81To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 31 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your several favours of the 14th, and the 22d instant I have recvd. Severe indisposition of body and deep affliction for the loss of my eldest Son prevented my acknowledging the receipt of the former untill now. I communicated to Capt. Ashmun your ideas, and my opinion on the several subjects of his letter. I have advised Lieut Samuel W. Church this day of the acceptance of his resignation by...
82To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 23 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
In your favour of the 4th you have expressed your assent, that a change in the association of the Officers, might be made for good reasons. On a more mature consideration of the Division of my circle into subdistricts, from the information I have obtained, I am led to fix on Brookfield as the rendevous of a subdistrict; I am confident it will be more beneficial for the recruiting service, the...
83To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 28 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
In compliance with your directions, I have proceeded to compleat the division of the State into subdistricts, at least that part of it which constitutes circle 14. I have not yet seen Colonel Hunnewell, & that no further delay might take place I entered on the business without him. It will be perceivd., that I have not exactly conformed to the division of the districts which was sketched by...
84To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 23 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I can only now, in answer to your favour of the 10th. instant, do myself the honor, to acknowledge the receipt thereof, with its inclosures, consisting of General Brooks arrangement of this state, into districts & also some outlines of a similar nature by Mr. Sedgwick. I shall communicate to Colonel Hunnewell the contents of your Letter & sollicit a consultation with him; But as it may be...
85To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 6 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I am sorry to be under the necessity (in conformity with the directions given in the 34th article, in the recruiting instructions), to report to you the desertion of Six recruits, from the district rendezvous at Taunton. I enclose the list forwarded me by Major Winslow who commands there. He writes me, they had expressed some uneasiness at not receiving the remaining four dollars of their...
86To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 24 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
By your favour of the 9th you have given me a latitude to exercise my judgment, in entering on the recruiting service or not, previous to the arrival of the cloathing, as I shall judge expedient. I have this day issued my orders for the officers to enter on that service, & I hope it will not be long before the cloathing arrives; I think a district deposit & issue thereof the best mode & the...
87To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 2 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I feel very forcibly the justice of your reprimand for the neglect, which has taken place in the Pay and Quarter Masters’ departments at this Post. Neither the Colonel, Pay, or Quarter Master, of the 15th. Regiment, is yet on the ground; And but few of the Stores in those departments, belonging to that Regt. have been brought to this post. No Field Officer of the 16th. Regiment is yet here....
88To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 4 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your favour Circular of 17th Sept. I have receivd. I hope & trust the suggestions therein of the incautious remarks of officers were not applicable to any of my regiment. I am too sensible of the use which would be made by the soldiery of such remarks from their officers, not to have instantly checked them. You request of me a very accurate & special report of the quantity and quality of all...
89To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 22 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have devoted my personal service during the last week intirely to the object of winter quarters for the troops. I had not considered it so difficult to find & obtain a proper position, as on tryal it appeared to be. Many were eligible, as embracing partial advantages, some which comprehended all could not be obtained of the owners at any price, others at so exorbitant ones, that I at once...
90To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 4 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you the Commission of Martial Spring a second Lieutenant in my regiment with his request to have permission to resign the same. He has not expressd the reasons which induce him thereto. I suppose however among others, the uncertainty of the establishment has influenced him—many of the officers have it in contemplation, thinking it more eligible now to leave the service, than to...
91To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 16 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
With the inclosed letter which I received from Lieutenant Flagg of my regiment, I transmit his commission, conceiving it proper to address it to you rather than the Secretary of War. I regret the resignation of this officer, as I had formed flattering expectations from his future services. He belongs to Captain Chandlers company, who also some time since resigned, as he informs me—he anxiously...
92To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 5 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
By the regulations for the recruiting service the Soldiers were not allowed to possess any articles of clothing except those furnished by Government. Those not being all of the best quality, when received; can not reasonably be supposed to be at this time in the most perfect order. The appearance of my Regiment in this respect, altho not greatly inferior to others, makes but a shabby figure....
93To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 8 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I am thus far on my way to Oxford in compliance with the instructions contained in your favour of the 17th. ult. I had agreed for the use of the land & the wood at the price I mentioned electional with Government to take it or not. The owner was then averse to selling the soil—perhaps I shall now be able to agree with him for the soil. I trust it is your intention that on my compleating the...
94To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 19 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
There can be no doubt but that the natural gait of the man ought to be the measure of the pace, uncontrouled by any habit—but each man left to pursue his own, would destroy the Uniformity of movement absolutely necessary in great Bodies—to produce which we ought to adopt one as a standard; That of the man of medium hight would be most eligible. The length of the pace is dependent on the time...
95To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 23 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have visited Taunton, Dighton, & Sommerset for the purpose of selecting the most eligible spot for a regimental rendezvous; I am decidedly in favour of Sommerset: It not only embraces the objects which induced you to fix on that spot, but is besides a most healthy situation, in the neighbourhood of a fertile country, abounding with provisions and sufficiently retired, to afford ample...