1081From Alexander Hamilton to John Kean, 6 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, March 6, 1794. “Messrs. Le Roy & Bayard have directed me to pay to you for them the sum of 244 Dollars & 44 Cents. Inclosed is a check for that sum with a years interest.…” ALS , Chicago Historical Society. Kean was cashier of the Bank of the United States. Herman Le Roy and William Bayard were partners in a New York City mercantile firm.
1082From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [4 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred, by the President of the United States a Letter from the Minister of the French Republic to the Secretary of State, dated the 21st instant, respectfully makes the following, Report. The Minister observes, that it results from the report of the Secretary of the Treasy. that upon an accidental error, the interests of the French republic and the...
1083From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 11 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, July 11, 1792. Returns “Contract between the Superintendant of the Delaware Lighthouse and Benjamin Rice … which the President has approved.” LS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, “Segregated” Lighthouse Records, Hamilton, National Archives. See H to George Washington, July 8, 1792 , and Tobias Lear to H, July 10, 1792 .
1084From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Burrall, 4 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to acknowlege the receipt of the Bills on London for £6740 sterling, transmitted in your letter of the 1st instant. The account has also been received and sent to the Auditor for settlement. I am with consideration Sir Your obedt Servt LS , St. Mary of the Lake Seminary Library, Mundelein, Illinois. Letter not found. This statement of Burrall’s purchases on behalf of the...
1085Alexander Hamilton’s First Draft of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, [27 January–4 February] 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department } the 1790. [to be left out—or pro last read 1790] The Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to the order of the house of Representatives of the fifteenth day of January last, has applied his attention, at as early a period as his other duties would permit, to the subject of Manufactures, Stands and particularly to the means of promoting such as will tend to render the...
1086From Alexander Hamilton to Edmund Randolph, 3 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 3, 1794. On September 5, 1794, Randolph wrote to Hamilton “in answer to his letter of the 3d instant.” Letter not found. ]
1087From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It was not till within an hour, that I received your letter of the 1st with the papers accompanying it. I approve all the drafts of letters, as they stand, except that I have some doubt about the concluding sentence of that on the subject of Henfield . If the facts are (as I presume they are) established—may it not be construed into a wish, that there may be found no law to punish a conduct in...
1088From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 5 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to represent to the President of the United States, that an application has been made at the Treasury by the honble Mr. Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania in behalf of the Administratrix of Nicholas F. Westphal deceased, for the discharge of a Claim due to the Estate of her late husband in virtue of the last clause of “An Act for the relief of...
1089From Alexander Hamilton to Elisha Boudinot, 12 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote to you, a day or two since, on the subject of the advertisement. You recollect there is a power to borrow to be given to the Committee, under the seal of the Corporation. No time ought to be lost in preparing and executing the power, and making application for the loan. Not more than 30,000 dollars, in addition to the 10,000 already borrowed, need at first be asked for. I shall write...
1090Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 27 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
It would be of use in regard to the Return of exports, which is transmitted quarterly to this Office by the Collectors, if the exported articles were uniformly arranged in alphabetic order. With a view to this, I enclose you a form of such an alphabetical arrangement, and request that for the future you will have the articles of exports inserted in the said Return, agreeably to that form;...
1091From Alexander Hamilton to James Brown, John Graham, and George Pickett, 27 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I learn, with real regret, the disappointment you experienced in your intended subscriptions to the Bank of the United States. It was very much my wish that the property in the Stock of that Bank should be generally diffused throughout the States. But its not having been foreseen, any where, that so rapid a subscription would take place, has been the cause that adequate provisions were not...
1092From Alexander Hamilton to John Langdon, 26 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I received a day or two before my departure from New York your letter recommending Mr. Keith Spence, as a proper person for the loan officer of your State and intimating that your brother would not probably incline to accept that appointment. On receiving information of the resolution of Mr. Gilman to decline the office, I took occasion to remind the President, by a line, of your brother;...
1093From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 29 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
If the arrival of the vessel, that has put into this port in distress, was subsequent to the passing of the existing Collection-Law, she is not liable to Tonnage; provided all the requisitions of the Law, in such cases, are duly complied with, but if she has left behind her any goods, not licensed by you to be sold, either on account of their perishable nature, or for the purpose of procuring...
1094From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, [12 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
My whole supply of Cash having been exhausted in the advance on account of Mr. Church—if you can spare it for some days I will thank you for 300 dollars of the proceeds of the Note by way of loan till I can make some further arrangements. Yrs Are not some of the British West Indies open to our vessels at this time? Which of them ALS , Papers of Tench Coxe in the Coxe Family Papers at the...
1095From Alexander Hamilton to Isaac Gregory, 25 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, June 25, 1794. “It being understood that the office of Surveyor at Pasquotank River bridge in your District is vacant I request that you will recommend a fit person to fill that office.…” LC , RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives. Gregory was collector of customs at the port of Plankbridge in the District of Camden, North Carolina. Edmund...
1096From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin, 13 November 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, November 13, 1790. Introduces R. J. Vanden Broeck who was “a Clerk for a considerable period in the office of the Auditor of the State of New York and afterwards in that of the Secretary at War.…” ALS , Schuyler Papers, MS Division, New York Public Library. Mifflin, a former Quaker and Philadelphia merchant, was a veteran of the American Revolution, during which he had achieved...
1097From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [9 April 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 9, 1794. Letter not found. ] “List of Letters from General Hamilton to General Washington,” Columbia University Libraries.
1098To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 20 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
Agreeably to your desire, I sit down to commit a few lines to the Post. Nothing worth particular mention has occurred since your Departure; except a report brought by Mr Keane from So. Carolina, that McGilivray the Indian Chief had, after a short conference, left our Commissioners, declaring that what they had suggested was only a repe[ti]tion of the old Storey and inadmissible, or something...
1099To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Hamilton, 2 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the Secretary of State; encloses a contract for a loan lately concluded which has been submitted to the President and approved. It is now transmitted in order that a ratification in the usual form may be prepared and executed. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 2 Nov. 1792. The loan lately concluded was the Dutch loan of 3,000,000...
1100From Alexander Hamilton to John Lamb, 19 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 19, 1792 . On March 19, 1792, Hamilton wrote to William Seton , cashier of the Bank of New York, enclosing a letter to Lamb, collector of the customs for New York City. Letter not found .]
1101VIII. Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 13 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the printed papers you have been so obliging as to send. I cannot forbear a conjecture that the communications of the Chargé des affaires of France are rather expedients to improve a moment, in which it is perceived questions concerning navigation are to be discussed than the effects of serious instructions from his Court. Be this as it may I really have not thought of any...
1102From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, [15 January 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Hamilton presents his Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. The enclosed letter, written by his Clerk, will, it is hoped, express his wish sufficiently to render it unnecessary to remodel it. As Col Rochefontaine informs him The vessel, by which the letter is intended to be sent, departs tomorrow Morning he will be obliged by its being returned to him with the proper certificate this Evening. AL ,...
1103From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 5 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The section of the collection law relative to the tares to be allowed at the Custom house upon the several species of goods therein mentioned appears to require that the allowance ⅌ Centum upon Coffee in bags } be computed upon the hundred pounds, do. in bales do. in casks pepper in bales do. in casks and that the allowance ⅌ centum upon sugars (other than loaf) in hogsheads & boxes be...
1104From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [10 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
This day, my beloved, on my return from Brunswick I received your precious letters of the 31 of July & 3d. of August. I was surprised to find you had received none from me; as without recollecting dates, I think one, which I wrote you, before my departure from New York, ought to have got to hand previous to your last. You will easily imagine how much pleasure it gives me to learn that my Dear...
1105From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 22 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Schooner Boyne whereof Thomas Grune is Master ought to have been permitted to proceed to her Port of Destination, New York. An instruction to the Military officer to release her in order that she may proceed will go by this Post from the War Department. Should any accident delay it You will communicate this letter to him as evidence of the President’s intention in order that no further...
1106To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 12 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President & sends the enclosed for his decision —submitting his opinion that it is not adviseable to grant the permission requested. This case is not precisely within the rule already adopted as a general one. LB , DLC:GW . Hamilton probably enclosed French minister Jean-Antoine-Joseph Fauchet’s letter to Edmund Randolph of 12 May,...
1107From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 29 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have concluded upon consideration of the circumstances represented in your letter of the 20th. instant to authorize the sale of the Revenue Cutter as you propose. In the building of a new one, I must recommend care to be taken, that the vessel be of a proper size; and that her cost be within the limits mentioned in your letter. I am with great consideration Sir Your obedt Servant LS , RG 36,...
1108From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 6 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 6, 1791. On April 19, 1791, Ellery wrote to Hamilton : “I have received your letter of the 6th. of this month.” Letter not found. ]
1109From Alexander Hamilton to ———, 30 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, January 30, 1794. The catalogue description of this letter reads as follows: “To the Collector of the Customs, objecting to his course in connection with duty on a Cask of Rum: ‘I will only add that in expressing my disapprobation … I did not suppose in you any ill intention.’” Letter not found. ] ALS , sold by Anderson Galleries, January 24, 1908, Lot 123.
1110From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 3 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I received by the hands of Mr. Richmond your letter on the subject of the stock standing in your name on the public books. Though, according to the letter of the law, the prohibition to dispose appears to be retrospective as well as future, I am of opinion that it is consistent with sound legal construction to confine the latitude of the expression, so as to admit of the alienation and...