1To Alexander Hamilton from Daniel Brent, 27 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, December 27, 1793. “I think it necessary to inform you that it is my intention to give up my station in the Treasury Department in the early part of next month.…” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Brent was a clerk in the Treasury Department.
2To Alexander Hamilton from Daniel Brent, 27 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Washington, January 27, 1794. Encloses a “letter for Mr Jones” and states: “Whenever I may be useful to you in Virga, I beg you to have no scruple about honoring me with your commands.” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Brent had been a clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury until January 5, 1794. See Brent to H, December 27, 1793 . Edward Jones was one of two...
3To James Madison from Daniel Brent and Others, 25 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
The underwritten, Clerks in the Department of State, beg leave to remind the Secretary, that an additional allowance of Fifteen prCent to the annual compensation which has heretofore been received by the Clerks of this Office was appropriated by Congress at its last Session, to be distributed among them as the Head of the Department might think proper; and that this additional allowance...
4To James Madison from Daniel Brent, 18 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
I shall not trouble you with any of the letters that have been received for you since your departure, as they are generally unimportant, and not one of them requires your own attention. No private or foreign ones have been received. Mr Dallas has furnished the Copy of the proceedings of the District Court of Pennsylvania, in the case of the Magicienne, and I have sent it to the Secretary of...
5To James Madison from Daniel Brent, 21 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
You will receive herewith, under another cover, such letters belonging to the Office as may be interesting to you, and that I have opened since Tuesday last. And you will also receive, in the same package, several unopened ones, that have likewise reached the office since that day. I retain one of the papers referred to in Mr Skipwith’s letter that I may send extracts of it to the persons...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Brent, 21 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to send you herewith a letter from Mr Dallas to the Secretary of State, just received at this Office, and the petition of David Jackson , therein referred to, together with a statement of the Jury by which he was tried, and found guilty of larceny, recommending him to the President of the United States for a pardon. I have the Honor likewise to send enclosed a recommendation...
7To James Madison from Daniel Brent, 25 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
The District Attorney at Boston, in a letter just received from him, which is now likewise at the Secy of the Treasury’s Office, gives notice, that the Circuit Court of Massachusetts, at its October Term last year, had passed a decree of Restitution in the case of the Cargo of the french sloop, L’Hereux—and that the money which had resulted from the sales of this Cargo was forthwith paid to...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Brent, 10 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Daniel Brent respectfully informs the President that a duplicate Commission was sent some time ago to Mr Scott, and that he acknowledged the receipt of it on the 27th of last month. He begs leave also to inform the President that a Commission for Mr Selman is made out, and sent to the Treasury Department;—one of the Blanks already signed by the President and Secretary of State having answered...
9To James Madison from Daniel Brent, 25 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 23d Inst., with the several papers enclosed in it, which were immediately given to the Secretaries of the Treasury and Navy, agreeably to your direction. The latter having just returned them to me, copies will be forthwith made of all of them but of the letter to the Emperor of Morocco, (which does not go) as well for the Office, as for Mr Smith, who is...
10To James Madison from Daniel Brent, 31 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 27th Inst. was duly received by me, with the draft of the Treasurer on the Cashier of the Bank of the United States and a letter to Mr Simpson, directing him what to do with the proceeds of this draft, and I have accordingly sent on the letter and dft. You will have been informed that the letter and Gun Carriages intended for the Emperor of Morocco are witheld. I have...