1To Benjamin Franklin from John Rice, 4 May 1761 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Agreable to your Orders I have bought for to morrow £5000. 3 per Cents Consolidated at 87½ per Cent, which I hope you’l Approve off, the 4 per Cents are at a 100½ but in my Opinion they will come down to your price, being oblige to attend Sir Thomas Robinson on particular Business to morrow hope you will accept of my friend Mr. Trigg, if not back in...
2To Alexander Hamilton from John Rice, 20 September 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, September 20, 1789. On October 5, 1789, Hamilton wrote to Rice : “Your Letter of the 20th of September has duly come to hand.” Letter not found. ] Rice was deputy collector of customs at Boston. In August, 1789, Benjamin Lincoln, the collector at Boston, was named by Washington to be one of three commissioners to negotiate a treaty with the southern Indians. In the autumn of 1789,...
3To Alexander Hamilton from John Rice, 9 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, October 9, 1789. On October 16, 1789, Hamilton wrote to Rice : “I am favored with yours of the 9th instant.” Letter not found. ]
4To Alexander Hamilton from John Rice, 16 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, October 16, 1789. Reports on the maintenance of navigational aids in Boston harbor. ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “B,” New Hampshire and Massachusetts, National Archives. This letter is in reply to “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” October 1, 1789 .
5To Alexander Hamilton from John Rice, 22 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, October 22, 1789. Discusses the acquisition of two small boats for the revenue service. Believes that reducing the number of entry ports would increase rather than prevent smuggling. ADfS , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury and Others, 1789–1818, Vol. 11, National Archives.
6To Alexander Hamilton from John Rice, 24 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, October 24, 1789. On November 7, 1789, Hamilton wrote to Rice : “I am favored with your Letter of the 24th. Ultimo.” Letter not found. ]
7To Alexander Hamilton from John Rice, 31 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, October 31, 1789. On November 16, 1789, Hamilton wrote to Rice : “Since your Letter of the 31st. of October last.” Letter not found. ]
8To George Washington from John Rice, 7 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 7 October 1790. Offers himself as an applicant for the command of the revenue cutter to be fitted from this port on the basis of his Revolutionary War service and recommendations he can procure from the most respectable characters of the state. LS , DLC:GW . In September 1775 John Rice (1744–1823) was commissioned commander of the Pennsylvania navy’s galley Dickinson, which he...
9To George Washington from John Rice, 2 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
Perceiving by the public Papers, that Congress are about laying an Excise in the several States & being desirous of offering myself to your consideration as a Candidate for Office in that Department, I beg leave to submit to your Notice a few particulars in support of this measure. In the year 1774 I compleated my academic Studies in the Colledge at Cambridge, the then unsettled Affairs of...