481To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 20 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letters of the 10 May instant. You will be pleased to inform Lieut Blake that his resignation has been accepted and that his pay and emoluments will cease on the last day of this Month— I have no objections to Lieut Wilson being Paymaster to Major Cass’s detachment or to Lieutenant Wollstonecraft being Paymaster to the Second regiment of Artillerists and Engineers—You will...
482To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 7 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you a letter from Captain Cornelius Lyman dated Presque Isle 16th July ulto. requesting instructions respecting the ration to be issued to the Troops. You will be pleased to give the necessary orders respecting the object of this Letter. With great respect, I have the honor to be Sir, Your obedient Servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress), enclosing Cornelius Lyman to...
483To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 24 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you a letter from Samuel Annin and sundry depositions tending to prove that Joseph Cross a Private in Captain Faulkners Company 11. Regiment was under the age of 18. Years at the time of his enlistment—You will take such order therein as to you may appear proper. I am Sir with great respect Your obed servant— ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). There is an "X" mark in the...
484To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 29 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Has it struck you, that it will be proper, notwithstanding the Commander in chief of the army has formally declined taking any agency or responsibility in its affairs until a certain state of things shall occur, for you to correspond with him, as the Chief, and give him such information from time to time relative to your comand as will enable him when he may enter upon actual service to...
485To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 29 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 27 instant. The letter to Captain Elliott therein contained has been forwarded—Your letter to the commanding Officer at Fort Mifflin enclosed in yours of the 25 instant has not been sent—I enclose you a letter of appointment for Charles Leonard as a Second Lieutenant in the 14. Regiment which you will be pleased to forward. I am Sir with great respect Your...
486To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 16 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recieved the following directions from the President of the United States —“I request you, to transmit copies of the Law, for reducing the twelve regiments to Major Generals Hamilton and Pinckney, and also to the Commandants of Brigades, with orders to the Major Generals to make immediate arrangements reducing those regiments on the 14th day of June.” In compliance therewith, I do...
487To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 29 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Complaints having been made, relative to the enlistment of apprentices, for the army of the United States, I have been led to reflect on the propriety, or even general policy of such enlistments. Young men of respectable families, and handsome properties, are not infrequently bound apprentices, to learn a profession, or be initiated in some lucrative trade, art or mystery, it could only be in...
488To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 22 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
A letter to me, dated the 18th. instant, from the Accountant of the Department of War, of which I enclose a copy, will inform you of the situation, in which Captain Charles Hyde stands, with respect to unsettled accounts, for very large sums of money, intrusted to him, as regimental Paymaster, to the first regiment of Infantry, in the service of the United States. By “An Act for the better...
489To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 21 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letters—vz 1 of the 13, 1 of the 17, 2 of the 18, and 3 of the 19 of September instant. I have no objection to Lieutt. Long as Adjutant, and Carleton Walker as Paymaster, to the 6 Regiment of Infantry. Your letter of the 19 received this morning contains the first intimation I recollect, relative to these selections. You mention a Doctor Cutlar as Surgeon for the same...
490To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 7 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
By the tenth Article, of the Contract with E. B. Dayton, for supplying rations to all the military in New Jersey, for the residue of the current and all the year 1800, it is provided; “That at all stationary posts, proper store houses, shall be provided, on behalf of the Public, for the reception, and safe keeping, of the provisions, depositted from time to time, at such posts respectively,...
491To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 16 March 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you a letter just received from Captain John McClallen, which you will be pleased to take such order on as you may judge proper I have the honor to be Sir Your obedient servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress), enclosing John McClallen to McHenry, March 11, 1799 ( ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
492To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 12 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you a Warrant of appointment for Josiah Wright as a cadet in the eleventh regiment of Infantry which you will be pleased to have forwarded. The date has been filled up agreeably to the time mentioned in your letter— There are several letters from you before me on the subject of Cadets, and which have not been acted on owing to want of information when the services of the several...
493To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 13 September 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I recd. yours of the 9th this morning. Why is it necessary you should repeat to me your request, or require any new evidence, that I will not take the same care of Philip Church as I would of my own son. Let Mrs. Church be assured I will. Yours affecy. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
494To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 30 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you a letter of appointment for Doctr. John Orton Junr. as Surgeons Mate in the thirteenth regiment vice Spaulding which you will be pleased to have forwarded. I am Sir with great Respect Your obed Servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
495To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 25 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The house of Representatives yesterday passed a bill to suspend enlistments for the six additional companies of cavalry and twelve regiments of Infantry. It is now before the Senate, and may also receive the sanction of that body, altho’ (perhaps) not immediately. It is therefore thought advisable, that the terms of enlistment be altered and until otherwise directed run, “for and during the...
496To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 7 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed are the drafts of two proposed contracts with James OHara. He will deliver this letter. If in your opinion there is any thing which ought to be added or altered in either draft I shall be much obliged to you to mention it, and if it requires the consent of Mr OHara to confer with him relative thereto— I am Sir with great respect Your obed servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of...
497To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 20 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I received some time since information of the death of Capt. Piercy Pope of the First regiment of Artillerists and Engineers—but no account of the time that event happened—As it is necessary that the time should be known at this Office in order to fix the date of the rank of his Successor I request that you would be pleased to transmit it to me as soon as convenient. The promotion of Captain...
498To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 30 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department [ Philadelphia ] April 30, 1799 . “The Governor of the North Western Territory Arthur St. Clair Esquire being ex-officio , Superintendant of Indian Affairs within the said Territory he is to be respected as such by all military Officers within the sphere of his Jurisdiction, you will be pleased therefore to direct the said military Officers to respect him as such, and to cause...
499To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 12 May 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I shall in a short time be able to get to sea, one or two of our frigates, and perhaps, in less than six or seven days, Cap Dale, in the Ganges, a lately purchased vessel. Can you spare an hour or two to help me to the instructions that it will be proper to give to their captains. Our ships of war, it is probable, will meet with French privateers, who may be in possession of our merchantmen,...
500To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 4 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have forwarded to you, by this days mail, a number of Copies, of the Contract with James OHara, for supplies of Provisions &c to the Western Posts, and Army of the United States; and also of “an Act, for the better organizing, of the Troops of the United States, and for other purposes,” passed the 3d. of March ulto. The Act admits alternatives for certain parts of the ration, hereafter to be...
501To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 7 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your two letters dated the 2d. & 3d. instant. I enclose copy of “An act to suspend in part an act, intitled an act to augment the army of the United States, and for other purposes” passed the 20~ ultimo—providing that all further enlistments under the 2d. Section of the original act, shall be suspended until the further order of Congress, unless in the recess of Congress, and...
502To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 7 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you copies of Contracts entered into with William Colfax Robert Colfax and Alexander Richards for the supply of Rations in the States of New York Rhode Island Massachusetts Vermont and New Hampshire—the Connecticut Contract shall be forwarded to morrow— To the best of my recollection they have been twice before sent— I am Sir Your obed Servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of...
503To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 17 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of the 14th instant, is received. You request, at the instance of General Wilkinson, for the endowment of Fort Adams on the Mississippi, four ten inch mortars, two eight and an half inch howitzers, six twenty four, six twelve and four nine pounders. The latter of iron, with ammunition for a siege of six months, and suggest the propriety of transporting this ordnance by water via...
504To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 30 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The Troops in Tenessee have never been considered as forming any part of the North Western army, or the Commander of the Western army as having any controul over them. It was necessary to the success of the objects to be accomplished in Tenessee, and the quick transmission of orders that this should be so. There is no position, which it is possible for a general to assume in the North Western...
505To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 25 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department, Trenton, October 25, 1799. “I this morning received your Letter, dated the 23d. instant.… Entertaining the same opinion I request, you will accordingly give such orders as you may deem proper, and expedient, for the comfortable accomodations of both regiments at as little expence as possible, and without a purchase of Land.… The orders on the subject should proceed directly...
506To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 25 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you a letter from David S. Jones declining his appointment in the established army, and requesting one in the provisional army, and your letter recommending him These letters you will please to return when you have completed the list which you have been requested to furnish I have the honor to be with great respt Sir Your Ob Hb St ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
507To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 17 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
In my letter to you of the 4th February last, after intimating the disposition proposed, by the Commander in Chief, for the existing regiments of Artillerists, and Engineers, I added “You will therefore give effect, to the aforesaid disposition, and so arrange the Companies of Artillery, that those belonging to the same regiment or Corps, may form contiguous Garrisons.” I had written to Major...
508To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 4 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Since my letter of yesterday I have received a letter from James Miller agent of the Quarter Master General, of which the enclosed is a Copy, by which it appears the complement of Tents for the Ninth Regiment of Infantry have been forwarded to Baltimore I have the honor to be with great respect Your obedient servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; Df , partially in McHenry’s...
509To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 19 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I received last night your letter inclosing the draught of a bill relative to the articles of war. I made out two draughts of bills for the military academy, one on the most enlarged plan with limitations which ensured against any extension beyond the Fundamental School and school of Engineers and Artillerists until an appropriation for the purpose. The committee have preferred the other bill...
510To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, [8 March 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
I have transferred your certificates and received your interest. I have also paid to Mr. Wolcott 40 20/100. I will pay to Mr. Lewis 7 dolls who says he does not recollect that you owed him any thing. I have retained 100, and herewith inclose the balance or 21 36/100. If this should find you at New-York I intreat you to spare an hour or two to the essay, and to send it to me as soon as...