Images and primary sources cited in NCHE PowerPoint

Primary Sources cited in NCHE PowerPoint presentation

Set forth below are images and links to primary sources cited at the 2022 Conference of the National Council of History Education (NCHE). Click here for a link to the PowerPoint presentation: Reconciling Patriot Versus Loyalist Communities Following the Revolutionary War: Attorney Alexander Hamilton’s Representation of Loyalists and Hamilton’s Phocion Essays.

Teachers across all grade levels should feel free to use these materials as they see fit, as all of these resouces are in the public domain:

Links to Correspondence:

• Alexander Hamilton to John Jay (November 26, 1775) (Founders Online)
• Alexander Hamilton to New York Committee on Correspondence (April 20,1777) (Founders Online)
• John Jay letter to George Clinton (May 6, 1780) (LibertyFund.org)
• Abigail Adams to John Adams (April 28, 1783) (Founders Online)
• Alexander Hamilton to George Clinton (June 1, 1783) (Founders Online)
• Alexander Hamilton to Robert Livingston (August 13, 1783) (Founders Online)
• Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin (December 10, 1783) (Founders Online)
• Alexander Hamilton to Gouverneur Morris (February 21, 1784) (Founders Online)

Essays, Pamphlets and Legal Files

• A Full Vindication of the Measure of the Congress, & C. (December 15, 1774) A. Hamilton (Founders Online) text
• A Full Vindication of the Measure of the Congress, & C. (December 15, 1774) A. Hamilton (Google Books) scanned images

Pictured below is an image of the title page to A Full Vindication:

• The Farmer Refuted, & C., A. Hamilton (February 23, 1775) (Founders Online) text
• The Farmer Refuted, & C., A. Hamilton (Massachusetts Historical Society) scanned images

Pictured below is an an image of the title page to The Farmer Refuted:

Pictured below is an advertisement in The Boston Evening Post by Henry Knox’s book shop for a printed copy of The Farmer Refuted:

• A Letter from Phocion, A. Hamilton (January, 1784) (Founders Online)

Pictured below is an image of the title page to A Letter from Phocion:

The above image was provided by Seth Kaller, Inc. 

• Second Letter from Phocion, A. Hamilton (April, 1784) (Founders Online)
• To All Adherents to the British Government… commonly called Tories who are at present within the City and County of New-York, Brutus, reprinted in the New- York Gazetteer (originally published August 15, 1783)

• Reply to Phocion, Mentor, reprinted in The Virginia Gazette (Originally published February/March, 1784)

• To Phocion, Mechanic (April, 1784)

• Rutgers v. Waddington, court file and pleadings (1784) (Library of Congress)
  
• Forfeiture Act of 1779, Chapter XXV, Laws of New York, Third Session (October 22, 1779)

The full text of the Forfeiture Act can be found in the Laws of the State of New York (Greenleaf edition, 1792), starting on page 26

• Trespass Act of 1783, Chapter XXI, Laws of New York, Sixth Session (March 17, 1783)

The full text of the Trespass Act can be found in the Laws of the State of New York (1886 reprinting), starting on page 552

• New York Constitution of 1777, Article XIII (“law of the land” clause)

The full text of the New York Constitution of 1777 (Avalon Project)

Images of the full text of the New York Constitution of 1777 can be found in the Laws of the State of New York (Greenleaf edition, 1792), starting on page 1

• Hamilton speech to NY Assembly (April 17, 1787)