6991Enclosure (CZ): [Comparative Statement of Bonds for Duties Becoming Due], 19 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
A Comparative Statement of Bonds for Duties Becoming Due from November 1792, to September 1793, Inclusive As Per Monthly Abstracts Thereof Taken 7th November and 7th december. Date of Abstract Due in 1792 November Due in December Due in 1793 January Due in February. Due in March. Due in April Due in May Due in June.
6992To Alexander Hamilton from William S. Smith, 8 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 3d. relative to a communication made by Lt. Dwight—agreable to your request I have made the necessary enquiry Inclosed is a Copy of my Letter to Lt. Le Roy Livingston and his original answer—both of which are respectfully submitted— I have the Honor to be—Sir, with great respect Your most Obedt. Humble Servt. ( ALS , Hamilton...
6993From Alexander Hamilton to John Quincy Adams, 1 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The United States have funds of some consequence in the hands of our Commissioners at Amsterdam, over and above what may be required for approaching payments. The Situation of Holland according to the last advices, leaves me not without disquietude on this account; for bidding the negotiation of bills upon that Country without great sacrifice. I have therefore directed the Treasurer to draw...
6994To Alexander Hamilton from John Adams, 9 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received the Letter you did me the honor to write me this morning and as the Secretary of State accidentally fell in before I had opportunity to answer it, we agreed to propose a meeting at his House at two o’Clock on Monday next. If that time and place are agreeable to you, and the Secretary at War, they will be particularly so to me who have the honor to be with great regard, Sir your...
6995From Alexander Hamilton to Caleb Swan, 14 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to request that you will forward furnish to the Persons appointed to act as Paymasters to the detachments Recruiting parties at Benington and Wilmington all arrears of pay that may be due to the officers assigned to those stations, together with an advance of one months pay for two complete companies at both places. each place. With great consn I am, Sir ( Df , in the handwriting of...
6996From Alexander Hamilton to William S. Smith, 2 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of yesterday is received. I am glad to find that matters are in so good a train; and take particular interest in the favorable appearances respecting Lt. Cocks With great consideration & (Copy, in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
6997To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Morris, 21 December 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
I have this day been informed that an attachment has been laid by your order in the Name of Mr Church, in the hands of Messrs Le Roy Bayard & McEvers, what this is for or why it is done I cannot conceive; your agency in its astonishes me, if it is for the balance of the Money you lent me , I shall deem my self more unfortunate than ever (altho sufficiently so before) to have such measures...
6998From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 28 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
An uncommon press of business has prevented my thanking you sooner for your private letter of the . Your ideas of the manner of conducting a certain business have a remarkable correspondency with my own. I think one might venture to ensure success, humanly speaking, on such a plan, and every other will be precarious and critical. I flatter myself the general principles of it will govern future...
6999From Alexander Hamilton to Major General Benjamin Lincoln, [28 April 1777] (Hamilton Papers)
It appears by your letter to his Excellency that the detachment of Marylanders under Col Spotswood, have marched to your post, with the other troops. His intention and directions were, that they should remain at Princeton, as he wishes to keep the Corps united, but since the matter has fallen out differently, he desires that detachment may immediately return to Princeton. ALS , sold at...
7000From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 30 July 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
Scruples of delicacy have occasionned me to hesitate about offering to you certain ideas which it appears to me on mature reflection cannot be witheld consistently either with friendship to you or regard to the service. They are these— I observe you plunged in a vast mass of details. I know from experience that it is impossible for any man whatever be his talents or diligence to wade through...
7001From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 2 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, July 2, 1792. “I have this day decided upon the case of Hollingsworth, Shallcross, Lovering and Le Maigre. There being no appearance of fraud or wilful negligence in the transaction, the interest of all parties in the forfeiture is remitted to the Petitioners, upon their paying costs and charges.…” LS , Bureau of Customs, Philadelphia; LC , RG 56, Letters to the Collector...
7002To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 1 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The enclosed paper has been just handed to me by Governor Howell with a request that it might be forwarded to the persons who would settle the relative rank of the Officers of the eleventh regiment, it being supposed neces sary in order to determine the rank of Captains Brooks and Faulkner—Should you think it proper, you will transmit it accordingly— I have the honor to be with great respect...
7003From Alexander Hamilton to James Duane, 26 September 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
I received last night your letter of the 8th. instant, accompanied by one from Mr. L’hommedieu and yourself to Mr. Floyd and myself. I shall in consequence write to the Governor on the subject; though if I recollect right, I did in an official letter to him mention all that I can now say though perhaps at greater length—to wit that the resolutions of the senate & Assembly were committed for...
7004From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Lloyd Moore, 5 March 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The Post of to day brought me your letter of yesterday, by which I perceive the care and diligence you have employed in constituting towards completing the Court Martial. The enclosed extract copy of an order of this date confirms your nomination of Judge Advocate. Be pleased to convey to him the letter herewith sent for him. The only persons of whom, I have information, that who will come...
7005To Alexander Hamilton from John Brown, 28 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Providence, March 28, 1793. On April 5, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Brown : “Your letter of the 28th. of March came to hand yesterday.” Letter not found. ]
7006To Alexander Hamilton from Robert LeRoy Livingston, 7 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
In the heat of Anger I prefered a complaint to Lieut. Coln. Smith against Lieut. Hoffman on account of the purloining a bank bill of ten Dollars as having done it with a view to defraud, on cooler consideration of the Matter and from the former Intimacy that has subsisted between us during all which time I had no reason to suspect his honor in any point whatever I am inclined to look on it as...
7007Constitutional Convention. Remarks in Favor of a Motion Increasing the Number in the House of Representatives, [8 … (Hamilton Papers)
Col: Hamilton expressed himself with great earnestness and anxiety in favor of the motion. He avowed himself a friend to a vigorous Government, but would declare at the same time, that he held it essential that the popular branch of it should be on a broad foundation. He was seriously of opinion that the House of Representatives was on so narrow a scale as to be really dangerous, and to...
7008From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan R. Wilmer, 1 July 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, July 1, 1800. Discusses the presidential campaign of 1800. Copy, in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Wilmer, a Maryland lawyer and merchant, served as a member of the Governor’s Council from 1797 to 1801. Except for a few changes in wording, this letter is the same as H to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, July 1, 1800 .
7009To Alexander Hamilton from Stephen Cross, 25 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newburyport, Massachusetts, May 25, 1792. In a letter to Hamilton of October 18, 1792 , Cross referred to “my letter of May 25th.” Letter not found. ] Cross had been appointed collector of customs at Newburyport, Massachusetts, on August 3, 1789. On May 4, 1792, he was succeeded by Edward Wigglesworth.
7010George Washington to General Officers, 26 October 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania ] October 26, 1777 . Lists questions to be considered at a council of war. One set of questions, addressed to Brigadier General Anthony Wayne and in writing of H, is in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Another set, unaddressed and in writing of H, is in The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
7011From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 20 December 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, December 20, 1798. On December 21, 1798, Wolcott wrote to Hamilton : “I have recd. your favour of the 20th.” Letter not found. ]
7012From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 19 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letters of the 16 and 18 instant with their inclosures are received. An extraordinary pressure of professional business has delayed my reply on the subject of Young La Fayette; in which another cause cooperated. I wished without unvieling the motives incidentally to sound the impressions of other persons of Judgment who I knew had been apprised of his being in the Country. The byass of my...
7013To Alexander Hamilton from Aaron Ogden, 26 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I take the liberty of recommending, Lieutenant Samuel S. Voorhis, for the appointment of Adjutant, to the 11th. Regiment of Infantry, in the room of Lieutenant William Potter, lately appointed an Assistant to the Deputy Quarter Master General. Mr Voorhis appears well-qualified to fill the station for which he is recommended, and, I have no doubt that, in case, he be appointed, he will...
7014From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 29 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 29, 1794 . “The Secretary of the Treasury … encloses the draft of a passport for a schooner called the Eliza of New York, for the President’s signature. The application which accompanies it, comes from a number of French Emigrants now in New York.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
7015From Alexander Hamilton to William Webb, 5 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, May 5, 1790. “In answer to yours of the 16th. of April I have to observe, that the rate of foreign Tonage may be waved in the case you state.… With regard to the 40th. Section of the Collection law, it is to be understood that American as well as foreign vessels are within the provisions of the Section and subject to seizure and forfeiture.” LS , United States Finance...
7016To Alexander Hamilton from Nehemiah Freeman, 21 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to reply to your letter of the 6th. of November. Levi Pearce has never done duty in my company. When I arrived at Fort Jay in June last, I saw him there, and was told that he had deserted from Capt. Miller of the infantry. I left him there, when I was ordered to march hither. He was then attached to Capt. Read’s company of the second artillery regiment. With perfect respect,...
7017To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Howell, Junior, 28 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department, Accountant’s Office, August 28, 1794. Encloses “copies of the Contracts for Clothing for the Year 1787, 88 & 89 which governed me in the settlement of those accounts.…” LC , RG 93, Letter Book, 1794, National Archives.
7018Enclosure: Footing of the Commerce of the United States with the Dominions of France and Great Britain in the Year 1790 … (Hamilton Papers)
Footing of the Commerce of the United States with the Dominions of France and Great Britain in the Year 1790 Articles of the United States } France Great Britain & Ireland French America British America A A A I Flour Duty ⅛ ⅌ Ct ad valorem Duty of 3d Sterling the quarter when Price above 48/ but 24/3 when under }
7019From Alexander Hamilton to William Webb, 12 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, October 12, 1790. “You have my Authority to purchase Scales for the use of your Office.…” LS , The Andre deCoppet Collection, Princeton University Library. Webb was the collector of customs at Bath in the District of Maine.
7020To Alexander Hamilton from John Lowell, 9 November 1785 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, November 9, 1785. States that there is no bankruptcy act in Massachusetts and sends information concerning the transfer of property by a citizen of Massachusetts to a New York creditor. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. This letter is in reply to H to Lowell, October 30, 1785 .