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The United States To Alexander Hamilton   for pay as Major General from the first of April to the last of September inclusively 6 Months at 166 Dollars ⅌ Month Ds. 996    Extra allowances as Inspector General at 50 Dollars ⅌ Month 300    Forage at 20 Dollars ⅌ Month 120    Rations at the rate of 15 ⅌ day 2745 Rations at 16.1½ ⅌ Ration being the Contract price at NYork for Postage of 443.31...
Whereas, by an act of the Congress of the United States, passed the 9th day of February last, entitled “An act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof,” it is provided, that at any time after the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, if he shall deem it expedient and consistent...
Few editors and scholars would question that the drafting of the Virginia Resolutions was JM’s most important contribution to the proceedings of the 1798–99 session of the Virginia General Assembly. Earlier generations of editors have maintained, however, that JM was responsible not only for the resolutions of 21 December 1798 but also for three resolutions criticizing the foreign policy of...
The inhabitants of Poughkeepsie are not in the habit of assembling to testify their respect for the constituted authorities of their Country, or their attachment to the persons whom the suffrages of their fellow-citizens have called to the exercise of important duties. They have been accustomed, on the contrary, to observe the operations of Government in silence, and to indulge without...
13555General Orders, 1 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, November 1, 1799. On November 4, 1799, Hamilton wrote to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney : “I send you … an order of the 1st. inst. issued by me respecting the General Disposition of the Army.” General Orders not found. ]
His Excellency the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has in a letter dated the 12th day of last month, transmitted to me, for the purpose of being laid before the Legislature of this State, a concurrent and unanimous Resolution of the House of Representatives and of the Senate of that Commonwealth, and approved by the Governor. The object of it is to obtain an amendment of the...
The Speech of Logan a Shawanees Cheif to Ld. Dunmore I appeal to any white man to say if ever he enter.d Logans Cabin hungrey and I gave him not Meat if ever he came Cold, or naked and I gave him not cloths, during the course of the last long & bloody War, Logan remained Idle in his Tent an advocate for peace nay such was my love for the Whites that those of my own Country pointed at me as...
I imagine this Letter will find you return’d to Philadelphia. I am much disappointed and regret that I was obliged to quit New York before I received an Account of your having arranged with Mr. Anthony the Division of the Lands. I have received a Letter from him that he fears he shall not be able to effect it with you, and that I must repair to Philadelphia in Person to procure a Settlement; I...
I receive this address with great satisfaction— it expresses sentiments and evinces knowledge which cannot be too generally entertained and diffused. While the people of the United States have just and clear views of their true interests, it will not be possible to force or seduce them to pass under a foreign yoke; especially when, as at present, both their civil and military affairs are...
It gives me pleasure to find that you concur with me in opinion, as to the situation of our public affairs, and the expediency of convening the Legislature at this alarming crisis. The utility of this measure will depend on the result of your deliberations; which will I am persuaded be such, as clearly to evince that the fear of France has not fallen upon us, but on the contrary, that we have...
IN pursuance of your resolution of the 19 th instant, I have taken measures to be informed of the present intentions of the government of the United States, relative to putting the city and port of New-York in a respectable state of defence—, on receiving that information, it shall be immediately communicated to you. As the constitution of the United States has committed to our national...
“Our political situation is prodigiously changed since you left us. Instead of that noble love of liberty, and that republican government, which carried us triumphantly thro the dangers of the war, an Anglo-Monarchico-Aristocratic party has arisen.—Their avowed object is to impose on us the substance , as they have already given us the form , of the British government. Nevertheless, the...
April 1800. Compte a Monrs Burr Pour Onoraire jusqua Ce jour $2500.       Plus fait Compte de Son ordre a Mr. Green 250.       Compte D’Interet Sur Dollars 11200 ce que jai avancée En trois Sommes differentes et divers Epoques depuis Le Mois de Juillet et Aout 1798 au 15 avril 1799 Pour 8 mois a raison de 7⅌% 522.66/100  Interet d’un An Sur Cette de 13200 dollars  924.        Dollars...
[ New York, May 30, 1799. “I have receiv’d a deed from Peter Goelet & other Trustees of the American Iron Company. I certify that the fourth or last installment of the Purchase money with Interest remains to be paid, which will pay on demand. New York, May 30, 1799. Alexr Hambleton.” Receipt not found. ] This receipt is quoted in, and has been taken from, Goelet to Robert Troup, August 19,...