331From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 19 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
By a mistake in the draught I sent you of the Arrangement of your Circle Rutland has been mentioned as a pla Rendezvous, instead of Bennington, which latter is the place intended. You will With great consideration I am Sir &c (Copy, in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
332From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 2 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letters of the twenty-seventh of September and of the fifth of October have been duly received. It is my wish that you would recommend as soon as possible two persons to act as Cadets to your regiment. My former letter on the subject was a Circular, and I supposed that nominations had been made by all the Commandants. Your enquiry on the subject of Winter Quarters has been already replied...
333From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 11 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
My circular of the 31 of March professes to transmit profers offers a plan for the Division and subdivision of the Circle, within which your Regiment is to be raised. When that letter was written it was supposed that materials for a perfect plan would speedily have been proposed obtained; but prev peculiar circumstances not necessary to be specified, have disappointed that expectation. The...
334From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 13 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is a letter authorising Your Regimental Pay Master to advance to you 650 Dollars. This sum you will apply towards the payment of 200 Dollars to Benjamin Gales on account of his disbursements for the use of your Regiment, of 200 Dollars to Ephraim Curtis on the like account, of 195 Dollars to your officers for defraying the expences of quarters while on the recruiting service and on...
335From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 28 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose to you some papers which will be of importance to you whe n you come, in conjunction with your Majors to revise the arrangement of relative rank for your regiment. With great consideration I am, Sir &c. &c. ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
336From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 13 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your different letters of the 25th. 26th & 27th July, and of August 3rd. have been received. Relying on your judgment I consent to the proposed alterations in the regimental rendezvouses, and in the arrangement of the districts. The persons nominated as Adjutant Quartermaster and Paymaster, as also those recommended as Lieutenants have been sent on to the Secretary of War, and have received my...
337From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 4 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your several letters of the sixteenth of November, and of the seventh eighth and ninth of December. Upon recurrence to the Contract with Mr. Sheaffe I find that it does not require him to furnish stationary transportation, stationary and the other articles of Quarter Master supply. The removal of this deficiency defect has been a subject of communication with the Sect. of War....
338From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 27 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the eighteenth of this month, and have transmitted a copy of it to the Secretary of War in order that any thing which shall remain to be done in that department may be done. It is however the business of the Contractors to provide the means of furnishing the stipulated supplies—They may apply for advances of money to the Dept. of War but they must procure the...
339From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 10 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
You will see, from the — enclosed return that a sufficient supply of clothing has been sent on for the present use of your regiment—It appears from a letter of Major Darling to the Secretary of War that he has not received the proportion of supplies to which he is entitled—This has arisen from the last parcel having been sent entirely to Portsmouth. You will therefore take care that a...
340From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 15 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letters of the second of December and of the first of January have been received. I leave it to your discretion to keep the recently enlisted recruits at their respective rendezvouses during the winter, or to send them on to their encampment at Oxford. They must however be at however march for their encampments quarters by the first of April. I can not see how any difficulty should arise...
341From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 26 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 25th. Ultimo containing the reasons for the alterations in the relative Rank of the Officers of your regiment. They are such as have induced me to approve entirely of your arrangemen t with the single alteration of placing Captain Ellery now 7th. as 6th. & Captain Green now 6th. as 7th Captain. with true consideration I am ( Df , in the handwriting of Philip...
342From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 13 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of War informs me that Cadets are considered as entitled to the Clothing of Sergeants, and that they have been paid at the rate of thirty one dollars and twenty five cents per suit, that being the value of the general articles according to the latest Contracts ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
343From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves and Richard Hunewell, 4 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The Town of Uxbrige or Oxford (I believe the latter) in the State of Massachusetts (I believe the latter) of which Col Rice will more certainly inform will you is to be the Winter Quarters of the 14th. 15th. & 16th Regiments. There they are to be hutted for which proper measures have been taken directed. You will lose no time in collecting march conveying the men who have been enlisted to that...
344From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 26 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the fourteenth of this month has been delivered to me. I have written to the proper authority on the subject of bounty money, and have been given to understand that informed that a supply has been forwarded sufficient, with what you have already received, to make up the complement of one half of the regiment. I trust therefore your wants will soon be releived. With great...
345From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus Graves, 17 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
On enquiry of the Dep. Paymaster General, if he had received an acknowlegement of the money forwarded by him to your Regt., he informed me that of a letter from your paymaster, excusing his not having noticed the receipt before, from the circumstance of his absence from the Regiment. I request you to inform me of the cause of his absence, as it must have occasioned great delay in appropriating...
346From Alexander Hamilton to Michael Gunkle, 24 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I am very sorry that the press hurry of business in which your letter of the seventh instant found me should so long have delayed a reply caused me it to be overlooked it at the time. The tenth regiment together with Captain Elliot’s company of Artillerists had been ordered, previously to the receipt of your letter, to Winter Quarters in the vicinity on the Potowmack in the vicinity of...
347From Alexander Hamilton to James Gunn, 16 December 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I regretted that my excessive avocations did not permit me, as I intended to call upon you before I left Philadelphia. In addition to the pleasure of doing it I was desirous of knowing the state of your mind with regard to military service. It was not that there was any thing worth your acceptance, upon the disposal of which at the time I could have had any influence, but I wished to...
348From Alexander Hamilton to James Gunn, 24 December 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, December 24, 1800. On January 9, 1801, Gunn wrote to Hamilton : “I have received your favor of the 24th. Ult. Letter not found. ]
349From Alexander Hamilton to James Gunn, [22 December 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
The post of yesterday brought me your favor of the 19th instant. The sentiments in it personal to me are extremely gratifying—and I am very glad to ascertain the military ground upon which you are not unwilling to stand. If things progress, I trust there will be no obstacle to your occupying it. As to further military arrangements my ideas are these. Considering how little has been done...
350From Alexander Hamilton to James Gunn, 24 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, January 24, 1799. Hamilton endorsed Gunn’s letter of January 23, 1799: “answered 24.” Letter not found. ]
351From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 10 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
A reply is due to some points in your letters of the 25 & 30 of June. It was foreseen that the narrowing of the description of characters who might be enlisted might would impede the progress of the recruiting service; but it is deemed better to submit to this inconvenience than to mingle in the mass of our force elements of disaffection & disorder. The plan is therefore to be sincerely &...
352From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 21 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the fourteenth of this month. It is doubtful with me whether a ge regimental Court martial is competent to try for the crime of desertion—You must will therefore take care of keep in confinement the persons mentioned in your letter untill the circumstances of the regiment are so changed such that a general Court Martial can be convened. I shall give orders for...
353From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 23 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
You are at liberty to make the Alteration as to the company Rendezvous suggested in your letter of the 19. Instant ( Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
354From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 14 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received Your letter of the eleventh of this month has been delivered to me. I approve the exertions you have made for the apprehension of the deserters, but doubt very much, the efficacy of the punishment of hard labour. However, if a Court Martial should shall be disposed to try that such an expedient, I shall will not object to the measure. I have heretofore spoken to you on of the...
355From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 15 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I ha You have already been instructed to put your regiment under marching orders. They will immediately proceed to their destination on the Potowmack in the vicinity of Harpers ferry, taking the route by Frederick Town. The contractors on the road will furnish you with the necessary supplies. I am advised that an advance of two months pay will be forwarded as soon as the forms of office can be...
356From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 3 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received you r letter of the seventh of February. The National legislature having taken the subject of recruiting into under their consideration I have no communications, at present, to make respecting it thought proper to postpone defer till the event shall be known any further communication on that subject with tru e considertn & ( Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church and Thomas...
357From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 19 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you inclosed an applicatio n of one James Hamilton, for the discharge of — Apprentice—enlisted by Lt. Alexander of your Regiment— You will please to enquire — the fact, and observe that if true the general regulation requires his discharge— With great consideration ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
358From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 8 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the third instant with it’s enclosures. The proper accomm hutts arrangements for hutting at Harper’s ferry will have been, before this, so far advanced that it will be proper to for you to proceed immediately to that place. The affair of pay has, I trust, been settled before now. I can not help thinking that the route which has heretofore prescribed to you by...
359From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 2 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have just received through the Secy. of War returns from Majors Beall & Hopkins to the 12th. & 15th. of June. This channel of conveyance is doubly irregular, as the Secy. of War is made the Organ, & as you are not . You will inform the Gentlemen that their Returns are to be made to you—and of Course you will make your returns to me With great consideration &c (Copy, in the handwriting of...
360From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 24 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have just recd. yr. letter of the 20th inst. I can only lament, that notwithstandg. the assurances made to me both verbally and by letter, and may very urgent & reiterated remonstrances requisitions a the transmission of money for your regiment experiences a so painful a delay— I ne hope nevertheless that by this time effectual measures have been taken to obviate complaints of that kind, I...