4681From Alexander Hamilton to Caleb Gibbs, 20 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 20, 1791. On May 16, 1791, Gibbs wrote to Hamilton : “I have been honored by your much esteemed favour of the 20th. Ulto.” Letter not found. ] Gibbs and H had been close friends during the American Revolution when both had been aides-de-camp to George Washington.
4682From Alexander Hamilton to Simon Gross, 20 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I duly received your letter of the 9th. instant about which time I transmitted to you the Commissions of all the officers of the Maryland Revenue Cutter, whom the President has yet thought proper to appoint. The provisions and necessary small articles of Ship Chandlery will be provided for you by the Collector. I wish from him, after confering with you, a minute of the arms and ammunition that...
4683From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 20 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The remarks you propose to make upon the coasting law will be very acceptable, as the new bill stands postponed ‘till the next Session of Congress. I shall at all times wish for such observations as may occur to the Collectors on the Subject of the Revenue & Trade laws. I am of opinion that a consular certificate will not justify you, in paying a drawback. The Agents for Mr. Stephen Zacharie...
4684From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 21 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I do not conceive the laws will admit of a Collectors receiving & certifying a Manifest of goods actually at the time without his district; nor could it be deemed safe so to frame a law that the certificates issued under it might be constantly applied to cover goods other than those for which they were intended as passports. I do not therefore deem myself justifiable in giving you the...
4685To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 21 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, April 21, 1791. “I have been Honor’d with your favour of 11th Inst.… I am much obliged Sir, by your friendly communication and advice Respecting the Future prospect of a further Compensation to be made the Officers of the Customs.… I will Continue to execute the Duties of my Office, presuming, that it cannot be the Interest or Intention of the Legislature to appoint a person as...
4686To Alexander Hamilton from William Allibone, 22 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 22, 1791 . “I have herewith enclosed a Contract with Joseph Anthony & Son, for the supply of Oil for one years Consumption of the Lighthouse at Cape Henlopen.… I have also enclosed a Contract with John Wilson for Building a Beaconboat to replace the One used at Brown Shoal, it being in a State of decay as will not admit of its being depended upon for another year.…” ALS...
4687To Alexander Hamilton from Daniel Ludlow, 23 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, April 23, 1791. “I am indebted to the Honor of your esteemed favor of the 14 Inst & though it was not in your Power, consistent with the Regulations, you had established to Accord to my Request, I am not the less Obliged to you for the favor of a Reply & ye pains you have taken, to prevent in future the like Inconvenience.… I have now taken my Passage for Europe & expect to embark by...
4688From Alexander Hamilton to John M. Pintard, 23 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letters of the 7th of December & 19 of January have come duly to hand. What you mention concerning manifests and certificates of drawbacks certainly merits consideration. When the Collection law originated consuls were not yet appointed. You will oblige me by freely intimating whatever occurs to you for the benefit of our Trade and Revenue laws; whether arising from your observations on...
4689To Alexander Hamilton from Andrew Porter, 23 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 23, 1791 . “I am desirous of having the evidence preserved of the Original Amount of a Debt, for money loaned the United states between septr. 1777 & March 1778 (6 ⅌ Cent per Ann. on the Amount of which is now payable) And at the same time of taking out a predicated Certificate on which to draw Interest as a Non Subscriber. I am informed that you will, in case of...
4690To Alexander Hamilton from Isaac Moses, 24 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, April 24, 1791. “Whilst Congress was in Session I would not disturb you, I now beg leave to Remind you of your promise, in giving me a Deed for the House and I will execute a Mortage for £800, you will greatly Oblige me by Condecending to this mode, as I think all the Mony I have paid On a Very loose foundation.…” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Beginning in the...
4691To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Wadsworth, [24 April 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Hartford, April 24, 1791. In a letter to Wadsworth in April, 1791 , Hamilton referred to “your letter of the 24th of April 1791.” Letter not found. ] After the American Revolution, Wadsworth continued his mercantile pursuits in Hartford, Connecticut. He was elected to Congress in 1787 and 1788, and he was also a member of the state Ratifying Convention in 1788. He was a founder of the Bank...
4692To Alexander Hamilton from John Adams, 25 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I do my self the honour to transmit to you my Accounts which remain unsettled, for the last two years and Eight months of my Administrations abroad in the service of the United States. I have left a Blank for my Salary. In my own opinion it is but Justice that it should be filled up with the Sum of two thousand five hundred Pounds sterling a year, because this was the contract under which I...
4693To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 25 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The 21st. of this month I received a thermometer which by your direction was sent to me from New york by Mr. Lamb. By some accident the bulb was broken in its way from Philadelphia to this place. It came broken to me. As it was made at Philadelphia, and I suppose the maker is furnished with spare tubes I have remitted it to Mr. Lamb with a request that he would transmit it immediately to you....
4694To Alexander Hamilton from William Jackson, 25 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Wilmington [ North Carolina ] April 25, 1791. States that the President thinks that Joseph McDowell, Sr., “is perhaps, in all regards, the most proper person to be appointed Inspector of the survey No. 5” in North Carolina and that Captain William Cooke should be appointed captain of the revenue cutter at Wilmington. ALS , The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; LC , George Washington...
4695To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 25 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, April 25, 1791. “From a difficulty which arises to git an old Millitary officer of Reputation to take Command of the Company to be raised in this State, I have been under the Necessity of Recommending Jeremiah Greenman to the Secretary of War, as a Gentleman that would do honor to the appointment. You will doubtless recollect that I Recommended this Gentleman as first mate of the...
4696To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 25 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, April 25, 1791. “Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance the Bearer… John S. Dexter, who has been honored by the President with the appointment of Supervisor of Excise for Rhode Island—he now goes forward as a Delegate from this State Society to attend the General meeting of the Cincinnati to be holden in the City of Philadelphia.…” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society,...
4697From Alexander Hamilton to Stephen Van Rensselear, 25 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 25, 1791. The description of this letter in the dealer’s catalogue reads: “Regarding ‘several powers of attorney for the receipt of final settlement certificates’ presented by Abijah Holbrook ‘about whom reports of an unfavorable nature have been circulated;’ the certificates being those of soldiers in Colonel Marinus Willet’s regiment.” Letter not found. ] LS , sold at...
4698From Alexander Hamilton to John Habersham, 26 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 26, 1791. On May 20, 1791, Habersham wrote to Hamilton : “I have … received your letter of the 26th. ultimo.” Letter not found. ]
4699From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 26 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
You have been advised of the application of Samuel Dodge to the President for a Pardon. You know also that he is convicted upon the 26th section of the last Collection Law. A question arises concerning the extent of the power to pardon. There is a general rule that a power to pardon cannot be exercised so as to divest Individuals of a right of action for their sole benefit, or of a vested...
4700From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 26 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 26, 1791. On May 3, 1791, McHenry wrote to Hamilton : “I did not receive your letter of the 26th till the morning of the 2d.” Letter not found. ] McHenry, who had served as George Washington’s secretary during the American Revolution, had attended the Constitutional Convention and the Maryland Ratifying Convention. He was a member of the Maryland Assembly from 1788 to 1790.
4701To Alexander Hamilton from Théophile Cazenove, 26 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Je vous prie de me faire savoir si les éclaircissemens que vous désirés rélativemt. aux piastres seront fournis par la réponse aux questions detaillées sur la Notte que j’ai l’honnr. de vous envoyer. Mes amis d’hollande m’ont authorisés á leur assurer quelque intérét dans les entreprises utiles qui se formeroient ici: je considere comme tel le plan de la Compe. de manufactures que Mr. Duer m’a...
4702From Alexander Hamilton to Théophile Cazenove, [26 April 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The minute of questions you have been so obliging as to prepare (and which is return’d) comprises all the points about which I was desirous of information, and adds others; eclaircissements concerning which cannot fail to be useful. I will thank you to have the inquiry pursued, and any expense, which may attend the making of assays &ca will with pleasure be reimbursed. I learn with...
4703To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 27 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, April 27, 1791. “I wrote you 9th instant. I am this minute favoured with your Circular Letter 16th instant. I have disposed of all the Treasury Drafts.…” LC , RG 53, Massachusetts State Loan Office, Letter Book, 1785–1791, National Archives. Circular not found.
4704From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 27 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 27, 1791. On May 9, 1791, Ellery wrote to Hamilton : “I have received your letter of the 27th. of last month.” Letter not found. ]
4705To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 27 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
By the last post I was honoured by the receipt of your favours of the 8th. & 11th instant. I have the pleasure to forward my account of the purchases I made of the public debt. You will find that a very high price was given for it though less than was the current price in Boston a few days before my return to it. The first offers I had were 6 ⅌ Cent Stock 19/6. I rejected all untill they fix...
4706From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 28 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The bills of the old emmissions enclosed in your letter of the 22d December are now returned to you. Those which you have crossed are found to be counterfeit. That which remains unerassed is a true bill. It will derange the established plan of operations to draw a warrant on you for your Salary & expenditures. It will be best that you appoint, as heretofore, an agent to receive your Salary at...
4707To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 29 April[–3 May] 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
A few days since Captain Codman arrived here from the west indies. In his entery he returned one among other articles one bag of Coffee when the vessel appeared to be unladed all having been delivered agreeable to the entery & permit in consequence thereof. The officer after in examining the Vessel found under the Captains Cabbin four bags of Coffee which had not been entered on this the...
4708To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Harison, 29 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I had the Honor of receiving your Letter of the 26th. and shall pay due Attention to the Contents. The Questions proposed, are in themselves of great Importance & not free from Difficulties. They must therefore require mature and deliberate Consideration. Inclosed you will find the Contract entered into with John McComb Junr. & a Bond to secure the Performance of it. Mr. Cruger not having left...
4709To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Pettit, 30 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Pursuant to a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, concurred in by the Senate, and approved by the Governor, I do myself the honor to apply to you for the balance remaining unissued of that part of the Bills of Credit which were directed to be issued on the credit of this State by the Act of Congress of the 18th. of March 1780. By a statement which I...
4710To Alexander Hamilton from James Blanchard, May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you a Letter Similar to a Number that have been Sent to the Officers of the Late Continental army and I beg Leave to give you the reason of its being done. When Government under the new Constitution was making arrangements for the payment of the public debt the officers from the Massachusetts Line prefered a Memorial to Congress praying some mode might be adopted to ascertain the...