16541Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Notes on Coinage (Jefferson Papers)
...810–11). On 16 Dec. this recommendation was referred to Thomas FitzSimons, Samuel Osgood, and Samuel Wharton, but, significantly, three days later Osgood was dropped and John Rutledge, Alexander Hamilton, and Nathaniel Gorham were added (PCC, No. 186, under 16 and 19 Dec. 1782). Clearly, the friends of Morris were in control of the committee and Osgood, an inveterate enemy, was out (see...
16542John Jay and the Yellow Fever Epidemics: Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
But not until a bipartisan alliance between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr was proposed did the City get a waterworks project going. Legislated in Albany, the Manhattan Company would create a rather poorly built wooden water main system fed from an uptown reservoir. Burr “hijacked” the...
16543The Supreme Court: Procedures and Cases: Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
...to the national debt by exchanging them for federal securities. The act did not specifically preclude holders from subscribing certificates that had already been redeemed, but Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton had interpreted the law as so intending and had directed loan officers to refuse to receive any redeemed state securities whether presented by the state or reissued to private...
16544Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Smith was allowed a brief period to rest before GW, Major General Lafayette, Brig. Gen. Henry Knox, GW’s aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton, and GW’s secretary Robert Hanson Harrison interrogated him. The intense session frustrated the questioners, who heard inconsistencies in Smith’s answers and suspected that he was withholding information. Fear rose in Smith, which the arrival of...