3901To Alexander Hamilton from George Cabot, 6 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Being absent from home when your letter of the 25th ultimo arrived, it has been out of my power to answer the enquiries it contains until this day’s post. Almost 4 years have expired since a number of Gentlemen in this place associated for the purpose of establishing a manufactory of cotton goods of the kinds usually imported from Manchester for men’s wear. The various parts of this complex...
3902To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 6 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Newport [ Rhode Island ] September 6, 1791 . “I have recd. your letter respecting the article of Pumpings, and shall attend to your directions. Please to favour me with an answer to my letter of the 6th. of June relative to the lawful portion of the compensations Surveyors are to receive for Regrs &c., to the question in my letter of the 4th. of July Should not every vessel receive her first...
3903To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, [6 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 6, 1791. ] Transmits Isaac Holmes’s commission “appointing him collector of Charleston in South Carolina.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
3904From Alexander Hamilton to Le Roy and Bayard, [6 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 6, 1791. On September 11, 1791, Le Roy and Bayard wrote to Hamilton : “Your esteemed favor of the 6 Instt has been complied with.” Letter not found. ]
3905To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 6 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, September 6, 1791. “The missing Certificate of Registry for Schooner Nicholas, mentioned in my Letter of the 25th Ulto. proves to have been all the Time in the Collector’s Office at Newport: Capt. Potter, who is now here, says he took it from thence to bring up with him, but left it at Home through forgetfulness. He promises to send it hither on his return, which will be in a few...
3906To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 7 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
By the Presidents command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury for his information a letter from Colo. Ballard, Inspector of the port of Baltimore, stating the trouble & expence attending the execution of the duties of his Office, for which there is no compensation. At the same time the President directs the enclosed letter from Genl. Lincoln to T. L. (which has...
3907From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of New York, 7 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I request you to furnish the Cashier of your Bank with the further Sum of Fifty thousand Dollars to be by him applied towards purchases of the Public Debt on acct. of the United States. P. S. A Warrant will issue tomorrow to cover the 150,000 Dollars already advanced for the same purpose. Copy, in the handwriting of William Seton, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. See the second letter...
3908From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 7 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been represented to me that a Brig, called the Trinidada, lately belonging to Messrs. Brown & Francis of your district, has arrived in the district of Wilmington on Delaware with a copy of a register issued from your Office which does not agree with the vessel in two material particulars. The register, which is No 25 & bears date on the 25th of Augt. 1790, appears, from the copy, to...
3909Receipt from William Pearce, [7 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Received Philadelphia Sep 7. 1791 of Alexander Hamilton, Fifty Dollars towards providing Machines for a Cotton Manufactory. D , in writing of H and signed by Pearce, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. For a list of these machines, see “Receipt from William Pearce,” August 20, 1791, note 2 .
3910From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 7 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I write herewith to the Directors of the Bank of New York to advance you a further sum of fifty thousand Dollars, towards purchases of the public Debt ⟨on⟩ account of the United States, on the ⟨sa⟩me principles with the sum heretofore advanced to you for the like purpose. With great consideration I am Sir Your Obed servt ALS , Bank of New York, New York City; LS , Bank of New York; copy,...
3911From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 7 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I regret though I am not surprised at what you disclose in your private letter of the 5th. I have for sometime foreseen the effects of a too sanguine disposition in the dealers of your City; particularly in relation to Bank Script; and have anticipated that it would lead to a necessity of sacrifices injurious to the funds. We got beyond the force of our own capital & beyond the point to which...
3912To Alexander Hamilton from Joshua Wentworth, 7 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The 2d Instant I was honored by your’s of 24th Ulto. inclosing five forms of the System for the government of the Revenue, those Compleats my receipt of the whole. And inclosed is a return of form No. 1. This I shou’d have forwardd. some time past, but supposing others might be necessary to accompany it, delayed transmiting this return until the whole of the System had reached me, to which and...
3913To Alexander Hamilton from Fisher Ames, 8 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The immoderately long letter which I took the liberty to write you some time ago, will, probably, have surprised you. You will wonder why I should take pains to establish opinions which you have never held in dispute. I will confess to you that the rumour of the intended connection between the U.S and NY. Banks gave me some uneasiness. My friend Mr Gore will leave this town next week, and you...
3914From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 8 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am informed there is reason to believe, that a vessel belonging to Elizabeth Town in New Jersey has been employed by a merchant in Philadelphia to run a cargo of rum, by carrying the hogsheads in the hold and a quantity of shingles on the Deck. The intelligence comes to me in such a way as to render it proper that you know it for the purpose of giving the necessary intimation to the officers...
3915From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 8 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have considered the case proposed to me in your letter of the 11th. July, and do not find myself authorised to instruct you to set off the drawback against the bond of the importer Mr. Telles. The legislature had not seen fit to make any provision of this nature in the first collection law, and in the existing act they have only extended it to the importer , and not to the purchasers from...
3916From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 8 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you a private letter last Evening which went by a private opportunity. Its principal object was to inform you— That I could not exceed the sum now directed to be advanced for want of authority—the present 50000 completing the sum heretofore appropriated by the Trustees & there not being here a sufficient number for a board. That purchases by the Treasurer were going on here. That there...
3917From Alexander Hamilton to William Skinner, 8 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 29th. of August is just come to hand. My circular of the first of November which you had received required that you should not admit on loan the Certificates of the State of North Carolina upon its own account. The reason of this would operate in regard to the Comptroller or any other Officer of the State, or any individual who might be the acknowledged or secret Agent of...
3918To Alexander Hamilton from Aaron Dunham, 9 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
On the 19th of June I wrote a Circular letter to such Gentlemen in the Different parts of this State, as I conceived would be likely to give me the best information respecting Manufactures of every kind carried on Within their knowledge. The letter inclosed is the only one as yet received in answer; as they come to hand shall forward. I am Sir, with all due respect your Very Humb Sert. ALS...
3919Enclosure: Silas Condict to Aaron Dunham, 25 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of of your favour of the 19 ult. on the important Subject of our Manufactories. I Should be happy to have had it in my power to give you a more favourable account of the matter than I can do. However, in General I can Say that Industry and an attention to Mechanism is gaining Ground, tho’ we have no established Companies, or Manufactories carried on here, the...
3920To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 9 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The day before yesterday came on the trial at Salem of Capt Davis & yesterday his mate charged with landing good at tarpaulien cove as mentioned to you July 29. Although the fact was clearly established to the satisfaction of the Court, and so far as I can learn, to every by stander even the defendants Council gave up the matter Yet the Jury did not in either case find a verdict though sent...
3921To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 9 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
With my letter to you of the 24 Ulto. I inclosd a description of the Cutter & gave a name for her which was handed to me at the Moment of closing the letter. Since which I have been informed there is a British public Vessel of the Name of the Ferret in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland. I conceive there woud be an impropriety in giving a Cutter of the United States the Same Name & therefore request...
3922To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, 10 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you Copies of a Letter of 3 Augt. from Jacob Cuyler, and of my answer of this Date. It is natural for men circumstanced as he is, to be anxious; and as adversity too often begets neglect, marks of attention are doubly acceptable to men in his Situation. I fear you will find it difficult to do much for his Son. A little will to him be much. At any Rate write to him, and let him percieve...
3923To Alexander Hamilton from Eliphalet Pearson, [10 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I feel myself happy in the honor of acquainting a gentleman of Mr. Hamilton’s merited distinction that the American Academy of Arts & Sciences has elected him a Fellow; of which the instrument, herewith transmitted, is a Certificate executed in the usual form. With sentiments of highest esteem, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient & very humble servant, ALS , Hamilton Papers,...
3924To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 10 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Circular letter dated the 5th. of August respecting two missing Certificates of Registry, Enjoining the Seasonable transmission of Returns, Noticing the failure of complying with the opinions of Messrs. Jones and Harrison, The Information Stating a practice of Measuring Vessels of the United States previously Registered, And requesting a Copy of the Table of Fees, was received the 25th....
3925From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Lee, 11 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
An application has been made to me for a boat for the use of the Customs at one of the ports on the Potomack below Alexandria. I am informed that the boat belonging to your district is found too large for harbour service, and that it would be more convenient to the Surveyor to have a small boat fit for the purpose to board vessels within a short distance of the Town. I wish to be informed if...
3926To Alexander Hamilton from Le Roy and Bayard, 11 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Mc.Evers informed us that you would take £2000 Stg in bills on London at 4 pct; we accordingly a few days since sent him to that amount, wch. we make no doubt he will have delivered to you. Thus the Contents of your esteemed favor of the 6 Instt has been complied with. We presume that you have already been informed that a Comittee from the Stockholders to the National Bank, in Boston, have...
3927From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Lee, 12 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 12, 1791. On September 21, 1791, Lee wrote to Hamilton : “Your letter of the 12th. shall be duly attended to.” Letter not found. ]
3928To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 12 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am desired by the President & Directors to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 7th. They have directed 50,000 Dollars to be paid to me agreeable to your desire, and the same is invested in the purchase of Stock, on account of the United States, as specified in the enclosed return. I have the honor to be with great respect &ca. LC , Bank of New York, New York City. This return is...
3929To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 12 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive your Letter of the 7th by Mr. Eddie on fryday morning, but not early enough to answer you with propriety by that post. The bearer of the Letter I apprehend knew or conjectured at the Contents as it flew over the Town like Wildfire that I had orders to purchase, therefore before I got to the Coffee House at Noon, every one was prepared, and no one would offer to...
3930From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Lee, 13 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
As it is possible The President of the United States may have occasion for some Money in Alexandria, you will retain for his own use one thousand Dollars. The receipt of any of the Gentlemen of his family for such part of the said sum as he may desire, when transmitted to this office will be duly covered with a warrant. I am, Sir, Your obedt Servant LS , RG 56, Letters to and from the...