Gallatin: America’s Swiss Founding Father

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[ 169 ] Notes Letters originally in French have been translated by the author and are indicated in the notes by [F]. Notes to the Introduction 1. Edward Gibbon, Memoirs (London: Routledge, 1891), 151. Notes to Chapter 1 1. “Genealogy of the Gallatin Family,” Albert Gallatin Papers [hereafter AGP]. 2. Ibid. 3. Albert Gallatin to Ebenezer Dodge, January 21, 1847, AGP; email from Martine Piquet at the Archives d’État, November 26, 2009, citing Charles Borgeaud , Histoire de l’Université de Genève (Geneva: Georg & Co., 1900). 4. Catherine Pictet to Albert Gallatin, Geneva, May 28, 1780, AGP, [F]. 5. Albert Gallatin to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Geneva, May 28, 1779, Biblioth èque de Genève, [F]. 6. Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841), xxviii. 7. Albert Gallatin to Jean Badollet, Boston, October 1, 1783, AGP, [F]. 8. Paul-Michel Gallatin to Albert Gallatin, Geneva, May 21, 1780, AGP, [F]. 9. Catherine Pictet to Albert Gallatin, Geneva, May 28, 1790, AGP, [F]. 10. Catherine Pictet to Frances Kinloch, Geneva, May 26, 1780, AGP, [F]. 11. Benjamin Franklin to the Duc de la Rochefoucauld d’Enville, Passy, May 24, 1780, in Henry Adams, The Life of Albert Gallatin (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1880), 24. 12. Catherine Pictet to Albert Gallatin, Geneva, May 31, 1780, AGP, [F]. 13. Albert Gallatin to Jean Badollet, Pimbeuf, May 16, 1780, AGP, [F]. 14. Albert Gallatin, notes on Gallatin coat of arms, 1848, AGP. Notes to Chapter 2 1. Albert Gallatin to Jean Badollet, Boston, September 14, 1780, AGP, [F]. Notes [ 170 ] 2. Catherine Pictet to Albert Gallatin, Geneva, December 26, 1782, AGP, [F]. 3. Albert Gallatin to Jean Badollet, Philadelphia, October 1, 1783, AGP, [F]. 4. Albert Gallatin to William Maxwell, New York, February 15, 1848, AGP. 5. “Draft of Report of the Harrisburg Conference of September 3, 1788,” in Henry Adams, ed., The Writings of Albert Gallatin, 3 vols. (Philadelphia: Lippincott , 1879), 1:1–2; and Adams, Life of Albert Gallatin, 78–79. 6. Albert Gallatin to Jean Badollet, Richmond, May 4, 1789, AGP, [F]. 7. Albert Gallatin to Alexander Addison, Friendship Hill, October 7, 1789, AGP. 8. Albert Gallatin to Charles Brown, New York, March 1, 1838, AGP. 9. Albert Gallatin to Jean Badollet, Philadelphia, March 8, 1790, AGP, [F]. 10. Catherine Pictet to Albert Gallatin, Geneva, July 1, 1790, AGP, [F]. 11. Albert Gallatin Biographical Sketch, 1849, AGP. 12. The Speech of Albert Gallatin, January 3, 1795, in Adams, Writings of Albert Gallatin , 3:6–7. 13. Albert Gallatin to Jean Badollet, Philadelphia, December 18, 1792, AGP. 14. Catherine Pictet to Albert Gallatin, Geneva, November 6, 1792, AGP, [F]. Notes to Chapter 3 1. Albert Gallatin Biographical Sketch, 1849, AGP. 2. Albert Gallatin to Jean Badollet, Philadelphia, July 30, 1793, AGP. 3. Albert Gallatin to Hannah Nicholson, Philadelphia, August 25, 1793, in Adams , Life of Albert Gallatin, 103–104. 4. Albert Gallatin to Jean Badollet, Philadelphia, February 1, 1794, AGP. 5. Alexander Hamilton to the Senate of the United States, Treasury Department , Philadelphia, February 22, 1794, in Adams, Life of Albert Gallatin, 117 footnote. 6. Albert Gallatin to Thomas Clare, Philadelphia, March 5, 1794, AGP. 7. Albert Gallatin Biographical Sketch 1849, AGP. 8. Albert Gallatin to Hannah Nicholson Gallatin, Catskill Landing, April 22, 1795, in Adams, Life of Albert Gallatin, 146–147. 9. Albert Gallatin to Hannah Nicholson Gallatin, Philadelphia, June 29, 1795, in Adams, Life of Albert Gallatin, 151. 10. Albert Gallatin to Hannah Nicholson Gallatin, Philadelphia, September 29, 1795, in Adams, Life of Albert Gallatin, 153. 11. Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, March 6, 1796, James Madison Papers, Library of Congress. 12. Albert Gallatin, A Sketch of the Finances of the United States, in Adams, Writings of Albert Gallatin, 3:145. 13. Albert Gallatin to Hannah Nicholson Gallatin, Philadelphia, January 24, 1797, in Adams, Life of Albert Gallatin, 182. 14. Albert Gallatin to Hannah Nicholson Gallatin, Philadelphia, December 7, Notes [ 171 ] 1798, January 4, 1799, and January 18, 1799, in Adams, Life of Albert Gallatin, 221–223, 225, 226. 15. Albert Gallatin to Lewis F. de Lesdernier, Philadelphia, May 25, 1798, in Adams , Writings of Albert Gallatin, 1:15. 16. Albert Gallatin to Henry A. Muhlenberg, New York, May 8, 1848, AGP. 17. Albert Gallatin to Hannah Nicholson Gallatin, Washington City, February 17, 1801, AGP. Notes to Chapter 4 1. Albert Gallatin to Hannah Nicholson Gallatin, Washington City, January...