1Enclosure I: Thomas Digges to Thomas Pinckney, 13 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I was favourd by Your reply to my Communications from Birmingham relative to the coinage of Dollars &ca. &ca. (which I still am apprehensive are meant to be passd in the United States) I have not had an occasion to intrude upon You, nor as yet been able to get as far as London from the requisite attention it behoovd me to pay to some moveing Farming Families and the getting forward a...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 9 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, December 9, 1794. “… Be assured that in this and in every thing which concerns you whatever and however my lot may be cast, I must feel, according to the dictates of a genuine esteem and true attachment.” Letter not found. ] ALS , sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., November 30, 1943, Lot 143. Extract taken from manuscript dealer’s catalogue. The catalogue description...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 5 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is a packet for Mr. Short which I beg you to forward. I leave it open for your perusal to save me the time it would require to repeat the subject to you. Inclosed is another Copy of the Letter for you. I have the consolation of believing that the attempt will in the end do good to the Government & to myself. Yrs. respectfully & with true esteem ALS , Pinckney Family Papers, Library of...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 21 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 21, 1794. On January 21, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Otho H. Williams and enclosed “a letter directed to Thos. Pinckney, Esquire London.” Letter not found. ]
5From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 21 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 21st of October by duplicates (the Original lost) has recently come to hand. I have directed the Treasurer to remit you by this opportunity Six thousand Pounds Sterling, the sum you mention to be likely to be deficient for the payment of the cost of the articles procured for the frigates. The bills have Ninety days to run, but none good at a Shorter Sight were to be...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, [10 May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his compliments to Mr Pinckney and takes the liberty of troubling him with the charge of the enclosed letter for the Commissioners of the United States at Amsterdam. Copy, Pinckney Family Papers, Library of Congress. The letter to Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard has not been found.
7From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 30 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been determined to import from Europe as expeditiously as may be, Twenty Anchors for the use of the Six Frigates for which provision was made in the last Session of Congress. I have been induced therefore to take the liberty of asking your care of the business and to request that you will without delay cause the number of Anchors required to be procured and shipped agreeably to the...
8From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 4 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State will have informed you of a Remittance lately made to you by the Treasurer for the Use of the Marquis La Fayette. While it is not doubted that you will use all due Circumspection to guard against its Misapplication, I think it proper to mention to you that in Consideration of the Difficulties which may attend the peculiar Situation of the Marquis, the Treasury will be...
9From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 1 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have directed the Treasurer to remit you a bill on our Commissioners at Amsterdam drawn in your favour for the sum of 303,115 Guilders. This step has been adopted in consequence of the precarious Situation of Holland which renders the Sale of bills on Amsterdam impracticable. You will please to take the means which shall appear to you most eligible to transfer the amount of the bill from...
10From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 31 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 31, 1792. Encloses “a letter for our Commissioners at Amsterdam, one for Mr Grand banker at Paris and one for Mr Carmichael” and requests that Pinckney forward them. LS , Duke University Library. Pinckney was United States Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain. Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard. Letter not found. Ferdinand Grand. Letter not found. William...
11From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, [17 October 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his compliments to the Minister Plenipotentiary of the united States at the court of Great Britain and requests the favor of having the inclosed letter transmitted to our Bankers at Amsterdam. D , Pinckney Family Papers, Library of Congress. Letter not found. Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard.
12From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 12 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I am to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the second of March 1794 enclosing the Register of the Mary of Boston and a bill of exchange for Mr. Lacolombe, which shall be delivered to him upon his return from New York. In my letter to you of the 25th of June last, I omitted to mention, that if the whole or a part of the articles intended for the equipment of the Frigates should be...
13From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 25 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been determined to import from Europe as expeditiously as may be the articles mentioned in the inclosed list towards the construction of six frigates for which provision was made in the last session of Congress. These are considerations which would have directed the endeavour to procure these articles in the first instance from the more Northern Countries of the Continent of Europe; but...
14From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 5 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respectful compliments to the Minister Plenipotentiary of the united States at the court of Great Britain, requests the favour of his particular care of the enclosed letter to Messrs Willink & van Staphorst Amsterdam. L, in an unidentified handwriting, Pinckney Family Papers, Library of Congress. This letter was enclosed in H to William Seton, November...
15From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 29 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Treasurer has been directed to remit to you a Bill on our commissioners at Amsterdam for 303, 115 Florins. It appears upon more particular examination that it would not leave in the hands of the Commissioners a sufficient sum for payment of interest to the first of March inclusively, which was the intention. I request therefore that you will so arrange the matter as that there be left in...
16From John Jay to Thomas Pinckney, 31 August 1794 (Jay Papers)
I sympathize with you most sincerely in the late calamity Distress you experience; and [ would wi ] ^really^ wish to relieve you from much official ^as much as possible^ attentions to public affairs When I recd from ^yesterday rec d ^ the papers relative to the Copper, I was at Liesure to take up that Business— I have ^am^ this Moment [ illegible ] ^become so circumstanced as to^ find it...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 30 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letters to you have been of the 13th. and 20th. of Nov. since which I have recieved yours of Sep. 19. We are anxious to hear that the person substituted in the place of the one deceased is gone on that business.—You do not mention your prospect of finding for the mint the officers we were desirous of procuring. On this subject I will add to what was before mentioned to you, that if you...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 7 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my Letter of April 26th. yours have been received of March 12. 12. 13. 13. and 19. Before the receipt of these, one of which covered the form of your passports , it had been determined here that passports should be issued in our own ports only, as well to secure us against those collusions which would be fraudulent towards our Friends, and would introduce a competition injurious to our...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 14 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Aug. 20 . I inclosed you the 1st. of John Wilcocks’ bill on Messrs. Edwd. Mc.Culloch and Co. of London for £1077–11–9 sterl. (cost here 5000. Dollars) payable to yourself at 60. days sight to be applied to the use of our diplomatic gentlemen abroad. In my letter of the 11th. inst. I inclosed the 2d. and now the 3d. of the same bill. I have also engaged the bank of the US. to...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 24 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. Robert Leslie, a watchmaker of this city, goes to establish himself in London. His great eminence will unquestionably ensure his success, if he can but be known. I have considered him and the deceased Mr. Rumsey (both born in the same neighborhood) as the two greatest mechanics I have ever met with in any country. Not to mention many other useful inventions, we are...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 12 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The George Barclay has fallen down the river before I had notice she was about to sail: I have therefore only had time to send out and get the inclosed bill of Mr. John Vaughan on Messrs. Bird, Savage & Bird of London for £13–13 the amount of the model of the threshing machine you were so kind as to send me. It is gone on from New York to Virginia without my having seen it. Accept many thanks...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 14 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The U.S. being now about to establish a Mint, it becomes necessary to ask your assistance in procuring persons to carry on some parts of it, and to enable you to give it, you must be apprised of some facts. Congress, some time ago, authorised the President to take measures for procuring some artists from any place where they were to be had. It was known that a Mr. Drost, a Swiss, had made an...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 17 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Nov. 29. 30. 30. and Dec. 1. came duly to hand and gave sincere pleasure by announcing your disposition to accept the appointment to London. The nominations to Paris and the Hague having been detained till yours could be made, they were all immediately sent in to the Senate, to wit, yourself for London, Mr. G. Morris for Paris; Mr. Short for the Hague. Some members of the Senate...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 12 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The present will be delivered you by Mr. Greene, whose demand on the justice of the British government was the subject of frequent conversations between us, and of a particular letter, when you were here. The magnitude of his losses will call for all the attentions and patronage we can give him consistently with those considerations of ultimate friendship and peace between the two nations...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 3 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of troubling you to forward the inclosed letters to Mr. Cathalan and Fenwick; and as you may very possibly be applied to in the course of the business, I send them open that you may be acquainted with the train into which it is put. When you shall have read them, be so good as to seal and forward them. Knowing the interest you take in the success of this essay, it would be...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 6 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The mission of a Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of London being now to take place, the President of the United States is desirous of availing the public of your services in that office. I have it in charge therefore from him to ask whether it will be agreeable that he should nominate you for that purpose to the Senate. We know that higher motives will alone influence your mind in the...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 20 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The death of Mr. Barclay having rendered it necessary to appoint some other person to proceed to Algiers on the business of peace and ransom, the President has thought proper to appoint Colo. Humphreys, and to send on Capt. Nathaniel Cutting to him in the character of Secretary, and to be the bearer of the papers to him. I am to ask the favor of you to communicate to Colo. Humphreys whatever...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 4 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 7th. of May, since which I have received yours of Mar. 12. Apr. 5. 6. 6. and 10. Tho’ the character of Mr. Albion Coxe here was not exactly what we would have wished, yet he will be received if he can give the security required by law. With respect to Mr. Holloway, my former letters will have informed you that the necessity of proceeding in our coinage would admit no...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 8 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I took the liberty, some short time ago, of putting under cover to you some packets containing copies of official papers which Mr. John Carey had been permitted to take and publish, accompanying them with a request that you would be so good as to deliver them to him particularly, but to no other person should any accident happen to him. I now trouble you with another packet of the same kind...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 3 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Dr. Edwards, a citizen of the US. proposing to visit London, I take the liberty of presenting him to you. Tho I have not the honor personally of a particular acquaintance with him, yet his reputation, and the recommendations I receive of him from several persons and particularly from Colo. Burr and Doctor Rush authorise me to ask your attentions and good offices to him with...