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I have received your letters of the 11. instant. You will be pleased to inform Captain Cole that the President has accepted his resignation, and that his pay and emoluments cease on the 20 instant I wrote you on the 21. August last respecting Samuel Winter Church a duplicate of which I enclose I am Sir with great respect Your obed servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). There are...
Inclosed is an extract of a letter from Governor St. Clair, dated Cincinnati the 26th of August ultimo, for your information. I have the honour to be with great respect, Sir, Your most obedt. Servant, ( LS , letterpress copy, James McHenry Papers, Library of Congress).
I have received your letter of the 6th inst. containing an extract of a letter from Colo Strong dated D’Etroit May 7th 1799 I have the honor to be, with great respect and esteem your Most Obt Hbl St ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). Acknowledges H’s letter of June 6, 1799. Letter not found.
I transmit you a petition from a Soldier of the 10th Regiment, praying for a Discharge from the Service: if it can consistently be granted, you will be pleased to take the necessary Order to that effect. I have the Honour to be, Sir, Your most obedt Servt. ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
I have the honor to inform you that I forwarded by yesterdays mail the letters for Major Adlum and the Commanding Officer at Fort Mifflin, which were enclosed in your letter of the 10. September instant— I am Sir with great respect Your obedient Servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; LS , letterpress copy, James McHenry Papers, Library of Congress).
Inclosed is a letter from Mr. Allen respecting Litchfield as a good recruiting rendezvous and Lt. Beebe as a good recruiting Officer to be employed in that place. Will you give the request your attention in making your arrangements. I am D Sir Yours ( ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress), enclosing John Allen to McHenry, March 25, 1799 ( ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
I have the honor to request that you would be pleased, to give the necessary orders that the Cadets in the fortifications on the Sea Board, and at West Point may receive the same allowance of fuel ⅌ month as is granted to the Lieutenants, agreeably to the regulations established by this Department— I am Sir with respect Your obed servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
The enclosed list of Officers for the Troops to be raised in the State of North Carolina, has been approved of by the President and was received from him on the 6th. instant. I have written to the several Gentlemen therein named informing them of their appointments—A Copy of my letter is herewith transmitted I have the honor to be with great respect Your obedient servant ( LS , Hamilton...
Inclosed is a Copy of a letter dated to day from the Secretary of the Navy relative to a Guard for certain french Prisoners arrived at Baltimore in the Montezuma—I pray you to pay the most immediate attention to the request it contains With great respect I have the honor to be Sir Your most obedt servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; LS , letterpress copy, James McHenry Papers,...
I have the honor to enclose you appointments for Oliver Emmerson and David J. Waters as Cadets in the fifteenth regiment of Infantry—which you will be pleased to have forwarded—They are the Gentlemen mentioned in your letter of the 3 October— I am Sir with great respect Your obed servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; LS , letterpress copy, James McHenry Papers, Library of Congress).
War Department, April 27, 1799. “I have considered the arrangement and distribution of the two Regiments of Artillerists and Engineers submitted to me … and approve of the same. You will be pleased to cause the said arrangement and distribution so far as it relates to your command to be carried into immediate effect.…” LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. H to McHenry, first letter of...
I have received your letter of the 2d. instant enclosing the resignations of Lieutenants Noyes and Hinman of the 13 Regiment of Infantry— You will be pleased to inform them that their resignations have been accepted, and that their pay and emoluments will cease on the 15th. instant. I am Sir with great respect Your obed servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
I have received your letter dated the 7th. instant. The President has directed me to signify to you that he considers you in service from the first day of November 1798 in consequence of your being summoned by letter bearing date the 15 October to attend at Philadelphia or Trenton as soon as possible and in all events by the 10 November. Your pay and emoluments will therefore take date from...
Here is what the committee have reported. They would not go further, and I wish Congress may go as far. You forgot, when you thought to combine interests, that the little passions are great intermeddlers in the most important affairs. Yours truely ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; ADfS , James McHenry, Library of Congress. For an explanation of the contents of this letter, see...
I have received your letter of the 27. instant. On the receipt of your letter of the 18. instant enclosing one from Lieutenant Yelverton Peyton, a letter of which the enclosed is a Copy was written and transmitted agreeably to your request to Major Jonathan Cass of Wilmington— Enclosed is the Copy of Mr. Peytons letter to you of the 15 May I am Sir with great respect Your obed servant ( LS ,...
I enclose you a letter from Captain Cornelius Lyman dated Presque Isle 16th July ulto. requesting instructions respecting the ration to be issued to the Troops. You will be pleased to give the necessary orders respecting the object of this Letter. With great respect, I have the honor to be Sir, Your obedient Servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress), enclosing Cornelius Lyman to...
I enclose you a letter from Samuel Annin and sundry depositions tending to prove that Joseph Cross a Private in Captain Faulkners Company 11. Regiment was under the age of 18. Years at the time of his enlistment—You will take such order therein as to you may appear proper. I am Sir with great respect Your obed servant— ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). There is an "X" mark in the...
I have received your letter of the 27 instant. The letter to Captain Elliott therein contained has been forwarded—Your letter to the commanding Officer at Fort Mifflin enclosed in yours of the 25 instant has not been sent—I enclose you a letter of appointment for Charles Leonard as a Second Lieutenant in the 14. Regiment which you will be pleased to forward. I am Sir with great respect Your...
I enclose you a letter just received from Captain John McClallen, which you will be pleased to take such order on as you may judge proper I have the honor to be Sir Your obedient servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress), enclosing John McClallen to McHenry, March 11, 1799 ( ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
I recd. yours of the 9th this morning. Why is it necessary you should repeat to me your request, or require any new evidence, that I will not take the same care of Philip Church as I would of my own son. Let Mrs. Church be assured I will. Yours affecy. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
I enclose you a letter of appointment for Doctr. John Orton Junr. as Surgeons Mate in the thirteenth regiment vice Spaulding which you will be pleased to have forwarded. I am Sir with great Respect Your obed Servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
Inclosed are the drafts of two proposed contracts with James OHara. He will deliver this letter. If in your opinion there is any thing which ought to be added or altered in either draft I shall be much obliged to you to mention it, and if it requires the consent of Mr OHara to confer with him relative thereto— I am Sir with great respect Your obed servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of...
War Department, Trenton, October 25, 1799. “I this morning received your Letter, dated the 23d. instant.… Entertaining the same opinion I request, you will accordingly give such orders as you may deem proper, and expedient, for the comfortable accomodations of both regiments at as little expence as possible, and without a purchase of Land.… The orders on the subject should proceed directly...
I enclose you a letter from David S. Jones declining his appointment in the established army, and requesting one in the provisional army, and your letter recommending him These letters you will please to return when you have completed the list which you have been requested to furnish I have the honor to be with great respt Sir Your Ob Hb St ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
I have the honor to transmit you an extract of a letter just received from Colonel Thomas Butler dated Belle Canton April 8. 1799— and am Sir with great respect Your obedient Servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress), enclosing Thomas Butler to McHenry, April 8, 1799 (extract, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
Mr Rhea has this moment put into my hands the inclosed, being copy of the contract for Woodbury. This closes the contracts for the state of Jersey. The Cloathing for Jersey is in readiness, buttons excepted which are under way yours will it not be proper to furnish the Lt. Col Ogden with copies of the co ntra cts? ( ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress), enclosing a contract for supplies...
I have laid your letter dated Head Quarters Plainfield May 23d. instant, before the President. It is thought proper and expedient to suspend raising the Battalion of Artillerists additional to the second regiment of Artillerists and Engineers. You will therefore be pleased to attend to this instruction in the orders you shall issue relative to recruiting for the old establishment. The other...
Inclosed is a Copy of a letter from the Accountant of the War Department, containing his information relative to the Claims upon due bills held by the first Regiment— I am with great respect Sir your obt Servt ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress), enclosing William Simmons to McHenry, September 28, 1799 (copy, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
It was suggested for your consideration in my letter of the 12 of July, a Copy of which is inclosed to transfer certain troops at Fort McHenry from the Infantry to the Artillery, which I understood was desired. As Cloathing is wanted and cannot be forwarded until it is known whether this transfer is to take place I wish to be informed of the orders you may have given— With great respect I have...
The services of Captain Elliott, who is with a Company of Artillery drawn from Fort Mifflin, and now in Northampton County, being indispensable to make draughts for Cannon and to superintend a laboratory, which it is intended to commence without loss of time, I pray you to direct Capt McClellan, or any other Captain of the Corps you may think proper, to relieve him as soon as possible—Captain...
I have received your letter of the 28 instant. Captain Edmund Taylor of the eighth regiment of Infantry accepted his appointment on the Tenth day of February 1799. His letter is dated Frederick County Virginia. I enclose you appointments for Thomas Burk and John Tennison as Cadets in Colonel Parkers regiment—they have been made out agreeably to the Certificates transmitted in your letter. You...
Inclosed are certain regulations respecting the delivery of Fuel, Straw and Stationery, and Horses furnished to Officers. I wish you to consider them, and to offer such additional ones to, or alterations in those proposed as in your opinion may be proper. The last has been conceived necessary to check an evil which may grow to magnitude. I request you particularly to determine how many Horses...
I wrote you a line yesterday acknowleging the receipt of your late letters from Albany. I expect that there will be a quorum of both branches to-day. It appears that the news of the Emp. of Germ. having signified his intention to make peace was unfounded. Had it even been so, it ought to have augmented our endeavours to meet hostility. It is probable that a new character will be given Pinckney...
War Department, August 29, 1799. Writes in reply to Hamilton’s letter of August 25 and states: “It is understood to have been the general custom in the Army to act, pro hac vice, as Judge Advocate on General Courts Martial, whenever the Judge Advocate to the Army, could not be present, or that Office, as is now the case, was vacant; it is not known that any established pay or compensation was...
I sincerely condole with Mrs. Hamilton and you on the loss which you have sustained in the death of your beloved son Philip. I can well conceive of the distress this event has occasioned, and the tender recollections that his memory must long continue to excite. I lost my eldest child, a daughter, after she had discovered whatever can promise to flattter parental expectations. Is there ought...
I have received this morning the following letters, viz one of the 24th. instant, inclosing proceedings of a General Court Martial, one of the 24th. instant, respecting Winter Quarters on the Potomack—one of the 25th. instant, informing that you had fixed upon Greenbrook for the Winter Quarters of the 11th. 12th. and 13th. regiments, and one of the 25th. instant, stating that Call is the name...
I have received your letter dated the 21st instant, pressing that measures, may without fail, and speedily, be taken to pay the sums due to the troops of the United States. Observations in your letter, relative to the causes, which have prevented the exhibition of muster and pay rolls, would seem to convey an idea, that in your opinion some delay or failure in this particular is attributable...
I have recd. a letter from Mr. W. this morning in which he says. “I have made enquiry respecting the declaration of Mr. Adams while in London in Nov. 1783—it seems he thought negociations could be better conducted there than in a foreign country, and observes—‘Here with the most perfect politeness to ministers we may keep them in awe; a visit to a distinguished member of opposition, even...
I enclose you a Copy of a letter from the Quarter Master General dated the 30th. Ultimo relative to widening the road from Le Boeuff to Presque Isle, and erecting a few bridges on the said road, and suggesting that the same could be done by a detachment of the Troops. You will be pleased to take the same into consideration, and take such order thereon as to you may appear proper— I am Sir with...
I enclose you a letter from his Excellency Governor Jay, dated Albany 7th May ’99, respecting the appointment of John T. Bentley in the army. This letter is accompanied by one from Mr Bentley himself and a recommendation signed by Hosea Moffitt, Eleazer Grant and John W Schermerhorn. When you have considered these letters with a view to the vacancies to be filled up in the regiment commanded...
I have the honor to enclose you a Copy of a report made by Colonel Lear to the Commander in Chief and which came to hand yesterday respecting quartering the Troops at Harpers ferry during the ensuing Winter— Dr. Hezekiah W. Bissell resides at Hartford in the State of Connecticut— I am Sir with great respect Your obed servant ( LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress), enclosing Tobias Lear...
I am directed to inform you that the President of the United States, by, and with the advice and consent of the Senate, has appointed you Inspector General, with the rank of Major General; and to transmit you your commission made out accordingly. It may be proper to mention that the nominations to the Senate for the General Officers of the established, and provisional army were presented on...
I have just received the following letters viz. two of the Second, two of the third and one of the 4. of October instant. I shall make inquiry and inform you relative to the quantity of white Cloth on hand destined for Woollen Overalls for the Soldiers. Major Rivardi’s bill or draught, for the amount of the expences incurred in transporting the Troops from Oswego to Niagara and for the logs,...
War Department, June 15, 1799. “I received by yesterdays mail, three letters of the 12, and by the mail of this morning, two letters of June 14th instant.… The idea is undoubtedly correct respecting the keeping an extra supply of Clothing at the remote posts. It is not unknown to you, that from circumstances which I could not controul, even the quantity of Cloathing necessary for the old...
Will you give a few hours to the formation of a bill, or bills, providing. 1. For the modifications of the two Regiments of Artillerists agreeably to the principles laid down in my report. 2. For establishing the Fundamental School and School of Artillerists & Engineers. 3 For such other points mentioned in my report as requiring legislative provisions. 4 An explanatory clause in the latter...
I received your letter of the 31. of May ultimo this morning. You will perceive by the Schedule which was transmitted you on the 23d of May ultimo that the whole of the articles for Colonel Rice and Colonel Hunnewells regiments were ordered on the 2d and 22d of May. The buttons left Philadelphia for Mr. Jackson on the 28 of May by one of the Stages. Inclosed is a Copy of the order on Mr....
On the 15 August last I received from you the proceedings of a Court Martial in the case of Lieutenant Kreemer of the first regiment of Infantry; the sentence of which was a dismission from the service of the United States. These proceedings were accordingly laid before the President who on the 18 September approved of the Sentence and directed the same to be carried into effect If I recollect...
I have received your letter of the 28. instant, informing that General Wilkinson had mentioned to you that the Second and third Regiments are destitute of Surgeons, that he particularly recommended James Boyd Junr and Samuel Hayes as Mates, and that the Troops have suffered severely from the want of medical men. It has always been a rule with me, the moment I was apprized that any garrison or...
I enclose you copies Extract of a letter dated Newport the 24th. July from Archibald Crary Esqr. and copy of the opinion enclosed in the same to me of Doctor Isaac Senter respecting the most eligible place for erecting a Naval Hospital for that post. You have already had, the question referred to you, whether it would be proper to erect such an Hospital, on Rose or Goat Island, both of which...
I received your note of the 25 inst. yesterday. I had written on saturday to the Lieutenant General as per copy annexed. You will return this paper, with your opinion respecting the proposed arrangements, and say nothing to anyone about its contents (I mean a part of its contents) either now or hereafter. Yours ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; ADf , James McHenry Papers, Library of...