1To John Adams from George Hammond, 28 January 1792 (Adams Papers)
Mr Hammond has the honor of sending to the Vice–President the last Monthly Review, and Gentleman’s Magazine, and will be much obliged to him, if he will have the goodness to return, by the bearer, the last English Newspapers, if he has perused them MHi : Adams Papers.
2To John Adams from George Hammond, 4 October 1794 (Adams Papers)
This letter will be delivered to you by Mr Strickland, a very respectable English Gentleman and a friend of mine, whom, as he proposes making a tour in the eastern states, I take the liberty of introducing to your acquaintance, and of assuring you, that I shall esteem any attentions and civilities shewn to him as personal favors conferred upon myself— I have the honor to be with the greatest...
3To John Adams from George Hammond, 15 August 1792 (Adams Papers)
The hospitality of this place has not hitherto allowed me an opportunity of fulfilling my promise of visiting you at Braintree. If however you are not engaged on Sunday next, and will allow me the honor of partaking of your family-dinner upon that day, I shall, with great pleasure embrace that occasion of paying my respects to you. Be so good as to present my most respectful Compliments to Mrs...
4To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 22 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond has the honor of sending to Mr. Jefferson the last Monthly Review and Gentlemans Magazine, which he has received from England. Mr. H. also annexes a Copy of the Queen of Spain answer to his letter of recall. He has no copy of this last paper, but the tenor of it may be collected from the Queen of Spain’s answer. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); enclosure: Copy of Luisa, Queen of Spain, to...
5To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. He is this moment returned home, and has been extremely mortified at learning the mistake, which his servant, through ignorance, committed, in informing Mr. Jefferson that Mr. H. was then in the house, as at the time, when Mr. J. was so obliging as to call upon him, he had been absent from home more than half an hour. RC (...
6To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and would have been happy to have dined with him today; had he not been engaged for some days past to meet a party of English Gentlemen. Mr. H. will be happy to wait upon Mr. Jefferson at any hour tomorrow that he will be so obliging as to appoint. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); addressed: “Mr Jefferson Secretary of state for the...
7To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond will have the honor of dining with Mr. Jefferson tomorrow, in compliance with his obliging invitation. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); endorsed by TJ with reference to the communications exchanged with Hammond on this day: “Hammond George. June 2. 1792. notes preceding the conference reported to the President.” Tr ( Lb in same).
8To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of this day, I have the honor of stating to you, that I have no information as to the precise situation of Caldwell manor; but from a variety of circumstances I am inclined to believe that Caldwell manor either is situated near to, or forms part of, the town of Alburgh, which town, though on the south side of the 45th degree of latitude, is under the protection and...
9To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. Having this morning received a letter from Richmond, which informs him of the adjournment of the circuit Court of that place, without any decision on the subject of actions brought by British Creditors, he will be much obliged to Mr. Jefferson, if he will have the goodness to acquaint him, whether this circumstance has arisen...
10To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 9 April 179[3] (Jefferson Papers)
On the 12th of March last I had the honor of addressing a letter to you on the subject of Mr. Pagan. As you have never acknowledged the receipt of that letter , I am apprehensive it may not have reached you: if that shall have been the case, I will transmit you a copy of it, and am with due respect, Sir, Your very humble servant, RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); in the hand of Edward Thornton, signed...
11To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 28 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of addressing to you (on the 26th of November) a memorial on the case of Mr. Thomas Pagan, I have received from my Court some farther information upon the subject. I therefore flatter myself, Sir, that you will permit me, to recall this affair to your attention, and to express the solicitude, which I must naturally feel, to learn some determination with regard to it. My...
12Memorial from George Hammond, 8 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, has the honor of informing the Secretary of State that he has received intelligence from his Majesty’s Consul at Charleston South Carolina, that two privateers have been fitted out from that port under French Commissions. They carry six small guns and are navigated by forty or fifty men, who are...
13Conversation with George Hammond, [2 April–17 May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Since my last I have had several communications with Mr. Hamilton on the present critical state of affairs, from which I infer that he continues stedfast in his adherence to the opinions I have uniformly ascribed to him. In one of our most recent conversations I entered pretty largely into the exposition of those principles which your Lordship has been pleased to state to me in your last...
14To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 18 February 179[3] (Jefferson Papers)
I should feel a considerable degree of reluctance in troubling you again on the subject of your communication of the 13th curt., were I not solicitous to justify an expression in my answer, which, from the letter I received from you this morning, appears to you exceptionable in point of accuracy. I was induced to regard the assurance of my personal conviction &ca. as a formal one, by the...
15To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 8 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that I have received the inclosed copy of Mr. Shoolbred’s commission, as his Majestys Vice-Consul for the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, which he has forwarded under a presumption that a copy would be competent to the purpose of obtaining the recognition of the President of the United States. The particular cases of exigency, which have...
16To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 13 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your letter dated yesterday, and I cannot conceal from you my surprize at the requisition contained in it—that the President expects from me, as one of two parties specified, that none of the vessels you have enumerated shall “depart until his ultimate determination” respecting them “shall be made known.” I have no wit of controul over any of them: Indeed, one alone excepted ,...
17To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 3 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of informing you that, by the Halifax packet, which arrived here on Wednesday last, I have received a dispatch from my Court, communicating to me his Majesty’s entire approbation of my conduct, relative to my conversations and explanatory correspondence with you, on the subject of the circular notification which I transmitted to you on the 12th of April. Having obtained this...
18To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 8 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of yesterday; and I desire you to be assured that I entertain a proper sense of the principles of Justice, which have dictated the President’s determination, of “excluding from all further asylum in the ports of the United States the vessels that have been armed therein, to cruize on nations with which the United States are at peace,” and of...
19To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 19 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of this date, I cannot avoid expressing to you my concern at your not having deemed it expedient to return a definite answer to the questions, which I had the honor of submitting to you in my letter of the 14th. curt., and which appeared to me extremely plain and obvious in their import. As an individual, I am not interested in any measures which the...
20Memorial from George Hammond, 4 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, has the honor of representing to the Secretary of State—that since the 12 of July last, a very considerable French fleet has arrived in the ports of the United States—that of this fleet several ships are now cruizing in the adjacent seas—but that the principal part of it, consisting of two ships of 74 Guns...
21To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 26 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and begs leave to assure him that he has felt equal regret with him at the circumstances, which have hitherto prevented their meeting. In conformity to Mr. Jefferson’s obliging proposal Mr. Hammond will have the honor of waiting on him tomorrow, at any hour that he will have the goodness to appoint. Mr. Hammond is extremely...
22To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 12 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day had the honor of receiving your letter, dated the 9th. curt., in answer to my memorials of the 4th. and 6th. of this month. As there appears to subsist an essential difference between us, on a matter of fact, I esteem it necessary for my justification, to assure you that my statement, of the establishment of a regular succession of cruizers , from the French fleet stationed at...
23To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acquainting you that, in consequence of the requisition contained in your letter of the 10th: curt:, I have communicated the subject of it to his Majesty’s different Consuls in the United States; and have directed them to pursue such measures as may be the best calculated for facilitating the object of the regulation, to which your letter refers. I have the honor to be,...
24To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 14 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of yesterday. In conformity to your recommendation I have instructed the parties interested in the British brigantine Catharine to adopt without delay in the district Court of New York the proper legal measures for the support of their rights and for the recovery of their property. I desire you to be persuaded, Sir, that I entertain...
25Conversation with George Hammond, [15–16 April 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 15–16, 1794 ] “… the answer … to Mr. Pinckney’s Memorial … was laid before the two houses of Congress … but it has not as yet been ordered to be printed . I have had however the satisfaction of learning from Mr. Hamilton that it has been well received by this government.” D , PRO: F.O. Transcripts or photostats from the Public Record Office of Great Britain deposited in...
26To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 14 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of yesterday, I can only repeat what I have before stated, in my first conversations with you after my arrival, and subsequently in my letter of the 6th. of this month; viz, that I have no special Commission, empowering me to conclude any definitive arrangement upon the subject of the commercial intercourse between Great Britain and the United States: But that I...
27To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 13th. curt:, I have the honor of informing you that I have not yet received such definitive instructions, relative to your communication of the 29th. of May 1792, as will enable me immediately to renew the discussions upon the subject of it, which have been for some time suspended. I can however repeat with confidence my conviction, that the continuance of the...
28Memorial from George Hammond, 10 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister plenipotentiary to the United States, has the honor of submitting to the Secretary of state the annexed depositions, relative to the capture, by the armed Schooner, fitted out at Charleston, named le Citoyen Genêt, of the British Brigantine, the Prince William Henry from Baltimore to Barbadoes, and of the British brigantine the lovely Lass...
29Enclosure III: George Hammond to Edmund Randolph, 18 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of this date, inclosing the President’s determination with respect to the space of twenty four hours to be allowed to elapse from the departure, from Ports of the United States of vessels belonging to one of the belligerent Powers previously to their being followed by ships of war or other armed vessels belonging to another belligerent Power: but...
30To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 9 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of yesterday, and though the circumstances of Mr. Crousillat’s complaints are not quite of so exceptionable a nature as those alleged in Mr. Lemaigre’s former statement, relative to the Suckey, I shall nevertheless willingly give to any Agent, whom Mr. Crousillat may appoint, a letter for the Governor of Jamaica, similar to that which I gave to Mr....