151To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 8 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
There has lately been instituted in this Town a Bank which will Commence discounting on Tuesday Next, the plan or Constitution of which I have the Honor to enclose you. The President and others, are very desirous that the public monies Received in my office should be Deposited therein, and that Bank notes should be received by me in discharge of Bonds taken for duties. Tho I am Fully sensible...
152To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 26 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, May 26, 1791. “I have received Mr. Coxe’s circular Letter of the 12th instt., accompanying the Form of a Return of outward Tonnage: The directions respecting which shall be attended to, and the Return completed and transmitted as soon as possible.…” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at Providence, National Archives. Tench...
153To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 13 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, August 13, 1792. “The Collector of Barnstable acquainted me, at the Time, with the Transaction communicated in your Letter of the 31st of July, which came to hand yesterday.… I caused enquiries to be made, relative to Samuel Bourn and his Vessel, of one Benja: Bourn, who was here with a Sloop of the same Name, from Wareham, and who said, he was informed that the said Samuel Bourn...
154To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 1 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letters of the 7. & 24. of Sept relative to the Brig Happy-Return and the Sloop Nancy have been received: I am extremely sorry that my misconstruction of the Law should be the cause of so much trouble and expence to those concerned in freighting the Sloop Nancy, and shall therefore attend immediately to your recommendations respecting the seizure of the Cargo at Alexandria. She returned...
155To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 13 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, August 13, 1791. Asks that Jeremiah Greenman be appointed “Second Mate of the Cutter fitting in Connecticut.” LS , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress; ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence. See Olney to H, February 17, 1791 .
156To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 4 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, October 4, 1792. “I have been Honor’d with your favours of the 19th. and 24th. Ulto. in Reply to my Letters of the 8 & 13th Ulto.… I beg leave respectfully to answer, that as you have not been Sufficiently explicit with respect to a Refusal of Credit in Similar cases, I shall not think myself safe in doing it untill the Law is amended or I may Receive your further and particular...
157To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 6 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, January 6, 1791. “I beg leave to call your friendly attention to the enclosed statement of the emoluments of this office; by which it appears that the net amount thereof will be only about 200 Dolls ⅌ annum. The extreme inadequacy of this sum to the services performed, obliges me to entreat of you to lay the matter before the Legislature for their information; not doubting but they...
158To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 19 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, January 19, 1792. “I have recd. your circular Letter of the 2nd. instant; and will attend to the several Matters therein contained. The Cashier of the Bank of the United States has transmitted to me a description of the Notes, with his and the President’s Signatures. My quarterly Accts. have been already forwarded.…” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence. John Kean.
159To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 8 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
At a District Court held at Newport on the 7th Ulto. Judgment was rendered against Welcome Arnold Esqr. for his Bond of 478.22 Cents for duties, due on the 17th May last with Cost of Sute, and execution has Issued accordingly. By his delinquency he is by law deprived of Future Credit but in order I presume to evade the law, he has Transferred his Brigantine Samuel which arrived in this...
160To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 2 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, July 2, 1794. “Agreeable to your directions of the 23rd. of June, I enclose, with the Returns &c. due at this period, the Marshall’s Receipt for One Hundred & Fifty Dollars, paid to him yesterday; those for the Monies heretofore paid, have been regularly forwarded with my Accots. conformable to your first instructions.” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence. “Treasury...
161To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 6 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, December 6, 1792. “The continued Complaints of the Merchants and Sea-Faring People, residing in this District, That the different Practices of different Collectors occasion an unequal operation of the same Law in the collection of the Revenue; together with the Censures thrown out against me for not conforming to that which is the most favorable to the Importers, constrains me Sir,...
162To George Washington from Jeremiah Olney, 7 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
Permit me respectfully to address you on the subject of appointing a Person to succeed the late William Channing Esquire, deceased, in the Office of District Attorney for the State of Rhode-Island. I have been informed that some Merchants and other respectable Characters have recommended to you David Howell Esquire, to succeed to that Office; and from a full conviction in my Mind that the...
163Memorandum from Jeremiah Olney, 19 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Memo. of Sundry persons Suitable Characters to fill the Offices annexed to their Respective Names—in Rhode Island—Vizt Towns Names Offices Bristol William Bradford }