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Duel with the Devil: (Burr and Hamilton in NYC in 1800)

The book opens with a general picture of Manhattan in 1800 . . . some interesting facts
1) Shopkeepers routinely advertised their country of origin in store window
2) Water was terrible--sickness abounds, people drink warm beer in the morning
3) Yellow Fever from mosquitoes is common problem some years all along east coast.  Many dead.  Relationship to mosquitoes not understood . . . First frost ends outbreak, cold winter meant fewer yellow fever deaths the next summer
4) Burr involved in the Manhattan Water Project--ostensibly to bring good water to all of Manhattan, but also to enrich him. Burr the "people's" man
5) Hamilton the "Tory" man is opposed to any new bank that would compete with the banks that favor the rich--exactly the kind of bank Burr wants to open
6) Burr's daughter an early feminist (Theodosia)
7) Look up 110 North Front Street in Philadelphia
8) Philadelphia streets smoother, better than NYC. Philly built on English style; NYC on Dutch style. Franklin says he can tell a New Yorker by his hunched and awkward gait--born of walking NYC streets.
9) Greenwich Village really was a village, disconnected from Manhattan, almost a resort community

Plot/Narrative:  These enemies become lawyer/partners in the trial of Levi Weeks, accused of murdering Elma X (forgot her last name) a Quaker girl who lived in his rooming house and whom he was dating. Elma found at bottom of well.

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