1From Alexander Hamilton to Colonel Joseph Ward, [8 July 1779] (Hamilton Papers)
This will be accompanied by a general order respecting your department which you will be pleased to have executed without delay. The positions are to comprehend all such as are enlisted upon the alternative of three years or during the war who are to be constructed as engaged during the war. I am with great regard, Your most obed. ser ALS , sold by Walter M. Hill, Chicago, November, 1909,...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Ward, 2 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, May 2, 1791. On May 26, 1791, Hamilton wrote to Ward : “I duly received your letter of the 2d instant.” Letter not found. ] Ward was a Boston stockbroker and real estate dealer.
3From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Ward, 26 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I duly received your letter of the 2d instant. The species of paper you mention presents an embarrassing question. Being issued upon the funds of individual states with a stipulation for the payment of interest by the United States, and a contingent guarantee of the principal, it is not easy to pronounce under what denomination of public debt it properly falls. It is however not in my opinion...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Ward, 18 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newton, Massachusetts, February 18, 1793. On May 6, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Ward and acknowledged the receipt of Ward’s “letter of the 18th of February last.” Letter not found. ] Ward was a Boston stockbroker and real estate dealer.
5From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Ward, 6 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Some very serious difficulties incident to the species of paper mentioned in your letter of the 18th of February last, which produced a real embarrassment in my mind as to a mode of treating them, at once proper and safe, have been the principal causes of the delay which has happened in reporting upon the Petitions relating to that subject. It was nevertheless fully my intention to have done...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Ward, 1 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, January 1, 1799. “… your sentiments if now communicated to energettic members of Congress might at this time do much good by preventing a lasting dishonor to the Government. The long injured creditors who hold the New Emission Bills, now lodged in the Treasury, have their petition before the Senate, where a decision may be expected soon. But from past experience of disregard to the...