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I have received your letter of the twenty first of October in which you announced your arrival at Bennington. Lt. Richmond will act as Pay & Quarter Master to your detachment. An additional number of the recruiting Instns have been deld to this Officer— With— ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
I have received your letter of the 28th of October. You will not be ordered to Join your battallion this winter, but will remain where you are. With conn You will be permitted to remain at Albany this winter for the purpose of recruiting—I wish you to send to Fort Jay as soon as possible a Lieutenant and twenty men— ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
I have received your letter of the fourth of october—you will immediately repair to Bennington in Vermont in order to be employed in the recruiting service—When arrived at that place you will report yourself to Major Buell and take his order— W— ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
The obvious expediency good policy of the Treasury as well as the order of Government, render it necessary the troops should be paid up, every two months when practicable, you are therefore to take definitive & effectual measures on this subject, relatively to the Troops on the lower Waters of the Mississippi, anterior to the return of Brigr. Generl. Wilkinson to that quarter, in the manner...
I have recd your letter of the 18th of Octor, and am much obliged to for to you for the information which they contain— With c— ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
The Secretary of War has just informed me that Lieutet. Richard Taylor resides at Springfield Smithfield in Virginia. With great considn You will send your next letter to this Gentleman in such a manner that you can be certain of it’s delivery. If you should not then hear from him you will inform me of it— ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
The arrangement of the Company officers of your regiment has been confirmed by the Executive. I am informed by the Secretary of War that the Pay Master General did not intend to demand the new forms of Rolls as a preliminary to the payment of the troops, and that it is optional with the several Colonels to proceed upon the old forms as before those lately—— as far as relates to the past, will...
Capt. Read has informed me that there are at Fort Jay 3 deserters belonging to your the 12th regiment, viz. Wm. Hebron, Jas. Dando, & Dl. Crook. He has been directed to convey them to Elisabeth town by Thursday next when you will take care to have a proper guard ready to receive & convey them to camp, to be tried in the General Court martial lately ordered— With great consideratn & ( Df , in...
There has not any of the Officers Orderd to this State to be under my Command Arrived nether have I had any information from either of them—I have seene Mr. Jones and Mr. Leverit the princible Contractors for this State, and with them have made the arrangments for Recruiting I am Sir with great Respect Your Huml Servt ( ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
I am favoured with your letter of the 2d instant—The Clothing for the three Companiees shall go forward immediately—All the Clothing ordered has been long since forwarded to the Western and Northern Posts, which are garrisoned by the Regiments to which the Companiees mentioned in your letter belong—I presume you mean to address the Clothing to Major Isaac Craig DQM Gnl as usual, subject to the...
I enclose Monthly Returns of Captn. Irvins & Captn. Cochrans Companies Art & Eng. stationed at this place— In addition to these two Companies we have here One Lieut. (Francis Gibson) doing duty of Qr. Mr. & superintendant of Artificers—One surgeons Mate (Geo: Dill)— Four Artificers —of Captn. Elliotts Compy— One Drummer belonging to Captn. Ingersolls Compy. who has been on the Recruiting...
Inclosed are the plans of Huts according to Coln’s. Smith & Coln. Ogden, the want of Instruments prevents me from doing them with sufficient accuracy— I am With Great Respect Sir Your Very Hble. Servt. ( ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress), enclosing "plans of Huts" ( AD , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). A note on the cover of the letter from Henry Ludlow reads: "Filed."
I have taken the Liberty to enclose you a Number of Recommendations in favor of Wm. Barton Browner, who solicits the Post of Cadet. No Doubt one higher would be more agreeable. I do not know him myself: But many of the Gentlemen who have interested themselves in his Favor are known to me & their Recommendation is worthy Attention. Permit me at the sametime to enclose you a Letter received from...
War Department, Trenton, November 2, 1799. “I received this morning your letter of the 31st Octbr. ulto. enclosing and submitting for appraisal, a project of a new arrangement of the officers of the four old Regiments of Infantry. The books and records of this office being packed up, it is out of my power to make any comparison between the project and the order in which these officers stand in...
I have received your letters of the twenty seventh and twenty ninth of September. There is as yet no established rule on the subject of forage. I have proposed one to the Secretary of War but it has not yet received his sanction. In the mean time you will exercise a proper discretion in the case. There is a fixed sum which is to be received in the lieu of forage when the article is not...
I enclose to you a letter for Lieutenant Campbell Smith appointing him Paymaster to the troops at Staunton for now under the command of Captain Brock. It is more most consistent with my general plan to appoint on such service an officer who is distinct different from the Corps with which he is to act one who has the command of the party. You will be pleased, before you do business with Lieut...
It is my wish that you would act as Pay Master to the troops not at Staunton formerly commanded by M now under the command of Captain Brock. Should you accept you will be pleased, after making the necessary arrangements with the Pay Mr Gl. to repair to Staunton as soon as possible. With consn You will be entitled to an additional allowance for this service of ten dollars pr. month— ( Df , in...
You will be pleased to procure for with an immediately a baggage waggon for the use of General Pinckney. With consn. ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
Col. Ogden has again requested the appointment of Cadet in his regiment for Mr. Josiah Wright. No other This young gentleman has been assisting in the recruiting business from since the fifteenth of May, and has rendered considerable service. It is therefore the wish of Col. Ogden that his appointment and emoluments shou ld be considered as com having commenced at that time. I request that...
It is my wish to see you by Tuesday next at the farthest. You will therefore be pleased to repair to this place as soon as possible. With conn. ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
You will be pleased, immediately upon the receipt of this letter, to apply to the contractor to procure the necessary ground for hutting the troops under your command. As soon as this shall be done you will lose no time in proceeding to the ground and to bring putting the men under cover. With consideration An earlier attention to the subject has been prevented by the a defect want the delay...
Your letters of the twenty-seventh of September and of the fifth of October have been duly received. It is my wish that you would recommend as soon as possible two persons to act as Cadets to your regiment. My former letter on the subject was a Circular, and I supposed that nominations had been made by all the Commandants. Your enquiry on the subject of Winter Quarters has been already replied...
You will be pleased to send As speedily as possible to the western Country clothing for three full companies of Infantry. Let them be addressed to the order of the Assistant Pay master General Captain Vance. The Companies are in the first, second and third regiments. It is of importance that the Clothing should arrive at Pittsbu rg this fall. With great conn ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas...
I have receipt received your letter of the eighth ninth of october. Your name is placed on the list of Candidates for the office of Division Inspector; but I can not tell say how far it will be practicable to comply with your wish request as a particular course has been viewed is to be pursued and it is impossible to tell whether that will lead to the gratification of your desire. With great...
I have to acknowledge Rect of your several Letters of 3 & 4 Ulto. via of Castine, I had been for some time anticipating your observation respecting my residence at Castine; but have now so far accomplished my Business, as never to leave my Regiment again without orders. I had a few days previous to receiving your Letter of 4th Ulto. received the purports of it from Colo. Rice, & have made the...
I have repeatedly called on the Contractor to furnish a supply of fuel to this Garrison for the ensuing winter agreeably to a letter received from Majr Hoops by your order dated 29 of Augt., but for the want of money it has not been in his power. It is but candid, and I owe it to the Officers and troops under my Command to mention to you Sir, that the allowance by the scale annexed to Majr...
I have been honoured with your Letters of the 30th. ulto. and shall carry their contents into execution, I conclude that the Court martial will be formed by details from this Camp, & I shall give the orders accordingly, should it be contemplated to send any officers from other corps, they can take their stations on the Court upon their arrival—I have formed the Plan of the Hutts upon the...
2278General Orders, 1 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, November 1, 1799. On November 4, 1799, Hamilton wrote to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney : “I send you … an order of the 1st. inst. issued by me respecting the General Disposition of the Army.” General Orders not found. ]
New York, November 1, 1799. “When I was at Trenton I considered it as perfectly understood between you and me that those officers of the old regiments to whom arrears of pay are due should receive the sums to which they are entitled immediately from your hands. I have been since informed that you decline this and refer the officers to their regimental Paymasters. They are of course left...
A Letter from you, arrived here a few days since for Lieut Wilson of the 2d Regt. from the improbability of its shortly reaching him, and to prevent any supposed remissness in his not complying with any order it may contain, I have thought proper to inform you of his being at Detroit. Lieut Thompson the late Pay Master to the 2d Regt. being so ill as not to be able to go on with the Pay of the...
a due proportion of Shells must be sent with the Howit zers destined to the Barrier post on the Mississippi— Yr Ob Sr ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
I send you two extracts from Col. Bentley’s letter of the twentieth of October. As the directions for the this new arrangement of rank proceeded from became necessary in consequence of transactions in your department I have doubt with respect to my power of giving it a sanction; but I could wish that it might speedily receive the proper ratification from your department the executive. There...
I would thank you to inform me whether Mr. Brown has been appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned in Col. Taylor’s regiment by the non acceptance of Mr. Chew. If this has not been done I would recommend that the place be filled by the senior first lieut. according to the regular principles of Military promotion. Col. Taylor, in his letter of the second of October mentions to me that Austin...
I enclose to you appointments for Oliver Emerson and David J. Waters as cadets in your regiment. With great conn ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
Your several letters of the second, fourth, thirteenth, nineteenth and twenty eighth of October have been duly received. The choice of Danbury as a place of rendezvous might be liable to misconstruction, and would perhaps give rise to Countermarching. It is therefore my wish that you would fix upon Stamford, Norwalk an or Fairfield. You have your choice between these three places, and when you...
Agreeably to orders from the Secretary at War—which have just come under my Eye—I have to report myself to you, Am now in the Borough of Reading, County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania—Where I arriv’d a few days Since from the Southward where I travell’d for my Health which is now restor’d— I Am ready to march at a moments warning to any place, you may think proper to order me to— I am Sir...
My Brother who is with me at present has such an inflamation in his Eyes as to put it out of his power to leave this for his station. As his Furlough is at an end, and he can’t write, he requested me to give you the above information and to send you the enclosed Certificate of a respectable Physician of this place. He will leave this as soon as he recovers, which he expects will be in a short...
Inclosed are Copies of several letters and papers which were contained in a Dispatch I received open, from the Commanding Officer on the Mississippi and Tombigbee Rivers, T. H. Cushing, addressed to Brigadier General Wilkinson, and afterwards delivered to that General, while he was at Trenton. In the letter marked No. 1. from Major Cushing to Brigadier Genl. Wilkinson dated Camp, Mulberry...
The enclosed paper has been just handed to me by Governor Howell with a request that it might be forwarded to the persons who would settle the relative rank of the Officers of the eleventh regiment, it being supposed neces sary in order to determine the rank of Captains Brooks and Faulkner—Should you think it proper, you will transmit it accordingly— I have the honor to be with great respect...
I enclose you a Passport from the Secretary of State intended for the Vessel which is to carry the Ordnance and Military Stores to the Mississippi—You will be pleased to fill up the blanks with your own hand writing and transmit to me a Copy of the Passport, I have the honor to be with great respect Your obed servant— ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; LS , letterpress copy, James...
I have by this Post wrote to Genl. John Swan of Baltimore to procure Transportation for the Company under Lt. Muhlenburgh for Norfolk and have also wrote him to apply to Mr. Swan for that purpose—I have the honor to be with Great Respect—Your Very Hble. Servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). A note on the cover reads: "Filed."
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 17th Ulto. enclosing a Letter of General Wilkinson in which he directs me to continue at Pittsburgh during the Winter—On the presumption that the Genl. has left the States and thereby impossible for me to hear from him before the navigation of the Ohio closes up—I have taken the liberty to inclose you a Copy of my Letter to him...
Having lately heard that a Publication had appeared in the Charleston Gazette requiring the Officers that served under Genls. Wayne & Wilkinson to report themselves to you, I have hasten’d to inform you, that I have been for some time past at this place, on the Recruiting Service by order of Lieut. Colo. Commdt Henry Gaither—Inclosed, I transmit, you a — of the Detachment & Recruits under my...
Some time since I sent on my Account for pay Subsistenc and forrage to the Accountent, he wrote me that he had handed it over to Colol. Swan Esqr. Pay Master Genl. for his examination and payment. I then wrote the Pay master Genl. and Reced. the enclosed for Answer— I expect by this time that some arrangments have bin made in that department, so as that the Bearer my friend Mr. Wadsworth can...
I have the Honor to inclose to you a list of the Officers in the 13th Regt with a concise statement of thier pretentions to Rank Viz—Capt. Meigs states that he served in the Continental Army as a first Lieut. from the 15th of Feby 1778 to the close of the War—Capt. Sanford, that he was a Sergt. five years in the Army and that he was discharged as such with the badge of Merit, and has since...
I have the honor to send you the arrangement which has been proposed by General Wilkinson and approved by me; subject to a negative from your Department, previous to his Departure. This mode has been adopted to accelerate his return. In a few instances, transfers of Officers from one Regiment to another are made in order to avoid as much as possible the separation of Officers from men. But...
First Regiment Field & Staff John F. Hamtramck Lieut. Col. Commandant Thomas Hunt 1st Major – – – – – – 2d. Major Lieut. Robert Semple Adjutant Lieut. Yelverton Peyton Paymaster Lieut. Joshua S. Rogers Quarter Master John Elliott Surgeon – – – – – –
I have received your several letters of the twenty third of September and of the fourth and eighth of October. No particular rules were laid down for the government of the Colonels and Majors in the arrangement of relative rank as it was supposed that they wod. naturally take into consideration all circumstances which, in a military point of view, give one man the preference to another. Former...
Trenton, October 31, 1799. “The Express was on the point of departure with Money for the 8th. & 9th. Regiments, when Major Bradley arrived here and informed me that Mr. Bent Pay Master to Coll. Parkers Regiment was on the way to this Place and would be here on saturday Evening, which induced me to Suspend Sending him, as he would probably have missed the Pay Master on the Road and therefore in...
In order to enable you to regulate your requisitions upon the contractor for supplies of provisions, I give it as my opinion that the recruits which you may expect to reinforce your command, and which will arrive at Pittsburgh will be, in all May, Eight hundred, and in each successive month one hundred more, till your command shall be complete. Of their progress afterwards you can best judge....