31To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 17 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, May 17, 1791. “I was honored, by the last Post, with your circular Letter of the 14th of April, on the Subject of a Statement of the Monies received, and Expenses paid, by the Officers of the Revenue in this District, for the Four quarters in the Year 1790; but as a Year will not be compleated with us until the 21st of June next, I beg leave respectfully to suggest the propriety of...
32To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 3 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, May 3, 1792. “… I beg leave Sir to recall your attention to my Letter of the 9th of April; and to express my anxiety for the replacing the Sum therein mentioned by the 12th instant; otherwise, should the 9,253 Dollars, due that Day, for Drawbacks on Teas exported, be then demanded, it will not be in my power to observe that punctuality, which, as Collector, the Law obliges me to...
33To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 12 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, December 12, 1794. Acknowledges receipt of Hamilton’s “Letter of the 27th of November, relative to the payment of Allowances to fishing Vessels.” States that “there is not one, belonging to this District, entitled to any.” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.
34To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 25 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, October 25, 1791. Acknowledges Hamilton’s “Letter of the 14th instant, covering part of the Margin of the Certificate of Registry … granted for Sloop Susannah.…” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at Providence, National Archives. As this letter deals with routine Treasury Department matters, it has not been printed ( LS ,...
35To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 23 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, August 23, 1790. Suspects that “a note for one hundred Dollars, issued … at the Bank of New York” is a counterfeit. Asks Hamilton for instructions. Asks if the expense of appraising imported goods should be defrayed by the importer or the government. Copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at Providence, National Archives; ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.
36To George Washington from Jeremiah Olney, 20 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
Soon after I had the Honor of addressing your Excellency 18th Ulto—your favr of 9th April Came to hand permitting me to Remain in the State untill Your Excellency’s Further pleasure—by which I am particularly oblig’d as Mrs Olney’s Indisposition unhappily Seems to Increase—I have the pleasure to inform your Excellency that 220 Recruits are muster’d—that 204 have already march’d—the greater...
37To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 21 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In conformity to your circular Letters of the 14th. of April and 25th of May, I now enclose an Account of all the Fees and Commissions received, and the Expences paid, by the Officers of the Customs in this District, the latter in detail, and the former as much so as, I hope, will prove satisfactory. By the Statement in the Tenth page, it will appear how the Account stands at the end of the...
38To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 21 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, October 21, 1793. “Agreeable to my expectation, communicated to you on the 23rd. Ulto. the Suits of Messrs. Arnold and Dexter (now pending before the Superiour Court of this State) against me in the case of the Brigantine Neptune, is Continued for want of a District Attorney.…” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence. See Olney to H, November 7 , 28 , December 13 , 27,...
39To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 25 August 1788 (Hamilton Papers)
Since I had the Honor to address you 23rd. Inst. on the Subject of——; I have had the pleasure of a Full Conversation with Mr. A. He is Zealous in the matter and assures me he will go forward in one of the New York Packets by the last of this Week. I have wrote Mr. H. on the Subject and Warmly urged the Necessity of his going on with his Colleague Mr. A. and have made him an offer of a Draught...
40To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Jeremiah Olney, 4 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honor to Receive your Excellency’s favr of 21st Ulto & Shall punctually Execute your orders in Collecting & forwarding the Scater’d Recruits —Those that have from time to time Joyn’d the Rendezvous assign’d, I have lost no time in preparing & Sending forward in Several Detachments amounting to 132 the greater part of which must have arriv’d before this, your Excellency is pleas’d to...