2521To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 7 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] July 7, 1794 . States that he has written “to Georgia & So. Carolina authorizing the Agents to hire for Mr. Morgan any wood Cutters he might want, and to provide them with axes & other implements & necessaries.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives. For background...
2522To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 7 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office, July 7, 1794. “In obedience to your Letter of June 25. I have the honour to transmit a statement of the expences incurred at the respective Loan Offices for Clerkship & stationary, at the several periods therein mentioned. I have caused the number of Creditors in the different Stocks, to be stated at the same periods.…” ADf , Connecticut Historical...
2523To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 8 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, July 8, 1794. “A few days after the receipt of your letter of the 6 of April, requesting me to act temporarily in the War business of the Treasury, I found that little reliance was to be placed upon a cheap or even a certain supply of Gun powder within the United States. I was unable to get any good house to make a contract for 300 Tons which you authorized...
2524To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 8 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, July 8, 1794. On August 19, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Lincoln and referred to “your favor of the 8th July last.” Letter not found. ]
2525To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 8 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth [ New Hampshire ] July 8, 1794 . “The Same Difficulties existing respecting the acceptance of the Agency for providing Supplies & labour for the Fortifications in this port, as mentiond in my letter addressed to you of the 25th April last I have commenced the business myself.…” LC , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Portsmouth, Letters Sent, 1793–1794, Vol. 5, National Archives; copy,...
2526To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 9 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I do not write this letter as congratulatory upon the final issue of the enquiry into the Treasury department, as I never conceived you exposed to receive injury therefrom. I write to express my most sincere wishes that you will not suffer the illiberality with which you have been treated, to deprive the public of your services, at least until the Storm which hangs over us, and is to be...
2527To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 9 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, July 9, 1794. “If duplicates of the letters to Mr. Pinckney relative to the copper, Bunting & Hearths have not gone, it will be well to send them.… It might be well to order a second shipment on the instant, if it should be ascertained, that a capture or ship wreck had interrupted the voyage of the vessel in wh. it shall have been ship’t. The money to be...
2528To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 9 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, July 9, 1794. “You will find under this cover Estimates of monies which will be wanted by the supervisor of New York for pickled provisions for the axe men & carpenters under Mr Morgan & which may be wanted for advances to them, Cheese, butter, liquors, Melasses &ca. by the Collector of New London in Connecticut. Mr. Francis having informed that Sulphur can...
2529To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 9 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, July 9, 1794. “The enclosed contract for Oil was recd. after the departure of the President, & it is now transmitted for the purpose of submission to him. The apprehensions of War have had some effects upon the American Whalers and the continuance of it among the greater part of the Maritime powers of Europe has either destroyed or interrupted, or greatly...
2530To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Knox, 9 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
As the building of the Frigates is closely connected with the subject of Finance I beg leave to submit to your consideration, the arrangements which I propose upon that subject. No. 1. is proposed instructions to the Agents. " 2. —————————— to the Superintendant " 3. —————————— to the builder or Constructor. " 4. —————————— to the Clerk of the yard. Any remarks you may think proper or...
2531To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Knox, 9 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department, July 9, 1794. “Agreeably to your request of the 7th. Inst. I have the honor of transmitting you the Sums to be expended upon the Fortifications specified by the Laws.…” Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Secretary of War, Third Congress. National Archives. This letter was enclosed in a report which Knox submitted to Congress on December 19, 1794. The report is printed in ASP American...
2532To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Knox, 9 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department, July 9, 1794. “I request that you would be pleased to deside as early as may be, the articles … to be obtained by the naval Agents, at Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Portsmouth. Altho I have not yet definite Answers from all those places, yet as soon as I shall receive them, I am desirous of putting every thing in train of execution.” LC , RG 45, Unbound...
2533To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [9 July 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of yesterday was handed to me this day. As delay under present circumstances may attend the negotiation of a Loan in Holland by our Minister Resident there, for the purpose of the Algierine business, it appears to me expedient to send a power to our Commissioners at Amsterdam for that purpose. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See Willink, Van Staphorst, and...
2534To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 9 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth [ New Hampshire ] July 9, 1794 . “Your letters of the 23d & 24th. Ultimo respecting the advances to be made to the Marshall of the district of New Hampshire I have received and to which due attention will be paid. Receipts for the payments already made in consequence of your letter of the 2d July 1793 have been regularly transmitted to the Office of the Comptroller with my...
2535To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Harison, 10 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. John G. Fraunces has been with me respecting two Drafts of the late Comrs. of the Treasury, purchased by him as he alledges from one Jasper Murdock. These Certificates or Drafts he acknowledges to have been the Property of Mr. Duer & to have been sold improperly by the Agency of Azariah Williams. The Purchase Money with Interest and Extra Premiums now amounts to a considerable Sum of Money...
2536To Alexander Hamilton from Stephen Higginson, 10 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, July 10, 1794. “I received your Letter of June 24, & have noted your observations relative to Copper & Iron for the Frigates. I believe the decision to resort to England for the Copper is right.… We have here had much experience, by trial, of the qualities of the Duck manufactured in this Town.… I have cloathed a number of Vessels with our Duck & it has certainly worn better than...
2537To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Johnson, David Stuart, and Daniel Carroll, 10 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Washington, July 10, 1794. Enclose “the Title Certificate … to Mr. Greenleaf for 1000 Lots in the City … intended to create a mortgage on these Lots for £100,000 in Holland.…” LS , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress; LC , RG 42, Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds, National Archives. Johnson, Stuart, and Carroll were the commissioners appointed to superintend the...
2538To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 11 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, July 11, 1794. “I have the honor to request that a warrant may issue in favor of Mr. Tench Francis Agent for twenty five thousand dollars.…” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives.
2539Edmund Randolph to William Bradford, Alexander Hamilton, and Henry Knox, 11 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor of informing the Secretaries of the Treasury and of war and the attorney general, that the President is desirous, that they would take into consideration the Resolutions lately passed by the Inhabitants of Kentucky, and the intelligence lately received from Mr. Seagrove relative to the affairs in Georgia. The President wishes to see the Gentlemen at his...
2540Edmund Randolph to William Bradford, Alexander Hamilton, and Henry Knox, 11 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor of conveying to the Secretaries of the Treasury and of War, and the Attorney General the wish of the President, that instead of a meeting at his house at 12 oClock on Monday next the opinions upon the two points suggested in a note of this morning should be committed to writing, and sent to the President by that time. LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the...
2541To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 11 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I am sorry to hear that your little Son continues indisposed, and wish you to carry him into the Country for a few days, if it is conceived that exercise & change of Air will be of Service to him. Before you go, or as soon after as convenient, I should be glad to receive your opinion in writing, on the Kentucky & Georgia business; both of which have been communicated to you by the Secretaries...
2542To Alexander Hamilton from Stephen Higginson, 12 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
By a Vessel from Barbadoes I learn that Nat had finished his business there the 12 of last month & had sailed for martinico. If he meets with no obstruction at other places, he will make it Octr. before he can get home again. His communications to the Executive you will See & from thence collect much more than I know of his agency, he has stated to me his Doings in no Degree. A mr. Hutchins &...
2543To Alexander Hamilton from John Murray, 12 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, July 12, 1794. “I have this day been obliged to pay £65.0.9 costs in a suit commenced in the name of Royal Flint, Wm. Seton, John Murray, Alexr. Hamilton & Jonathan Burrall against George Joy & Daniel Badcock; this suit it is well known I was always averse to having commenced, but it seems it was pressed by Mr. Holker & Mr. Ross. I shall thank you to point out the mode in which the...
2544To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 12 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State presents his respects to the Secretary of the Treasury and has sent the report on the French Coins back to the Director of the Mint, in order that he may supply what is noted by the Secretary of the Treasury in his letter of the 9th. instant, this moment received. It is hardly worth the inquiry to which department it belongs to submit the subject to the President. If the...
2545To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 12 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State presents his Compliments to the Secretary of the Treasury; and informs him, that Mr. J. Q. Adams, the Minister of the United States for the Hague has arrived in this City. The pecuniary part of his mission lying within the Treasury department, it is requested, that the instructions upon this head may be prepared there. Mr. Adams will probably sail from Boston. This...
2546To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, [12 July 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
E. Randolph with best respect to Col. Hamilton, incloses to him an account of Mr. Knox, our late Consul at Dublin, which E. R. thinks reasonable, and proper to be paid out of the contingent fund in the President’s hands. Col. Hamilton’s opinion is reques[t]ed, whether it be a proper charge against the United States, and if it be so, how it is to be paid. LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the...
2547To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 12 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth [ New Hampshire ] July 12, 1794 . “Since my letter of the 9th. instant the Marshall of the District of N Hamp. applied for & recd. the 2d M[o]iety of the 200 dollars directed to be Advanced to him.… Considering that your instruction to me of the 2d of July 1793 restricts these payments to 200 dolls Per year I cannot consistant therewith make a further payment to him in the present...
2548To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 13 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury will judge how far the Limits of the two Departments require any alterations of these Instructions. It appears proper and necessary that the Agents should be instructed not to proceed to any purchases, but after they shall be informed by the Commr. of the Reve. that they are to proceed in such purchase: otherwise, double purchases, with the disadvantage of a...
2549To Alexander Hamilton from Christopher Richmond, 13 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Baltimore, July 13, 1794. The endorsement on a letter which Hamilton wrote to Otho H. Williams on June 30, 1794 , reads: “Answer’d 13 July.” Letter not found. ] Presumably the reply was from Christopher Richmond rather than Williams, for Williams had left Baltimore to go to the Sweet Springs at Bath, Virginia. See Williams to H, June 5, 1794, note 3 .
2550To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 14 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Newport [ Rhode Island ] July 14, 1794 . “… Last week arrived in this Port the Brig Industry of Saint Vincent William Harrison late master bound from St Vincent to London … captured by a French private Ship of War called the La Liberte.… The Vessel is entered at the Custom House, and I suppose the Cargo will be entered & sold here.…” LC , Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island.