1To Alexander Hamilton from Adam Hoops, 27 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Lieutenant Pope reports to me that there are in Capt Eddins’s company now under his command several men who have not had the small pox. That some of them have been lately exposed to infection by frequenting a house on white hill dock where the small pox is. That he is apprehensive that one of them has now the Symptoms of that disease. The Doctor has seen him, but says it is impossible to tell...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Adam Hoops, 20 November 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, November 20, 1798. “… the Barracks at West point are in such order that with a few repairs they will afford comfortable winter quarters for at least three hundred men—and that a report was made not long since to the Secretary of war on the subject of repairs specifying such as were wanted. The new Barrack on Governors Island is nearly finished.… There are at West point about two...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Adam Hoops, 5 November 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, November 5, 1798. “Inclosed are two letters: one from Captain Frye Stationed at Governors Island describing the Cloathing & accoutrements furnished to his men and the Other from Doctor Dwight … stating certain particulars relative to the Troops on Bedloes Islands.” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Frederick Frye of Massachusetts had been appointed a captain in the Corps of...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Adam Hoops, 16 March 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
You will be pleased to cause the two companies, which have been put under marching orders, to proceed on Monday next to New Town in Bucks County Pennsylvania, where they will receive further orders either from the Secretary of War or from General Mc.Pherson. The Contractor is directed to provide a boat to convey them to Amboy—whence they will march to Brunswick and thence by the most...