on Government (category Documents of the American Revolution)
    Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies, was written by John Adams during the spring of 1776 in response to a resolution of the North Carolina...
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    rural Pennsylvanian farmers fought against the government. Eventually, the tax was repealed, but the incident greatly emphasized the government's willingness...
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    Alexander Hamilton (category Founding Fathers of the United States)
    of the Measures of Congress and The Farmer Refuted. Seabury essentially tried to provoke fear in the colonies with an objective of preventing the colonies...
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    a Farmer in Pennsylvania is a series of essays written by the Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson (1732–1808) and published under the pseudonym...
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    Polemic (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress and A Farmer Refuted, and Edmund Burke, with his attack on the Duke of Bedford. In the 19th century, Karl...
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    The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms was a Resolution adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 6, 1775. Written by...
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    Allan McLane Hamilton (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
    member of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate, the 10th Secretary of the Treasury, the 12th Secretary of State, and a two time U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom...
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    Halifax Resolves (category 1776 in the United States)
    the resolution was the first official action in the American Colonies calling for independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution. The...
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    The Petition to the King was a petition sent to King George III by the First Continental Congress in 1774, calling for the repeal of the Intolerable Acts...
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    The Lee Resolution, also known as "The Resolution for Independence", was the formal assertion passed by the Second Continental Congress on July 2, 1776...
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  • February 13, 1907) was an American architect and the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton. He was the son of Schuyler Hamilton (1822–1903) and Cornelia...
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    Schuyler Hamilton (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    American soldier, farmer, engineer, and a grandson of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton was born on July 22, 1822, in New York City. He was the fifth of 14 children...
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    Suffolk Resolves (category 1774 in the Thirteen Colonies)
    The Suffolk Resolves was a declaration made on September 9, 1774, by the leaders of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The declaration rejected the Massachusetts...
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    industrial development along the Passaic River in New Jersey in the United States. The company's management of the Great Falls of the Passaic River as a powersource...
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    The Letters to the Inhabitants of Canada were three letters written by the First and Second Continental Congresses in 1774, 1775, and 1776 to communicate...
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  • Alexander Hamilton (film) (category Films set in the 1780s)
    attempts to pass the Assumption Bill, which required the federal government to assume the debts incurred by the 13 rebel colonies during the American Revolutionary...
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  • Funding Act of 1790 (category Acts of the 1st United States Congress)
    Funding Act of 1790 The Funding Act of 1790, the full title of which is An Act making provision for the [payment of the] Debt of the United States, was...
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