3251From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin, 1 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 1, 1792. “Mr. Hamilton presents his respectful Compliments to Governor Mifflin and requests he will be so obliging as to send by the bearer the papers he was kind enough to offer a perusal of to Mr. Hamilton.” Letter not found. ] AL , sold by American Art Association, March 3, 1925, Lot 272. Mifflin was governor of Pennsylvania. The papers, which have not been found,...
3252From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [1 December 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President has the honor to submit to him the enclosed communications concerning which he will wait upon The President on Monday. 1st Decemr. 1792 LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
3253Enclosures: [Statements], [November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
States Districts Collectors Gross amount of Payments for Balances in the hands of Collectors. Monies received by the Treasurer Duties on Merchandize. Duties on Tonnage. Fines Penalties and Forfeitures. Drawbacks on Merchandize exported. Bounties on salted Fish and Provision exported. Expenses on Collection of the Duties. Expenses attending
3254To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, November 30, 1792. Announces “the completion of the light House, Keepers house, oil Vault, and platform on Cape Henry in the state of Virginia.” States that extra work has compelled the contractor to submit a bill in excess of the original contract. Asks Hamilton to secure the President’s approval of this bill. LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of...
3255Report on the Petition of Abraham Scribner and Thomas Cable, [30 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the petition of Abraham Scribner and Thomas Cable, respectfully [submits] the following Report thereupon. The petition seeks compensation for the hire and value of a sloop, alleged to have been impressed into the public service, in August 1776, by Hugh Hughes, then Assistant Quarter-Master, with an engagement to pay, at the rate of four...
3256Report on the Redemption of the Public Debt, [30 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
In obedience to two resolutions of the House of Representatives, one of the 21st instant, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report a plan for the redemption of so much of the public debt, as by the Act, intituled “An Act making provision for the debt of the United States,” the United States have reserved the right to redeem; the other of the 22d instant, directing him to report the...
3257Enclosure A: [Table Showing the Effect of a Sum Annually Created], 30 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Table Shewing the Effect of a Sum Annually Created, Equal to the Interest of the Sum to Be Redeemed, Within Each Year, for a Period of Nine Years, Commencing from the 1st of January 1793. On the Supposition, That the Interest on the Sum Annually Redeemed, Be Invested, As It Is Liberated, in the Purchase of 6 Per Cent Stock, at the Price of 22 Shillings in the Pound. Periods of redemption Sums...
3258Enclosure B: Table Exhibiting a View of the Proposed Plan of Redemption, 30 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Table Exhibiting a View of the Proposed Plan of Redemption. N: B: All the calculations in this table proceed upon a rate of five per cent interest. Periods of redemption or payment. Sums redeemable. Temporary Loans. Amount of sums borrowed with compound interest to the respective periods of reimbursement. Years when Annuities begin to accrue. Years Annuities.
3259Enclosure C: Mode of Constituting the Proposed Annuities, 30 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Mode of Constituting the Proposed Annuities. 1793. Surplus dividend of Bank stock beyond the interest which will be payable, estimated at 60.000. Tax 43.199. 6 103.199. 6. 1794. Tax 109.391.60. 1795. Tax 115.955.17. 1796. Part of annual interest converted into annuity 20.000. Tax 102.912.48 122.912.48.
3260Enclosure D: [View of Redeeming Fund], 30 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
View of Redeeming Fund to and upon the 1st. January 1802. Interest which will have been liberated by purchases and payments into the Treasury, exclusive of redemptions, according to the proposed plan 65.000. Jan: 1st. 1794, by redemption of, 550.000 dols. rate 6 per cent 33.000. ditto, 1795, by ditto of, 583.000, at ditto 34.980. ditto,
3261To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 30 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, November 30, 1792. “I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st. instant accompanying Commissions for John Adams as first Mate & Benj Gunnison as second Mate of the Revenue Cutter Scammel. I beg leave to Nominate Samuel Odiorne for the third Mate of Said Cutter.…” LC , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Portsmouth, Letters Sent, 1792–1793, National...
3262To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 29 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 2d. of this month in reply to your letter of the 28th. of August recieved the day before. I was averse to writing to you again before I could transmit at the same time the account I then informed you I had written for to Amsterdam. The commissioners have assured me several times they are pushing forward as fast as they can the general account from the...
3263To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 29 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
It having been represented by the Director of the Mint that the late rise in the price of Copper, and the difficulty of obtaining it, render it improbable that the quantity authorised to be procured can be had, unless some part of it be imported by the United States; it is therefore thought proper that measures should be taken to obtain a quantity from Europe on the public account; and as it...
3264From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [29 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the president; has the honor to transmit for his consideration the draft of a report pursuant to two references of the House of Representatives, concerning which he will wait upon the President on Saturday, being desireous of sending in a Report on Monday. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See “Report on the Redemption of...
3265From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States, 28 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to request that you will advance to Messrs. William Young & George Dannaker, the further sum of One thousand Dollars, on account of their Contract with the Public for supplying the Troops of the United States with Clothing for the ensuing year, to be charged as suggested in my letter of the 5th. Instant. I have the honor to be Gentlemen Your Most Obedient Servant LS , Historical...
3266To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 28 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, November 28, 1792. Announces the death of the keeper of the Chesapeake lighthouse. Suggests that Lemuel Cornick would be a suitable replacement. LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives. William Lewis.
3267To Alexander Hamilton from John Nicholson, 28 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] November 28, 1792 . “In the year 1780 Congress required certain portions of provision called Specific Supplies from the different States, in 1781 The late superintendant changed the mode of supplying the Army into Contracts, at which time part of the provisions purchased by Pennsa. for the United states according to the former System remained undelivered in several Mills &...
3268To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 28 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeable to my expectation, as communicated in a former letter; Welcome Arnold Esqr. has commenced a Suit against me for the detention &c. of his Brigantine Neptune, in not granting a permit to Mr. Edward Dexter (who Received from him a Collusive Transfer of the Cargo) to unload, while his Bond in Suit remained unpaid. Mr. Dexter has also commenced a Suit for refusing him the usual Credit on...
3269Report on the Petition of Griffith Jones, [28 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the petition of Griffith Jones, by an Order of the House of Representatives of the 14th. instant, thereupon respectfully reports: That the case is one of those stated in a former Report to the House, dated the 16th of April 1792, as barred by the Acts of limitation. That the present petition is accompanied with a Certificate, recently given...
3270To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Schuyler, 28 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Both your letters detailing the conversation held with Mr Willet have been duly received, the contents communicated to a few friends, as I found it unnecessary to extend It, Mr. Willets statement having made no impression with our friends who believed It a Misrepresentation. Mr Van Schaack who was most alarmed at It and who mentioned It to me, was satisfied by my declaration that Willet must...
3271To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 28 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury will cause to be paid to the Director of the Mint, the sum of Five thousand Dollars; to be applied to the purposes of said Establishment. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. On November 27, 1792, David Rittenhouse, director of the Mint, had requested Thomas Jefferson to procure five thousand dollars for current expenses ( ALS , RG 59, Miscellaneous...
3272From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 28 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I received the resolution of the Directors of the Bank of the united States of Yesterday, relative to my proposition of the 20th instant. It remains to be determined by the Bank in whose favour the Treasury Bills upon Amsterdam are to be drawn, of which I request to be informed, in order to give the necessary directions. I have the honor to be very respectfully Sir Your obedt Servt LS ,...
3273To Alexander Hamilton from Meletiah Jordan, 27 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Frenchman’s Bay [ District of Maine ] November 27, 1792 . “… I have also to own receipt of another Thermometer which I am sorry to say has arrived in the same situation as the former.… I find that the Letters I receive from your Office are much retarded by being directed to the care of General Lincoln they remain at the Post Office in Boston & never sent to his Office, while they were directed...
3274To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 27 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] November 27, 1792 . Encloses “a Petition … in behalf of the Keeper of the Light House in Portland, to have his salary augmented.” ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, “Segregated” Lighthouse Records, National Archives; LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Less than a month after this petition was sent to H, an article in the [Portland, Maine] Eastern Herald...
3275From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 27 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 15th instant has been duly received. Under the circumstances stated, I am pleased with the conduct which you have observed, in relation to the Brig Neptune, from Surinam. Should Mr. Arnold (as you say he threatens) commence a prosecution in the State Court, care must be taken so to conduct your defence as to admit of an appeal to the proper federal one. It will be of course...
3276To Alexander Hamilton from Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 27 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Le secretaire d’etat m’ayant informé par une lettre du 20 de ce mois dont vous avez connoissance, que sur ma communication officielle du 8, votre gouvernement a arreté de solder ici à mon ordre quarante mille piastres de plus que les cent mille restant à payer sur les fonds précédemment accordés, je vous prie de vouloir bien faire acquitter entre les mains du Consul general Laforest ou à son...
3277From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [27 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President. The execution of the process by the marshal himself is, for many reasons, so important that it does not appear possible to dispense with it. If there should be any failure in the Deputy it would probably furnish a topic of censure and a source of much embarrassment. The impediment in point of health is to be regretted, but,...
3278To Alexander Hamilton from Sharp Delany, 26 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, November 26, 1792. On December 13, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Delany : “I received … your letter of the 26th. Ultimo.” Letter not found. ] Delany was collector of customs at Philadelphia.
3279To Alexander Hamilton from William Heth, 26 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, November 26, 1792. On January 1, 1793, Heth wrote to Hamilton : “I wrote you very fully the 26th Novr. last.” Letter not found. ]
3280To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, 26 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, November 26, 1792. On December 18, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Jay : “Your favours of the 26 of November & 16 instant have duly come to hand.” Letter of November 26 not found. ]