11Enclosure: Gouverneur Morris to Alexander Hamilton, 4 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
The correspondent is referring to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France of 6 Feb. 1778.
12To Alexander Hamilton from William Vans Murray, 28 August 1801 (Hamilton Papers)
...had been Minister of the Navy and Colonies in 1790. He was imprisoned during the Terror, but in 1800 he was one of three Frenchmen meeting with Murray, Davie, and Ellsworth in the negotiations for peace between the United States and France.
13To Alexander Hamilton from Harrison Gray Otis, 21 December 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
“An Act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof” (
14To Alexander Hamilton from Timothy Pickering, 25 February 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
“An Act further to suspend the Commercial Intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof” (...read: “The course of the transactions in relation to the United States and France, which have come to my knowledge during your recess, will be made the subject of a future communication. That communication will confirm the ultimate failure of the measures which have...
15To Alexander Hamilton from Timothy Pickering, 25 March 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
“II The diplomatic intercourse between the United States and France being at present suspended; the Government has no means of obtaining official information from that country; nevertheless there is reason to believe that the Executive Directory passed a decree on the 2d of March last, contravening, in part...
16To Alexander Hamilton from Timothy Pickering, 9 February 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
“An Act further to suspend the Commercial Intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof” (“An Act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof” (
17To Alexander Hamilton from Timothy Pickering, 8 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France
18To Alexander Hamilton from Theodore Sedgwick, 25 February 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
“and William Vans Murray, Esq. our Minister resident at the Hague, to be Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the French Republic, with full powers to discuss and settle, by a treaty, all controversies between the United States and France.
19To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Soderstrom, 16 November 1803 (Hamilton Papers)
seized for a violation of “An Act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof” (...was collector of the port of New York, for a violation of the act to suspend commercial intercourse between the United States and France, for which seizures suits were brought, and damages and costs recovered, against the said collector; and to...
20To Alexander Hamilton from Ambrose Vasse, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
...pay for supplies sent to the island by United States merchants. The bills were drawn on the understanding that they would be paid for out of the debt which the United States owed to France. This understanding between the United States and France was approved by a decree passed by the French Legislative Assembly on June 28, 1792. See