1To John Adams from Henry Knox, 1 May 1792 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor respectfully to submit to the Senate, a Report on the petition of Samuel B. Turner, late an Ensign of the Maryland battalion of Levies, on the expedition under Major General St Clair— With the highest Respect / I have the honor to be / Sir / Your most obedient / huml servant DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
2From John Adams to Tench Coxe, May 1792 (Adams Papers)
The first Thing I have to communicate to you, must be an Explanation of the Date of my Letter. The Legislature of Massachusetts, last Winter, upon a Petition of the North Parish in Braintree, Seperated it from the rest of the Town, erected it into a new one and gave it the name of Quincy. By this Measure you See they have deprived me of my Title of “Duke of Braintree,” and made it necessary...
3To Alexander Hamilton from John Mathews, 1 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ May 1, 1792 . On July 10, 1792, Tench Coxe wrote to Mathews: “I have before me your Letter of the 1st: of May to the Secretary of the Treasury, and I feel great pleasure in observing that the little duty, which has accrued under the Act of March 1791 is likely to be collected without legal compulsion.” Letter not found. ] Mathews was supervisor of the revenue for the District of Georgia. “An...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 1 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the several papers, upon which I have attempted to form a Conjectural Estimate of the Monies due to the War Department for the year 1791. A. Estimate of the Rations issued by the Contractors 1791. with subordinate vouchers No. 1 a 11— B. do. at Brunswick, Philadelphia, Carlisle and other places on the Rout to Fort Pitt together with the probable Expence of...
5From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 1 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 1, 1792 . On May 2, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Washington: “The case was here before the Secretary’s letter of yesterday was sent to the President.” Letter not found. ]
6Enclosure: Remarks A, 11 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Register in the Arrangement of Salaries has been governd by the following Principals. 1st. He has endeavoured to compensate those from whose Abilities he has derived the greatest Assistance, and from whose Characters the same might be made with general Approbation. 2. To employ as many Clerks beyond the number estimated for as the Fund appropriated for their payment (consistent with the...
7Enclosure: [List of Clerks Engaged in Registers Office], 11 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Division of the Treasury Records Names Salary Employment Revenue arising from Impost, Tonnage and Excise. Joshua Dawson 700 Superintends and Examines the Accounts of Impost Tonnage and Excise. He also corrisponds with, and forwards to, the several Commissioners of Loans Certificates for the public Debt. He forwards to the several Collectors of the Customs blanks for registering vessels. He...
8The Vindication No. I, [May–August 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
It was to have been foreseen, that though the virtuous part of those who were opposed to the present Constitution of the UStates while in deliberation before the People would yield to the evidence which experience should afford of its usefulness and safety, there were of a certain character opponents, who as happens in all great political questions would always remain incurably hostile to it....
9The Vindication No. II: First Version, [May–August 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Among the measures in the course of the administration of the Government which have been most loudly inveighed against is the Funding System contained in the Act making provision for the Debts of the United States. Against this measure, numerous objections have been urged, and, as is usual in similar cases, not in perfect concordance with each other. These objections shall be stated and...
10The Vindication No. II: Second Version, [May–August 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Of all the measures of the Government, that which has been most bitterly inveighed against is the Funding System contained in the Act making provision for the Debt of the United States. As well for this reason, as on account of its superior importance, the objections which have been made to it are intitled to an examination in the first place. It is a curious phœnomenon in political history...
11The Vindication No. III, [May–August 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
My last number contained a concise and simple statement of facts tending to shew that the public Debt was neither created nor increased by the Funding system, and consequently that it is not responsible either for the existence or the magnitude of the Debt. It will be proper next to examine the allegations which have been made of a contrary tendency. In the first place it is asserted that the...
12The Vindication No. IV, [May–August 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Debt proper or the original Debt of the UStates in its primary form may be classed under four general heads I the Old emissions of Continental money II The Loan office Debt contracted for monies lent to the Government III the army debt contracted for the pay and commutation of the army IV the debt of the five Great Departments as they are called in the resolution of Congress being for...
13From George Washington to the Earl of Buchan, 1 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I should have had the honor of acknowledging sooner the receipt of your letter of the 28th of June last, had I not concluded to defer doing it ’till I could announce to you the transmission of my portrait, which has been just finished by Mr Robinson (of New York) who has also undertaken to forward it. The manner of the execution does no discredit, I am told, to the Artist; of whose skill...
14To George Washington from Enoch Edwards, 1 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
Mr Clymer applied to me to procure for your Excellency a dutch Plough which I will with Pleasure immediately do, but I would wish to know whether you would prefer a Barr-Shear, or one made in the common Way, with a wooden Chip—the difference between the two is that the former runs much lighter than the latter, but there is a little more difficulty it getting it new laid & sharpned. the Bar is...
15To George Washington from John Greenwood, 1 May 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Greenwood, 1 May 1792. In his letter to Greenwood of 1 July GW referred to “Your letter of the first of May.”
16From James Madison to John Waller Johnston, ca. May–June 1792 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. May–June 1792. Acknowledged in Johnston to JM, 27 Nov. 1792 . Concerns Johnston’s application for the keepership of the lighthouse at Cape Henry and refers him to “Mr. Griffin.”
17To James Madison from John Moore, 1 May 1792 (Madison Papers)
Your Letter came to hand by the post informing me of the Letter you received from my father in which he has authorized me to make furthe[r] draught on you should my exigencies require it. I hope Sir you will be so kind as to send me up 40 dollars by the next Post which sum I think will be sufficient to clear me in this place; should you not send it by the first post I shall certainly be...
18To James Madison from Alexander Spotswood, 1 May 1792 (Madison Papers)
I am hond. with yr last—inclosing information, from Colo. Parker, where to apply, to know by whoom, my depreciation of pay was drawn. I Just recollect Selling to a mercht. in Baltimore, sundry Certificates got of Colo. Ball—I have wrote to him to know if one in my name was among them; if there is it must have been drawn by a frd. for me. With respect I remain Dr Sr yr Ob St RC ( DLC )....
19To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 1 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 1 May 1792 . He forwarded with his letter of 16 [i.e., 15] Apr. a letter to him from Capt. O’Bryen and two petitions of American prisoners at Algiers. He encloses another letter from O’Bryen of 9 Jan. received only 5 days ago.—The present dey appears more inclined to treat with the U.S. than the last, and it would be advantageous to American trade if a peace with Algiers could be...
20To Thomas Jefferson from George Gilmer, 1 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I wish it were in my power to scrible some incidents worthy your attention. Had this been ever practicable should have wrote you very long past. Being in a very low state of animation tempts me now to tresspass on you in hopes of hearing from you that I may be somewhat revivifyed. Disappointed gout or some thing more unfrendly has beset me and has deprived for a long time totally of...
21To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 1 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In April 1791. in the district Court of Fredericksburg, in the case of Mitchell against Wallis, in which the law of the State was plead in bar of the debt, the following were the circumstances. Mitchell, a native of Great Britain residing and trading in Virginia, having debts due him to great amount, conveyed them with other property just before the war to the use of his creditors in Great...