1To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 26 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
In the settlement of the account for the pay and emoluments of Mr Howe your Secretary, I find there will be an exception made to that part of the voucher which charges forage for him as a Captain of dragoons, unless it is explained by you in writing, as you explained it verbally to me at the time of Settlement. to wit—That your secretary must be supposed in the nature of the case to require...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 15 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I had not an oppertunity of sending the letter to Lieut Rogers, which you Returned to me yesterday; I have it now in my possession. Mr. James Simmons a few minutes since, put the enclosed letter into my hands. I wish to know if I shall forward the letter to Lt Rogers, or not. I am very respectfully Sir yr obt Servt ( ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress), enclosing William C. Rogers to...
3To 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.
4To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 14 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 9th instant, enclosing the instruction to Captain Williamson the deputy Paymaster General, relative to Claims for incidental expences. The instructions now given will not interfere with the general plan of those received from the Comptroller, and will afford an accommodation to the officers at a distance, which will be found useful and necessary. Presuming...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 21 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 20th instant, and the estimate enclosed. I sent yesterday to the 6th Regiment in north Carolina 15.000 dollars in drafts on Wilmington—these drafts will probably arrive in time to enable the paymaster of that Regiment to pay off the officers and men before the 15 June 1800. I have also, paid the balance in full to the paymaster of the 8th Regiment who was to...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 20 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 17th instant and have made the necessary enquiry respecting the Claim of the old soldier who served in Colonels Levingstons and Weisenvelts Regiments in the Revolutionary war, and find that the said Claim is barred by several Limitation acts, Viz one of the 23d. July 1787. one of the 12th of February 1793. and one of the 9th July 1798. I have the honor to be...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 14 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, January 14, 1800. “It is provided by the 4 Section of an act passed the 3d. March 1797, entituled ‘An act to amend, and repeal in part, the act intituled “an act to ascertain and fix the military establishment of the united States.” That to the brigadier while commander in chief, and to each officer while commanding a seperate post, there shall be allowed twice the number of...
8To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 22 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Three bills of 1000 Dollars each, of those sent to Natchez in December last, have been presented for payment to day, by the house of Pratt and Kintzing of this City—Payment is suspended for the same reasons mentioned to you in my letter of the 21st. Instant—A premium of 6 per Cent was given for these bills if my informant is correct. I have the honour to be Sir Your Most Obed: Sert. I ( ALS ,...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 16 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, November 16, 1799. “I have sent the following sums of money by this days mail. To the 14 Regiment 3893. } Dollars ” 15 do 3893. ” 16 do 1422. Captain Williamson arrived here to day. On monday the 18 instant he will be furnished with money to pay up the said three Regiments to the 30 September 1799 inclusively.” ALS
10To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 21 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Lieutenant Wm. C. Rogers, Came to Trenton on saturday last, and declined the acceptance of your appointment as Paymaster to the Cavalry. Enclosed is his Letter on the subject. I could wish some other officer might be appointed to supply his place as soon as is convenient, as the applications from the officers of that Corps are frequent and importunate. I have the honor to be Sir your obt Servt...
11To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 4 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to yours of the 1st. Inst. giving an extract from Major Jacksons Letter to you, I enclose to you a Copy of my Letter to Captain Gates which is the only communication I ever had with him; it was never intended as an instruction, but merely to show him that his Company could be paid two Months Pay with the same labour that would be required to pay one. The allusion to two months Pay is...
12To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 19 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Aagreeably to your letter of the 16th instant, I have examined the several payments made to Captain Ingersolls Company, and find they have been in perfect Conformity with the muster Rolls. The enclosed notes, and extracts from the muster Rolls will more fully Shew the manner in which these artificers have been borne and made up on the rolls since July 1799, which was the time I commenced...
13To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 13 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Some time since I requested Lieutenant Carleton Walker Paymaster to the 6th. Regiment Infantry, to come up to Philadelphia with the pay rolls of the Regiment, and receive the arrears due to it for the year 1799. he writes to me that he cannot come but by your permission, and has requested me to solicit it. The following is an extract of his last letter to me of the 31 December 1799. “I wrote...
14To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 20 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your several letters of the 18 and 19 insts. and the enclosures—As soon as Lt Willson is appointed paymaster to the Rendezvous at Wilmington I shall pay into his hands the recruiting money which Lieut Blake refunded to me—it was taken out of Lt Blakes hands for the purpose—in the meantime Lieut there is upwards of 150 dollars in Lt Peytons hands unexpended, which may answer...
15To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 22 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Lieut Lawrence and a detachment of Infantry are with Captain Morris’s Company of Artillery at Fort McHenry. Lieut Vissger and a detachment of Infantry are at Niagara under Major Rivardi—Lieutenant F L. Claiborne of the 1st. US Regiment and a detachment of Infantry are at Norfolk with Captain Blackburn’s Artillery Company. And a detachment of Infantry of the 1st. US Regiment are at West Point...
16To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 7 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Captains Brock, Gibson, Devin, and Grayson of the 4 Regiment, and Lieutenant Merriweather Lewis of the 1st. Regiment, have forwarded muster and pay Rolls of the recruits under their respective Commands at Staunton and its Vicinity, for December 1799, and January February and March 1800. which are examined and amount to 6147. Dollars. Captain Gibson has written to me that these troops will...
17To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 7 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 2d. instant relative to the claim of Mr. Davidson for the pay of Capt. Bishops company. The history of the business from the beginning is this. In August last Lieutenant Evans of Capt Bishops company sent the pay rolls to me for the month of July with an order at the bottom of the pay roll to pay the amount 470 54/100 dollars to Neill and Smith, merchants of...
18To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 15 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your two letters one of the 11th and the other of the 12 Instant. Mr. Brooks left this place on the 2d of December last for Staunton, and took with him 1470 dollars for the recruiting service, which has been distributed to the Officers in that neighborhood. This sum makes, in addition to what had been before sent out, the amount necessary to raise four complete companies...
19To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 6 December 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 4th instant. Mr. Brooks a Cadet, in the artillery was appointed to the business of paying the troops at and near Staunton and set off on the business, about three days since. I have heard that Lt Merriweather Lewis, was coming to Wilmington to join the recruiting party there. I know him to be very capabale of a business of the kind but Mr Brooks’s appointment...
20To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 20 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose to you a copy of the instructions given to Captain Benjamin Williamson whom I have appointed Deputy Paymaster general to reside at your head quarters. I sincerely hope the appointment will prove to be perfectly agreeable and satisfactory to you and to the army under your Command. I have furnished him with 25.000. dollars Contemplated principally for the pay forage...
21To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 2 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have enquired particularly of Mr William Miller the Commissioner of the Revenue, respecting a Character from the 10th Regiment suitable to be appointed a deputy to reside with you. Mr. Miller strongly recommends Major George Stevenson of Pittsburg, as well qualified in all respects for the appointment—he is represented by Mr Miller who has done business with him constantly for near fifteen...
22To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 24 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Lieut. Moses Hooke of the recruiting party at Wilmington, represented to me to day, that from his youth, inexperience, and want of Oeconomy, he was in absolute distress for a little money to bear his expences to Pittsburgh his candor and frankness addressed themselves directly to my feelings, and I advanced him two months pay, Viz for July and August in addition to May and June, which I had...
23To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 25 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Trenton, September 25, 1799. “In the pressure of business I omitted to mention in my letter of this day, that a calculation had been made previously to the receipt of yours of the 23. instant, for sending as much money to the new Regiments at this time as would discharge all arrearages of pay and subsistence up to the 30th of this month inclusive. This will amount to rather more than two...
24To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 26 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Major Isaac Craig of Pittsburg has for several Years acted as a paymaster to the troops occasionally at Pittsburgh, and constantly to the garrisons of Forts Fayette —Franklin—Le Beouf and Presq’ isle by order of the secretary of war, and has been in the habit of drawing money for those troops and garrisons at the accountants office, and rendering vouchers to the accountant on settlement. The...
25To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 26 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
As there is no deputy pay master at Harpers Ferry, I wish to be informed to whom I shall transmit the bounty money for four Companies as directed by your Letter of the 23d. instant. I wish also to be informed, whether it was intended that the bounty money Ordered to Lieutenant Richmond — to be for four Companies, including 1960 dollars which I paid to him on the 28 of last month, for two full...
26To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 3 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 1st. Inst. enclosing a duplicate of yours to Capt. Hyde of the 11th. April Ulto. relative to his accounts. I have delivered this letter to Mr. Hyde, who informed me that he received the original, but had been so unwell as to be unable to write an answer. Since I wrote you on the subject I find that Mr. Hyde made a partial settlement of his accounts at the...
27To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 20 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I beg leave to ask your opinion on the following point ie. whether a soldier who deserts, is retaken, punished, and returned to duty; forfeits to the united States, by the mere act of deserting , and without the interference of a Court martial, all the pay that might be previously due to him, or not? I have examined the articles of war and the several military laws, but can find no decision of...
28To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 2 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose to you an extract of a letter from General Pinckney of the 25th ulto. by which it appears that the appointment of Lieutenant Hugh McCall as deputy paymaster, for south Carolina and Georgia cannot be permanent. Lt. McCall was appointed by the joint Consent of Generals Pinckney and Wilkinson, upon the presumption that the removal of the 3d. Regiment (to which he...
29To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 4 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
A report has reached this place that Lieutenant John M. Lovell of the Artillery is dead, and I have no doubt of the fact, he has for a year and an half past, acted as Pay Master at the Natchez, and from a late Examination of that part of his Vouchers which he forwarded to the Accountant in August last, it appears, that a balance of Cash was then in his hands of 6.981. 53/100 Dollars, and that...
30To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 21 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
In December last I directed Captain Vance to draw bills on me in favor of John M Lovell on Order for upwards of 30.000. dollars for the pay of the troops on the mississippi to the 31 December 1799. inclusive. Mr Lovell died on the 24 of October 1799. and Consequently (as I suppose) the bills became void, not being negociable without his indorsement. and moreover it was Conditioned that the...