1From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 1 March 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The inclosed letter will inform you, that the Post you command has been placed under my superintendence by the Department of War. In consequence of this arrangement, the returns for December last, which you forwarded to the Commander in Chief, have been by him transmitted to me. As my superintendence extends to all the Posts in the Northern & North Western quarters, I am desirous of revising...
2From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 25 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I embrace the first moment which I am able to spare from objects of greater urgency and more extensive concern to reply to your several letters of the 21 of March the 3 & 28 of April the 2 and 30th of May; which with the documents mentioned in them have been duely received. It is matter of regret to me that I have not been able to pay an earlier attention to them; but the various and weighty...
3From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 26 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, August 26, 1799. Has ordered Major Adam Hoops and Captain James Stille to Fort Niagara to investigate Captain James Bruff’s charges against Rivardi. States that although most men had enlisted when “the allowance” of spirits “was but half a gill per day … Those who entered the Service whilst the act of Congress which allowes a gill pr. day was in force … have some colour to contend...
4From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 2 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, October 2, 1799. “… I have been, for some time, engaged with General Wilkinson in forming a plan respecting the disposition of the western army generally which will include the posts in your quarter. It is part of this plan that the garrison of Niagara be reinforced, to consist at present of two companies of infantry and half a company of artillerists. Some doubts have been suggested...
5From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 21 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
A letter which I have just received from the S of War contains the following paragraph. “Mr. Chapin, Agent for Indian affairs, has informed me, under date of 6th ultimo, that the Tuskarora nation, residing near to Niagara, complaining of Major Rivardi, (or his people under his command), of killing three of their horses, and on finding proof of that effect he has refused to make them...
6From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 31 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Camp Scotch Plains [ New Jersey ] May 31, 1800 . “I have received your letter of the fifteenth instant. As we live in a jealous country and in jealous times, a visit from General Hunter and the Duke of Kent is not to be courted. If, however, circumstances should occur in which the thing can not be avoided without a breach of politeness or liberality, it must be met with a good grace. With this...
7From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 5 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 8th of May has been received. I am pleased with the care you have taken in the affair with the Indians. This part of your letter, as also that respecting a road, has been communicated to the Department of War that they may give further directions as shall seem to them proper. I shall act on the Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry before I leave the Service. As to your being...
8From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 21 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Doctor John G. Coffin has applied to me for a furlough. You are desired to grant it on condition that an Arrangement, satisfactory to you, be made for the care of the sick in his absence. If the furlough is desired for any other excuse than ill health the arrangement is to be without expence to the public. With great consideration &c. (Copy, in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers,...
9From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 2 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 12th. of June is recd., & the contents duly noticed. With great consideration &c. P.S. In reply to some observations of mine to the Secy. of War on a passage in one of yr. letters which States that “not one of the Hogsheads contained the Articles mentioned in the invoice,” he writes me as per the inclosed extract. I had inferred that there had been some material...
10From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 1 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Lieutt. Vissher, in his letter of the 27th of August requests leave to visit his friends in Albany and New york—I have not thought it proper in the present state of the garrison to grant him this request; but, ————— I leave it to your discretion to give him leave permission of absence for a modest period, when ever in your opinion the situation of things will admit of it. with consn ( Df , in...
11From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 31 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I perceive, in one of your late letters, a fresh application for medicines and Hospital stores. — Colonel Stevens mentions to me that a supply of those articles for a year had was forwarded to your post in April last, and that he has a letter from you acknowledging the receipt of information that those articles they were on their the way to Niagara. This, of course, supersedes the necessity of...
12From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 19 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of January 20th. and approve of your measures with respect to the Cloathing. Having full confidence in your correctness I have written to the Secretary of War recommending concerning the payment of the expences incurred in transporting them from Oswego to Niagara I must however observe that 150 dollars appears to me to be a very high charge. Drawing for money is to...