11Conversation with George Hammond, [15–28 December 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Since this conversation with Mr. Jefferson I have had one with Mr. Hamilton upon the same subject, to whom I expressed similar sentiments, and from whom I have received a letter, of which I have the honor of inclosing a copy, as being explanatory of the actual views of this Government upon this particular point, as far as they can now be defined. Transcript, MS Division, New York Public...
12Conversation with George Hammond, [24 February–7 March, 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
At Governor Simcoe’s desire I have the honor of inclosing the copy of a despatch, which I have received from that Gentleman, explanatory of the reasons that prompt him to decline a compliance with the request of the American Ministers (conveyed through me as stated in my No: 3) that he would contribute his assistance to their agent in the attempts to procure in that quarter a supply of...
13Conversation with George Hammond, [7 March–2 April 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Since I last had the honor of addressing your Lordship, I have had several conversations with Mr Hamilton on the subject of the probable conduct which this government may be induced to observe in the case of a war between Great Britain and France, of the commencement of which we have indeed received here some vague information, though through uncertain channels. From the uniform tenor of these...
14Conversation with George Hammond, [2 April–17 May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Since my last I have had several communications with Mr. Hamilton on the present critical state of affairs, from which I infer that he continues stedfast in his adherence to the opinions I have uniformly ascribed to him. In one of our most recent conversations I entered pretty largely into the exposition of those principles which your Lordship has been pleased to state to me in your last...
15Conversation with George Hammond, [10 June–6 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
For this purpose, I waited on a very influential member of the American administration, who informed me that the fact was much as it had been communicated to the public, and that Mr. Genêt’s conduct was a direct violation of a formal compact, originally entered into with Mr. Ternant and subsequently confirmed by himself both in conversation and in writing, and on the faith of which the last...
16Conversation with George Hammond, [2–10 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The executive government, though it will feel itself strengthened by, had not waited for, this approbation of the influential members of the community. It had long before been sensible of the necessity of immediately pursuing vigorous measures, and had been convinced that delay would confirm its opponents, and might probably commit, to the hazard of the contest, the preservation of its...
17Conversation with George Hammond, [21–30 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The additional instruction to British Ships of war and privateers, which your Lordship has been pleased to communicate to me, had reached this country two or three weeks antecedently to the arrival of the packet, and had excited considerable alarm both in the merchants and in the members of the government. A day or two after the receipt of it, I had a conversation with Mr. Hamilton, who...
18Conversation with George Hammond, [24 October 1793–22 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
As I imagined it probable that from the circumstance of a part of the proscribed privateers having been either captured by his Majesty’s cruizers or disarmed by order of this government, occasion might be taken to detract from the urgency of attending to my remonstrances I deemed it incumbent upon me to specify particularly the proscribed privateers which were at that time either within the...
19Conversation with George Hammond, [January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of informing your Lordship, that Mr. Shoolbred communicated to me in a letter dated the 9th of January last, which I received towards the end of that or early in the beginning of the succeeding month, the circumstance of certain British seamen, who had been captured on board of the ship Friendship, by the French sloop of war the Lascasas, (and who with the vessel were brought...
20Conversation with George Hammond, [March 10–April 17, 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 10–April 17, 1794 ] “I have the honor of transmitting … a letter … which on the 10th. of March I addressed to the Secretary of State on the subject of the encroachments by the citizens of Vermont on the territory occupied by his Majesty’s arms. To this letter I have not as yet received any answer, though both Mr. Randolph and Mr. Hamilton have assured me that the...
21Conversation with George Hammond, [15–16 April 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 15–16, 1794 ] “… the answer … to Mr. Pinckney’s Memorial … was laid before the two houses of Congress … but it has not as yet been ordered to be printed . I have had however the satisfaction of learning from Mr. Hamilton that it has been well received by this government.” D , PRO: F.O. Transcripts or photostats from the Public Record Office of Great Britain deposited in...
22Conversation with George Hammond, [15–16 April 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The project of appointing a special commissioner to Great Britain having been … for some time in contemplation, I have necessarily been solicitous to obtain some precise knowledge of the objects of the negociation which will be committed to him. I therefore took occasion from the receipt of your Lordship’s last dispatches and in the course of one or two days afterwards to have some...
23To Alexander Hamilton from George Hammond, 12 May 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of the 10th curt. on Saturday Evening, and the inclosure referred to in it, this forenoon. On this last mentioned paper, which is the report of the first legal officer of the United States in the district of Pennsylvania, and under the impression of which the federal government has deemed it expedient to refer to the State jurisdiction the inquiry...
24Conversation with George Hammond, [1–10 July 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
In obedience to your Lordship’s instructions, I endeavoured to ascertain immediately, as far as it was in my power, the probability of this government’s acceding to any propositions that have been or may be made to it by Sweden and Denmark, on the subject of becoming a party to the convention into which those powers have recently entered. For this purpose, I took an early opportunity of having...
25Conversation with George Hammond, [23 December 1794–5 January 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Although I have had no reason to suspect, that this government has ever deviated from the resolution, which I have formerly attributed to it, of declining to enter into any political connexion with Sweden and Denmark, I have nevertheless, since the receipt of your Lordship’s last instructions, renewed my enquiries upon the subject, in an incidental conversation with Mr. Hamilton, from whom I...
26Enclosure III: George Hammond to Edmund Randolph, 18 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of this date, inclosing the President’s determination with respect to the space of twenty four hours to be allowed to elapse from the departure, from Ports of the United States of vessels belonging to one of the belligerent Powers previously to their being followed by ships of war or other armed vessels belonging to another belligerent Power: but...
27Enclosure V: George Hammond to Edmund Randolph, 19 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your letter of this date, it is only necessary for me to remark, that as you have not stated to me any principle whatsoever; relative to the sailing from ports of the United States of the vessels of nations hostile to each other, that can have dictated the Presidents determination on this point of the 16th cur[ren]t (and announced to me on the 18th) which ought not to have...
28To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 26 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and begs leave to assure him that he has felt equal regret with him at the circumstances, which have hitherto prevented their meeting. In conformity to Mr. Jefferson’s obliging proposal Mr. Hammond will have the honor of waiting on him tomorrow, at any hour that he will have the goodness to appoint. Mr. Hammond is extremely...
29To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 30 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
As I am apprehensive that, in the short conversation, which I had with you yesterday at General Knox’s, I may have been misunderstood, I take the liberty of communicating to you in writing, the substance of what I then stated, as well as what I meant to have added, had I not been unwilling to trespass farther, at that time, on your attention. With respect to the manner of presenting the...
30To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 26 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, has the honor of laying before the Secretary of State the following brief abstract of the case of Thomas Pagan, a subject of his Britannic Majesty, now confined in the prison of Boston, under an execution issued against him out of the supreme judicial court of Massachusets Bay. To this abstract,...
31To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 30 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of yesterday. With respect to the non-execution of the seventh article, of the definitive treaty of peace between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, which you have recalled to my attention, it is scarcely necessary for me to remark to you, Sir, that the King my master was induced to suspend the execution of that...
32To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
As I am extremely solicitous to avoid any misapprehension of my letter of the 30th ulto., I have now the honor of stating to you, in explanation of that part of it, to which you have adverted in yours of yesterday, that, although (as I formerly mentioned, in my first conversations with you, after my arrival in this country) I am not as yet empowered to conclude any definitive arrangement, with...
33To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 14 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of yesterday, I can only repeat what I have before stated, in my first conversations with you after my arrival, and subsequently in my letter of the 6th. of this month; viz, that I have no special Commission, empowering me to conclude any definitive arrangement upon the subject of the commercial intercourse between Great Britain and the United States: But that I...
34To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 14 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 12th of this month, which did not reach me until yesterday evening. With respect to Bowles, I have no knowledge of any circumstance whatever relative to him, except that of his actual visit to England. His name was never mentioned to me in any manner, directly or indirectly by any of his Majesty’s ministers: And I therefore...
35To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 19 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor, of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 15th curt., and of expressing my perfect approbation of, and concurrence in, the mode, you have suggested, of discussing the several particulars, relative to the nonexecution of the definitive treaty of peace. In conformity to your example, I am now preparing an abstract of the circumstances that appear to me contraventions,...
36To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 28 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of addressing to you (on the 26th of November) a memorial on the case of Mr. Thomas Pagan, I have received from my Court some farther information upon the subject. I therefore flatter myself, Sir, that you will permit me, to recall this affair to your attention, and to express the solicitude, which I must naturally feel, to learn some determination with regard to it. My...
37To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 22 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond has the honor of sending to Mr. Jefferson the last Monthly Review and Gentlemans Magazine, which he has received from England. Mr. H. also annexes a Copy of the Queen of Spain answer to his letter of recall. He has no copy of this last paper, but the tenor of it may be collected from the Queen of Spain’s answer. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); enclosure: Copy of Luisa, Queen of Spain, to...
38To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 30 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to return you my acknowledgements for your very obliging favor of the 28th. Curt., and also for the communication of the Attorney General’s letter on the subject of Mr. Thomas Pagan’s case. Had my interference in behalf of Mr. Pagan been dictated merely by the spontaneous desire of relieving that Gentleman from his present unfortunate situation, I might possibly have been induced...
39To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 30 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my arrival in this country, I have passed over in silent disregard many malevolent insinuations upon the subject of the Indian war, which have been repeatedly thrown out against my Country, in the public prints, and have suffered their futility and falsehood to defeat the purposes, for which they might have been fabricated. But when I learn from the papers of this morning, that, in...
40To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 18 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of seeing you on Wednesday last, I have considered with attention the tenor of your verbal communication of that day in reply to the observations contained in my last letter on the subject of Mr. Pagan’s case. If I understood you rightly, I collected from your statement that Mr. Pagan’s Counsel has used a misnomer, in applying for the revision of his case to a Court which...
41To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 5 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In conformity to the mode , which you have pursued and suggested, I have now the honor of submitting to you an abstract of such particular acts of the United States, as appear to me infractions, on their part, of the definitive treaty of peace concluded between the King my master and the United States. The necessity of collecting from distant parts of this continent the requisite materials, of...
42To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 30 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By the last packet, I have received from my Court (in consequence of a communication from me of the reports circulated upon the subject) a corroboration of the truth of the sentiments, which I had the honor of stating to you, as the result of my personal conviction, in my letter of the 14th of December, relative to Mr. Bowles. I am directed to assure this government, in the most explicit...
43To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been so much engaged for the last five or six days, that I have not had it in my power sooner to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th March. I have however now the honor of submitting to your consideration some few remarks on the several points, contained in my statement, of which you require an explanation. With respect to the Laws of Rhode Island, they are so blended...
44To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 11 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received by a circular dispatch from my Court, directions to inform this government that, considerable inconvenience having arisen from the importation of Tobacco in foreign vessels into the Ports of his Majesty’s dominions, contrary to the Act of the 12th Charles 2d. Chap. 18. Sect. 3d. (commonly called the Navigation Act) it has been determined in future strictly to inforce this...
45To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 12 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of this day, I have the honor of observing that I have no other instructions upon the subject of my communication than such as are contained in the circular dispatch, of which I stated the purport in my letter dated yesterday. I have however no difficulty in assuring you, that the result of my personal conviction is, that the determination of his Majesty’s government...
46To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, [13 April 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to the Secretary of state, and has the honor of returning to him the draught of the letter to the President of the U.S., the contents of which certainly meet his full approbation, and are an accurate exposition of his personal sentiments.—Mr. Hammond begs leave to assure the Secretary of State that he is perfectly sensible of this mark of...
47To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 9 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of your obliging permission to communicate to you informally the opinions of Mr. Pagan’s Counsel, which have been transmitted to me from Boston, and also the opinion of Mr. Tilghman of this city, whom I directed Mr. Pagan’s agent here to consult on the proper mode of application for a Writ of error to the supreme Court of the United States. Should the Attorney General coincide...
48To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 29th ulto., which I shall transmit, without delay, to my court, for the consideration of his Majesty’s Ministers. The matter, contained in your letter, being so various and extensive, I fear that much time must elapse, before I can be enabled to communicate to you my observations upon it. You may however be assured, that I...
49To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. He is this moment returned home, and has been extremely mortified at learning the mistake, which his servant, through ignorance, committed, in informing Mr. Jefferson that Mr. H. was then in the house, as at the time, when Mr. J. was so obliging as to call upon him, he had been absent from home more than half an hour. RC (...
50To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and would have been happy to have dined with him today; had he not been engaged for some days past to meet a party of English Gentlemen. Mr. H. will be happy to wait upon Mr. Jefferson at any hour tomorrow that he will be so obliging as to appoint. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); addressed: “Mr Jefferson Secretary of state for the...
51To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond will have the honor of dining with Mr. Jefferson tomorrow, in compliance with his obliging invitation. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); endorsed by TJ with reference to the communications exchanged with Hammond on this day: “Hammond George. June 2. 1792. notes preceding the conference reported to the President.” Tr ( Lb in same).
52To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. Having this morning received a letter from Richmond, which informs him of the adjournment of the circuit Court of that place, without any decision on the subject of actions brought by British Creditors, he will be much obliged to Mr. Jefferson, if he will have the goodness to acquaint him, whether this circumstance has arisen...
53To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 5 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of submitting to your consideration copies of certain papers, which I have received from Canada. They contain information that some persons, acting under the authority of the State of Vermont, have attempted to exercise legal jurisdiction within districts now occupied by the King’s troops, and have committed acts of violence on the persons and property of British Subjects...
54To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of this day, I have the honor of stating to you, that I have no information as to the precise situation of Caldwell manor; but from a variety of circumstances I am inclined to believe that Caldwell manor either is situated near to, or forms part of, the town of Alburgh, which town, though on the south side of the 45th degree of latitude, is under the protection and...
55To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 12 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond has the honor of transmitting to Mr. Jefferson copies of some farther documents, which he has received, relative to the acts of violence committed, under the authority of the state of Vermont, within the district of Caldwell manor, now occupied by his Majesty’s forces. Mr. Hammond trusts that these papers will tend still farther to justify his solicitude that the general government...
56To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 13 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your note of yesterday. Though I should feel the greatest reluctance to intrude upon moments appropriated to the arrangement of your concerns, public or domestic, at the eve of your departure, yet instigated as I am by every sentiment of humanity and duty to use every exertion to relieve an unfortunate British subject, who has been in a state of unjust confinement for nearly...
57To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 3 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of informing you that, by the Halifax packet, which arrived here on Wednesday last, I have received a dispatch from my Court, communicating to me his Majesty’s entire approbation of my conduct, relative to my conversations and explanatory correspondence with you, on the subject of the circular notification which I transmitted to you on the 12th of April. Having obtained this...
58To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 3 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter I have received from Mr. Hartley, with a request that I would transmit it to you. I presume it contains some further explanations on the subject of his invention for tempering steel. I set out for the eastward on Sunday next but expect to be returned to Philadelphia early in September. Be assured that I am, ever Dear Sir, your faithful humble Servant RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL );...
59To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 15 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I had not the honor of receiving your letter of the 13th curt., until yesterday afternoon. This circumstance, added to the near approach of the period, at which you propose giving in your Report to the House of Representatives, renders it expedient, on my part, to decline entering into any general examination of the facts advanced in the extract you have transmitted to me, or of the inferences...
60Enclosure: Table of British Import Duties, 15 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Table shewing the discrimination of duties upon certain articles imported into Great Britain from the United States and from all other foreign countries. Column 1st. marks the duties on importations, from the United States or British colonies in vessels belonging to the citizens of the United States or to British subjects. Column 2nd. duties on importations from other foreign countries in...