4021From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 14 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letters of the sixth and ninth of this month. You will have perceived from a letter which must have arrived before now, that the arrangement of relative rank did not meet with my approbation. The list which I transmitted you is not to be considered as definitive, but as referred back for revision. Taking the principles which I have heretofore stated for your guide...
4022Enclosure: Isaac Terboss to Nathan Rice, 23 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
By the request of our friends take the Liberty of writing to you in favor of young Harry Collins, that belongs to Capt. Phelps Company, and has for Sum time ben in your family—he will hand this to you with other papers Relative to his age & Inability of preforming the Duties of a Solger. he will request you to give him his Discharge which we most Sertainly Expect you will. I presume you are...
4023From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 4 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 18. April, and hope that as soon as convenient the nomination of Quarter master and Adjutant to your Regiment may take place. There is no objection to a change in the association of the company officers for good reasons; you will propose therefore such as you may deem proper. The bond of your Pay Master Mr Duncan did not accompany your letter of the 29 April:...
4024From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 11 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreably to your own ideas communicated in your letter of the 23. Ulto. you will consider Somerset as established for your regimental Rendezvous. I urge constantly the completion of the appointment of Officers. I am not sure whether a competent number of proper candidates are as yet before the Secy. of War. If not it is to be wished other fit characters may be presented. With great considr. &c...
4025From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 13 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the second instant explaining the causes of the delay in forwarding pay and muster rolls, and rely on your exertions to produce greater regularity in future. When the articles happen not to be in the possession of the officers who are to make the returns it is proper that they should procure the necessary information without delay by applying to those in whose...
4026From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 8 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Lieutenant Flaggs resignation has been accepted of which you will please to notify him, informing me of the time he receives your notice. with true consideration I am Sir Your obed Sevt. Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. James McHenry to H, April 7, 1800 (listed in the appendix to this volume). See also H to Rice, March 24, 1800 .
4027Enclosure: Jesse Lull to Nathan Rice, [2 May 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
As a very considerable part of the Stores belonging to my department have been consigned to, and (I conclude) receipted for, by the Commandant of the 16th Regt—he not being present, & I not having the Necessary information of what had been recd. by him, has rendered it impossible for me to comply with the order for making out a return of the Stores of my department on hand. I am sir with high...
4028From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 14 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the fourth instant. I have sent the commission and letter of Lt Spring to the Secretary of War. The result, as soon as known, shall be communicated to you. With respect to the filling of vacancies, I have no intimations on the subject from the Secretary of War and therefore conclude that they will be filled at least in the way of promotions. The ultimate...
4029From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 23 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have directed Major Bewell to repair to the Brigade under your command for the purpose of enlisting four complete companies of Infantry. You will give every facility in your power to the accomplishment of this object. It would be well if, previously to the arrival of Major Bewell, recruits could be provisionily engaged. Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of...
4030From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 22 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
An early preparation for winter Quarters will conduce to the comfortable accommodation of the troops and is the more necessary as sufficient barracks no where exist in which they may be quartered in entire corps; a circumstance extremely desireable. It is therefore conceived that it may be found most eligible to hut the troops during the ensuing winter. The vicinity of Uxbridge in the state of...
4031From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 14 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 3rd. instant with the inclosures respecting Henry Collins. It has been my rule to grant those Soldiers a discharge who may have been inlisted under the age of eighteen, and who at the time of the application for their discharge have not attained that Age. Should you on further examination find Collins to be thus situated, you will cause him to be discharged...
4032From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 22 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received a letter from Cn. Ashmun of your regiment in which he informs me that he has sent Samuel Woolcott, a deserter from the first regiment of Artillerists to the commanding officer of the district at Springfield. You will immediately send this deserter under the guard of a corporal and file of men to Major Tousarde at Rhode Island. With great consideration Df , in the handwriting of...
4033From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 12 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The Hutts and any other articles of public property that may remain here together with such of the sick as are too ill to be removed will, when your command expires, be under the charge of the senior officer of the U States who may be on the ground. This Officer is at present Captain Stoddard who will continue to be so untill the arrival of Major Bewell. You will endeavor to engage some one of...
4034From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 13 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose to you the copy of a letter from Captain Draper of your regiment. I am of opinion, from the circumstances which are stated, that it will be proper to discharge the person to whom the letter relates. You will therefore discharge him accordingly. Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Simeon Draper to H, August 16, 1799 (listed in the appendix...
4035From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 28 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you the enclosed letter of Captain Tillinghast, and you will act in the case as the good of the service may require. It is proper that Officers should apply to me thro their commandant. Having then his remarks I shall be better able to judge of what is proper to be done. You will take care that this be made known. It is very desirable that the Officers should be with their regiments...
4036From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 18 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Enclosed is a letter from Captain Ashmun requesting permission of absence. Applications of the kind should always come thro’ the commanding officer accompanied with his opinion. You are at libery to grant Captain Ashmun a furlough till some time in May. Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Phineas Ashmun’s letter has not been found. See “Circular to...
4037From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 18 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, May 18, 1800. “I send you the enclosed papers, and you will do with them what shall appear proper.” Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
4038From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice and William S. Smith, [23 April 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
It appears by a Report of the Dy P M G that no return has come from the 12 Regiment of the Cloathing on hand as required by the general order of the 11th of March. Considering the time which has elapsed since the issuing of that order if there are any articles of Cloathing in the possession of the Pay Master of that Regiment he has been guilty of very great neglect for which he ought to be...
4039From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 21 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The resignation of Captain Babbit is accepted, and his pay and emoluments will cease on the fifteenth of May next. You will inform him accordingly. Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. See Rice to H, March 23, 1800 ; H to Rice, April 1, 1800 ; H to James McHenry, April 16, 1800 (listed in the appendix to this volume); McHenry to H, April 19, 1800...
4040From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 31 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to reply to your two letters of the 23 and 24 instant. The exchange of officers proposed by Col Hunewell & yourself has been recommended to the Secy of War. His sanction is expected, & as soon as obtained it will be made known. I am content that Brookfield shall be come the rendezvous of a subdistrict & with the arrangement of Officers mentioned in your letter of the 23. Persons as...
4041From Alexander Hamilton to Alexander Richards, 5 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I request you to state to me, explicitly, and without delay, in writing, whether it is your intention to comply with the order contained in the inclosed letter; and to return to me the other paper accompanying, after perusing them— With consideration & (Copy, in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
4042From Alexander Hamilton to Alexander Richards, [24 April 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
You will deliver the bearer a Cord of Wood for my use. Yr humble serv ALS , Mr. Ben Weisinger, New York City. A resident of New York City, Richards was the Army contractor with William and Robert Colfax of New Jersey to supply rations to the troops in New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire. At the foot of this letter Elizabeth Hamilton wrote: “the Bearer has...
4043From Alexander Hamilton to Alexander Richards, 15 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the fourteenth instant— You did perfectly right in continuing to furnish Hospital stores, and I give my sanction to the past. In future these stores will be furnished by Ebenezer Stevens Esr. But you will continue to supply provisions to the troops both sick and well— — none of the component parts of the ration coming within the description of Hospital stores. As...
4044From Alexander Hamilton to Alexander Richards, 28 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I request you to furnish me, toward my allowance of fuel, full, fifteen Cords of wood, the allowance to a Major General from the 1st. of October to the 1st. of April I should be glad to have it all at once if convenient; if not, you will furnish it as you shall find so— With great consideration &c ( Df , in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
4045From Alexander Hamilton to James Richmond, 6 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your’s of the twenty fifth of September, and enclose you a letter on the subject to which it refers. You will find that you are Appointed to act as Pay and Quarter Master to a recruiting party for the second regiment at Bennington in Vermont under the direction of Major Bewell—You will please to take measures accordingly With consideration I am & ( Df , in the handwriting of...
4046From Alexander Hamilton to James Richmond, 24 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Lieutenant Laidlie will shortly receive orders to repair to Vermont for the purpose of being employed under Major Bewell in the recruiting service—You will therefore take arrangements for receiving his pay from the Pa Captain Williamson the Deputy Pay Master General— ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
4047From Alexander Hamilton to John Ripley, 26 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the nineteenth instant. It is regular that any representation which you may have to make concerning that part of the regiment which is in Winter Quarters should come thro’ the Commanding Officer of the brigade. Having then the opinion and observations of the Commanding Officer I shall be better able to judge of the propriety of measures that are proposed— ( Df ,...
4048From Alexander Hamilton to John Ripley, 18 December 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the eighth instant. You have put an improper erroneous construction upon my words in supposing them intended to convey censure on your conduct. My design I can assure you was simply to point out the proper channel of communication— W— ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
4049From Alexander Hamilton to John Ripley, 25 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of this morning date was this moment handed me by Dr. Trowbridge—You will proceed without delay to Winter Quarters, where the rest of your men, I presume will soon join you, as measures will be taken, in the immediately, to that effect, if any remain to be taken— With great consideration & & ( Df , in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
4050From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 21 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
A letter which I have just received from the S of War contains the following paragraph. “Mr. Chapin, Agent for Indian affairs, has informed me, under date of 6th ultimo, that the Tuskarora nation, residing near to Niagara, complaining of Major Rivardi, (or his people under his command), of killing three of their horses, and on finding proof of that effect he has refused to make them...