1From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, [25 June 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The letters to Mr. Hammond & Mr. Pinckney appear to me proper, according to the facts stated in them. The object of that to Mr. Genet also appears to me desireable; but I am not wholly without scruple as to the proposition going from the UStates. ALS , Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress. For background to this letter, see Jefferson to H and Henry Knox, June 25, 1793 . H’s reply was...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Weld, 22 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, August 22, 1793. On November 5, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Benjamin Lincoln : “I had prepared an answer to a letter from your Deputy of the 22d of August last.” Letter not found. ]
3To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 12 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to inform The Secretary of the Treasury, that as Mr. Short’s mission to Madrid will probably cause much delay in negotiating the intended additional loan, if instructions on this subject should be sent to him to transact the business—the President thinks, with you, that it would be best to address the instructions for this business immediately...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Morris, 28 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I am Ashamed I have not before this performed my promise in proposing some Amendments to the Excise Law; had I not promised I Should not Have troubled you on the head, for tho I think Amendment necessary, difficulties Arise that I cannot gett over. I have Several times Satt down to Reduce my Amendments in form to a Law. I am Stoped almost in the first Sentence. I shall therefore Only Inclose...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas FitzSimons, 13 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
August 13, 1793. “I am informed (by a letter Just now received) of the death of Mr Ballard Surveyor of Baltimore, and am strongly Urged by some Respectable people there to apply for your Interest for a Mr Robert Walsh of that Place as his Successor …” ALS , RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters, 1790–1799, National Archives. FitzSimons was a Federalist member of the House of Representatives from...
6From Alexander Hamilton to James Lovell, 29 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Various circumstances have prevented an earlier answer to your letter of the 22d of August last. The question referred to having been stated to the Attorney General, you will receive a copy of his opinion herewith enclosed, in which I concur. I am Sir Your obedient Servant L[S] , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury, 1789–1807, Vol. 4, National Archives. Although...
7From Alexander Hamilton to William Gardner, [22 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
I duly received your letter of the 9th inst. on the subject of your salary as Commissioner of Loans. I am fully sensible of the inadequateness of your compensation, and I assure you that it will not be for want of my exertion if something is not added in the course of the present session of Congress. With great consideration, I am, Sir Your obedient servant, [New York] Argus. Greenleaf’s...
8From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 23 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 23, 1794. On February 10, 1794, Ellery wrote to Hamilton and referred to “Your letter … of the 23d. of Jany. last.” Letter not found. ]
9To Alexander Hamilton from James Duff, 8 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Cadiz, July 8, 1793. Has “brought to a conclusion the depending concerns of the Ship Tartar” and sends Hamilton “as attorney to John Church Esqr. for ⅛ proportion thereof … a note of an a/c for that object on which you are credited for the whole of your said proportion of the proceeds.” Copy, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Duff was British consul at Cadiz. DS , Hamilton Papers, Library...
10Cabinet Meeting. Opinion Respecting the French Consul at Boston, [31 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
At a meeting of the Heads of departments & Attorney General at the President’s on the 31st. day of Aug. 1793. A letter from mr Gore to mr Lear, dated Boston Aug. 24. was read, stating that the Roland, a privateer fitted out at Boston & furnished with a commission under the government of France, had sent a prize into that port, which being arrested by the Marshal of the district by process from...
11From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 26 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It being intended to establish immediately a recruiting rendezvous at Albany, I take the liberty to request you, to engage a Person who will furnish the necessary Supplies; informing me of what has been done. The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following Articles Vizt— 1 lb of Bread or flour 1 lb of beef or ¾ lb of pork ½ jill of Rum, brandy or Whiskey 1 Quart of Salt { per...
12From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, [10 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his Compliments to the Secretary of State. He has signed the Counterpart; but for the present leaves in the words as a privateer to consider jointly of some substitute the kind of vessel not being wholly indifferent & there being a doubt whether the general words would be descriptive enough. The letter supposed to have been received from the Commissioner...
13From Alexander Hamilton to Catharine Greene, 3 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It is not an uncommon thing for you women to bring us poor men into Scrapes. It seems you have brought me into one. You will wonder how—Hear the tale. Shortly after I came into Office, Wadsworth informed me that Baron Glauback was indebted to General Greene (to whom he had behaved in a very exceptionable manner) and that it was intended to endeavour to purchase of Glauback some pay which had...
14From Alexander Hamilton to Angelica Church, 27 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I embrace this opportunity, My Dear Friend, by Mr. Marshall, to tell you that my health which had suffered a severe shock by an attack of the malignant disease lately prevalent here is now almost completely restored. The last vestige of it has been a nervous derangement; but this has nearly yielded to Regimen, a certain degree of exercise and a resolution to overcome it. The political...
15To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 16 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Newport, Rhode Island, December 16, 1793. “I received your private and confidential letter of the 20th. of Novemr. last on the seventh of this month, and should have answered it by the last post, but I wished for time to discover if I could whether a third person I had in view would accept if he should be appointed District Attorney. I have avoided taking any part in the contest for that...
16From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 8 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ November 8, 1793. On November 17, 1793, Schuyler wrote to Hamilton : “The mail … brought your favor of the 8th Instant.” Letter not found. ]
17Cabinet Meeting. Proposed Rules Governing Belligerents, [3 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
At a Meeting of the Secretary of State The Secretary of the Treasury The Secretary at War and the Attorney General at the . The following rules were agreed to— I The original arming and equipping of vessels in the Ports of the UStates, by any of the belligerent parties, for Military service offensive or defensive, is deemed unlawful. II Equipments of Merchant vessels by either of the...
18From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King, [11 November 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed in a letter which I have just received from poor Fenno. It speaks for itself. If you can without delay raise 1000 Dollars in New York, I will endeavor to raise another Thousand at Philadelphia. If this cannot be done we must lose his services & he will be the victim of his honest public spirit. Yrs. truly If may either be in the form of gift or loan. ALS , New-York Historical Society,...
19To Alexander Hamilton from David Ross, [23 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Your “Democratic Society” with whatever good ⟨in⟩tentions it may be instituted by some yet I fear ⟨oth⟩ers may wish and hope to give it the conse⟨que⟩nce & power of a Jacobin Club—indeed the ⟨ver⟩y name of the Society holds out an idea to ⟨th⟩e People of America that there are such defects ⟨in⟩ our Government as to require an association to guard against them and will of course become the...
20To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 4 October … (Hamilton Papers)
[ Amsterdam, October 4, 1793. On October 15, 1793, Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard wrote to Hamilton : “We beg leave to refer You to our last Respects of 4 Instant.” Letter not found. ]
21To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, [11 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State begs the favor of the Secretary of the Treasury to order a warrant to be made out on account of the foreign fund, in the disposal of the department of State, for twenty thousand Dollars; this being the sum, which from Mr. Jefferson’s memoranda, appears to be proper to be remitted now to the Bankers in Amsterdam for the use of our ministers abroad. Bills are engaged at...
22To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 10 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I shall sail from this place for London early in November, and if before that time you can find it convenient to give me the letters which you had the goodness to promise I shall esteem it a mark of peculiar favor. I shall go from London to Amsterdam and letters to our Bankers or other respectable Characters in the latter place might greatly facilitate my business, by shewing them that I am...
23[Speech by William Loughton Smith], [13 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Annals of Congress The Debates and Proceedings of the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature (Washington, 1834–1849). , IV, 174–209. John C. Hamilton states that Smith’s speech “was from the pen of Hamilton as appears from his autographed draft” ( Hamilton, History John C. Hamilton, Life of...
24To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 25 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It is a long while since I have had the pleasure to hear from you, and nothing has occured here worth attention. The Custom House refusing to take our Bank Notes I concluded to be the natural consequence of the establishment of the Bank of the United States —it rather militates against us in our Exchanges with the Branch, as we are obliged to pay out their Notes to our Dealers who have Duties...
25From Alexander Hamilton to Isaac Hazlehurst, [23 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Be so good as to let me know whether a person has been engaged for the purpose we conversed about yesterday Morning. Yr. very obed servant ALS , Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Hazlehurst was a Philadelphia merchant. H had asked Hazlehurst to arrange for a ship to carry dispatches to Gouverneur Morris ( H to Hazelhurst, December 26, 1793 ). On August 15, 1793, the cabinet...
26To Alexander Hamilton from Nicholas Low, 27 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Quarterly Meeting of the Directors of the Society for estg. usef. Manuf. is postponed from the first to the Third Tuesday in July. The Meeting will therefore be held at Paterson on the 16 of July. You talked of meeting us and I hope therefore to have the Pleasure to see you there. Will you take the Trouble of communicating to Major L’Enfant the above Circumstance—probably he may accompany...
27From Alexander Hamilton to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 12 August … (Hamilton Papers)
I have lately the pleasure of your letters of the 22d of April and first of may. The last was particularly acceptable, as it removed all anxiety about the June payment, in a mode quite satisfactory to me. The low prices at which our stocks have been for some time past, owing to the state of affairs in Europe (which has tended to lower them in two ways, by lessening the foreign demand, and by...
28Statement by Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox on Edmond Charles Genet’s “Appeal to the People”, 29 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
We the subscribers, certify that we did severally communicate to the abovementioned John Jay and Rufus King, the particulars contained in the foregoing statement. That such of them as are therein mentioned to have been reported to Governor Mifflin by Mr. Dallas, were communicated by the Governor to each of us, as having been received by him from Mr. Dallas. That such of them as respect Mr....
29To Alexander Hamilton from Edmond Charles Genet, 30 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
J’ai reçu la lettre que vous m’avés fait l’honneur de m’ecrire Le 26. de Ce mois et Je me Suis empressé d’Envoyer au Citoyen Bournonville secretaire de la légation de la République les authorisations nécessaires pour mettre En régle le Compte de la france avec les Etats unis conjointement avec les personnes que vous nommerés à cet effet. À mon retour à Philadelphie je prendrai connaissance de...
30An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States, for the Year 1792, [18 December 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Stated in pursuance of the standing order of the House of Representatives of the United States, passed on the thirtieth day of December, 1791, of which the following is a copy. In the House of Representatives of the United States, Friday the 30th of December, 1791. Resolved , That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to lay before the House of Representatives, on the fourth...