3531To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [8 December 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your Letter of Decr. 6th. The Warrant for the sum due to the Bank of New York was issued punctually, by some neglect or accident in the Treasurers Office, it remained undischarged. I have taken measures for the payment. By a Letter from Mr. Wilkes I find that the Bank claim a payment of Interest by way of discount and the 200.000 Dollars continued on Loan on the security of a...
3532To Alexander Hamilton from Stephen Higginson, 9 December 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of 28 of last month I received, & communicated its contents to some of our Electors. a majority of them were at first inclined to throw away their Votes from Mr Pinckney lest he should rise above Adams; but your information as to Vermont; with some observations made to them shewing the danger of so doing decided all but three, who were determined upon interested & personal motives...
3533To Alexander Hamilton from Luke Codwise, 15 December 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, December 15, 1796. “Mr. J W Delaney & myself having made a settlement of our Accounts you will please discontinue the Suit commenced against him on my Account.” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Codwise was a New York sea captain. John William Delaney was a New York merchant. As captain of the brig Glasgow , Codwise left New York on November 25, 1795, for a voyage to the...
3534To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Morris, 31 December 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
You will find annexed hereto the Copy of a letter just received from Charles Bridgen Esqr. and enclosed my Answer, which after reading You will be kind enough to send to him. I suppose myself to be founded in saying that the suit contemplated, cannot be brought against me, otherwise no Man whose Name is on another Mans paper, can be safe, At any rate I request your Aid as a professional Man...
3535To Alexander Hamilton from Wade Mosby, 1 January 179[7] (Hamilton Papers)
Richmond, January 1, 179 [ 7 ]. Acknowledges message that Hamilton will serve as his attorney in the suit brought against him in New York by Leeds and Mumford. States: “I am sure that when you are fully possessed of all the circumstances relative thereto you will find [it] to be one of the most Rascally proceedings you ever were witness to.… I wait your answer hoping that you will quickly put...
3536To Alexander Hamilton from James Ricketts, 1 January 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Elizabethtown, New Jersey ] January 1, 1797 . “I feel you will think that I have not paid proper attention to your letter. Immediately on the receipt of it I wrote to Mr. Livingston to send me an account of the Dividends which he had made, and the proportions which he had paid me on acct. of his Sisters Legacy, his answer I recd. the day before yesterday which is as follows: ‘I have recd....
3537To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 3 January 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
Richmond, January 3, 1797. “I have just now seen Mr Wade Mosby of my Neighbourhood in the Country, whose Agent … has just returned from N. York where he has employed you in a Suit to which Mr Mosby is a party. He wishes me to say to you what his Character & circumstances are. I have known him from his Childhood to this day, and can with confidence say he is a man who has supported the...
3538To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Morris, 7 January 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
I have arranged with Capt Chas Williamson for the debt Contracted with Colo Wm S. Smith in August 1791 of which fifty Thousand Dollars. in Six ⅌ Ct Stock remains to be transferred and delivered & for the performance thereof I have given to Capt. Williamson Assignee of Colo Smith a satisfactory Security, in Consequence Whereof that Tract of Land in the Genesee Country for which I gave Colo...
3539To Alexander Hamilton from Stephen Higginson, 12 January 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of 20 of last month I have received. The election of Mr. Adams seems to be secured, but with an excess only of one vote, which is close work indeed. This, while it avoids the point I before stated to you, will involve another, I fear, more dangerous & difficult. The blind or devoted partisans of Mr. Adams, instead of being satisfied with his being elected, seem to be alarmed at the...
3540To Alexander Hamilton from Angelica Church, [20 January 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
I would have you to understand Mon tres cher Monsieur that my eyes have recovered all their former lustre, and that they have been ineffectually employed in searching for the grace and elegance of your friend, nor have I yet been able to discover that ease and je ne sais quoi by which Sterne observes the gentleman may be so readily ascertained. As to his capacity for Bargain making that I...