2951To Alexander Hamilton from Fisher Ames, 31 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I am happy to see the good effect of the exertions which have been made to keep our country from meddling with the war. Our fears have in a degree subsided. They have been strong enough to give their full impression to the services of the officers of govt. The public mind seems to be open to receive the truth. Such periods occur rarely & ought not to pass away in vain. There are many topics...
2952To Alexander Hamilton from William Willcocks, 1 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Yours of the 30th Ult. was recd., and the inclosed to Mr. Fraunces, I this moment delivered to a person who is to put it into his hands, or leave it at his place of abode—being unable from bodily indisposition to leave my Room. By tuesday I hope to be in a cindition to wait on Messrs: Duer and Flint. The result of which interview you may expect to know (by the first post) from AL[S] , Hamilton...
2953To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 2 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 2, 1793. On November 30, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Jefferson : “I have taken the opinion of the Attorney General in the case of the St Domingo vessels, mentioned in your letter of the 2d of September last.” Letter not found. ]
2954To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 2 September [1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Interwoven in the enclosed Address, are Sentiments as difficult to answer, as it would seem odd to pass unnoticed —believing, as I do, that they are the sentiments of a large part of the people of this Country. I would thank you for making such alterations in the expression of the draft of an answer (enclosed) as in your judgment will make it palatable on all sides, or unexceptionable. The...
2955From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 2 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Interwoven in the enclosed Address, are Sentiments as difficult to answer, as it would seem odd to pass by unnoticed—believing, as I do, that they are the sentiments of a large part of the people of this Country. I would thank you for making such alterations in the expression of the draft of an answer (enclosed) as in your judgment will make it palatable on all sides, or unexceptionable. The...
2956To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 3 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Register’s Office, September 3, 1793. “I request that a Warrant may issue… for one Hundred dollars… for Contingent Expences… in stating the public Accounts for the year 1792 which Statement is directed by an order of the House of representatives of the 30th: December 1791.…” LC , RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1793, Vol. “135-T,” National...
2957To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 3 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 3, 1793. “Wrote 3d. Sepr. 1793 to the Secretary of the Treasury requesting that a Warrant for twelve hundred dollars might issue in my favor for the purchase of Wood and other incidental Expences of the several Offices of the Treasury Department.” Letter not found. ] LC , RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1793, Vol. “135-T,” National Archives.
2958To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 3 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have no recollection of Mr. Anthony Singletons application to fund Certificates of Regd. Debt, and unless the Certificates are presented I cannot judge whether there are any valid objections against complying with his request. I well recollect that in the year 1791, it was a standing rule to admit no transfer of any Certificates issued by Mr. Nourse without a power of Attorney. It was found...
2959To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 5 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 5, 1793. On September 6, 1793, Washington wrote to Hamilton : “The inclosed was written & sent to your office yesterday.” Letter not found. ]
2960To Alexander Hamilton from William Willcocks, 5 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
In going this Morning to the Gaol, I met with Mr. Francis—asked him to let me ⟨see⟩ the pamphlet he had written against Col: Hamilton: this he refuses to do, but read to me a Correspondence between the President, You, and himself, on the subject of the warrants he holds against the U. S. The burden of his story is this—That he has certain warrants for money agt. the United States. That you...
2961From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 5 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Alexander Hamilton, 5 Sept. 1793. GW wrote Hamilton on 6 Sept. : “The inclosed was written & sent to your office yesterday.”
2962To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 6 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
With extreme concern I receive the expression of your apprehensions, that you are in the first stages of the prevailing fever. I hope they are groundless, notwithstanding the malignancy of the disorder is so much abated, as with proper & timely applications not much is to be dreaded. The inclosed was written & sent to your office yesterday, with direction if you were not there, to be brought...
2963From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 6 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
With extreme concern I receive the expression of your apprehensions, that you are in the first Stages of the prevailing fever. I hope they are groundless, notwithstanding the malignancy of the disorder is so much abated, as with proper & timely applications, not much is to be dreaded. The enclosed was written & sent to your Office yesterday, with direction if you were not there, to be brought...
2964To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Affleck, 7 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
A Mr. G: Frances, lately from your Office, waited on Thas. Basen, and asked him if he recoleted any thing of a Certificate he had bought of him about two years ago. Basen Answered he did. Frances told Basen he was employed by you to purchase, & that he had of you 50 Dolls. for his trouble And that you then said the profits was to be applied to the benefit of the widow Green, but that you...
2965To Alexander Hamilton from William Duer, 7 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have perused the Letter of this Date which Mr. Hall has addressed to you; and in justice to him am obliged to declare that, at my Desire he visited several Places in the State of New Jersey, previous to the Act of Incorporation of the Manufacturing Society, in order to ascertain the most Eligible Situation for the Seat of that Establishment. Exclusive of this he attended the Legislature at...
2966To Alexander Hamilton from William Hall, 7 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
When you (on behalf of the Manufacturing Society) engaged Me, the agreement stated that my Salary shou’d commence from the time the Society was Incorporated and I have been paid accordingly, at the time I engaged I expected to receive considerable Emoluments from the Profits of the Printing Trade which I have every reason to believe wou’d have been the case if the conducting of that business...
2967To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 7 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Application has been made to me by several of the Clerks in this Office to be absent under an apprehension that the malignant Disease (now in the neighbourhood of the Treasury) renders their attendance dangerous to themselves and their Families. I have been reluctant to comply with their request from a persuasion that if this is granted to one it would be a precedent to all, and the State of...
2968To Alexander Hamilton from Peter Colt, 8 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Yesterday Mr. Binks handed me your favour, without date, accompanied with one from Mr. Cay of the 2d Instant. That to me had been broken open & Sealed again, which did not give me a very favourable impression of the bearer. Mr. Binks claims to have been at the head of a considerable Business, and to have received three Guineas ⅌ Week as a compensation in England. He had formed expectations of...
2969To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 12 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a paper delivered me by mr Bournonville on the part of the Minister of France reclaiming against the demand of tonnage on the vessels which came hither from the West Indies in their late calamity. It is urged that they were driven out of their harbours by superior force, & obliged to put to sea without water or stores, & therefore to make the first ports where...
2970From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 12 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a paper delivered me by Mr. Bournonville on the part of the Minister of France reclaiming against the demand of tonnage on the vessels which came hither from the West Indies in their late calamity. It is urged that they were driven out of their harbours by superior force, obliged to put to sea without water or stores, and therefore to make the first ports where...
2971To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Vandyke, 13 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Permit me to join with All ranks in the general Joy diffused upon hearing of your safe recovery from the present Malignant complaint which prevails in Philadelphia and hath proved fatal to so many of its Inhabitants. Blessed be God for His rich Mercy in preserving you & yours from the impending Judgment. May we seriously and with the most fervent gratitude offer up our United praises to the...
2972To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Wadsworth, 13 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I was out of town when your letter reached this place and have this moment returned. Glaubeck when under the Command of General Green persuaded the General to endorse his Bills which came back protested, and when Glaubeck made application to Congress for Compensation, I opposed his claim, and considered him what General Green calld him in his letters to Congress then on file (an imposture)...
2973To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Walker, 15 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
My friend Patrick Colquhoun Esq of London writes me confidentially that when Colo Smith left England he stated to Mr. Hornby that he had one Hundred National bank shares of his then in his possession and was to receive 86 more arising from a contract he had made with Mr Duer. He accordingly received Mr. Hornbys possitive directions that immediately on his arrival in America he should Transfer...
2974To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Lee, 17 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Among the late exiles from St. Domingo in consequence of the misfortunes to which the inhabitants of that island have been subjected in the course of human events are a few desirous of settling in this state. They offer governmental bills received by them as remittances to France in their prosperity. Doubts arise respecting their payment on presentment to Paris. Please to tell me what you...
2975To Alexander Hamilton from John Steele, 17 [September] 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Apologies are always unpleasant, and if they were not, I am vain enough to hope that you wou’d consider one for this intrusion, superfluous. To a delicate and cultivated mind it is painfull to write or speak of One’s self, to me it is peculiarly so, and nothing cou’d have surmounted my reluctance on this occasion, but the perfect respect which I feel for your character, and an entire...
2976To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 23 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Newport [ Rhode Island ] September 23, 1793 . “… The Office of District Attorney for this District has become vacant by the death of Mr. Channing. After having been confined to his house between two and three months he died last Saturday morning. I make this early communication; because the Interest of the United States may require that the vacancy should be soon filled.…” LC , Newport...
2977To Alexander Hamilton from William Munson, 23 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New Haven, Connecticut, September 23, 1793. On November 11, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Munson : “Your letters of the 23d, 28th, 30th of September … have been duly received.” Letter of September 23 not found. ] Munson was surveyor for the port of New Haven.
2978To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 23 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have experienced Great anxiety on account of your late alarming indisposition but am now happily relieved in perusing your Letter of the 11th Instant addressed to the Medical Society, announcing your recovery from the malignant Fever prevalent in Philadelphia to which many worthy Citizens have Fallen victims. Permit me Sir to congratulate you on the happy recovery of your Health, an event so...
2979To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 25 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I congratulate you & Mrs. Hamilton very sincerely on your recoveries from the malignant fever which prevailed in Philadelphia; and hope you are both restored to perfect health, and that no other of the family has been siezed with the disorder. In these sentiments Mrs. Washington cordially unite with me. From Mr. Jefferson who has just passed this—from Genl Knox who has set out for Boston—and...
2980From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 25 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Private) My dear Sir Mount Vernon Sepr 25th 1793 I congratulate you & Mrs Hamilton very sincerely on your recoveries from the malignant fever which prevailed in Philadelphia; and hope you are both restored to perfect health, and that no other of the family has been siezed with the disorder. In these sentiments Mrs Washington cordially unite with me. From Mr Jefferson who has just passed this...
2981To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas L. Ogden, 26 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ September 23, 1793. On September 26, 1793, Oliver Wolcott, Jr., wrote to Ogden and referred to “Your Letter to the Secy. of the Treasury dated Sept. 23d. 1793.” Letter not found. ] Ogden was at this time a resident of Newark, New Jersey, where his father, Abraham Ogden, was United States attorney for the District of New Jersey. A graduate of Columbia College, Thomas Ogden studied law with...
2982To Alexander Hamilton from Abraham Yates, Junior, 26 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of this days date has been recd—& laid before the Com. Council who have given me in charge to acquaint you that the same will be taken into consideration by them Tomorrow. I am Sir with due respect your most obedt. servt ADfS , The Sol Feinstone Collection, Library of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. PAH Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton...
2983To Alexander Hamilton from Abraham Yates, Junior, 27 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of yesterday has been received and the Common council have requested me to make to you the following Observations. You must have misapprehended facts and circumstances, for otherwise it is impossible to account for the complexion of your Letter, it is therefore necessary briefly to remind you, that for reasons which still appear, to be sufficiently weighty the Common Council have...
2984To Alexander Hamilton from William Munson, 28 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New Haven, Connecticut, September 28, 1793. On November 11, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Munson : “Your letters of the 23d, 28th, 30th of September … have been duly received.” Letter of September 28 not found. ]
2985To Alexander Hamilton from William Munson, 30 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of Transmitting you the Weekly return by which it will appear that there was Cash in the hands of the Late Collector at the time of his Deccease Agreeable to the Statement of his account the Sum of 14704 —95¾ and that Since his Decease there has been recived 1549 —32¾ Total 16254 —28½ Out of which there has been Paid as pr Weekly return 25 —46 16288 —82½ Which Sum is in the...
2986To Alexander Hamilton from John Dewhurst, 2 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ London, October 2, 1793. On April 1, 1794, Dewhurst wrote to Hamilton and referred to “my letter of the 2 Octr.” Letter not found. ] Dewhurst was a former New York City businessman and a former director of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. In 1792 he had become a bankrupt in the United States and England.
2987To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 4 October … (Hamilton Papers)
[ Amsterdam, October 4, 1793. On October 15, 1793, Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard wrote to Hamilton : “We beg leave to refer You to our last Respects of 4 Instant.” Letter not found. ]
2988To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Lee, 7 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I heard of your illness, with pain I heard of your repulse in n jersey, of your consternating Mr. Mrs Morris & above all the angelic Miss Morris in their retreat with wonder. I wished for your return to health with affectionate sincerity, & I feel astonished at the recollection of this wish, in as much as you seemed to me long ago beset with trouble, & I have ever held death a sleep ending in...
2989To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 7 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Office of District Attorney for Rhode Island being vacant by the Death of William Channing Esqr. and some of the Merchants having recommended to the President of the United States, David Howell Esqr. to Succeed to that Office, and knowing him to be very much under the Influence of those Characters who have long and with violence, opposed me in a Just Execution of the revenue laws —I have...
2990To Alexander Hamilton from Vicomte de Noailles, 9 [October 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
J’espere que l’air frais et pur des provinces de l’est, la joie que vos amis auront eu de vous voir echapé aux dangers que vous aves corru et le plaisir que vous aures eu à les retrouver vous auront entierement retabli. Notre malheureuse ville est toujours dans la même situation. L’épidemie fait des ravages affreux, l’entêtement des medecins rend leur experience totalement inutile. Le...
2991To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 10 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I shall sail from this place for London early in November, and if before that time you can find it convenient to give me the letters which you had the goodness to promise I shall esteem it a mark of peculiar favor. I shall go from London to Amsterdam and letters to our Bankers or other respectable Characters in the latter place might greatly facilitate my business, by shewing them that I am...
2992To Alexander Hamilton from William Munson, 12 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
At the first View of my Weekly return herewith transmitted you will find that I have made no return of the Cash Supposed to be in the possession of Mrs Fitch the Widow to the Late Collector which in my Last return was Stated to be .................16228—82½ As the principle officer of the Treasury has Equael knowledge with myself of that sum being on hand I therefore Conceive that nothing more...
2993To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 14 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Enclosed is the duplicate of my last. The calamity which has befallen Philadelphia & seems in no wise to abate renders it more essential than ever for the heads of Departments to Assemble, that proper measures with respect to the public Offices & Papers may be adopted. It is time also, if the President can with propriety interpose, to decide something with respect to the meeting of Congress....
2994From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 14 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed is the duplicate of my last. The calamity which has befallen Philadelphia & seems in no wise to abate renders it more essential than ever for the heads of Departments to Assemble, that proper measures with respect to the public offices & Papers may be adopted. It is time also, if the President can with propriety interpose, to decide something with respect to the meeting of Congress....
2995To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 15 October … (Hamilton Papers)
We beg leave to refer You to our last Respects of 4 Instant, since when we have received Your esteemed favor of 12 August, authorizing us to open a Loan for the United States, of Three Millions of Florins, provided it should be obtainable at Five per Cent Interest and Four per Cent Charges. We are happy, that all our late advices, will have anticipated to You the impossibility of succeeding to...
2996To Alexander Hamilton from Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 16 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I this moment receive a letter from Colt of paterson on the subject of my account with the society. He Inclose to me a late resolve on the same, together with a bill of charges against me both which Evince the already manifested Intent to Wrong and speculate of my own Expences. In the account I am charged with articles I had nothing to do with and the better in order to reduce the Ballance due...
2997To Alexander Hamilton from Hugh Williamson, 16 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
At my Lodgings in Philada., Francis’s Hotel, I left three Trunks vizt large Trunk, flat Top. 1 small Trunk, portable in the Hand, both Philada made. & 1 middle sized Trunk, french manufacture, cover’d as I believe, with Hogs Skin. In this middle sized Trunk are many valuable Papers to which it may be necessary I should have access by some Friend. The Trunk has two Locks of which the Keys are...
2998To Alexander Hamilton from Gouverneur Morris, 17 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Moscow Livingston delivered to me yours of the 25th. of July. He says that you alone gave him an Idea of this Country like the Reality. His Astonishment proves that he did not beleive you and would you hear him you might in your Turn be astonished to find that your sound Understanding while it grasp’d the future Event had never contemplated the progressive Circumstances. I leave to others...
2999To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 17 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The arrival of Mr. Blake whom the sec. of State has despatched from Philadelphia with letters for Mr. Carmichael & myself, being without any letter from you, & the letters he brought having shewn that several written from hence had not been recieved at the time of his departure, I think it may not be improper to state to you by him, those which I have had the honor of writing to & recieving...
3000To Alexander Hamilton from Stephen Moylan, 21 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
By a late offer made me by the President thoro the Secretary of State to appoint me Marshal for the Pennsylvania district, I was much pleased to find I was not out of his remembrance. I gave him such reasons for not accepting that office as I presume must be Satisfactory. An opportunity now offers of effectually Serving me, the Naval office being as I am informed Vacant by the death of Mr....