1Lieutenant Colonel Robert Troup to Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton and James McHenry, 11 August 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Louis Guillouet, Comte d’Orvilliers, admiral in the French navy.
2To Alexander Hamilton from Marquis de Fleury, 20 October 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Luc-Urbain de Bouëxic, Comte de Guichen, lieutenant general and commander in chief of the French navy in the West Indies.
3To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Schuyler, 5 February 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
Guillaume-Jacques-Constant Liberge, Comte de Granchain de Sémerville, of the French navy.
4To Alexander Hamilton from John Chaloner, [1788] (Hamilton Papers)
Holker had been French consul in Philadelphia and agent for supplying the French navy from 1778 to 1780. He subsequently was associated with the firm of Daniel Parker and Company.
5To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 22 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Holker was a Philadelphia merchant and speculator who during the American Revolution was French consul in Philadelphia and agent for supplying the French navy. See . For Holker’s accounts as agent for supplying the French navy, see Wolcott to H, June 22, 1792,
6To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 31 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
, RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters, 1790–1799, National Archives]). On March 12, 1794, Vaughan had suggested to Randolph that in view of the number of refugees who might be sailing for France with the French navy, which was due to leave on March 18, the Government postpone payment of the one thousand dollars which had been apportioned to Philadelphia (
7To Alexander Hamilton from John Murray, 12 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
...s representative, suggested a plan for settling the claims of the Philadelphia creditors of Daniel Parker and Company. The principal creditor was John Holker, who at that time was the French consul in Philadelphia and agent for supplying the French navy. Under this plan a board of trustees, some of whom were to be the company’s creditors, would arrange for the settlement of the claims (
8To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas FitzSimons, 14 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
John Holker was a Philadelphia merchant and speculator who during the American Revolution was French consul in Philadelphia and agent for supplying the French navy. John B. Church was the husband of Elizabeth Hamilton’s sister Angelica and was at this time living in England. For the “matter in dispute” between Holker and Church, see
9To Alexander Hamilton from Alexander Hamilton, 29 October 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
must have given the death wound to the french navy. The rebellion, too, which lately appeared so formidable in Ireland utterly extinguished,
10Enclosure: [Characters Not Referred to in “The Embassy”], [20 November 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
...had been outranked by a man who previously had been his junior. He returned to the merchant service and commanded the ship that carried Monroe to France in 1794. From 1796 to 1802 he was a captain in the French navy.