31From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 19 May 1802 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the pleasure of receiving your letter of the 26th. of April and with it the half barrel of Mess Pork. It is excellent. Nothing could have been more acceptable to me. It is an article I am particularly fond of—& the gift deserves additional value from the Giver . Receive my thanks & believe me always Yr. sincere & Affect friend ALS , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. Wadsworth, a...
32From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 18 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I stand extremely in need of a capable prudent and trust worthy man to aid me in capacity of Secretary. He must possess a clear comprehension and a perspicuous correct and neat Style. I wish the emoluments which the law allows me to offer were a more adequate inducement to such a character. They are only the pay and emoluments of a Captain in the Army—in other words forty dollars per month and...
33From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, [April 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
You will think me a sad delinquent and You will have reason. I plead guilty & crave the mercy of the Court. The two Credits of July 31. 1786 stand in my book as different 3500 } Dollars. This renders it less probable that they should sums— 3000 be one payment as you appear by your letter of the 24 of April 1791 to think possible. I have not on examination found any additional light. If none...
34From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, [1 December 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I have lately received a line from you. I had been apprised of the machination to cheat us into Mr Burr but I have no apprehension of its success. My chief fear is that the attachment of our Eastern friends to Mr. Adams may prevent their voting for Pinckney likewise, & that some irregularity or accident may deprive us of Adams & let in Jefferson. Judge Tichener in passing through informed me...
35From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 7 April 1785 (Hamilton Papers)
In mine to you of the first instant I informed you that the house of Samuel and Moses Myers of Amsterdam had stopped payment in consequence of which an assignment of property had there taken place for the benefit of the English and Dutch Creditors. How far this assignment will operate cannot now be determined; as we are not sufficiently acquainted with the circumstances. It happened the Mr....
36From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, [29 October 1785] (Hamilton Papers)
I have intended for some time to write to you on the subject of the bank of North America; but my absence from town and multiplied engagements have delayed my doing it. You of course know that the State of Pensylvania has repealed its act of incorporation. What do you intend to do or what would you advise to be done for Mr Church? To sell unless at a great disadvantage is not practicable. To...
37Pieter Johan Van Berckel, William Edgar, Sampson Fleming, William Denning, and Alexander Hamilton (for John Barker … (Hamilton Papers)
The step lately taken by the Legislature of Pensylvania in repealing the act by which the government of that state had incorporated the Bank of North America has given rise to questions of a delicate and important nature. We observe with regret that the very existence of the Institution as a corporate body has by this proceeding been drawn into controversy: a circumstance which we consider in...