51To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 5 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 5, 1791 . Sends commissions requested by Hamilton. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
52Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 5 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
By direction of the President of the United States, I have the honor herewith to transmit to you a letter from the Governor of Virginia, dated December 18th, 1789, enclosing an Act (which is likewise sent you) of the general Assembly of that Commonwealth, passed Novr 13th 1789, to convey to the United States in Congress assembled certain Land for the purpose of building a Light House on Cape...
53To 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...
54To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 1 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of the Treasury an Agreement between the Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of the President of the U. S. and the President, Directors & Company of the Bank of the U. S., which has been submitted to the President of the U. S., and to inform the Secretary of the Treasury that the said Agreement being made conformably...
55To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 27 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] March 27, 1791 . “About two hours ago I had the honor to receive your letter of yesterday, which the door keeper of your Office says he forgot to deliver sooner. This will account for your not receiving the commission for General Hand yesterday forenoon as you requested. I have now the honor to enclose it.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
56To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 24 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The President of the United States having approved of the Contract made by the Superintendant of the Light House in New Hampshire with Titus Salter for supplying, keeping, lighting and superintending the occasional repairs of that building, it is respectfully returned to the Secretary of the Treasury by LS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, “Segregated” Lighthouse Records, Lear, National...
57Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 18 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
United States [Philadelphia] 18 June 1792. Transmits by GW’s command for Hamilton’s inspection “a letter from John Ritchie, Inspector of the 2d division in Maryland, to the President.” LB , DLC:GW . Neither Ritchie’s letter to GW nor any reply from GW or Hamilton to Ritchie has been found.
58To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 13 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] August 13, 1791 . Encloses the following commissions: “A Commission for Thomas Marshal Inspector of Survey No. 7. in the District of Virga. Do. for Sylvanus Walker, Inspector of survey No 3. in the Distt. of South Carolina. Do. for William Ham second Mate of a revenue Cutter. Do. for Bathurst Dangerfield, third mate of Do. Likewise a commission for Josiah Murdaugh Inspector of...
59Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 19 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to The Secretary of the Treasury the final report of the Commissioners for settling the accounts between the United States and the individual States, together with the Letter accompanying the same from them to the President. T. Lear is moreover directed by the President to observe to the Secretary, that the enclosed report was left...
60To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 7 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] March 7, 1791 . Transmits “all the letters of application which have come to the President’s hands for appointments on board the cutters.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
61To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 2 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] June 2, 1792 . “… The President approves of Joseph Sayword to be Keeper of the Lighthouse on Thatchers Island, in the State of Massachusetts.…” LS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, “Segregated” Lighthouse Records, Lear, National Archives; LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Joseph Sayward. See H to George Washington, May 31, 1792 .
62To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 22 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] June 22, 1792 . Transmits “the Contract made with Abraham Hargis for sinking a Well for the accomodation of the Delaware Lighthouse, which has received the President’s approbation.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See H to George Washington, June 19, 1792 ; H to Lear, June 22, 1792 ; Tench Coxe to H, May 28, 1792 . On June 25, 1792, Tench Coxe wrote to...
63To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 15 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
By the Presidents command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury a letter from Messrs. Triol, Roux & Co. enclosing a copy of a memorial presented by them to the National Assembly of France. The President wishes when the Secretary may have leisure, that he would take the subject of said memorial into consideration & report thereon to the president. LC , George...
64To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 25 February 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] February 25, 1790 . Transmits papers relating to the case of Captain Hammond, a shipmaster imprisoned in St. Jago. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Thomas Hammond, master of the American sloop Brothers . A British frigate seized the Brothers and her crew for allegedly possessing coins salvaged from wrecks near Boa Vista Island, the most eastern of the Cape Verde...
65To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 24 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury a Resolution of the Senate respecting Loans made in Holland &c. with which the President requests the Secretary to comply. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. The Senate resolution, adopted on January 23, 1793, reads as follows: “ Resolved , That the President of the United States be...
66To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 11 December 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] December 11, 1790 . “… I have the honor to enclose for your inspection a letter from, & recommendation of, Mr. David Phipps of Connecticut, for the command of one of the revenue Cutters. Also a letter and recommendation for a similar appointment from Mr. Henry Putnam of Georgia.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
67To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 12 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
By the Presidents command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury a letter from Mr. Baldwin mentioning the death of Mr. Collins the Collector of Sunbury in Georgia, and recommending a Mr. Francis Coddington to fill his place. The President wishes the Secretary to make such enquiry into the matter as may be proper, previous to the filling said office. LC , George...
68To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 8 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury, a letter from the Minister of France to the Secretary of State, requesting to be furnished with a certain sum by the Government of the United States; on account of the Debt owing to France, to be laid out for provisions in the United States to be sent to France; and to desire that the Secretary will,...
69To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 27 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] November 27, 1792 . Encloses “a Petition … in behalf of the Keeper of the Light House in Portland, to have his salary augmented.” ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, “Segregated” Lighthouse Records, National Archives; LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Less than a month after this petition was sent to H, an article in the [Portland, Maine] Eastern Herald...
70Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 14 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secrey of the Treasury, the papers respecting the case of Hezekiah & George D. Usher, which have been submitted to him; and to inform the Secretary that the President has no doubt, from the statement of Facts in the above papers, of the intention to defraud the Revenue; but if it shall appear to the Secretary, from his...
71To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 29 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, May 29, 1791. Encloses a proposal for a mint which had been sent to President Washington by John H. Mitchell. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Mitchell’s interest in a mint was of some standing, for an entry in the Journal of the House for April 7, 1790, reads: “A Member from South Carolina presented to the House a letter addressed to him from John H. Mitchel,...
72To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 29 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
By the Presidents command T. Lear has the honor respectfully to transmit to the secretary of the Treasury the enclosed obligation of J. G. Blount & Chas. Cook for the stakage of certain shoals & channels within North Carolina which has been approved of by the President. Also a letter from Mr. Short to the Secretary of the Treasury, & instructions for Mr. Short on certain points relative to...
73To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 24 January 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
In obedience to the commands of the President of the United States, I have the honor to transmit to you a letter from His Excellency Beverley Randolph Governor of Virginia, dated January the 14th 1790, relating to the materials which were placed upon Cape Henry by the States of Virginia and Maryland for the purpose of building a Light House; and likewise the report of General Wood upon the...
74To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 29 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
The President of the United States approves of the proposal, communicated to him on the 26th Inst. by the Secretary of the Treasury, made by James Robinson to the Collector of Charleston in South Carolina, to supply six hundred Gallons of Spermaciti Oil for the use of the Light-house, at two shillings and six pence per Gallon. The President of the United States likewise assents to the removal...
75To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 11 February 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] February 11, 1790 . Transmits a list of the persons the President has appointed collectors, naval officers, and surveyors in North Carolina, and the names of those appointed to fill vacancies in other states. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
76To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 23 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] August 23, 1790 . Transmits “three Commissions [of customs officials] which have received the signature of the President.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
77To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 1 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
By the Presidents’ command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of the Treasury, the authenticated copy of the Contract for the last Loan made in Holland, which has been submitted to the president; & to inform the Secretary, that as soon as he shall have prepared the form of the ratification, the President will execute it. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Lear, a...
78To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 28 December 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] December 28, 1790 . Transmits a “letter from Mrs. Mary House in behalf of her son George House for an appointment on board one of the Cutters.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
79To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 18 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] June 18, 1792 . Transmits “a letter from John Ritchie, Inspector of the 2d division in Maryland, to the President.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
80To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 21 June [1790] (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] June 21 [ 1790 ]. “The President … approves of the enclosed contract for … the Light House on Sandy Hook.” LS , RG 26, “Segregated” Lighthouse Records, National Archives; LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Lear erroneously dated this letter “June 21st. 1789.”
81To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 26 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
In obedience to the command of the President of the United states, I have the honor to inform you that he approves of the enclosed Drafts of a Power and Instructions which have been submitted to him, respecting a Loan of twelve million of Dollars; but thinks an addition to the instructions given to the Agent, to the following effect might be proper, for reasons which he will assign to you,...
82To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 1 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] June 1, 1791 . “In compliance with your request, I … transmit the commissions filled with the names as you directed.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
83Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 29 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 29 May 1791. Transmits under the president’s direction the enclosed from John H. Mitchell, which came in a letter from GW, dated Savannah, 13 May, received yesterday. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosure has not been found but was probably drafted c.2–14 May 1791 and concerned the ambitions of John Hinckley Mitchell, a city warden of Charleston, S.C., to provide the U.S. Mint with...
84To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 21 September 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
By the command of the President of the United States, I do myself the honor to transmit to you the enclosed letters, which have been received by him, the subject of which come properly under the cognizance of the Treasury Department of the United States. The letters enclosed are, one from Mr. Leonard De Neufville dated June 1789. relating sundry transactions between himself & Partners and the...
85To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 22 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] December 22, 1792 . “By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return … with the President’s approbation annexed thereto, two Contracts between the Superintendent of the Lighthouse at New London, and Daniel Harris and Nathaniel Richards.…” ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, “Segregated” Lighthouse Records, National Archives; LC , George Washington Papers,...
86Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 6 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command, T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of the Treasury, with the President’s approbation affixed thereto, the Contract entered into by Thomas Newton jur on the part of the U.S. with John McComb junr to execute certain additional objects specified in said Contract, to the Lighthouse lately erected on Cape Henry: And to inform the Secretary that the...
87To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] October, 1789 . Transmits several letters relating to Samuel Caldwell. ALS , Applications for Office under George Washington, Library of Congress. Caldwell had been state tonnage inspector at Philadelphia up to 1789. Although he asked for a Federal appointment for the same job in April, 1789, applied for the surveyorship of the port in July, and asked for the post of lighthouse...
88Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 18 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
By order of the President of the United States, I do myself the honor to transmit you a letter from His Excellency Thomas Jefferson The Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the United States, dated at Paris Augt 27th 1789, and likewise the copy of a letter from Messrs Wilhem & Jan Willinck, N. & I. Van Stephorst & Hubbard to Mr Jefferson, dated at Amsterdam 13th Augt 1789 —both of which the...
89To 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.
90To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 7 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] July 7, 1791 . “By the Presidents command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury a letter from Capt. Cochran of Charleston (S. C.) respecting the building of a cutter at that place.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Robert Cochran had been appointed master of the revenue cutter for South Carolina.
91To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 28 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] December 28, 1789 . “By the direction of the President of the United States, I have the honor to transmit to you all the letters & certificates which have come to his hands from, or relating to, Mr. Samuel Caldwell of Philadelphia upon the subject of his application for an Office under the United States.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See Lear to H, October,...
92Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 13 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
New York, 13 July 1790. Encloses warrants for the superintendents of lighthouses requested that day by the Treasury Department. LB , DLC:GW . Lear had probably obtained the president’s signatures only that day on the ten commissions that Hamilton intended to forward to the lighthouse superintendents appointed since March 1790, when Hamiltion had explained to them why receipt of their...
93Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 12 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 12 Feb. 1792. Transmits the president’s command that the secretary of the treasury make inquiries about a letter from Congressman Abraham Baldwin of Georgia (not found) mentioning the death of Cornelius Collins, collector at Sunbury, and recommending Francis Coddington for the vacancy. LB , DLC:GW . GW appointed John Lawson, not Francis Coddington, as collector for Sunbury, Ga.,...
94To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 16 January 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
By order of the President of the United States, I transmit you the copy of a Report from the Post Master General accompanyed with the Draft of a bill respecting the establishment of the Post Office, to the end that the same may be laid before the house of representatives, with any remarks or suggestions, which may appear to you proper, in relation to the Finances. I have the honor to be with...
95To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 13 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to inform the Secretary of the Treasury that the President has appointed William Lewis to be keeper of the Light-house on Cape Henry, with a salary of four hundred Dollars per annum. The president does not conceive that the circumstance of mr Cormicks being employed to oversee the building of the Lighthouse, tho’ in his favor, as sufficiently...
96To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 18 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The President does not recollect the name of the person mentioned to succeed the Collector of Edenton (N:C.) and wishes you to send it. Is it intended that the person mentioned should be appointed Inspector of Survey No. 2. which office was held by the Collector of Edenton? Inspector of the Port he will be of course. Is William Munson to be appointed Inspector as well as Surveyor of the Port...
97To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 28 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] August 28, 1790 . States that the President has approved the Cape Henlopen lighthouse keeper’s contract. LS , RG 26, “Segregated” Lighthouse Records, National Archives; LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress; copy, RG 26, Lighthouse Deeds and Contracts, National Archives. This letter is in reply to H to George Washington, August 26, 1790 .
98To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 5 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] February 5, 1792. “By the President’s command, T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of the Treasury, with the President’s approbation annexed, a Contract between the superintendant of the establishments on Delaware River and Thomas Conaroe, the elder, for repairing the public piers adjacent to Reeding Island in the said River.” ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters...
99To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 3 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] March 3, 1791 . Encloses a letter to the President “from the Senators … of Rhode Island recommending Mr. Thompson as a proper person for Supervisor of excise in that District.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Joseph Stanton and Theodore Foster to George Washington, March 3, 1791 ( LS , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress). Ebenezer Thompson, naval...
100To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 18 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] January 18, 1792 . “… T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of the Treasury General Lincoln’s Letter of the 1st of December, respecting the Compensation of the Keeper of the Light House at Portland, and to inform the Secretary that the President conceives from the statement made in Genl. Lincoln’s letter, that the addition of twenty dollars, to the annual sum of...