111From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 1 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you some accounts an account which have has been forwarded to me by Captain McClellen. The Court Martial of which the Captain attended sat in this place, and the facts which form the basis of the account are true. I send you likewise some accounts of Lieutenant Leonard, and you will do with direct with respect to them what shall seem to you proper. Proceedings of Courts Martial in...
112From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 28 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you the inclosed papers as they came to me from the Pay Master General. It appears that the account of Capt Ellery, after having travelled backward and forward between the offices of the Pay Master and Accountant, has found no person who could adjust it. I cannot presume, that it has been finally rejected, because there is no evidence of a definitive application to you. If there are any...
113From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 26 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the twenty fourth instant. I have reflected on the question proposed for my consideration, but am of opinion that the course heretofore recommended to be persued is the most proper. Should circumstances hereafter render it expedient to unite the two brigades the Division quarter Master would have a local situation, whereas the Deputy Quarter Master General whose...
114From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 26 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of forwarding to you the definitive arrangement of the relative ranks of the officers of 16 Uni States Infantry which has been approved of by me. with great respect &c Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. On February 26, 1800, in a letter listed in the appendix to this volume, H wrote to Lieutenant Colonel Rufus Graves, commanding...
115From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 26 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to refer you to a letter dated mine of January 6th. containing an extract of a letter from Colonel Hunewell recommending the appointment of Messrs. Rudberg & Abbott as Lieutenants in his regiment. I now forward The following is an extract from a letter of his dated February 6th which will shew that when he wrote the former letter he was under some mistake. “I most seriously...
116From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 25 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The Christian name of Mr. Hill heretofore recommended proposed as Chaplain is William—I would recommend that this Gentleman be speedily appointed. Major Jackson informs me that Mr. Tillinghast Surgeon’s mate to , in the garrison of Fort Woolcot has resigned his commission, and proposes Walter Hunnewell as to supply his place—As it must be expensive to have recourse to ordinary practising...
117From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 25 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you — Enclosed are certain accounts that have been transmitted me by Colonel Graves. You will perceive that some of the expences incurred by Colonel Graves were for articles — of Quarter Master supply which were not furnished by the Contractor under an idea that he was not bound to furnish them— This difficulty with — I could wish therefore that every facility in your power might be...
118From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 25 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I some time since forwarded you a definitive arrangement of the Officers of the 11th. Regiment in which Captn. Bowman is placed as third Captain. In a letter of the 19th instant from Colonel Ogden states that Captn. Bowman was Lieutenant Last War when the Officers now — above him were only Ensigns, and recommends appears to favor his being placed as first Captain as well on account of his...
119From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 21 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
As the season advances fast, when it will be proper to give effect to the new disposition for the Western Army—and as the arrangement of the Officers regimentally is a necessary preliminary to that Operation, I have recurred to your letter of the 15 of November last respecting the arrangement ⟨w⟩hich was submitted to you upon the plan of Brigadier General Wilkinson. A material object of the...
120From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 20 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeable to your wish expressed to me when at Philadelphia I have considered of a proper person to act as Deputy Quarter Master General to the Troops under my immediate command. Colonel Aaron Ogden is willing [to] accept of the appointment and as he is an officer who I can strongly recommend he will I trust meet with success. It is his wish that no immediate appointment may take place, to the...