Your Company is to form part of a battalion under the command of Major Hoops. You will, therefore, hereafter communicate with him and receive his orders; making all your returns to him. Your letters for the present will be addressed to him at New York indorsed on public service and with your name. I send you a sett of new recruiting instructions to which you will strictly conform in whatsoever...
2General Orders, 6 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Pursuant to the instructions from the Secretary of War, the following additions to the “Rules and Regulations respecting the Recruiting Service,” are to be observed. “None but Citizens of the United States shall be enlisted. Persons not born within the said States, who were within the same on the fourth day of July, 1776, shall be deemed Citizens for the purpose of enlistment. Every person,...
3From Alexander Hamilton to John F. Hamtramck, [6 June 1799] (Hamilton Papers)
New York [ June 6, 1799 ]. “… Such of your remarks as are personal to me are very gratifying. I hope your expectation will not finally be disappointed, though it will require time before a complete organisation, of what is now a very disjointed mass, will enable me to establish a perfect order. Zeal at least my friends know will not be wanting. The request you make with respect to yourself...
4From Alexander Hamilton to William Heth, 6 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, June 6, 1799. On June 20, 1799, Heth wrote to Hamilton and acknowledged “Your most obliging favor of the 6th.” Letter not found. ]
5To Alexander Hamilton from Daniel Jackson, 6 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Castle William [ Boston ] June 6, 1799 . “… I find Capt. Lemuel Gates Company has upwards twenty Men distitute of cloathing and some of them have been so about four months. Capt Gates informs me that he has wrote several times on the subject, has had fair promises, but that those promises are not yet complied with. I find the Cloathing for the Infantry is ready, and in the mean time the...
6From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 6 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I return Mr. Patterson’s letter. It is not my intention immediately to withdraw more than Cochran’s & Henry’s Companies. The other troops may remain on the insurgents scene. I should prefer their remaining together. Perhaps the vicinity of Easton may be the best single station. But I am not without apprehension that the Troops may be corrupted by remaining long in a disaffected scene. Is there...
7To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, [6 June 1799] (Hamilton Papers)
Since my confidential letter to you, inclosing one from Mr. Patterson, relative to stationing some troops at Easton, I have had verbal information, which shews, if not an absolute necessity for, yet that the stationing troops there would produce immediate salutary effects, upon the disorganizing inhabitants in that neighbourhood. I would advise therefore, if no important objection exists which...
8To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Schuyler, 6 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
We all arrived in good health at two O’Clock yesterday afternoon, the passage would have been perfectly agreable had It not been alloyed by the reflection that we had parted from friends so dear to us. I hope My beloved Eliza is in better health than when we left her, perswaded that a change of air would benefit her we entreat her to come up as Speedily as possible, and to bring at least the...
9To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 6 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have duly received your letter of the 3d of May, and am glad to find that the recruiting service is likely to progress without further delay. To facilitate this, nothing will contribute more than Clothing. It is certainly necessary to push on this business with proper energy, and to be provided with an ample and timely supply of every article wanted, if it is expected that such Troops as we...
10To Alexander Hamilton from James Wilkinson, 6 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I arrived here on the 3rd Inst. & expect to Embark on the 10th. directly for the port of your residence. I have Offered two & would have given four hundred do⟨l⟩lars for a passage in the Sloop which bears this as she is reputed a good sailer, but find myself excluded by a band of Kentuckeans, who anticipated my application. Contrary to my expectations I do not find an armed Vessel in port, &...