81To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 18 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth [ New Hampshire ] December 18, 1794 . “… The estimated allowances to Fishing Vessels payable in this district on the 31st. day of December instant is Sixteen hundred & twenty nine dollars.” LC , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Portsmouth, Letters Sent, 1794–1796, Vol. 6, National Archives. See “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” October 25, 1792 .
82To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 23 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, January 23, 1795. “I have to State to you the amount of expenditures on the fortifications of the harbour of Portsmouth … including the Blockhouse, a Store, and Furnace & Commission thereon…. There still remains to be performed work on the walls…. I have omitted to transmit my accounts with the Vouchers presuming it to be unnecessary untill the whole work shall be...
83To George Washington from Joseph Whipple, 22 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to receive your letter of the 28th ultimo. I sincerely lament the ill success of my endeavours to restore to your Lady her servant on the request of Mr Wolcott—It had indeed become a subject of Anxiety to me on an Idea that her services were very valuable to her mistress and not readily to be replaced. My mode of proceeding then, was adapted to my feelings on the Occasion for I...
84To John Adams from Joseph Whipple, 16 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
I received notice by the last mail from the Secretary of the Treasury that you had considered it expedient to remove me from my office of Collector of the District of Portsmouth.—Early impressed with an Idea of your Candour & Justice & concious that I have meritted no mark of resentment or disgrace from the Executive I conceivd it to be my duty to address you on this occasion and to declare to...
85To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Whipple, 9 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Penetrated with the most lively sensations of gratitude to that Being who has preserved this country a second time from the fangs of tyranny by your elevation to the station of chief Magistrate—Permit me Sir to express my joy on the Occasion and to declare in the openness of an undissembling heart that no event of my countrys prosperity—not even the acknowledgment of its independancy has ever...
86To James Madison from Joseph Whipple, 28 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 July 1804, Collector’s Office, District of Portsmouth. “Herewith enclosed I transmit you an abstract of the Registry of American Seamen to whom have been granted Certificates of their Citizenship in this district in the Second quarter of the present year [not found].” RC ( DNA : RG 59, Correspondence with Collectors of Customs regarding Impressed Seamen, box 12). 1 p.