4351To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 10 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly honored with your Letters of the 1st and 5th instant. A copy of the latter is enclosed according to your desire. You may depend upon it, Sir, that nothing shall be wanting in this Department to furnish all requisite supplies for the Army with efficiency & œconomy, and to bring to exact account all persons concerned in them as far as shall consist with the powers of the...
4352From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 12 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The charges on the canvas intended for the Maryland Cutter appear to be proper objects of debit to that vessel. The sum of one dollar and fourteen Cents may therefore be charged in her disbursements. You will perceive that my Circular letter of the 2d instant will prevent future expence of postage to the Collectors in receiving Registers from one another. I am, Sir, Your Most Obed Servant. LS...
4353From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 22 October 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Preakness, New Jersey, October 22, 1780. On November 12, 1780, Schuyler wrote to Hamilton : “Both your favors of the 17th & 22nd, ult I had the pleasure to receive about the latter end of the month.” Letter of October 22 not found. ]
4354From Alexander Hamilton to John F. Hamtramck, 7 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I am not certain whether I have or not answered your letter of the 25 of December. It is my opinion that your ordinary residence will be at Pittsburgh that you may have the immediate charge of the more Northern Posts, and be a medium of communication, between Genl. Wilkinson and myself. Your Suggestion as to a Brevet has not been unnoticed. It is impossible for me to say any thing as to the...
4355From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 1 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
You will find in this inclosure two copies of a contract with John McComb junr, of New York, for building a light house on Cape Henry. I request the favor of your sending for Mr McComb & procuring his execution of them. It will be necessary that the inclosed bond be also executed by Mr McComb, & two competent Sureties. The Persons offered to me were Messrs Nicholas Cruger & Peter Kemble, whom...
4356From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 1 September 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
General Schuyler and other persons concerned with him have empowered me to act for them in the case of certain lands in Cosby’s Manor which you and others as Trustees of the Ringwood Iron Company have advertised for sale on the fifth instant. Though from what I learn of the matter, I am led to conclude that my friends have a valid legal title to the premises yet there are considerations which...
4357From Alexander Hamilton to Walter Stewart, 21 February 1785 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, February 21, 1785. “I have delayed answering the letter you lately wrote me in expectation of Mr. Templetons making some proposals, which it appeared to me he had some thoughts of doing, but as he has not come to any explanation, it is unnecessary to wait any longer for it. All that I can recommend to you to do, is to procure and send out all original letters or orders from Templeton...
4358From Alexander Hamilton to John Henry, [9 December 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury not relying entirely on the accuracy of the data upon which the calculations in his Report on the subject of the Mint were founded, as they respect the quantity of fine silver contained in the silver dollar, thought it advisable to embrace the opportunity of the interval between the last and the present sessions of Congress to endeavour to obtain from Europe more...
4359From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, 6 July [1780] (Hamilton Papers)
Here we are my love in a house of great hospitality—in a country of plenty—a buxom girl under the same roof—pleasing ⟨expect⟩ations of a successful campaign—and every thing to make a soldier happy, who is not in love and absent from his mistress. As this is my case I cannot be happy; but it is a maxim of my life to enjoy the present good with the highest relish & to soften the present evil by...
4360From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [6 December 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
I had strongly hoped My very Dear Betsey that our business would have ended this day & that tomorrow I should have begun my journey for New York but to my infinite chagrin I am obliged to submit to a further delay. It does not appear that we can now count upon leaving this place before Monday Morning. Then we rely that there will be no remaining obstacle & I shall fly to your bosom. Forgive...
4361From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 14 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 14, 1792. “It had been intimated to me, previous to the receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant, that a dissimilar construction was given in the Custom Houses to the laws which relate to the importation of Teas &ca.… The mode adopted at your office appears to be comformable to the sense of the law.” L[S] , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the...
4362From Alexander Hamilton to Colonel Thomas Clark, [18] May 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
His Excellency received last night a letter from Lt Col Davidson written by your direction, informing him of the enemy’s being at the New Bridge. He requests you will advise him punctually of their movements and endeavour to ascertain their force and designs. You will be pleased to do the same to General McDougall. The Quarter Master General is directed to furnish you with some express riders...
4363From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 8 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, April 8, 1799. “The Commander in Chief having approved the idea of calling the Pay Master to the Seat of Government, I send you inclosed by his direction an order for him to repair to the seat of Government.…” ADfS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. George Washington to H, March 25, 1799 . H to Caleb Swan, April 3, 1799 .
4364To John Jay from Alexander Hamilton, 4 June 1794 (Jay Papers)
The session of Congress is about to close much better than I expected— All mischievous measures have been prevented and several good ones have been established. Among these additional provisions of revenue & some of force are not the least important. But as more immediately connected with the objects of your mission you will learn with satisfaction that the bill which had passed the senate...
4365From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox, 13 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inclose an extract of a letter from me of this date to General Wilkinson, on a question of some importance lately raised by the Contractors. I need not observe of how much moment it is, that the Commanding General should without delay establish with the Contractors the construction which I put on the Contract; about which I have no idea that they can mean any serious...
4366From Alexander Hamilton to Andrew G. Fraunces, 3 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of yesterday I received last night. The contents of it surprize me. Could you imagine that the menace of an appeal to the people, would induce me to swerve from what I thought my public duty? If you believe that it will be of any advantage to you, I have no objection to your making it, whenever you think proper. The President has put into my hands your letter, in order that I may...
4367From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 30 January 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New Windsor, New York, January 30, 1781. On February 5, 1781, Schuyler wrote to Hamilton : “Your favors of the 21st & 30th ult: I had the pleasure to receive a few days ago.” Letter of January 30 not found. ]
4368From Alexander Hamilton to the Electors of the State of New York, [1 April 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
To the Independent and Patriotic Electors of the State of NewYork. It is not long since we addressed you on the subject of the ensuing election of a chief magistrate, and communicated to you the proceedings, which had then taken place in this city in relation to it. Within a few days past, there has appeared an address signed by Mr. Jonathan Lawrence, as the chairman of a committee, said to...
4369From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Hiller, 27 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have yet to reply to your letter of the 19th Ultimo, concerning American Rum, which may have been exported, and re-imported for want of sale. The penalties against the landing of articles, which have been entered for exportation, are not understood to apply to the bringing back of articles, which have actually and bona fide been at a foreign port; but to relanding before going to a foreign...
4370From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 21 March 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I hope you will have understood that I did not mean by any thing in my late letter to blame the plan pursued with regard to vessels arriving contrary to the Non-Intercourse laws. I mean only to give you testimony of the character of an Individual & to place before you my professional ideas of the defective wording of the law as a kind of caution in the execution. I agree with you that the...
4371From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Gerry, 26 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, September 26, 1792. “I have directed another Thermometer to be sent.… The article being an expensive one, it is necessary that care be taken for its preservation.” LC , Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts; RC , Bentley Historical Library (Crouse Autograph Collection), Ann Arbor, Michigan. See H to Gerry, August 18, 1792 .
4372From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 29 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I am to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letters of the 20th. of December & 24th. instant. You will be pleased to prepare an Act to be submitted to the President for comprehending the River Ohio in the District of Ohio as far as it now borders upon it and for comprehending it in the Second Survey as proposed. No act of the President can give concurrent jurisdiction to Officers of different...
4373From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 15 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, November 15, 1793. Requests “amount of the last quarters dividend paid by the office of Discount & Deposit, in order that a warrant may issue to cover the same.” LS , Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
4374From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Pendleton, 15 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 15, 1792. “I have had the statement relative to the petition of John Moore, Master of the sloop Uxbridge Packet, and others under consideration. It does not at present appear to my satisfaction that there was neither intention of fraud nor wilful negligence on the part of the Petitioners. Indeed the case stands ill in my mind …, and I could wish a re-examination …,...
4375From Alexander Hamilton to James Read, 18 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have just received your letter of this day—If an opportunity by water should occur it will be best still to send the men to West Point— W— ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
4376From Alexander Hamilton to Gouverneur Morris, 9 January 1801 (Hamilton Papers)
I have lately, My Dear Sir, written to you two letters. As they contained some delicate topics, I shall be glad to know that they got to hand. It has occurred to me that perhaps the Fœderalists may be disposed to play the game of preventing an election & leaving the Executive power in the hands of a future President of the Senate. This, if it could succeed, would be for obvious reasons a most...
4377From Alexander Hamilton to Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, [18 June 1778] (Hamilton Papers)
His Excellency desires you will have the division commanded by General Mifflin prepared to march at two OClock. You know it consists of the 1st & 2d Pennsylvania, and the Brigade late Conways. Yr. Obed ser ALS , Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Major General Thomas Mifflin had served as an aide-de-camp to Washington until August 14, 1775, when he was appointed quartermaster...
4378From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 26 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Post of yesterday brought me your letter of the 21st instant, with the Proclamation enclosed, which was immediately published through the Secretary of State’s Office in Brown’s Federal Gazette; and means will be taken to accelerate a general circulation of it. I have the honor to be with the highest respect & truest attachment. Sir, Your most Obedient and humble servant LC , George...
4379From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, [20 December 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, December 20, 1792. “A warrant has been issued this day on the Treasurer in your favor as attorney for James O’Hara Quarter Master General of the Army of the United States … to be applied … to … discharging sundry bills.…” Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Kenneth W. Rendell, Kingston Galleries, Inc., Somerville, Massachusetts, 1969, Catalogue 37, Item 70. Hodgdon was...
4380Warrant of Remission in the Case of Robert Wasson, Master of the Sloop “Sally”, [27 December 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
To all to whom these presents shall come I Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury of the United States send Greeting. Whereas a statement of facts with the petition of Robert Wasson of Norwalk in the State of Connecticut, Master of a Sloop called the Sally bound from Norwalk in the district of Connecticut to that of the State of New York thereto annexed touching a certain forfeiture and...
4381From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Purviance, 29 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 10th. instant with its inclosures has been duly received. I have to request that you will continue to suspend untill further orders the prosecution of Mr. Messoniers Bond provided he pays the duty on all such part, if any, as was not re-exported. The same conduct is to be observed towards others in a similar situation. In the clause you quote the word “except” after the word...
4382From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Dayton, 6 August 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I received at Philadelphia your letter of the 27th of July the answer to which has been delayed by excessive occupation. You know, I trust, sufficiently my sentiments of you, not to need being told how much pleasure your appointment gave me, and how highly I value the confidence you express in me. It will probably be unexpected to you to be told that I am not yet in the exercise of the...
4383From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 19 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you the proceedings of a Court Martial lately held at Baltimore. The sentences have been approved and ordered to be executed. The Accountant of your Department will no doubt be instructed to see to the due execution of the pecuniary parts of them in the future disbursements— With great consideration respect I have the honor to be Sir Yr. Obed Sr ( ADf , Hamilton Papers, Library of...
4384From Alexander Hamilton to Major Henry Lee, 9 October 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Near Philadelphia, October 9, 1779. On October 15, 1779, Lee wrote to Hamilton : “I have your letters of the 9th & 13th Octobr.” Letter of October 9 not found .]
4385To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 31 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
The New Jersey Infantry and Brigade of Cavalry are at this place—The Pensylvania Infantry will be here this Evening—The light Corps is advanced about two Miles. No official account, since that heretofore communicated has come from the left wing —But a person who came from Union-Town yesterday informs, that Morgan with the advance was there—the main body about twenty miles behind—I propose in...
4386The Iliad of Homer, [1773] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Elizabethtown, New Jersey, 1773 .] Exercise in Homer’s Iliad , beginning with Book 12. Discontinuously numbered lines in Greek are followed by one page of English translation and notes in English on the geography of the eastern Mediterranean. D , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. The authorship of this MS is not known. The handwriting bears only a slight resemblance to that of H. If H...
4387From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed are the copies of two Acts one of Congress authorising The President to borrow two millions of Dollars another of the President authorising me to carry that act into effect. The extensive payments becoming due to the Bank of the UStates added to the large demands for the current service oblige me to ask of the Bank the loan of the whole sum. The expence of suppressing the late...
4388Enclosure: [The Various Manufactories of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts], [13 October 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The various manufactories of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, finish upwards of Ten Thousand dozen pair of cotton and wool cards yearly; two thirds of these are exported to the several States; they average at the price of Five Dollars and an half per dozen, and produce Fifty five thousand dollars. Four fifths of the whole are made in the Town of Boston. One house alone completes Six thousand...
4389From Alexander Hamilton to James Nicholson, 20 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
From an observation contained in the first part of your Note, I think it proper to observe that what You stile the peremptoriness of my invitation proceeded from an impression on my part that the nature of what You said to me especially on a certain very delicate point which You cannot but recollect was such as to render it improper in me to invite explanation. At the same time, I think it now...
4390From Alexander Hamilton to Lewis Tousard, 30 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the twenty eighth, but do not perceive in it any sufficient reason for preferring Philadelphia to N York or its vicinity for your residence during the ensuing winter. Any military books belonging to the public can be sent to you, and if you are in a town near this city I can correspond regular with you by post, which would supersede the necessity of a personal...
4391From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States, 26 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, February 26, 1793. Requests “a further advance of one thousand Dollars to Young and Dannacker … on account of their Clothing Contract with the Public.” LS , St. Mary of the Lake Seminary Library, Mundelein, Illinois. See “Contract with George Dannacker and William Young,” October 22, 1792 ; H to Thomas Willing, February 5, 1793 .
4392New York Assembly. Report on the Petition of Isaac Gouverneur, Junior, [14 February 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton, from the Committee to whom was referred the petition of Isaac Gouverneur, junior, praying a divorce, reported, that it is the opinion of the Committee, that some general provision ought to be made for granting relief in cases of Adultry; that the Committee have prepared the draft of a bill for that purpose, and have directed him to move for leave to bring in the same. Ordered ,...
4393From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 3 June 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been extremely uneasy, My beloved Eliza, at the state of health and state of mind in which you left me. I earnestly hope that there has been a change of both for the better. Let me entreat you as you value my happiness to tranquillize yourself and to take care of yourself. You are infinitely dear to me. You are of the utmost consequence to our precious Children. You have every motive to...
4394From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, [19 April 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton requests Mr. Jefferson to inform him whether he has received from Mr. Hamilton’s Office copies of the correspondence between Mr. Ternant & him concerning the advance of the 400.000 Dollars. These copies were prepared sometime since & it is not ascertained whether they have been mislaid or forwarded to Mr. Jefferson. A line in answer will oblige. AL , Thomas Jefferson Papers,...
4395To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 14 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
Mr Hamilton presents his respects to the President. he has written the Letter to Mr Clarkeson which the President desired, & which if not countermanded will go by post. But in the course of writting it, the following reflection has pressed upon his mind with so much force that he thinks it his duty to submit it to The President. “Clarkeson held the office of Marshal, a troublesome &...
4396From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 30 September 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
Your obliging favour of the 24th instant has duly come to hand. I see in it a new proof of sentiments towards me which are truly gratifying. But permit me to add my request to the suggestion of your own prudence, that no personal considerations for me may induce more on your part than on mature reflection you may think due to public motives. It is extremely foreign to my wish to create to you...
4397From Alexander Hamilton to William S. Smith, 9 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you a letter from Colonel Taylor and an arrangement which he proposes. The grounds, as stated in his letter, of this arrangement do not strike my fancy. The spirit seems to be too much that which almost ruined our revolutionary army in the outset. Do me the favor to remark the individuals who are with you and send me as soon as possible a brief comment on each as officer and Gentleman...
4398From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 20 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I think it will be proper for you to address the inquiry concerning the public buildings alluded to in you letter of the 18 inst to the Secretary at war, as I presume they have been built for the use of that Department. This will put the matter in a regular train of consultation between the Secretary at war and myself. I am Sir Yr Obedt Servt Df , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford....
4399From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 18 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I transmit you the enclosed letter which I doubt not you will consider as a handsome specimen of the talents of the writer—In addition to the inferences in his favor which may be drawn from it I have to — mention that he has been strongly recommended to me by very respectable characters. When If there should be a Lieutenancy which could be had with propriety be given him, I have no doubt but...
4400From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin, 18 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I beg leave to represent to your Excellency that among the Militia ordered out from this City for the Western expedition is a Mechanic of the name of Samuel Owner of Captain Guy’s Company of Artillery. Mr. Joshua Humphreys the Constructor of one of the United States Frigates to be built here represents that this man has been hitherto employed in assisting him in preparing the models which he...