51To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 21 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, November 21, 1793. “I have received your Letter of the 7th instant. As soon as I have knowledge of the appointment of a District Attorney for this State, I will consult him relative to engaging other Counsel in the Suits of Mesrs. Arnold and Dexter; and I will endeavor to have them effectually defended.…” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence. See Olney to H, October 7,...
52To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 25 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeably to the information contained in my Letter of the 15th Instant, I have attended the Superior Court which met at East Greenwich for the County of Kent on the 22nd. Instant, and am sorry to acquaint you that the Causes of Messrs. Arnold and Dexter, against me, in the Case of the Brigantine Neptune, remain undecided, the Chief Justis being indisposed and unable to attend the Court...
53To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 28 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your circular Letter of the 22nd. of January, covering the “Act concerning the Registering and Recording of Ships or Vessels.” Your Instructions relative to which, and the lost Certificate of registry, shall be carefully attended to. I observe, that in the execution of the above mentioned Act, several different Oaths are required, which are to be so formed as to embrace a...
54To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 25 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, April 25, 1791. “Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance the Bearer… John S. Dexter, who has been honored by the President with the appointment of Supervisor of Excise for Rhode Island—he now goes forward as a Delegate from this State Society to attend the General meeting of the Cincinnati to be holden in the City of Philadelphia.…” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society,...
55To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 14 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of the 5th Instant, was transmitted to me yesterday by the President of the Providence Bank; and agreeable to your directions, I have furnished him with an Abstract of the uncancelld Bonds, payable this Month, being only the one in Suit, (noted in the enclosed Return of Cash) and another due to the 30th for 523 Dollars & 60 Cents. I have the Honor to be &c. N.B. The Bond in suit...
56To Alexander Hamilton from William Channing, John S. Dexter, and Jeremiah Olney, 3 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Providence, November 3, 1792. On December 12, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Channing, Dexter, and Olney : “I have yet to reply to your letter of the 3d. ultimo.” Letter not found. ] Channing was United States attorney for the District of Rhode Island; Dexter was supervisor of the revenue for Rhode Island; Olney was collector of customs at Providence.
57To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 9 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, January 9, 1795. Transmits “Schedule of Bonds for December,” and states that the pressure of “Business of my Office” has prevented “the transmission, by this Post, of my Weekly Return of Monies from the 1st to the 7th instant, inclusive.” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence. Olney was collector of customs at Providence.
58To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 24 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, May 24, 1791. “I have been favored with a Letter from Mr. Coxe of the 13th instant, covering a copy of a circular Letter, relative to Tare &c., intended to be transmitted to the several Collectors. The Contents of which, tending to establish an uniform Practice in the collection of the Revenue, afford me much pleasure; and I shall speedily forward the Information required,...
59To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 14 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your Two Letters of the 30th. of May and First instant. The Surveyor will attend to your directions in the use of the Hydrometers. All the Papers furnished by me for the Ship Warren were dated Four Days after She had committed a breach of the Law by proceeding to Newport without them, of which particular, perhaps, you have not been apprised. Misconstruction of the Tonnage Act, (an...
60To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 29 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, October 29, 1790. “Enclosed is my Weekly return of Cash.… I also enclose a draft, which I have paid, of the Treasurer of the United States in favor of Wm Seton Esquire Cashier of the Bank of New York.… Since my last Messrs Brown & Francis have secured the payment of the duties on the returned articles therein mentioned.…” Copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at Providence,...
61To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 5 May 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Three Letters of the 23 and 24 of April, I received by the last Post. Attention shall be paid to your instructions, relative to Sweedish Vessels. I have laid the case of the Two Vessels, which departed contrary to the embargo Act, before the District Attorney, who has promised to give me his Opinion in writing, which shall be transmitted to you. Your request in the Letter of the 24th.,...
62To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 23 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, October 23, 1792. Encloses “Account of Emoluments &c.… from Octr. 1791 to Septr. 1792, inclusive; together with similar Accounts from all the Officers appointed by, and acting under me, as Collr. of the Customs for this District.” States that the “average Rates of freight shall be forwarded as soon as it can be obtained from the Merchants.” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society,...
63To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 29 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Brigantine Polly James Munro Jur. Master, the Property of Messrs. Clark & Nightingale Entered here the 27th Inst. from Charleston South Carolina. This Vessel Cleared at my office on the 24th August last for Port au Prince, but it appears from the Master that she arrived at the Cape, having on Board, when she cleared, Three hundred & Fourteen Barrels of salted Provisions One hundred &...
64To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 17 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have had an Interview with Ray Greene Esqr. District Attorney, on the Subject of Defending the Suits of Messrs. Arnold & Dexter in the case of the Brigantine Neptune now pending before the Superiour Court to be held in this Town on the 17th March next—but as he has been heretofore, employed by those Gentlemen in the prosecution of these Suits—he now finds his Situation extremely delicate and...
65To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 20 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, August 20, 1794. “The public Scale-beam, now in use at this Port, being in want of repairs, and too small for weighing Hemp and large hhds of Sugar … I ask your permission to procure another Beam … necessary for the convenience and dispatch of public business in this District.…” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.
66To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 7 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Permitt an old mittilary acquaintance to address you (with out apology) on a Subject particularly Interesting to himself and to request your Friendship and Influence with the President of the United States, to promote his Interests (So far as it shall in your opinion be consistant with propriety & the public Good) in Support of an application he has made to the President to be appointed to the...
67To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 12 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, July 12, 1792. Transmits “Accounts and Returns for the last Quarter” and “a Receipt of the Cashier of the Providence Bank for 1,000 Dollars, which I have charged to the United States.” States: “your circular Letter of the 25th of June, I have recd., and will attend to the contents.…” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.
68To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 18 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Upon re-inspecting my Licence Bonds, I have this Day found that the Sloop Polly of Sandwich, Saml. Bourn Master, was Licenced at this Office on the 20th of June last, to commence, as therein expressed, the 24th of May preceding, when the old Licence, granted by the Collector at Newport, expired. The Licence Bond was filed Samuel Brown , which occasioned the oversight, on receipt of your Letter...
69To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 3 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, March 3, 1791. “Enclosed are my Weekly Return of Cash No. 30, and Monthly Schedule of Bonds for Feby.… I have also just received your Letter of the 18th. of December last, together with the Hydrometer, intended as a substitute to Dycas’s, the Directions for their use.… Particular attention shall be paid to your Directions relative to this Instrument.…” ADfS , Rhode Island...
70To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 24 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, July 24, 1792. “… Frequent Instances occur of the necessity of granting new Licences before the old ones expire, such as in transfers of Property; and alterations in the size of Vessels, the property remaining the same, and they continuing in the Coasting Business. There is another Instance which sometimes occurs: where a Coasting Vessel is out of employ sometime after the...
71To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 27 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the pleasure to communicate for your information, that Judgment was rendered in my favour before the State Court on the 26 Instant, in the Two Suits brought against me by Messrs. Arnold and Dexter in the Case of the Brigantine Neptune. The Gentlemen are extremely mortified and Disappointed in the Issue of their Suits. They have appealed to the Superiour Court of this State to Meet in...
72To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 15 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the Honour to acquaint you that the Suit commenced against me by Mr. Edward Dexter in the Case of the Brigantine Neptune, was taken up and argued before the Superior Court in this Town on Saturday afternoon the 13th Instant and continued untill 9 o’Clock in the Evening, when Mr. Howell Counsel for the Plaintiff moved for an adjournment of the Cause untill the next Term to be held here...
73To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 3 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, April 3, 1794. “Since I had the honor to address you on the 31st Ulto… I have been informed that the Maria (the Property of Saml. Butler, Saml. Butler Junr. Cyrus Butler, Seth Wheaton & Richard Jackson Junr.) has, imprudently followed the example of the Nancy.… I find that the Owners are of opinion that no penalty will be incurred in a case of this kind as the act of Congress...
74To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 10 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, May 10, 1791. Encloses returns “of the Vessels built within this District.” Acknowledges receipt of “One of Dicas’s Hydrometers.” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at Providence, National Archives.
75To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 3 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Edward Peterson, Master of the Sloop Friendship, burthen Sixty-three Tons, arrived here Yesterday from New-York; from whence, he says, he brought a Certified Manifest and Permit to proceed, stopped at Newport, entered his Vessel, left the Manifest and Permit at the Custom House, landed part of his Freight, and proceeded with the remainder (consisting of the Articles contained in the enclosed...
76To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 26 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, November 26, 1792. “As difficulties or losses may occur with respect to the Transmission of Bonds taken for duties, not discharged on the day they fall due, to the District Attorney residing at New Port, it appears to me of considerable importance that you be apprised of the different ways that offer for Transmitting them.… I am induced Sir, Respectfully to entreat your advice and...
77To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 18 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I do myself the Honor to Transmit, for your information, the enclosed Impeachment against me Signed on the 31st. January last by Twenty Seven respectable Merchants and others, which was contemplated to have been Transmitted to the President of the United States, togeather with my Letter to the Committee, and my Vindication of the particular Charges; which last was intended merely as an...
78To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 10 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, May 10, 1792. “The Second Section of the Coasting Act requires all Vessels of the United States to be registered by the Collector of the District to which they respectively belong; the Seventh Section provides for registering them at other Districts: different constructions having occasioned different practices, I beg the favor Sir, of your Opinion, whether it is expedient that...
79To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 19 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, December 19, 1791. “I have received your Letter of the 8th. Instant. I shall charge in my present quarter’s and future Accounts, all Monies paid by me into the Providence Bank, as accounted for by the duplicate Receipts forwarded agreeable to your directions.…” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.
80To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 7 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The refusal of Credit to Mr. Edward Dexter on the Sixth Instant for the amount of the duties on the Cargo of the Brigantine Neptune (Consisting of one Hundred and Twenty Two Hogsheads and Twenty Three Teirces of Melasses &c.) Stephen Peirce Master, which entered at my office on the Said Sixth Instant, from Surinam, being the Property of Welcome Arnold Esquire and which was by him Transferred...
81To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 19 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of the 8th instant, containing your Opinion on the case of the Brig. Polly, being accompanied by one from Mr. Bourn to Messrs Clark & Nightingale to the same purport; and those Gentlemen being impatient to unload the Vessel, I have given them permission to reland the Provisions and Fish, and have cancelled their exportation Bond. By your taking no notice of the 62nd. section of the...
82To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 4 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
On the second instant I went to Newport and made oath to my declaration (of which the enclosed is a copy) relative to the case of the Sloop Nancy, Chrisr Thornton master, before the District Judge agreeably to your directions; excepting the presence of the Attorney of the United States who was absent. Mr. Marchant has enclosed it to the District Judge of Virginia, and it will be forwarded by...
83To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 18 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been honored with your Letter of 2nd. Instant on the Subject of Exportation permits; from the Tenor of which it appears, that your construction of the law is similar to mine; and that the want of more full information has led you to conceive my practice to be erroneous. To form, therefore, a right judgement of the Case, it is Necessary you should know, that for lading of Merchandize...
84To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 2 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, August 2, 1790. “Enclosed are a Register and License given at the Custom House at New York for the Sloop Charlotte belonging to Warwick within this District;… in conformity to the law for registering vessels, it appeared to me to be necessary that she should be registered anew at this office, which has this day been done.…” Copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at Providence,...
85To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 10 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
By a misconception of the Law respecting the 10 ⅌ cent discount on goods imported in American vessels, which ’till within a few days, I supposed to cease on the first day of October last, the balance of 16.314 dolls & 45¼ cents which appears by my accounts transmitted on the 3. inst, to be due to the United States is 1.114 dolls & 72 cents more than it should be, this sum being the amount of...
86To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 9 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, April 9, 1792. “Agreeable to your request of the 29th of March, I have, on receiving an Order and the enclosed Assignment, paid to the Marshall of Rhode-Island District, 2105 Dollars and 12 Cents; which sum, as you direct, shall be noted in my Weekly Returns until it is replaced. I beg leave to observe, on this Occasion, that in my last Quarter’s Accots., transmitted the 5th...
87To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 27 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your circular Letter of the 14th instant, covering Four blank Sea Letters; together with Two more from the Comptroller’s Office: more of which will be speedily wanted. I am entirely at a loss to know what Office the list of Mariners & others, on board any Vessel clearing for a foreign Port, is to be lodged; and who the “proper Officers” are, by whose knowledge and permission they...
88To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 2 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, September 2, 1790. “I herewith enclose my monthly return of Bonds for August, and the weekly one for Cash.… Your letter of the 20. and Mr. Coxe’s of the 19 of August covering several laws of the United States, have come to hand. I observe that the duties which have been collected upon Merchandise of the growth and manufacture of the United States, shipped for sale to foreign ports,...
89To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 10 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Legislature of the United States having been pleased to Appoint you to the important Office of Superintending a due Collection of the Revenue, I have upon deliberate consideration, deemed it expedient that you should be made acquainted with my particular conduct, as an officer of the Customs, in respect to the late Suit of a Bond taken for duties, complained of by Welcome Arnold Esquire,...
90To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 20 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, October 20, 1791. “Enclosed is my weekly Return of Cash No. 63, the Balance of which is 4,322 Dolls. & 56¼ Cents. Two small Errors in my last Quarter’s Accot., discovered since their transmission, make the Balance due to the United States on the 30th of Septr., stand in my Books, thus— In Bonds uncancelled 58,922..81 In Cash on hand 5,519..78 64,442..59 I enclose a Draft of the...
91To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 24 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Bond, of which the enclosed is an Account, being the only one of the kind I have taken since the receipt of your circular directions of the Tenth of May 1792, the requisition did not occur to me when my quarterly Abstracts were transmitted, or this Account should have been forwarded then. The Vessel in which the Merchandize were imported, had a passage to Washington of 67 Days; and no...
92To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 28 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, November 28, 1791. “Your circular Letter of the 11th Instant, to which I shall pay due attention, induces me to ask whether any allowance (which has been demanded here) is to be made in ascertaining the Duties on broken and unshelled Coffee and Cocoa of an inferior quality generally purchased in the West Indies at about half the price of Merchantable? You will oblige me Sir, by...
93To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 22 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, December 22, 1791. “I yesterday received your favor of the 23rd. of Novemr. Your approbation of my Conduct in the Case of the Brigt. Betsey, affords me the sincerest Satisfaction; and in future, should similar breaches of the Law occur within this District, I shall proceed in the way you have now suggested, as a less expensive and more speedy Mode of Determination; and, in...
94To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 31 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, December 31, 1792. Replies to Hamilton’s “circular Letter of the 12th of Octr. last.” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.
95To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 3 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your favor of the 25th of July, relative to a quantity of Brandy exported by Messrs. Clark & Nightingale, the Drawback on which, you say, cannot be allowed unless the proof required, of its having been actually landed at a foreign Port, is produced: The Excise Act, generally so called, passed in March 1791, clearly, I think, authorizes the payment of Drawbacks on all Spirits,...
96To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 5 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, May 5, 1791. “It sometimes happens that Coasting Vessels, belonging to other Districts, arrive at this Port with Licenses which have been granted more than One Year; being at a loss to know precisely how to conduct, in such Cases, the Law being thereon silent; and as I am desirous in every Instance of doing my Duty entirely consonant to Law, I take the liberty Sir, to ask your...
97To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 14 February 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, February 14, 1791. “The enclosed Letter to the Treasurer, covers the second Moieties (the first being transmitted the 10th. instant) of Two Bank Notes, amounting, ⅌ triplicate List herewith, to 127 Dollars.… I have … received your Letter of the 31st. Ulto., relative to the appointment of Mates to the Revenue Cutters. I have in view Two or Three Persons whom I could recommend as...
98To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 6 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your several Letters of the 26, 27th. & 28th of June. The circular Letter, dated the 6th of February last, to which you refer has never come to hand; I am therefore under the necessity of postponing the notification of Mr. Arnold’s delinquincy until I do receive it. I have the honor to be &c. ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence. For background to this letter, see...
99To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 22 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Enclosed is my return of Cash for the last week, the balance of which being 555.30½ is in Specie. I also enclose an Account of a few articles of foreign manufacture, which were in June last, soon after this office was opened, exported (not for drawback) by Messrs Brown & Francis to the Cape de Verds: from whence they have within a few days past arrived in the same vessel, and been reported by...
100To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 29 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am astonished that Mr. Arnold, to excuse the non-payment of his Bond, should have recourse to a subterfuge so wholly unfounded, as “that the delay was occasioned by part of the demand’s being controverted”! Permit me Sir, to assure you, upon my honor, that no Controversy ever existed between Mr. Arnold and me, relative to this Bond, after its amount was first ascertained; before which,...