1November [1799] (Washington Papers)
1. Morning clear. A little breeze from the northward. Mer. at 55. Clear all day, & calm in the Afternoon. Mr. Craik went away after Breakfast. Mer. 49 at Night. 2. Morning clear. Mer. at 45. Wind at So. Wt. Afternoon a little hazy with indications of Rain. Mr. Jno. Fairfax (formerly an overseer of mine) came here before dinner and stayed all Night. John Fairfax resigned from GW’s employ in...
2General Orders, 1 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, November 1, 1799. On November 4, 1799, Hamilton wrote to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney : “I send you … an order of the 1st. inst. issued by me respecting the General Disposition of the Army.” General Orders not found. ]
3From Alexander Hamilton to Caleb Swan, 1 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, November 1, 1799. “When I was at Trenton I considered it as perfectly understood between you and me that those officers of the old regiments to whom arrears of pay are due should receive the sums to which they are entitled immediately from your hands. I have been since informed that you decline this and refer the officers to their regimental Paymasters. They are of course left...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Edward D. Turner, 1 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
A Letter from you, arrived here a few days since for Lieut Wilson of the 2d Regt. from the improbability of its shortly reaching him, and to prevent any supposed remissness in his not complying with any order it may contain, I have thought proper to inform you of his being at Detroit. Lieut Thompson the late Pay Master to the 2d Regt. being so ill as not to be able to go on with the Pay of the...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Ebenezer Stevens, 1 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
a due proportion of Shells must be sent with the Howit zers destined to the Barrier post on the Mississippi— Yr Ob Sr ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
6From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 1 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you two extracts from Col. Bentley’s letter of the twentieth of October. As the directions for the this new arrangement of rank proceeded from became necessary in consequence of transactions in your department I have doubt with respect to my power of giving it a sanction; but I could wish that it might speedily receive the proper ratification from your department the executive. There...
7From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 1 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I would thank you to inform me whether Mr. Brown has been appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned in Col. Taylor’s regiment by the non acceptance of Mr. Chew. If this has not been done I would recommend that the place be filled by the senior first lieut. according to the regular principles of Military promotion. Col. Taylor, in his letter of the second of October mentions to me that Austin...
8From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Hunewell, 1 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose to you appointments for Oliver Emerson and David J. Waters as cadets in your regiment. With great conn ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
9From Alexander Hamilton to Timothy Taylor, 1 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your several letters of the second, fourth, thirteenth, nineteenth and twenty eighth of October have been duly received. The choice of Danbury as a place of rendezvous might be liable to misconstruction, and would perhaps give rise to Countermarching. It is therefore my wish that you would fix upon Stamford, Norwalk an or Fairfield. You have your choice between these three places, and when you...
10To Alexander Hamilton from Jacob Wilson, 1 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeably to orders from the Secretary at War—which have just come under my Eye—I have to report myself to you, Am now in the Borough of Reading, County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania—Where I arriv’d a few days Since from the Southward where I travell’d for my Health which is now restor’d— I Am ready to march at a moments warning to any place, you may think proper to order me to— I am Sir...