1211To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 23 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
Treasury Department, Philadelphia, 23 Feb. 1792. Submits a contract made by the superintendent of the New Castle Island lighthouse in New Hampshire with Titus Salter for supplying, keeping, lighting, and superintending the occasional repairs of that building and humbly opines that it is not disadvantageous to the United States, as its terms are the same as those in the last agreement for the...
1212From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, [24 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The President is right. The person intended is Joseph McDowell the younger; and a more precise designation would be by adding, “ of Pleasant Garden. ” But I imagine it will be well to defer the matter ’till the general nomination of the Officers of Inspection is made to the Senate, & to include this case. Yrs. &c LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See H to Lear, February 17,...
1213From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [24 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to return the President the papers received from Mr. Lear, which he has carefully perused, and will wait on the President tomorrow at ten o’Clock accordingly. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. The papers which H received from Tobias Lear were apparently the same ones that the President sent to the Secretary of State on February 24,...
1214From Alexander Hamilton to Francis Childs, 27 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I duly received your letter of the 11th instant, inclosing a copy of the bill before the Legislature of New York for erecting another Bank, and beg you to accept my acknowledgments for the information. I am, Sir. Your Mo. Obed Servant. ALS , from a typescript supplied by Mr. Percy Hamilton Goodsell, Jr., White Plains, New York. Letter not found. For information on the attempt to organize new...
1215Report on the Petition of the Executors of Edward Carnes, 28 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives] The Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to an Order of the House of Representatives, of the 5th. of February 1790, referring to him a Memorial of the Executors of Edward Carnes, respectfully submits the following Report. The object of the said Memorial is, to obtain payment of a sum of five hundred and forty four pounds nineteen shillings and...
1216From Alexander Hamilton to John Kean, [28 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, February 28, 1792. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , sold by George H. Richmond, New York City, 1906, “Autograph Letters, Manuscripts…,” Item 183. Kean was cashier of the Bank of the United States.
1217Report on the Petitions of Jabez Bowen and William Gardner, 29 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives] Pursuant to the Orders of the House of Representatives of the 20th. of December and 31st. of January last, referring to the Secretary of the Treasury, the petition of Jabez Bowen, Commissioner of Loans for the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and the petition of William Gardner, Commissioner of Loans for the State of New...
1218From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March, 1792 .] Sends list of names of persons recommended for positions of director of the Mint and treasurer of the Mint. AD , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. On verso H wrote: “Names which have occurred as for Director or Treasurer.” There are forty names in this list arranged by states. On April 13, 1792, Washington nominated David Rittenhouse of Pennsylvania...
1219Hamilton’s Notes on Report of Instructions for the Commissioners to Spain, with Jefferson’s Comments, [1–5 March 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Jefferson’s comments ] [ Hamilton’s notes ] The General Tenor of the Report appears solid and proper. The following observations however on a hasty perusal occur. The Report is amended in conformity this observation. Page 2. Is it to put our Revolution upon the true or the best footing to say that the circumstances which obliged us to discontinue our foreign Magistrate brought upon us the...
1220Notes on Thomas Jefferson’s Report of Instructions for the Commissioners to Spain, [1–4 March 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Jefferson’s Comments ] [ Hamilton’s notes ] The General Tenor of the Report appears solid and proper. The following observations however on a hasty perusal occur. The Report is amended in conformity with this observation. Page 2. Is it to put our Revolution upon the true or the best footing to say that the circumstances which obliged us to discontinue our foreign Magistrate brought upon us...