1To Alexander Hamilton from Fisher Ames, 26 January 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 11 of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, signed on February 6, 1778. See
received eight hundred thousand francs and agreed to abandon any further claims. For the text of the Convention between the United States and France, July 4, 1831, see
3To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 13 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
, I, 111–12. In this letter the French chargé d’affaires complained to Jefferson that the tonnage tax on French shipping was a violation of Article V of the treaty of commerce between the United States and France.
4To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 2 April 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
King is referring to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, which was signed at Paris on February 6, 1778 (
5To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 2 July 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
...provided “That the United States are of right freed and exonerated from the stipulations of the treaties, and of the consular convention, heretofore concluded between the United States and France; and that the same shall not be legally obligatory on the government or citizens of the United States.” On July 13, 1798, President John Adams issued a proclamation revoking the exequaturs of...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 14 July 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
The reference to the “resolution of the House of Representatives” concerns House action on what eventually became “An Act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof” (
7To Alexander Hamilton from Marquis de Lafayette, 10 February 1801 (Hamilton Papers)
...America and Americans in terms gratifying to my feelings and Has Expressed Himself particularly desirous to Come to you with a Letter from your old and Constant friend. You Have no doubt Received the News of the Negociation Between the United States and france,
8To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 20 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
...the seventeen-eighties, Alexander and Robert Morris were involved in several schemes to monopolize the tobacco trade between the United States and France. In September, 1783, Alexander and Williams contracted to supply the French Farmers-General with fifteen thousand hogsheads of tobacco from the United States annually for three years at thirty livres tournois per quintal. Williams, who at...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Francisco de Miranda, 7 February 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France: Addressed by Robert G. Harper, Esq. of South Carolina to His Constituents, in May, 1797
10To Alexander Hamilton from Gouverneur Morris, 4 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 11 of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France of February 6, 1778, in which the United States guaranteed French possessions in America (