1001To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 27 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, March 27, 1794. “I have to request that a warrant may issue in favor of William Allibone Esquire superintendent of the Delaware Lighthouse establishment, for four hundred forty five Dollars; to enable him to discharge the accounts falling due in the quarter ending the 31st day of march instant.” LC , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters, Vol. I, National Archives. On...
1002To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Morris, 18 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I desired Mr. Constable to pay you $2000 & promised to remit him a bill for this Amot. By his letter just recd I find it was inconvenient for him to pay as he wants Money himself. You will find herein bills for five hundred pounds Stg they are perfectly good as Mr Cazenove will tell you & you can readily get the Money for them. I charge you $2333.33 being 175 ⅌ Ct and the exchge in New York is...
1003To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 1 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, September 1, 1791. On September 27, 1791, Hamilton wrote to Appleton : “You observe in your letter of the first instant.” Letter not found. ]
1004To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Howell, Junior, 23 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department, Accountant’s Office, January 23, 1794. “… I enclose a copy of your letter to Mr. James Blanchard which has been examined with the original.…” LC , RG 93, Letter Book, 1794, National Archives. H to Blanchard, January 22, 1794 .
1005To Alexander Hamilton from William Rawle, 8 May 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeably to the instructions I received on the 6th. instant from the Secretary of State I have made such enquiries as were practicable in relation to the facts complained of by his Britannic Majesty’s minister and have received by his direction & statement the substance of which and of information from other quarters with my opinion thereon I have the honor to report to you in the absence of...
1006To Alexander Hamilton from John Lowell, Junior, 15 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, June 15, 1796. An entry in H’s Law Register, 1795–1804, under the date of June 20, 1796, reads: “See Letter Lowel June 15.” Letter not found. ] Lowell was a Boston attorney and the son of John Lowell, United States judge for the District of Massachusetts. For background to this letter, see Lowell to H, December 19, 1795 . AD , partially in H’s handwriting, New York Law Institute, New...
1007To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 10 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Since my last letters of the 3d & 5th. inst. I have recieved a letter from the commissioners at Amsterdam of which I have the honor of inclosing a copy as well as of mine to them which occasioned it. I have not yet recieved their answer to mine written in consequence of theirs of which I inclosed you a copy in my letter of the 3d. but this letter serves as an answer as you will see by the...
1008To Alexander Hamilton from John Dunn, 28 January 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
Dublin [ Ireland ] January 28, 1797. “I take the liberty of enclosing to you an account current furnished to me by Mr. John Barclay of Philadelphia relative to a fund in his hands by me anxiously desired to be entrusted to your care—A late account of some unfortunate circumstances occurring in Mr. Barclay’s affairs makes me anxious in the extreme that the Property in his hands should be...
1009To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 26 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth [ New Hampshire ] December 26, 1793 . “I received your favor of the 9th Instant.… On estimating the Allowances to Vessels licensed after the last day of May for the Cod Fishery & those licensed before that date & since the 1st. of January last which were intended for that Fishery I find the amount to be 2497 ³⁰⁄₁₀₀ Dollars, as it is probable Some of the Vessels licensed may fail in...
1010To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Mifflin, [5 May 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
On the 28th. of Augt. 1788, the late Board of Treasury of the U.S. under the authority of a Resolution of Congress accepted the proposals which were made to them, on the 7th. of July preceding, by the Delegates in Congress from Pennsylvania on behalf of this State, for the purchase of a tract of Land, belonging to the U.S., contained in the interval betwixt a Meridian Line, run between Lake...