121To Alexander Hamilton from Augustus Van Cortlandt, 29 December 1784 (Hamilton Papers)
Yonkers [ New York ] December 29, 1784 . Sends a citation from Morris Hazard, and a copy of the proceedings against Rufus Herrick. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Van Cortlandt was a New York landowner.
122From Alexander Hamilton to Egbert Benson, [1785–1787] (Hamilton Papers)
[ 1785–1787. ] Recounts the facts in the case of Mary Franklin, Executor of Henry Franklin v Teunis Slingerlands . LS , from a photostat in the New York State Library, Albany. Benson, a New York lawyer, was a member of the first New York State Assembly in 1777, a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1781 to 1784, and attorney general of New York from 1777 to 1787. He was a member of the...
123From Alexander Hamilton to Hugh Seton, [1 January 1785] (Hamilton Papers)
I presume Mr. Jones has ere this informed you of the disagreeable turn of your affair with Mr. Wilkes; but as you first committed it to my management I think it proper to give you some account of its conclusion. As Mr. Jones does not at this time practice, he employed Mr. Burr to issue process against Mr. Wilkes upon which he was put into confinement; pursuant to your expectation that his...
124To Alexander Hamilton from Hercules Mulligan, 7 January 1785 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, January 7, 1785. At the bottom of an itemized account of money owed Mulligan by Philip Schuyler, Mulligan signed the following receipt: “Recd payment (by the hands of Col. Hammelton) in full.” ADS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Despite the reliance by H’s biographers on Hercules Mulligan’s narrative of the life of H (written sometime between 1810 and 1815), this receipt and...
125From Alexander Hamilton to Timothy Pickering, 7 January 1785 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, January 7, 1785. “I am mortified in being obliged to acknowlege to you my neglect of the business you committed to my care for your friend Mr. Holt. … I have applied to Mrs. Holt. I find she has some time since taken out letters of Administration with the will annexed during the absence of the Executors; a matter in which she never could have found any difficulty. It would indeed be...
126To Alexander Hamilton from Hugh Seton, 8 January 1785 (Hamilton Papers)
[ England, January 8, 1785. On February 2, 1785, Seton wrote to Hamilton : “I also wrote you a few Lines the 8th of this Month.” Since Seton wrote this letter on February 2, he must have been referring to January 8. Letter not found. ]
127To Alexander Hamilton from Neil Jamieson, 10 January 1785 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, January 10, 1785. Itemizes amounts of money paid for a house in New York City during the British occupation. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Jamieson was the head of the dry goods house of Neil Jamieson and Company located at 933 Water Street, New York City. H wrote on the margin of this letter the names of the various British commanders in New York from 1778 to 1783.
128From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Varick, [10 January 1785] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamiltons Compliments to the Recorder and to Doctor Bailey —is very sorry that he can’t have the pleasure of meeting them this Evening as the weather is bad and he is a good deal indisposed. AL , New-York Historical Society, New York City. Varick was the recorder of New York City. Dr. Richard Bailey (Bayley), a native of Connecticut, had studied medicine in New York City and later in...
129To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Schuyler, 11 January 1785 (Hamilton Papers)
Your two favors the one advising me of the Beautrice and the other Covering letters from my Children in Europe I have had the pleasure to receive. Mrs. Schuyler has been much indisposed since my last. We began to be very apprehensive of her situation but our fears are vanished with the untoward Symptoms which occasioned them. She is now so well as to go abroad and we have well grounded hopes...
130From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Varick, 13 January 1785 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, January 13, 1785. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue Letter not found. ] ALS , sold by Patrick Madigan, New York City, 1914, New Series 2.