1Enclosure: [Recommendations for Army Appointments], [8 December 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Lieutenant Colonels 1 [1] Caleb Gibbs Boston 78 [1] John Walker Woburn 76 [1] Richard Honeywell Castine [should be, Hunewell ] Majors 4 [2]
2To Alexander Hamilton from Harrison Gray Otis, 21 December 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I was very solicitous while you was in this city for the indulgence of an interview with you that would have enabled me to learn your opinion in relation to such defensive measures as ought now to be adopted by Congress, and I called upon you once with that view, but being then disappointed and perceiving afterwards the pressing nature of your immediate avocations, I chose rather to forego the...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Harrison Gray Otis, 17 December 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
There exists the strongest probability that the electoral votes are equally divided between Messrs Jefferson and Burr. We have certain advices from So Carolina and Georgia, and wait only for intelligence from Kentucky and Tennessee to ascertain the fact. The gentlemen of the opposition are of opinion that this will be the case. The question now is, in what mode shall the friends of the federal...