1To John Adams from Thomas Mifflin, 3 March 1797 (Adams Papers)
In the year 1791, the Legislature of Pennsylvania directed a House to be built, for the accommodation of the President of the United States, and empowered the Governor to lease the premises. As the building will be completed in the course of a few weeks, permit me to tender it for your accommodation; and to inform you, that, although I regret the necessity of making any stipulation, on the...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Mifflin, [23 June 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
By a late act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, provision is made, among other things, for paying the nominal amount of the State Certificates, which are subscribable to the loan, proposed by Congress to the State Creditors, “upon this condition, and not otherwise, that the State Creditors subscribe to that loan, and thereupon, on or before the 1st day of July next , transfer to the...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Mifflin, [5 May 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
On the 28th. of Augt. 1788, the late Board of Treasury of the U.S. under the authority of a Resolution of Congress accepted the proposals which were made to them, on the 7th. of July preceding, by the Delegates in Congress from Pennsylvania on behalf of this State, for the purchase of a tract of Land, belonging to the U.S., contained in the interval betwixt a Meridian Line, run between Lake...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Mifflin, 8 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, July 8, 1791. “Upon the receipt of your circular Letter, of the twenty seventh Ultimo, I directed the Comptroller General of this State, to furnish me with the information which you requested; and I have now inclosed his answer upon the subject.…” LC , Division of Public Records, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg. On July 1, 1791, Alexander J. Dallas,...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Mifflin, 20 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, August 20, 1793. “As the legislature of this State will assemble in the course of the ensuing week, it is of some importance that I should receive an early answer to my letter of the 29th ulto.…” LS , Division of Public Records, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, LC , Division of Public Records, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
6To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Mifflin, 18 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, January 18, 1791. “In compliance with your request, I have directed the Comptroller General to make out a statement of the Sums in final Certificates, which were paid over to this State, by the Agents for settling the Accounts of the Pennsylvania line, in the late Army.… As soon as the Comptroller has compleated the enquiry,… I will chearfully transmit the result.…” LC , Division...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Mifflin, [29 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
In order to enable me to communicate to the Legislature of this State, at their next session in August, a complete statement of the Public Finances, I find it necessary to request, that you will decide upon the question, whether the New loan Certificates of Pennsylvania, are within the assumption of the Act of Congress. If the Certificates are within the assumption, the State will be entitled...
8To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Mifflin, 28 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, December 28, 1789. On December 31, 1789, Hamilton wrote to Mifflin : “I have the honor of your letter of the 28th instant.” Letter not found. ]
9To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Mifflin, 27 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, November 27, 1789. “… the Comptroller General of this State hath made considerable Progress in the Statement of the public Debts of Pennsylvania … and I … will … transmit to you in four weeks from this Date all the Information required.…” Hazard, Pennsylvania Archives , XI Samuel Hazard, ed., Pennsylvania Archives (Philadelphia, 1855). , 641. This letter is in reply to “Treasury...
10To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Mifflin, [9 November 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
It gave me great pleasure to receive the report of the Comptroller General of this State, upon the Business of the Lake Erie purchase; from which it appears, that the Comptroller General of the United States has concurred with him, in fixing the Consideration money of that purchase at 151, 640²⁵⁄₁₀₀ Dollars, and in the mode of payment. I have, therefore, referred the papers to the Attorney...