1From Alexander Hamilton to ———, 7 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In adjusting the accounts of the contractors for supplying the army with shoes a charge will occur for boxes in which they were packed. This charge in its principle is deemed a reasonable one. It will of course remain to judge of the reasonableness of the quantum and who are the parties intitled; in other words, whether the contractors have paid the money or are authorised to include it in...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 7 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 7, 1792. “I have directed a Thermometer to be sent to You, which I request You will please to forward to the Collector of Machias.…” L[S] , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury, 1789–1807, Vol. 4, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Boston, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set...
3Enclosure: William Short to Gouverneur Morris, 7 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Hague, August 7, 1792. “I was obliged to answer with much precipitation your letter of the 30th. ulto recd. here the 4th. inst—as the post sat out from hence immediately after the arrival of yours. I hoped to have learned from you by the post of to-day what had been decided on between you & the commissaries or at least what was the answer which you expected from them at the departure of...
4To George Washington from Henry Knox, 7 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have just been honored with yours of the first instant. The papers which you have been pleased to require shall be transmitted by the post of Monday next. The communications last received from Fort Washington were such, that I thought it proper Major General Wayne should be possessed thereof by express in order to enable him to form a proper judgment of the measures to be pursued. I have the...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 7 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at this place on the evening of friday the 4th of this month and the next morning my old acquaintance and school fellow Mr. Burgess under Secretary of State for the foreign department paid me a visit and informed me that my lord Grenville had made his arrangements to go out of Town that day but would be glad to see me then if convenient to myself: I immediately assented and...