4701Promissory Note from William Adams, 13 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
One Month after Date I Promise to pay to Alexr. Hamilton Esq Or Order fifteen pounds for Value Red. ADS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
4702Treasury Department Circular, 13 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Some investigations in which I am engaged induce a wish to be able to form as accurate an idea as can be obtained of the usual product in proportion to the value of cultivated lands in different parts of the United States. As I am persuaded no person can better assist me in this object than yourself, I take the liberty to ask the favor of your assistance. It has occurred to me that if the...
4703To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 13 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Brigantine Hawke, Robert Hathaway, Master, arrived at this Port the 28th February last from Havre de Grace, having on board sundry articles of Merchandize, the duties on which amounted to sixty one dollars and eighty four Cents agreeable to the enclosed abstract. The Brigantine Hawke was registered ninety eight tons, but some circumstance induced the Surveyor of this Port to remeasure her,...
4704To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Randall, 14 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeably to your request, I shall endeavor to communicate, in as clear a manner as my abilities will admit, the ideas which result to me, from my experience in the trade from this country to Canton. It is needless to a gentleman of your historical information to make any remarks on the representation given by writers, on the government of China, as they must be merely speculative, and would...
4705To Alexander Hamilton from Fisher Ames, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have heard that the Bank of N York propose to reserve a number of their shares for the acceptance of the U. S. Bank, so as to create a kind of partnership. Tho’ little seems to be known of the particulars, yet it is insinuated that the idea is suggested under your patronage. When I wrote you last, I was ignorant of all this. Tho’ the Bank is to govern itself, yet your opinion of the proper...
4706To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, [15 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The fall of Bank certificates may have some good effects, it will operate to deter our industrious citizens from meddling in future with the funds, & teach them contentment in their proper vocations. So far as I am informed, the loss will be divided among a great number of individuals, and where it is heaviest, the sufferers will generally be characters who will neither excite nor deserve...
4707To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
By the Presidents command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury a letter from Mr. Governr. Morris to the president respecting the Debt of the United States in France; which the President requests the Secretary to take into consideration, and to draft such an answer as will be proper for the President to give to Mr. Morris on this subject. LC , George Washington...
4708Enclosure: Gouverneur Morris to George Washington, 27 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a Letter and sundry Papers relating to it from Messieurs Schweizer Jeanneret & Co. I have referred these Gentlemen to Mr. Short telling them that it is most fitting in many Respects that they should apply to him. As it is possible however that this Business may come before you, I think it a Duty to convey some Observations which occur to me, and which may not...
4709To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
By the President’s command T Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of the treasury the proposals which have this day been submitted to the President, for rebuilding the lanthorn story & wooden work of the Light House in South Carolina which has lately been consumed by fire, and likewise proposals for plastering the same —All of which have been approved by the President of the United...
4710Meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, [15 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
At a meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the United States, on the 15th day of August, 1791: Present: The Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General. The Secretary of the Treasury having informed the Board, that a further sum, amounting, probably to between three and four hundred thousand dollars, may be applied, in pursuance of the act...
4711From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is a resolution of the Trustees of the Sinking Fund appropriating a certain sum for the purchase of public Debt within certain limits therein specified. In consequence of that resolution I have concluded to apply One hundred and fifty thousand dollars towards purchases in the city of New York and to ask you to undertake the execution of the business. In thus forbearing to employ some...
4712To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am honored with your Letter of the 4th. From the very sudden turn that Speculation has taken We have only now remaining in Bank of the Treasurers Bills on Collectors undisposed of No. 1648 for 200 Dollars on I. Gregory, Cambden 1339 50 on G. Biscoe, Nottingham It is certainly of considerable importance & a great accomodation to the mercantile Interest of this City that the Bank be furnished...
4713From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 15, 1791. Recommends that the President accept the bid of Conrad Hook and John Naverson for rebuilding the “Lantern Story and all the wooden work of the Light house” in South Carolina. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See Tobias Lear to H, August 15, 1791 .
4714From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 15, 1791. Recommends that the President accept the bid of Robert McMahin “for plaistering, or rough casting the outside” of the lighthouse in South Carolina. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See Tobias Lear to H, August 15, 1791 .
4715To Alexander Hamilton from William Duer, 16 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, August 16, 1791. On August 17, 1791, Hamilton wrote to Duer : “I have received your two letters of the 12th and 16th.” Letter of August 16 not found. ]
4716From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of New York, 16 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
You will please to cause to be paid to Willm. Seton Esqr such sums not exceeding in the whole One Hundred & fifty Thousand Dollars as he may require to be applied by him towards purchases of the Public Debt at the request of the Trustees of the Sinking Fund. The advances you shall make, when known, will be covered in the requisite forms. Yours &c Copy, in the handwriting of William Seton,...
4717From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 16 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you herewith an official letter. This private one I write as explanatory of it. I hardly expect that you will be able to procure the debt within the limits prescribed—And yet I do not know what effect the imprudent speculations in Bank Script may produce. A principal object with me is to keep the Stock from falling too low in case the embarrassments of the dealers should lead to...
4718To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Smith, 16 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I now inclose accts of stock remaining on the Books of this office the 30th June 1791. I have paid the whole of the Indents last received & people are now waiting for Interest in Indents on their Certificates. I have the honor to be &c. Copy, RG 53, Pennsylvania State Loan Office, Letter Book, 1790–1794, Vol. “615-P,” National Archives. Smith was commissioner of loans for the state of...
4719Contract with Thomas Marshall, 17 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 17, 1791. The minutes of the proceedings of the directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures for December 9, 1791, read: “The Governor laid before the Board a Letter from Collo Alexander Hamilton, enclosing an Agreement entered into by the said Colo Hamilton in behalf of the Society… and Thomas Marshal dated 17th. August 1791.” Contract not found. ]...
4720From Alexander Hamilton to William Duer, 17 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your two letters of the 12th and 16th. The Subscription Book for the manufacturing Society did not remain with me nor with either of the two Gentlemen who came on with me. Is it with neither of those who accompanied you? If it is not, it must have been left at Brunswick & you will do well to write to some trusty person there to look it up & send it to you. I am impatient for...
4721From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King, [17 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of Monday Evening has a good deal tranquillized me. I am glad to learn that the mischiefs from the over rise of scripts are not likely to be very extensive. I observe what you say respecting the quotation of my opinion. I was not unaware of the delicacy of giving any & was sufficiently reserved ’till I perceived the extreme to which Bank Script and with it other stock was tending....
4722To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 18 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am desired by the President & Directors to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 16th. They have ordered the Sum of 150,000 Dollars to be paid to me as it may [be] required for the purchases of public Debt for the Trustees of the Sinking fund agreeable to your request. The Return of the Sale of the Bills on Holland was furnished last Monday. I have the Honor to be &c LC , Bank of New...
4723To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 18 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am honored with your Letter of the 15th. enclosing a resolution of the Trustees of the Sinking fund, in consequence of which you direct me to purchase public Debt to the amount of 150,000 Dollars at the limits therein prescribed. I am very much flattered and very thankfull for this confidence reposed in me, the more so, as the execution of the business thro’ me will be a great accomodation...
4724Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 18 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have directed the Treasurer to remit you drafts for Sixty five thousand Dollars towards payment of the quarters interest ending the last of September next. These Drafts are with blanks for the direction as heretofore, and may be filled with the name either of the Cashier of the Bank of Massachusetts or of New York or of North America or with the name of the Collector of Boston. One half of...
4725From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 19 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of the 11th instant has come to hand. Your intended proceedings with regard to the seizure of Sugar You mention, appear to be proper, and conformable to the 13th Section of the Collection Law. I am, sir Your obedt Servt LS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Providence, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at...
4726From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 19 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In the documents which you transmitted to me concerning the goods of MacRae and Morrison which have been seized, I observe— That one of the cases of Hats both in the Bill of Sale and deposition of Mr Frazer is numbered 12 and that no such number appears in the statement of the packages imported and of which the Goods seized are alleged to have been a part. The numbers of all the cases stated...
4727From Alexander Hamilton to Jabez Bowen, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 20, 1791. “… It is a rule necessary to be strictly adhered to that the certificates of any state which have once been surrendered to such State shall be deemed to be extinguished and shall cease to be considered as a part of its debt, assumable on the principle of the Funding Act.” Letter not found. ] ALS , sold at Samuel Freeman Company, November 18, 1924, Item 167....
4728Contract with William Hall, [20 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Agreement between AH on behalf of a certain Society or Comp for establis Manufactures in the state of N Jersey & Hall. The said Hall shall superintend and carry on for the said Society or Company the business of printing staining and bleaching of Cottons and Linnens, in all its parts, upon the like principles and in the like method, as the same is now carried on in the Kingdom of Great...
4729To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Lee, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your Circular of the 5th. of August and due attention shall be observed respecting the Certificates of Registry therein mentioned. I have returned an account of Decked Vessels up to the 1st. of March last and of Imports and Exports to the 1st of July last; also of the Inward Tonnage to the last mentioned period; and the best account of the outward Tonnage in my power to make...
4730From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 29th. Inst. In addition to the measures you have taken in the case you mention, I do not doubt you will also advert to the circumstance that the party who received the cotton is by the 26th. Section of the collection law liable to a penalty of four hundred dollars. A rigorous prosecution of the receivers of run goods may produce a...
4731To Alexander Hamilton from William Polk, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
When I wrote you last from Hillsborough I suggested to you that I was doubtfull of the Instrument for stamping the Certificates for the Inspectors would not be received before it would be incumbent on me to deliver them to the different Officers. In this I have not been deceived. No such instrument has yet been received & I have delivered to the Inspectors the Certificates without Stamping. No...
4732Receipt from William Pearce, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 20, 1791. “Received Philadelphia Aug. 20, 1791 of Alexander Hamilton, one hundred dollars towards providing the use of Society for the establishment of Manufactures in the State of New Jersey certain machines & models of Machines to be delivered to the said Alexander Hamilton.” Receipt not found. ] AD , sold by Stan V. Henkels, Jr., May 15, 1931, Lot 23. On December 7,...
4733From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 20, 1791. On August 25, 1791, Seton wrote to Hamilton : “I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Letters of the 20 & 22d.” Letter of August 20 not found. ]
4734From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [21 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I was made very happy, my beloved Betsey by the receipt of your letter, informing me that one of mine had at length got to hand and that your spirits were recovered. I had suffered not a little at the idea that I must have appeared to you negligent. Nor am I able to imagine what can have become of my other letters. There is certainly some very foul and abominable practice, which it will not be...
4735To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 21 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In the opinion, given by Mr. Bradford and Mr. Ingersoll, I find the case of Mr. Robert Buchanan to be accurately stated; but after paying a respectful attention to the sentiments of those gentlemen, I am compelled to say, that I differ in the conclusion drawn from that statement: for I cannot agree, that any interest is to be received upon ⟨the⟩ certificate for the year 1791. I acknowledge...
4736Contract with Joseph Mort, 22 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 22, 1791. The minutes of the proceedings of the directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures for December 9, 1791, read: “The Governor laid before the Board a Letter from Collo Alexander Hamilton, enclosing an Agreement … with Joseph Mort dated 22d. August.” Contract not found. ] “Minutes of the S.U.M.,” MS minutes of the Society for Establishing Useful...
4737To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Huntington, 22 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Norwich [ Connecticut ] August 22, 1791 . “I am favourd, with your letter of the 27th of June which reached me the 8th: Instant. By the Certificate of the Comptroller of the public accounts in this State, which is herewith inclosed, you will be informed that this State hath not Issued any Certificates in exchange for those of the United States; which it is presumed, gives the needfull...
4738From Alexander Hamilton to Stephen Keyes, 22 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 22, 1791. “I now request that you will endeavour to procure a Map which delineates the North Western parts of your State from actual Survey … and that you will send me a sketch protracted upon a larger scale … of so much of those parts including Alburgh and its vicinity as will serve to give an accurate idea not only of the situation of that Township but of any...
4739To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Lee, [22 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Cox was about taking to you my riding horse, but my apprehension of yr. necessary hurry & my wish to compare him with a horse I have sent for, concluded a procrastination of my execution of your request & my ardent desire. No other consideration could have induced me to postpone a measure you reckon essential to your health. Nor shall time be lost in presenting you with this trivial...
4740From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin, 22 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the Governor of Pennsylvania, and has the honor to inform him that the vacancy in the office of Auditor, is no impediment to the adjustment of the affair of the lands with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The only source of delay is a difference of opinion, concerning the Certificates in which payment is to be made; the Comptroller of the...
4741From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 22 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of Yours of the 18th instant. The Transfers of the stock, which You have purchased on account of the united states, must be made to the vice President, the Chief Justice, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, and the Attorney General for the time being . In all future purchases, it will be most convenient to have the stock in the first...
4742To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 23 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
This will be accompanied by a weekly return of monies recd. and paid, and the copy of an endorsment on Certife No. 22 granted Apl. 23d. 1791 at this Port. To your letter of the 10th of this month, requesting the particular circumstances that led to a remeasurement of the Brig Sally &c I would answer; that the property of said Brig having been transferred to Messrs Lyon and Lawrance citizens of...
4743From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 23 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 23, 1791. Sends commission for Jeremiah Greenman as second mate for the revenue cutter “for the Connecticut & Rhode Island station.” LS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Providence, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives; copy, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters...
4744From Alexander Hamilton to Timothy Pickering, 23 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 23, 1791. On August 26, 1791, Pickering wrote to Hamilton : “I have received … your letter of the 23d instant.” Letter not found. ] Pickering had been appointed Postmaster General on August 12, 1791.
4745To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 23 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I acknowleged the reciept of your letter of the 24th. of May in my last of the 8th. of August. I have now the honor of acknowleging that of the 30th. of June inclosing one of the 25th. of the same month (both duplicates) which came to my hands yesterday by the way of the French packet. My former letters will have informed you of the progress & issue of the affair of the reduction of interest....
4746Conversation with George Beckwith, 24 August [1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. —— The National Assembly of France passed a decree a short time before Mr. Ternants embarkation, authorizing the formation of a new treaty of commerce with this country; if the influence of La Fayette and his friends, shall finally prevail in The French Councils, their general dispositions towards us, will tend greatly to forward this object. D , PRO: F.O. Transcripts or photostats from...
4747Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, [24 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, established by a Law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at a Meeting held the twenty fourth Day of August One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety one for the purpose of promoting the design of their institution, elected Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of...
4748From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 24 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 24, 1791. Ellery endorsed the letter book copy of his letter to Hamilton of August 8, 1791 , “Answered Augt. 24th 1791.” Letter not found. ]
4749From Alexander Hamilton to Joshua Wentworth, 24 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 24, 1791. On September 7, 1791, Wentworth wrote to Hamilton : “I was honored by your’s of 24th Ulto.” Letter not found. ] Wentworth was supervisor of the revenue for the District of New Hampshire.
4750To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 24 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 24, 1791. “The Revenue Cutter being ready for Sea will proceed on a Cruize immediately; no arms or Military Stores having yet come to hand, I will borrow for the first Cruize Such as may be necessary. The person named for 3rd mate Should have been Samuel Hobart instead of Saml Hubert as copied in your letter of the 12th. Ulto. Herewith is inclosed a...