1To 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.
2To 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...