3201From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 20 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, June 20, 1793. Transmits “the President’s Ratification of the Contract lately made with the Bank of The U States for Eight hundred thousand Dollars.” ALS , Lloyd W. Smith Collection, Morristown National Historical Park, Morristown, New Jersey. Willing was president of the Bank of the United States. For background to this letter, see H to George Washington, March 18, second...
3202From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, [24 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, October 24, 1792. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , sold at Merwin-Clayton Sales Company, November 12, 1906, Lot 1100.
3203From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, [23 May 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton presents his Compliments to Mr. Willing incloses the rough draft of an agreement comprising the ideas contained in Mr. W Letter of today. If approved Mr. H will have it corrected & copied. If any alterations are desired Mr. W. will pleased to signify them. Mr. H is desirous of finishing the arranget as soon as may be. AL , courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library. The...
3204From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 5 April 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Henry Kuhl Principal Clerk in the Comptrollers office has informed me that he is a candidate for the place of Assistant Cashier to the Bank of the UStates and has requested a testimonial of my opinion of his qualifications. I without scruple give it and in the strongest manner: I cannot imagine a man better qualified for such a place than he is. A thorough knowlege of accounts—a very clear...
3205From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 6 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 6, 1794. “I request that you will furnish William Bradford Esquire with Eight hundred Dollars for a matter relative to the public service.…” ALS , Connecticut College Library, New London, Connecticut. Willing was president of the Bank of the United States. This money was for the expenses of the United States commissioners—of which Bradford was one—appointed to...
3206From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 3 June 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I will thank you to have made out and forwarded to me my account with the Bank from the period the ballance was last struck & forwarded. Having lost my Bank book I am not able to name it but I presume it will appear by the books of the Bank. With true respect & esteem I am Dr. Sir Your Obed serv ALS , Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. According to an undated document in the...
3207From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, [24 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, October 24, 1792. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads: “To the President of the Bank of the U.S. extending for an additional thirty days credit on bill sold by the Bank on American Commissioners in Amsterdam ‘to such purchasers of bills as have deposited public securities.’” Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Carnegie Book Shop, New York City, 1948,...
3208From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 16 May 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, May 16, 1794. “I request that the Bank will advance to the Secretary of State Nine hundred Dollars towards defraying certain expences which have occurred in the West Indies in relation to the public service.…” ALS , Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia. For background to this letter, see the exchange of letters between H and Edmund Randolph, May 16, 1794 . This letter...
3209From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, [11 September 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 11, 1794. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , listed by Patrick F. and Thomas F. Madigan, New York City, in The Autograph , I (November, 1911).
3210From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, [8 January 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 8, 1793. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Carnegie Book Shop, New York City, 1938, Catalogue 66, Item 664.
3211From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 17 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, December 17, 1789. On December 24, 1789, Willing wrote to Hamilton : “I reced by the last post yours of the 17th Inst.” Letter not found. ]
3212From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, [31 April 10–May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
You will receive with this the Draft of an agreement for the loan heretofore arranged —which if approved I request may be made out into duplicates indented so as to correspond with each other. You will observe an option to the UStates as to the time of receiving . I understood that this would not be agreeable; but as it has not been formaly objected to it is proper for me to insert it. Should...
3213From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 14 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, November 14, 1789. On November 18, 1789, Willing wrote to Hamilton : “I have just received your Favor of the 14th Instant.” Letter not found. ]
3214From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 8 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, March 8, 1790. On March 12, 1790, Willing wrote to Hamilton : “I have consulted the Directors on the Subject of yr. letter of the 8th Inst.” Letter not found. ]
3215From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, [27 July 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton presents his Compliments to Mr Willing and sends him a letter which came to hand by yesterday’s post for his information. Tis probable, as is not uncommon, when men are in a confessing mood, that more has been confessed, than is true; yet the communication deserves particular attention, as it is certain that the Gang mentioned are the most ingenious set of forgers that perhaps...
3216From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, [20–23 February 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, February 20–23, 1790. ] Asks Willing to serve as his “lawful Attorney & substitute & the lawful attorney” of John B. Church “to do and perform all and singular acts matters and things as well touching the transfer and assignment of the Bank Stock and parts of Bank Stock standing in the name of the said John B. C. or otherwise to him belonging in the said capital or joint stock of...
3217From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 25 September 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, September 25, 1789. On October 1, 1789, Willing wrote to Hamilton : “Your Favor of the 25th Ult was received on the 29.” Letter not found. ]
3218From Alexander Hamilton to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 17 April … (Hamilton Papers)
The Treasurer of the United States has my authority to draw upon you, at thirty days sight, for 500,000 Guilders in favor of John Kean Esquire, Cashier of the Bank of the United States, to which you will please to give due honor. I am &c. Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Treasury Department, 1792–1793, Vol. III, National Archives. This letter was enclosed in H’s “Report on Foreign Loans,” February...
3219From Alexander Hamilton to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 20 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 20, 1792. On July 26, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard : “You will herewith receive triplicates of my letters of the 7th. of May and 20th. ultimo.” Letter of June 20 not found. ]
3220From Alexander Hamilton to John Witherspoon, 20 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, October 20, 1789. On October 26, 1789, Witherspoon wrote to Hamilton : “On Saturday I had the Pleasure of receiving Yours of the 20th.” Letter not found. ] Witherspoon was president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton).
3221From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 26 [October] 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have observed in the “Aurora” a piece under the signature of “A calm Observer” which I think merits attention. It is my design to reply to it with my name but for this I wish to be furnished as soon as possible with the account of the President and of the appropriations for him as it stands in the Secretary’s office the Comptroller’s and the account rendered to Congress, & also the account...
3222From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, October 29, 1795. On October 30, 1795, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott : “I wrote you yesterday.” Letter not found. ]
3223From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 13 June 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter from New York after a circuit by Albany found me here. I forgot to observe to you in my last, that unless there were objections to it which did not occur to me, it appeared adviseable, if not done, to institute at Amsterdam a plan for subscribing the Dutch and Antwerp Debt. It may be conducted under the management of our Commissioners with the Superintendence of our Minister. In...
3224From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 25 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have examined the points of which you delivered me a memorandum for consideration. There is no doubt that the monies arising from foreign loans which have been invested in the purchase of Domestic Debt are to be placed to the account of the loan of 2000000 authorised to be made by the Act of the 12th of August 1790 and will exhaust pro tanto the authority thereby given. It is equally clear...
3225From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 10 August 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter by Saturday’s Post. The one you inquire about was received. I incline very much to the opinion that this will be the proper course of conduct in reference to the order to seize our vessels with provisions (viz) to send to our Agent the Treaty ratified as advised by the Senate with this instruction—that if the order for seizing provisions is in force when he receives...
3226From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 27 October 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 17th instant found me at Albany attending the Supreme Court. I have no copy of the Treaty with G B at hand, but I am well satisfied from memory that the true interpretation of that Treaty, enforcing in this respect the true Rule of neutrality, forbids our permitting the sale of a prize taken & brought in by a French National Ship, equally as if by a Privateer —and that the...
3227From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 9 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I called at your house the morning of my departure but you was not then up. While I was in the City we had a little conversation concerning an affair of an arrangement with Swan for effecting a remittance to Holland. I intended to have resumed it for two reasons, one because it has been represented to the disadvantage of the Conduct of the Treasury, another because Swan who lodged at the same...
3228From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 15 June 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, June 15, 1795. On June 18, 1795, Wolcott wrote to Hamilton : “I have recd. your Letters of June 13th. & 15th.” Letter of June 15 not found. ]
3229From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 28 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have seen with pleasure your reply to the calm observer. I believe it is as far as you ought to go but more particular explanation will be useful & from me now a private man intirely proper. I therefore hope to receive as soon as may be the statements I requested. Yrs. ALS , Dartmouth College Library. For background to this letter, see H to George Washington, October 26, 1795, note 1 . For...
3230From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 28 December 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I received yesterday your’s by Post, which I communicated immediately to the Directors of both Banks, that is, so much as concerned each party. It has been very consolatory to the Bank of New York & will do good. All will be well. Mr. Alexander McComb applied, while I was in Office, respecting some land he & Edgar had purchased of the Public and on which they had made a partial payment which...
3231From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [28 July 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I have not lost sight of the negotiation with the Bank though it labours & I have thought it best to let it lie bye till the President returns. Mc.Cormick is violent against it & plays on little jealousies, & what is still more efficacious private interests; representing the consequent inability of the Bank to accommodate the Merchants, many of whom from the unfortunate issue of some late...
3232From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 30 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I had written you a short line previous to the Receipt of your letter of the 26th to which indeed I can add nothing material. It will, as things stand, be imprudent to push the point of a further loan till the President arrives —for though a majority of the Directors are well disposed to the thing, they are afraid of McCormick’s clamours and want the sanction of the President to controul &...
3233From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 30 October[–12 November] 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you yesterday for a statement of the advances & appropriations for the Department of State. I am very anxious that Fauchet’s whole letter should appear just as it is —strange whispers are in circulation of a nature foreign to Truth & implicating honest men with Rascals. Is it to come out? Can’t you send me a copy? I will observe any conditions you annex. The secret Journals & other...
3234From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [21 December 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I did not understand by your letter of the 17th. of November whether you meant or not to authorise the immediate commencement of the sale of Stock. If you think this measure will become indispensable, it may be well to anticipate the execution; though indeed sales of Stock are at this juncture nearly impracticable. Yet I imagine it will be agreeable to the Bank to have permission to...
3235From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 30 June 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Doctor Livingston sometime since left with me a bundle of vouchers relating to the questions between Phil Livingstons estate & the public. There was among other things a little Register or book with a marble cover doubled up. I do not find it among my papers & if my memory does not deceive me it was sent on breaking up at Philadelphia to one of the Offices of the Treasury. Mr. Jones may know...
3236From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [7–10 March 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed are two letters which I will thank you to hand on. I have just seen Livingston’s Motion concerning Instructions &c. My first impression is that the propriety of a compliance with the call, if made, is extremely doubtful. But much careful thought on the subject is requisite. Yrs truly PS. I hand you also a letter from Mrs. Church to Mr. Beametz —which I will thank you to send to Mr....
3237From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 8 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Carlisle, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1794. On October 11, 1794, Wolcott wrote to Hamilton : “I have recd. your favour dated 7: & 8: inst.” Letter of October 8 not found. ]
3238From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [5 August 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
The Bank of New York is willing to make the loan of 324 000 Dollars to you (I mean the exact sum of about this amount, if you desire it, which one of the laws you mentioned authorises to borrow) on these terms to advance all but two hundred thousand Dollars when you please—to advance the two hundred thousand Dollars, by way of reloan, when that sum, payable in October, becomes due. The term of...
3239From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 26 June 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have direct information in confidence, that the Minister of France by a letter received yesterday has ordered a fast sailing vessel for France to be prepared at this port. No doubt this has connection with the Treaty with England. I presume with the reserves that decorum requires he is apprised of the contents of that Treaty. This ought at least to go so far as to satisfy him that there is...
3240From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 20 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 18th. instant. The money paid me for you shall be placed to your Credit in the Office of Discount & Deposit as you desire. The British Ministry are as great fools, or as great rascals, as our Jacobins—else our Commerce would not continue to be distressed as it is by their Cruisers, nor would the Executive be embarrassed as it now is by the new proposition....
3241From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [30 May 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I perceive Congress are invading the Sinking Fund system. If this goes through & is sanctionned by the President the fabric of public Credit is prostrate & the Country & the President are disgraced. Treasury Bills & every expedient however costly to meet exigencies must be preferable in the event to such an overthrow of system. Yrs truly ALS , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford; copy,...
3242From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Being about to leave the seat of Government for a few Weeks to accompany the Army on its march against the Western Insurgents of Pennsylvania, I commit to you during my absence the management of those matters which are reserved to my superintendance under the constitution and regulations of the Department, especially the receipts and expenditures of money, and I rely upon your deligence and...
3243From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 3 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the and thank you for the information. As to Randolph, I shall be surprised at nothing—but if the facts come out, his personal influence is at all events damned. No colouring will remove unfavourable impressions. To do mischief he must work in the Dark. What you say respecting your own department disquiets me; for I think we shall for the present weather all...
3244From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 5 August 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received yours of 3d instant. You make no mention of having received one from me inclosing another for the Attorney General in which I tell him that I will attend the cause which involves the question respecting direct taxes when notified of the time it will come on. The silence of your letter makes me fear it may have miscarried. I do not wonder at what you tell me of the author of a...
3245From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [8 July 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I have just received your letter of the 6th. The idea of selling Bank Stock is the worst of all & can only be urged on a plan of private speculation. Acquiescence may tempt the Bank to oppress hereafter for speculation purposes. I have talked to some Directors of the Bank of New York conformably to your first suggestion, respecting the deposit of Stock & it will not be expedient to change...
3246From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 30 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] September 30, 1794 . On October 2, 1794, Wolcott wrote to Hamilton : “I have recd. your letter of Sept. 30th.” Letter not found. ]
3247From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 30 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have thought it adviseable to establish during my absence a substitute for the mode of transferring Stock from Office to Office heretofore in practice at the Treasury. The inclosed letters by duplicates to the respective Commissioners of Loans from Jersey inclusively to Georgia specify it. Please to have the blanks filled with the names of those Commissioners severally and have the letters...
3248From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [15 July 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
The application for a loan from the Bank of New York though powerfully supported by some of the leading directors labours; owing to the jealousy & narrowness of certain ones who see in it a plan to increase the active capital of the Branch Bank & put them in its power. Unluckily the President suddenly went off to R Island with his wife & some sick Children. I pursue the affair & I hope still...
3249From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 18 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The XXXIV Section of the Collection law provides that certain rates per Cent . shall be allowed for the Tares of Coffee Pepper and Sugar, other than loaf Sugar. Upon this provision, a doubt has existed whether the per centage ought not, in certain cases to be computed on the Cwt. or long hundred; or ought in all cases to be computed on the 100 lb or short hundred. The practice at different...
3250From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [3 November 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I have more carefully examined our Treaty with G Britain & I return to the opinion given you from Albany. My hesitation yesterday arose from the terms of the 24th article which were confined to privateers , a word that has an appropriate sense, meaning ships of private persons commissioned to cruise . But the following article contains the equivalent one to that with France, upon which we...