4171To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Knox, 14 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department, July 14, 1794. “I request that you would please to have placed in the hands of the Naval Agents who have definitively accepted of their appointments certain sums of money with which to commence their operations.… You will be better able to form a judgement of the sum than I can, as you will decide upon the articles which are to be obtained by them.…” LC , RG 45, Letters Sent...
4172To Alexander Hamilton from William C. Bentley, 7 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I am impatient to know what disposition is to be made this Winter, of the Recruits of my Regiment; I have before Written to you, and to the Secretary of War on the Subject, and am in hopes that the next post will furnish the information. Should it be determined on to Hut the Troops in some Convenient Woods, which to me seems the most eligible plan, we wall require some of those articles that...
4173From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 4 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 28th ultimo—The measures which you have taken to forward the building and equipment of the revenue Cutters, and to procure information respecting proper characters to be appointed inferior Officers, meet my approbation. You will please to inform Captain Law of his appointment, and furnish him with instructions similar to those you have given to the other...
4174To Alexander Hamilton from the New York Committee of Correspondence, 19 March 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Kingston, New York, March 19, 1777. On March 22, 1777, Hamilton wrote to the Committee of Correspondence: “I had the pleasure of receiving yours of the 19th. instant.” Letter not found. ]
4175To Alexander Hamilton from Alexander D. Pope, 11 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The bearer Serjt. Slaughter is anxious to quit the service in consequence of the repeated solicitations of his Friends in Virga. (who are very respectable.) They have remitted him a sum of money for the purpose of procuring a substitute, which he has done, the man that now accompanies him is the person—The above mentioned Mr Slaughter stands highly recommended at the War Office for a Cadetcy,...
4176To Alexander Hamilton from John Lee, 29 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Penobscot [ District of Maine ] December 29, 1789 . Describes in detail the Penobscot customs district and the problems peculiar to it. LS , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. Lee was collector of customs at Penobscot.
4177To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 20 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, July 20, 1799. “Mr Jonathan Williams the gentleman I had intended for an assistant to Mr. Francis has suggested to me that he would be glad you should read certain papers explanatory of his conduct in a transaction relative to his Father in law Mr Alexander, which Mr Francis, on a representation by Mr Morris had viewed in a criminal light, and objected to the proposed association...
4178To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Harison, 8 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Immediately upon the Receipt of your Letter of the 1st. Instant, I sent for Mr. McComb, and proposed his executing the Contract transmitted to me, and that a proper Surety should be substituted in the Place of Mr. Cruger. Upon the latter Subject I am informed that no Difficulties will arise, but with Respect to the Contract itself Mr. McComb alledges that a Mistake has taken Place. The first...
4179To Alexander Hamilton from William Willcocks [16 April 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
Business of much moment to me, (the risk of four thousand dollars) and which involves Colls. Troup, & Giles, requires my personal Attendance here for perhaps ten or fifteen days, exclusive of some considerations for my Younger Children—The Particulars if You please , I would detail at a personal Interview— If therefore it can be supposed, that the Regiment which from which I have been detached...
4180To Alexander Hamilton from Ædanus Burke, 7 April 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of this day in which you explictly declare that you had no intention, in your Eulogium on General Green, to cast any reflection on Militia in general, or on any description of the Citizens of South-Carolina, removes all ground of dissatisfaction on my part. I therefore cheerfully and explicitly retract every thing offensive which I said in the House of Representatives on Wednesday...
4181To Alexander Hamilton from John Ross, 17 May 1785 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, May 17, 1785. Sends information concerning Ross’s share of ownership of the ship Diligent . ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Ross, a Philadelphia merchant, was an agent for François, Marquis de Barbé-Marbois, the French chargé d’affaires in the United States. H was representing Ross in Bartholomew Terrasson et al . v. Ship Diligent , a case pending before the New York...
4182To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 28 December 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received a Letter from the Treasurer upon the Subject of immediately passing to credit the drafts on the Collectors which I laid before the Board of Directors this day. The Copy of the Letter and the answer I have wrote by their orders, they have desired me to enclose to you (as the Treasurer makes no refference to what has formerly passed on this Subject) for your information. The...
4183To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 16 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I cannot discover by the acts of the Legislature that Collectors have any legal jurisdiction, or controul, over the Officers of the revenue cutters; or that they have, necessarily, any agency in that establishment further than to receive the reports of the Officers and to respect them as authentic documents whereby to ascertain the Cargoes of inwardbound vessels. I therefore conclude that the...
4184To Alexander Hamilton from Meletiah Jordan, 1 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your circular Letter of the 14th. of April I have but very recently received which will apologize for so late an answer. As you have been good enough to give me liberty to disclose my sentiments to you on the subject, You will I hope pardon the freedom of my answer to your Circular. I will answer as particularly respecting myself as possible. The salary of fifty dollars a year commences but...
4185To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 19 December 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
The same uncertainty continues to perplex us concerning the Recommencement of the war. One day we are told that Naples has really begun & that Austria is on the way to support her; the next, that Naples is kept back by Austria to whom the Directory have made the most Advantageous offers. It is certain that france feels the change that has within the last six months taken place in Europe and is...
4186To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 16 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department, April 16, 1799. “I have received this morning your two letters dated the 15. instant.… Several Officers appointed to the new Regiments had expressed uneasiness upon the ground of not receiving their Commissions. I know however the uneasiness among some of them proceeded from another cause. They were apprehensive they were to receive no pay ’till called into actual service,...
4187To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 17 October 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Permit me to ask your opinion on the following points. 1. Ought we or ought we not to permit Sales of Prizes to French national Ships of War, as formerly, in payment of duties? 2. In case of an affirmative answer to the first question; What is to be regarded as evidence of a national Ship? Will the Certificate of a French Commissioner in the West Indies, or of a Consul or the French Minister...
4188To Alexander Hamilton from Marquis de Lafayette, 10 February 1801 (Hamilton Papers)
I Have not, Since my Return to france, Received a Line from you—yet I am Sure you are affectionately interested in every Account Which Concerns me. The departure of Mr pichon for the United States affords me a Good Opportunity to write. He Has much pleased me by His eager wishes and Useful Exertions for a Reconciliation Between Both Countries. He Speaks of America and Americans in terms...
4189To Alexander Hamilton from Arthur St. Clair, 9 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have observed with pleasure the Measures you are pursuing, to make it more apparently the Interest of the People in the western Counties of Pennsylvania to comply with the Excise Laws —it was their real Interest before. The Opposition began with the Distillers who were in a combination against the People, but it has been fostered since by others, and for very bad purposes. To assist you the...
4190To Alexander Hamilton from Morgan Lewis, 24 June 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I am informed the Inhabitants of New York have it in Contemplation to make Mr King one of our Senators. Under this Persuasion I have thrown it out in Conversation to several of the Country Members & have found it very generally disapproved of, so much so, that I am satisfied it cannot at present be accomplished. I am afraid, too, it would interfere with the Appointment of Genl. Schuyler, in...
4191To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 1 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th and of the 20th of the last month, the first in answer to mine of the 4th. respectg. the Sale of property on board vessels abroad, the 2nd in answer to mine of the 10th of the same month respectg. the credit on salt &c; and hope to be favoured, as soon as you can make it convenient, with answers to my letter of the 20th....
4192To Alexander Hamilton from Francis Dana, 25 July 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 10th inst: enclosing one from Colo: Brooks, of the 4th, was put into my hands the day before yesterday by Colo: Henley at Boston. I shall notice such parts only of Colo: Brooks’s as immediately respect you. I have a full recollection of expressing myself in part of you, but little variant in terms, tho’ essentially so in substance, from what Colo: Brooks has mentioned in his...
4193To Alexander Hamilton from William Macpherson, 21 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, June 21, 1799. “… With respect to the Volunteers it is certainly necessary some arrangement of them shou’d be made, and I suppose the proper mode is, to take the whole of the Troops of that description in the United States, and form them into Battns. Regiments, Brigades, and Divisions agreeably to their numbers. It would also perhaps be proper to make three or more districts, and...
4194From John Adams to Alexander Hamilton, 17 October 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received, last night, a Letter from His Excellency Governor Jay, inclosing a Copy of an Act of the Legislature of New York, for the further Defence of that State and for other Purpose. The Governor Observes that it appears to be the intention of that Act, that the Money appropriated in it, 150,000 dollars, shall be laid out only in the manner which the National Government will recognize...
4195To Alexander Hamilton from Jedediah Huntington, 16 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New London, Connecticut, March 16, 1791. On April 10, 1791, Hamilton wrote to Huntington : “I observe in your letter of the 16th. ultimo.” Letter not found. ]
4196From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton, 4 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
Mr Loring having been sent by Sir Henry Clinton to meet Mr Boudinot or any other person appointed by me for the purpose of effecting an exchange of prisoners; I have therefore to desire you (Mr Boudinot being absent from Camp) to hear any proposals Mr Loring may have to offer on this subject; and to do definitively whatever may be necessary towards the execution of a general exchange of...
4197To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 4 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The enclosed papers contain parts of the information which I expect to furnish upon the subject of Manufactures in Virginia, and are transmitted agreeably to your request. These papers have come from the two lower Surveys of the District; the information they contain as to the particular Neighbourhoods from which they are drawn, may be applied, with propriety to the whole of those Surveys:...
4198To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 18 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Upon re-inspecting my Licence Bonds, I have this Day found that the Sloop Polly of Sandwich, Saml. Bourn Master, was Licenced at this Office on the 20th of June last, to commence, as therein expressed, the 24th of May preceding, when the old Licence, granted by the Collector at Newport, expired. The Licence Bond was filed Samuel Brown , which occasioned the oversight, on receipt of your Letter...
4199To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 31 January 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
I reckon, my dear sir, among the contrasted events which have diversified my life, to have been made the confidant of the author of Publius, and as a Senator of Maryland to have been present at Mr Chase’s defence in our house of delegates against charges contained in your pieces. I send you the proceedings which have been published and letters which have been passed between Major Giles and...
4200To Alexander Hamilton from Daniel Bradley, 4 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Some difficulties having arrisen respecting the supplying Captain Divens recruits at Cumberland, I have been oblidg’d to come to this place, on my way to Cumberland to make the necessary arrangments. Captain Divens success in that Quarter has been very bad, should it not prove better in the course of this Month, I shall remove him to Staunton, I would also recommend to remove Captain Brocks...