2791Report on the Petition of Henry Howell Williams, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred, by the House of Representatives, the petition of Henry Howell Williams, makes the following Report thereupon. Respectfully referring the House of Representatives, to his general report of the 19th Instant, concerning the provision heretofore made for cases of the property of citizens used, damaged or destroyed by the Troops of the United...
2792From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 21 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Captain Porter of the Revenue Cutter Active having communicated to me, that he has reasons to be dissatisfied with the conduct of his third Mate Mr. James Forbes, I have to desire that you will make proper enquiry into the affair, in which the Naval Officer is requested to assist; communicating to me the result. Enclosed is an extract of Captain Porters letter for your information. I am Sir...
2793Conversation with George Hammond, [22 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
On the second morning after the receipt of Governor Simcoe’s letter, I waited on Mr Hamilton and requested him to inform me whether this government had then learnt the result of the Indian Council held at the Miamis rapids. Upon his answering in the negative, I stated to him loosely and generally that I had received information from Governor Simcoe that the Indians had evinced a willingness to...
2794Catullus No. V, [24 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES. It was my intention to have closed with my last paper, the discussion of Mr. Jefferson’s conduct in the particulars which have been suggested; but the singular complexion of the last number No. IV. of a series of papers originating in the American Daily Advertiser, obliges me to resume it. As if bold assertion were capable of imposing any thing for truth,...
2795From Alexander Hamilton to Israel Ludlow, 25 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, November 25, 1792. The catalogue description of this letter reads as follows: “Ordering the Original Survey of Lands in Ohio. ‘The said tract shall extend from the mouth of the Miami to the mouth of the little Miami, and be bounded by the river Ohio on the South … that the President reserves to the U. S., such lands at and near Fort Washington.’ Arranges for military...
2796From Alexander Hamilton to William Short, 26 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Since my last of the 5th. instant a triplicate of which is here inclosed I have received yours of the 30th of August last. I have only time to inform you that I have directed the sum of 1,250.000 florins to be drawn upon our Commissioners in Amsterdam immediately; which will leave a sum in their hands sufficient to face the Interest and other payments falling due up to the 1st. of March next...
2797Treasury Department Circular to the Supervisors of the Revenue, 26 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary at War informs me that the arrangement which has been made by him for supplying provisions and other necessaries at the several recruiting rendezvouses within the State of Maryland will expire with the present year; and that a further arrangement will be necessary for the succeeding year. Convinced that under your care the business would be put upon the most proper footing, I...
2798From Alexander Hamilton to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 26 November … (Hamilton Papers)
You will herewith receive a triplicate of my letter of the 5th instant, and an enclosure for Mr. Short, which you will please to forward. The Treasurer having been directed to draw upon you, for 1.250.000 florins, I have to request, that his drafts may be duly honored. I am &c. Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Treasury Department, 1792–1793, Vol. III, National Archives. This letter was enclosed in...
2799From 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...
2800From 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,...
2801From 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...
2802Report 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...
2803From 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 ,...
2804From 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...
2805Report 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...
2806Report 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...
2807Enclosure 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...
2808Enclosure 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.
2809Enclosure 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.
2810Enclosure 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,
2811From 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,...
2812From 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.
2813From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States, 3 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to request that a further advance of one thousand Dollars may be made by the Bank to William Young & George Dannacker, on account of their Contract with the Publick for supplying the Troops of the united States with Clothing for the ensuing year to be charged as heretofore. I have the honor to be Gentlemen Your obedt Servt. LS , Mr. William N. Dearborn, Nashville, Tennessee. See...
2814From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin, 3 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I beg you to accept my thanks, for the perusal of the papers you sent me, which I herewith return. The extracts from the charges to grand Juries are new to me. The correspondence between Mr. Addison and Mr. Clymer, I had before seen. While I found cause to regret the nature of the discussion, which had taken place, and could not but think the strictures on the Judicial Authority of the...
2815Reports on the Accounts of the Commissioners of Loans, [3 December 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to transmit herewith the accounts called for by a resolution of the House of Representatives of Friday last, together with a Statement by the Register exhibiting the detail of the Estimate, to which that resolution relates, and the copy of a letter from him to me of this date. As the accounts are original papers, and necessary documents of the Treasury, I pray that the House...
2816From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 3 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President a communication of the 30th. of Novemr. relating to some additional objects which have been executed towards the completion of the Lighthouse Establishment on Cape Henry. The Secretary, according to the best information in his possession, considers them as necessary objects, and respectfully submits it as his opinion that...
2817From Alexander Hamilton to John F. Mercer, 6 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In my last letter to you, I informed you of my having transmitted copies of your answer of the 16th of October and of certain certificates accompanying it to Major Ross. I have lately received a letter from him of the 23rd of last month, of which and of the documents, to which it refers, I now send you copies agreeably to the Major’s request. No strictures on the policy or tendency of my...
2818From Alexander Hamilton to Maria Reynolds, 6 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 6, 1792. During an interview with Maria Reynolds on December 12, 1792, James Monroe and Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg saw in Mrs. Reynolds’s possession “two notes; one in the name of Alexander Hamilton, of the sixth of December.” Letter not found. ] “Reynolds Pamphlet,” August 31, 1797 . The statement by Monroe and Muhlenberg is printed as document No. III in the appendix...
2819Report on Disbursements by the Department of War, 7 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor herewith to transmit certain Statements, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 13th ultimo, relative to the disbursements made by the department of War; Also, copy of a letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury on the subject; and to be, with perfect respect, Sir, Your most obedient servant Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Treasury Depart-ment,...
2820From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 10 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, December 10, 1792. “The Collector of Wiscassett has applied to this Office for a supply of blank Certificates of Registry. I have to request that you will, for the present, transmit him a dozen blanks without delay. He has been directed to apply in future to you in due time—naming the quantity required.…” L[S] , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the...