11From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 23 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It being deemed necessary to proceed in the building of the Cutter intended for the Connecticut and Rhode Island station, I have to request that on the receipt of this the business may be pursued. The cutter for Boston is to be built at Newbury port & fitted as a Vessel with all requisite masts, spars, sails, cables, cordage, anchors, a Boat &ca. for about 22½ Dollars per Ton. At that rate you...
12From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 10 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It is certainly incumbent upon every master of a vessel to make report to the Collector of any district, into which he may go for whatever cause, within twenty four hours, and (if the vessel should remain so long in the district) to make an entry. The officers of the customs who do the duty consequently become entitled to a compensation. It is not however extraordinary that another opinion...
13From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 25 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have considered the case you State in your letter of the 22nd July respecting the repairs of a french vessel. I am of opinion that she will not be entitled to an American register if rebuilt in any manner whereby the identity of the Vessel is preserved. But if she be wholly taken to pieces, I perceive there can be no impropriety in making use of her Timber in the building of a new Vessel. I...
14From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 21 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
From some inadvertence your letter, relative to vessels which put into the district of Newport, was placed among the answered letters, and has therefore lain without due attention. It is the duty of the Collectors of the several districts to pay attention to all vessels arriving within the same by whatever cause they may be led thither. If forty eight hours are likely to elapse after the...
15From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 22 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I do not think, it will be necessary to require a refund from the officers of the revenue cutter in consequence of the payments to them at eleven cents per ration, as mentioned in your letter of the 10th. October. It is very much my wish that the article of rum may be as sparingly supplied as possible. Country rum at half a jill per man per day is, as I understand, as large an allowance as is...
16From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 26 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, November 26, 1791. Orders Huntington to “pay annually to the Surveyor of Stonington the Sum allowed by the Collection law.…” Letter not found. ] LS , sold at Swann Galleries, May 19, 1949, Lot 12. “An Act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or...
17From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 25 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, July 25, 1792. “Your letter of the 22d instant has been received. My Circular of the 23d will have satisfied you on the point of enquiry.” LS , Yale University Library. Letter not found.
18From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 10 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 10, 1793. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads: “acknowledging draft of $2000.” Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Anderson Galleries, January 24, 1908, Item 122. Huntington was collector of customs at New London, Connecticut.
19From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 12 November 1801 (Hamilton Papers)
I take the liberty to ask the favour of your aid in respect to the inclosed notice from the Supreme Court of the UStates in the affair of the Schooner Peggy. It is to be delivered to the Agents of the Ship Trumball, who are Messieurs Howland and Allen and upon a copy of it an affidavit must be made before the District Judge of the UStates (who I am told resides at New London) that the original...
20From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, [11 October 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, October 11, 1789. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , sold by John Heise, Syracuse, New York, 1923, Catalogue 2531, Item 62.