4701Enclosure: [Account with Le Guen], April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
April 1800. Compte a Monrs Burr Pour Onoraire jusqua Ce jour $2500. Plus fait Compte de Son ordre a Mr. Green 250. Compte D’Interet Sur Dollars 11200 ce que jai avancée En trois Sommes differentes et divers Epoques depuis Le Mois de Juillet et Aout 1798 au 15 avril 1799 Pour 8 mois a raison de 7⅌% 522.66/100 Interet d’un An Sur Cette de 13200 dollars 924. Dollars...
4702Enclosure: List of Quarter Supplies Necessary for the First Regiment, [22 October 1799] (Hamilton Papers)
150 Axes for felling and cutting wood 6 Board Axes 2 Cross cut saws 6 Hand saws 3 files for Saws 2 Grindstones 2 Jointing plane 2 Smothing or Jack planes 4 Adzes 2 Iron squares
4703Receipt to the Trustees of the American Iron Company, 30 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, May 30, 1799. “I have receiv’d a deed from Peter Goelet & other Trustees of the American Iron Company. I certify that the fourth or last installment of the Purchase money with Interest remains to be paid, which will pay on demand. New York, May 30, 1799. Alexr Hambleton.” Receipt not found. ] This receipt is quoted in, and has been taken from, Goelet to Robert Troup, August 19,...
4704General Orders, 12 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, August 12, 1799. On August 14, 1799, William S. Smith wrote to Hamilton: “Agreeably to General Orders of the 12th. inst. I attend here as President of a General Court Martial.…” General orders not found. ] This letter is listed in the appendix to this volume.
4705General Orders, 20 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The general court martial of which Major Willcock was president, having convicted Joseph Perkins, a private soldier of the 1st regiment of artillerists and engineers of the crime of desertion, aggravated by that of liberating and taking off with him two prisoners confined under the sentence of a court martial for desertion, over whom he was sentinel, and having condemned him to suffer death:...
4706General Orders, 21 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
It is in future directed that general court martials not only investigate and ascertain the time lost to the service by the non-commissioned officers and soldiers found guilty by them of desertion, and the amount of expenses accruing to the United States by their pursuit and apprehension, but that the number of days, months, or years so lost, be distinctly noticed in the sentence and added to...
4707Enclosure: [List of Proposed Candidates for Military Appointment], [3 August 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Robert Heaton Junr. Captain George W. Kirkland Col. or Major a good of⟨ficer⟩ Jno Keating Colonel Bad Francis Drake Bad William Scudder Captain unknown Walter B. Vrooman Bad Thos U Williams Adjutant unknown Benjamin C. Curtis Captain
4708Enclosure: Plan for the Disposition of the Four Regiments of the Permanent Establishment, [12 October 1799] (Hamilton Papers)
One Regiment to be stationed partly in the State of Tennessee and partly in proper positions for the protection of the Frontier of Georgia, not extending farther Westward then the Apalachicole River. This Regiment to be attached to the command of General Pinckney. The part in Tenessee to be by him instructed in any great and sudden emergency to cooperate with General Wilkinson. The other three...
4709Candidates for Army Appointments from Connecticut, [November–December 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Connecticut Captains 1 Austin Nichols Fairfield County Writes ill Wm. Edmond good constitution single man & in prime of life education equal to place active enterprising & on the whole qualified } Not very strong
4710Candidates for Army Appointments from Tennessee, [November–December 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Tennessee Captains 2 Arthur Crozier Knoxville good letter Clayborne —a young man of respectable character good talents & was a Merchant 3 Nathan B Markland Knoxville Clayborne . possesses qualifications for a valuable Officer surveyor young man of amiable Character & good talents 6 Charles Porter Judge Anderson —recommends him as well qualified respectable connexion & unexceptionable character 1
4711Conversation with Arthur Fenner, [25–26 June 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
[Newport, Rhode Island, June 25–26, 1800.] “Some time in the summer past, I believe in July, General Hamilton, an entire stranger to me further than the knowledge of him from his public character, came to my house in company with Colonels Christopher & Jeremiah Olney, General Barton, & Colonel Ogdon. General Hamilton was very familiar, open, & candid. He at once began the election of the...