1421To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 14 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, November 14, 1799. “I have received your letter of the 12th instant, and enclose to you a Return of all my payments since I arrived here in July last.…” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
1422From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 10 October 1798 (Adams Papers)
I return you Mr. Fosters Letter, and your answer, together with the Abby Lambins’ Letter to Mr. Foster and the Arrete inclosed. Your answer to Mr. Foster is wise and prudent. How ready is the Spider to dart along his invisible Line, upon a fly, that he thinks he sees off his guard? In this Case however it will appear I hope and believe, that the intended Prey, our good hearted friend, has been...
1423From George Washington to Mrs. E. Gravatt, 29 July 1799 (Washington Papers)
I have been honoured—but not so soon as might have been expected from the date—with your favour of the 4th of January last, and wish, sincerely, that it was in my power to give you a more satisfactory answer than follows. You will have been informed from the correspondence with Mrs Montagu, with which you seem to be acquainted, that the Mortgage of Lands, &ca given by Colo. George Mercer to Mr...
1424To Alexander Hamilton from Henry A. Williams, 31 March 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, March 31, 1798. “I am again necessitated to write you from this gloomy place (Viz. the Goal) where a trifling sum … holds me. You will therefore I hope excuse me for Troubling you and as Imediately as possible take the Necessary Steps to Recover that Money.…” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. When he was not in jail, Williams was a grocer at 102 Broad Street in New York...
1425To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 6 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully transmits to the President a Warrant for Three thousand Dollars, and requests that the President would be pleased to sign the Recd. on the back of the Warrant, in lieu of that signed by Cotton Tufts Esqr. for an equal amount paid by Genl. Lincoln, which it is proposed to leave in the Presidents hands. MHi : Adams Papers.
1426To George Washington from Felix Frestel, 22 October 1797 (Washington Papers)
I have never been in my life more deeply convinced than in this particular occasion, that I ought to renounce for ever to express to you in a language which I am so little master of, any of the thoughts of my mind, any of the feelings of my heart. I have failed so often in the attempt, that I cannot hope to be now more successful. however I am confident that, although the expressions of my...
1427John Briesler Sr. to Abigail Adams, 17 August 1797 (Adams Papers)
I this Day Received your kind Letter and we are all Happy to hear of your Safe arivall at Quincy we are all in the Dumps the yellow fever has again found its way in to this City and threatens Great mortality the hoal City is in Confusion and mooving out of town it first Broke out in Spruce and Pen Street and thair Seems to be Confined at Present But how fare it will go God only knows if it...
1428To Alexander Hamilton from William Bullitt, 26 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
My Brother Benjamin Bullitt who has lately been appointed an Ensign in the second Regiment of the united States army has been and now is in Jefferson County in the state of Kentuckey, he has accepted of the appointment, & when he left this place he expressly directed me If any Orders or letters came to this place directed to him, to answer them and repost himself to the General or Other Office...
1429To George Washington from George Washington Parke Custis, 20 May 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your last letter arrived by the ordinary course of the mail and conveyed the pleasing tidings of your health a theme allways acceptable to my grateful heart. With respect to my expenses I did not mean to insinuate that I was actualy in want but thought that you had lodged money in some one’s hands, to whom I was to apply—I have opened accounts with a shoemaker, tailor, and other persons of...
1430To Alexander Hamilton from James Read, 27 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
On the 3rd. Instt. (before I left Wilmington) I had the honour of receiving from you a Packet containing Letters of the following Dates, one of the 23rd of March, one of the 31st. of March, one of the 13th. of April, one of the 16th. of May, one of the 22nd. of May, one of the 23rd. of May, and one of the 11th. of June; the Orders therein contained shall, as far as lies in my power be strictly...