1To 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.”
2From 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. ]
3From 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...
4To 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...
5The 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...
6From 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...
7To 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...
8Enclosure: 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...
9The 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....
10To 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...