[47] John Fiske, Essays Historical and Literary, Vol. 1, p. 125.
[48] Hamilton's Works, Vol. 8, p. 187.
[49] Ibid., p. 191.
[50] Hamilton's Works (Lodge), Vol. 1, p. 509.
[51] It was his son, William Alexander Duer, the brilliant and accomplished writer, who presided for thirteen years with such distinguished ability over Columbia College.
[52] "No one," said Chancellor Kent, writing of Samuel Jones, "surpassed him in clearness of intellect and in moderation and simplicity of character; no one equalled him in his accurate knowledge of the technical rules and doctrines of real property, and his familiarity with the skilful and elaborate, but now obsolete and mysterious, black-letter learning of the common law."
[53] James Parton, Life of Aaron Burr, Vol. 1, p. 169. "New York, much more than New England, was the home of natural leaders and family alliances. John Jay, the governor; the Schuylers, led by Philip Schuyler and his son-in-law, Alexander Hamilton; the Livingstons, led by Robert R. Livingston, with a promising younger brother, Edward, nearly twenty years his junior, and a brother-in-law, John Armstrong, besides Samuel Osgood, Morgan Lewis and Smith Thompson, other connections by marriage with the great Livingston stock; the Clintons, headed by George, the governor, and supported by the energy of DeWitt, his nephew,—all these Jays, Schuylers, Livingstons, Clintons, had they lived in New England, would probably have united in the support of their class; but being citizens of New York they quarrelled."—Henry Adams, History of the United States, Vol. 1, pp. 108-09.
[54] In a letter to Theodorus Bailey, Chancellor Kent, then a member of the Assembly, expressed the opinion that "things look auspicious for Burr. It will be in some measure a question of northern and southern interests. The objection of Schuyler's being related to the Secretary has weight."—William Kent, Memoirs and Letters of James Kent, p. 39.
[55] "The defeat of Schuyler was attributed partly to the unprepossessing austerity of his manner."—Ibid., p. 38.
[56] James Parton, Life of Aaron Burr, Vol. 1, p. 187.