1To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 8 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I had wished to have kept back the issuing passports for sea vessels, till the question should be decided whether the treaty with France should be declared void, lest the issuing the Passport prescribed by that treaty might be considered as prejudging the question. The importunities however of the owners obliging me to give out a few, I had them printed in the Dutch form only. Not then having...
2To Alexander Hamilton from William Vans Murray, 8 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
A little event has taken place here which must be my apology for intruding on you. A report circulated here that a prize taken from british subjects at sea by a french privateer has actually past this town (on Choptank) under the command of a citizen of this District. This took place on the 3d or 4th inst. I sent an express to Oxford to Col. Banning of that port to inform him of the...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 8 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I had wished to have kept back the issuing passports for sea vessels, till the question should be decided Whether the treaty with France should be declared void, lest the issuing the Passport prescribed by that treaty might be considered as prejudging the question. The importunities however of the owners obliging me to give out a few, I had them printed in the Dutch form only. Not then having...