4871To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 21 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I lately communicated to you a letter from our Comissioners at Amsterdam announcing the undertaking of a Loan on account of the U. States for three millions of Florins. I submit the following application of that loan as the one which appears to me most conducive to the good of the public service. One million of Florins to be appropriated to the payment of an instalment of an equal sum of the...
4872From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 2 December 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received this morning your letter in answer to mine of the 19th. ultimo from which I find that Messrs. Willing Morris & Swanwick’s bond given for duties on goods imported from Rhode Island on the 1st. of June, falls due this day. The Legislature having declared that the Section of the act to regulate the Collection of duties, which subjected foreign goods from N. Carolina & Rhode Island...
4873From Alexander Hamilton to Major Richard Platt, [28 April 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
I will be obliged to you to give orders to have the following articles made for me a small table 4½ feet long 3½ wide for a dining table 2 small Kegs 2 a size larger 2 piggons If you can spare an artificer for a day at my quarters, he will be of use to me. I should also be glad if it could be done without inconvenience to have a light boat which two persons could manage. Yrs. ALS , RG 93,...
4874From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 31 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to communicate to the President an authenticated copy of the Contract for the last Loan made in Holland, for three millions of florins, bearing date the 9th. of August 1792, at a rate of four per cent interest, of which Contract a ratification of the President as hereto-fore, is required. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of...
4875From Alexander Hamilton to Edward Carrington, 2 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 23rd of November is this moment received. Governor Lee while in the Western Country informed me, after the Steps had been taken, that he had been under a necessity in two instances to facilitate the return of detachments of sick men, of calling upon Mr. Smith to advance Moneys to Them. The inconveniences of the Measure could not but strike at first view, yet the motives were...
4876From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 11 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The carriage of the Teas to Salem, as stated in your letter of the 9th Ultimo is a mere transportation & not an exportation of them. The outward entry must be made in due form at Salem where the Ship America was lying , and can only be made there. That outward entry is the first operation in the business of exportation, and as it will appear by the public books & papers that the goods were...
4877List of French Distressed Persons, [1793] (Hamilton Papers)
1 Madame Le Grand with two Children lives near the little Market at the house of Mr. Peter French Hatter in the greatest Indigence 2 Madame Gauvin second street North No. 83 with three Children equally destitute 3 Madame Demarie blind with a daughter who is a widow and a little Child No. 19 Cedar Street in dreadful distress 4 Madame Noel 7 Children and an orphan of whom she took charge....
4878From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, [27 January–11 February] 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
It may serve to prepare the way for a direct answer to the questions stated by the President to make some preliminary observations. 1 It is an undoubted fact that there is a very general and strong aversion to War in the minds of the people of this Country—and a considerable part of the community (though even this part has been greatly alienated from France by her late violent conduct...
4879Enclosure E: View of Sinking Fund According to Plan Proposed, January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Present annual amount of Sinking Fund supposing the investment of the residue of the surplus of Revenue to the end of 1790 & of the arrears of interest on the debt to foreign Officers in the purchase of six ⅌ Cent Stock at par and exonerating the fund from the charge to which it is subject by the last Section of the Act making provision for the Reduction of the Public Debt Vizt Interest for a...
4880From Alexander Hamilton to James Stille, 7 July 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 4th instant, and shall with pleasure give you my advice, for as such only it must be regarded, since I consider my military functions as having ceased. It appears to me to be an adviseable step for you to liberate those Citizens who surrendered to and are now under your custody, sending their names with the proper charges against them to the district Attorney...