1To Alexander Hamilton from Roger Alden, Brockholst Livingston, Carlile Pollock, Gulian Verplanck, and Joshua Waddington … (Hamilton Papers)
A number of your fellow Citizens desirous of expressing the sense they entertain of the important Services you have rendered your Country, have raised by Subscription a Sum of money to defray the expence of a Portrait of you, ⟨to⟩ be executed by Mr Trumbull, and placed in one of our public Buildings. We have therefore to request that you will b⟨e⟩ so condescending as to allow Mr Trumbull to...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Roger Alden, Brockholst Livingston, Carlile Pollock, Guilian Verplanck, and Joshua … (Hamilton Papers)
The mark of esteem, on the part of fellow Citizens, to whom I am attached by so many ties, which is announced in your letter of the 29 of December, is intitled to my affectionate acknowlegements. I shall chearfully obey their wish as far as respects the taking of my Portrait; but I ask that they will permit it to appear unconnected with any incident of my political life. The simple...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Gulian Verplanck, 26 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
You will please to pay to William Seton Esquire cashier of your institution, fifty thousand dollars to be applied by him towards purchases of the public debt on account of the United States—which shall be covered by a warant in due form. With great consideration, I have the honor to be, gentlemen, Your obd’t serv’t ALS , from typescript supplied by Mr. Arthur P. Morgan, Princeton, New...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Gulian Verplanck, 30 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
As it will be convenient to you to be apprized of the alterations in the business of the Treasury, which take place from time to time in consequence of arrangements with the Bank of the united States, I think it expedient to inform you, that the receipt and exchange for Specie of the Bank notes and Cash notes of the Institution over which you preside, will be discontinued in the Custom houses...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Gulian Verplanck, 10 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Legislature of the State of Newyork at their last Sessions passed an Act Authorizing the acknowledgement of Deeds before any of the Judges of the supreme Court of the U.S. I shall therefore be obligd to You if You will execute the Deed for the House in Wall Street & forward it to Me as soon as it suits Your Conveniency. If the payment of the first moiety at any time before the stipulated...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Gulian Verplanck, 17 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
My second payment to You for the House in Wall Street has been due since the first day of the last Month & I have been waiting Your directions respecting it. In a former Letter I requested the Deed, which will oblige Me, as I am preparing to Build on the Lot this Spring. Your late triumph over the malice of Your Enemies, has given the most heartfelt satisfaction to Your friends in this City &...
7Conveyance by Lease and Release to Gulian Verplanck, 27 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 27, 1793 . “… Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth his wife for and in consideration of the sum of Two thousand four hundred pounds current money of the State of New York … paid by the said Gulian VerPlank … HAVE granted, bargained, sold, aliened, released and confirmed, and by these Presents DO grant, bargain, Sell, alien, release, and Confirm unto the said Gulian VerPlank...
8To Alexander Hamilton from Gulian Verplanck, 15 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, May 15, 1793. “I have paid to Mr Seton two thousand Dollars on Acct. & will be prepared to discharge the remainder of the Ballance with the further Interest that will have accrued to the time of the Deeds being returned.…” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. For background to this letter, see Verplanck to H, September 10, 1792 , March 17, 1793 ; “Conveyance by Lease and...
9From Alexander Hamilton to Gulian Verplanck, 28 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is a Letter for the President & directors of the Bank of New York. I have it at heart for various reasons as a matter very interesting to the public service that the loan requested should be made—but I would not wish the Letter to be formally presented until it was certain there would be a compliance. For this reason I send it to you that you may sound the Directors before presenting...