11To George Washington from Daniel Delozier, 8 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
). Alexander Contee Hanson, chancellor of Maryland, wrote GW from Annapolis on 13 Aug. that because Delozier “has not the honour of being personally known to you, I take the liberty of informing you, that I have for several years been...
12To Alexander Hamilton from John Fitzgerald, [July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Samuel Hanson.
13John Jay’s Opinion, the Circuit Court for the District of Virginia: Ware v. Hylton (formerly Jones v. Walker), [7 June … (Jay Papers)
.... It was agreed that the decision in the case would apply to the rest of the debt suits. The case was argued before the court in November 1791, with Patrick Henry, John Innes, Alexander Campbell, and John Marshall representing the debtors. With only one Supreme Court Justice, Thomas Johnson, and the district judge, Cyrus Griffin, present, John Blair having been called home on account of the...
14To John Adams from Alexander Contee Hanson, 6 December 1792 (Adams Papers)
A C Hanson
15To George Washington from David Stuart, 5 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
The conversation happened at dinner at Marlborough, in the presence of many and I have heard it spoke of by many since, and with but little variation—Mr Samuel Hanson among others, informed me as I passed through Alexa., that his Brother Coll Thomas Hanson, who heard Coll Mercer, at the same time with Mr Bayly, had given him the same idea of Coll Hamilton’s having offered Coll Mercer a bribe,...
16Report on the Petition of Alexander Contee Hanson, [28 April 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, on the petition of Alexander Contee Hanson, referred to him by the House of Representatives on the 25th of January 1791,On January 25, 1791, the House received “A petition of Alexander Contee Hanson, praying compensation for expenses incurred in consequence of an appointment of the late Congress.
17To George Washington from David Stuart, 18 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
Alexander Contee Hanson to GW, 2 Aug. 1790, note 1
18To George Washington from Samuel Hanson, 10 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Hanson’s letter to Alexander Hamilton, which must have been written before 18 Jan. 1792, has not been identified (see Hamilton to Charles Lee, 18 Jan., n.3, in Hanson had written GW on 14 Oct. 1791 about Charles Lee’s excessive absences from his post as collector of the port of Alexandria. The enclosed copy of Lee’s letter to Hanson of 9 Jan. 1792 reads: “Having revised the Laws of Congress...
19From George Washington to the United States Senate, 6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Alexander MooreSamuel Hanson
20To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Lee, 29 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
For background concerning the dispute between Lee and Samuel Hanson, surveyor at the port of Alexandria, see