1Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 5 January 1800 (Adams Papers)
I am very much mortified that I have Sent so Many Letters to you burthen’d with Postage I thought mr cranch had frank’d them all by his name on the Letters as well as on the Post Bill—he thought the later was sufficient— I will take care for the future that they Shall be directed right I have reciev’d yours of the 18th & 22 d of December there solemn Subject has engross’d the thoughts &...
2To John Adams from James McHenry, 5 January 1800 (Adams Papers)
The Secretary of War respectfully requests the attention of the President of the United States, to certain measures and arrangements, which appear to him to be indispensable to the improvement of our military system, and solicits, if it shall be thought proper, that the same may be submitted to Congress. No sentiment is more just than this, that, in proportion as the circumstances and policy...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King, 5 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
It is indeed a long time, My Dear Sir, since I have written to you, and I feel my obligation to you for the continuance of your correspondence notwithstanding my delinquency. Had it been true, that I had left every thing else to follow the Drum , my delinquency would not have been so great. But our military establishment offers too little inducement and is too precarious to have permitted a...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 5 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
In your letter of the 5th December ulto. it is mentioned that you “have directed Major Craig to take charge as paymaster of the Forts Fayette Franklin Le Beouf and Presq’ isle, or such of them as may have garrisons &c.” of this I informed him when I sent him the forms to be observed in making the payments, but he writes to me that he has not been so directed, and supposes the letter has...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Aaron Ogden, 5 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of Decr. 13th. inclosing the relative Rank of your Officers, it meets entirely with my approbation. You will therefore make it known to the Officers as the definitive arrangement with true consideration I am Sir Your obed Servt. ( LS , in the handwriting of Philip Church, Columbia University Libraries; Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers,...