61From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 5 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In mine of the 14th ultimo, I instructed you to dispose of the draughts, remitted you by the Treasurer towards payment of the present quarters interest, upon either of the Banks of the united States or New York. And as it will be necessary, lest adequate demands for bills upon those banks should not occur in time, to extend that instruction, with regard to the further disposition of the...
62From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 1 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have directed the Treasurer to transmit you draughts for fifty five thousand dollars towards payment of the quarter’s interest ending the 31st. of December. These draughts are with blanks for the direction as heretofore, and may be filled with the name either of the Collector of Boston or of the Cashier of the Bank of North America, New York or Massachusetts. One half of these bills may at...
63From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 2 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
You will find enclosed LeRoy and Bayard’s first bill at five days sight on Stephen Higginson for ten thousand dollars dated Philadelphia the 28th. of February payable to my order as Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, with which you are charged in the Books of the Register. This sum is to be applied to the discharge of the interest on the public debt that will be payable at your...
64From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 4 December 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
In your future receipts of old emission money it will be well if possible to cancel it when you are counting it. The operation may perhaps be performed then without loss of time. In that sent on from some of the offices a number of counterfeits have been found. I wish to know if you have discovered any considerable proportion, and I must request that the greatest care be used in examining the...
65From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 8 February 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, February 8, 1791. Announces that Appleton has been selected by the President to pay “Pensions to Invalids for the space of one year.” LS , with an insertion in H’s handwriting, MS Division, New York Public Library. The United States had assumed the payment of military pensions to invalids “who were wounded and disabled during the late war” by “An Act providing for the...
66From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 7 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, March 7, 1794. “I have directed the Treasurer … to remit to you … Sixty thousand Dollars … to discharge the Interest, which will become due the 31st. of the present month, on the several species of Stock standing on your books.… Summary statements of the Stock drawing Interest … are expressly intended to regulate my remittances to you. I have to request that you will be...
67From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 18 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of the second Instant is before me. I trust mine of the 5th. will have duly reached you and I doubt not you will have paid an exact attention to its contents. Lest other resources might fail of placing in time in your hands the requisite funds for payment of the ensuing Quarters interest I have obtained a Credit with the Bank of Massachusetts for any sum you may want not exceeding...
68From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 16 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 16, 1791. On June 24, 1791, Appleton wrote to Hamilton : “Your favour 16th instant is received.” Letter not found. ]
69From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 18 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 18, 1793. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Birchs’s Sons, March, 1893, Lot 1627.
70From Alexander Hamilton to John Armstrong, Junior, 1 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The President has left here a Blank Commission for Supervisor of New York, with his signature, & with instruction to fill it up either in your name or that of Nicholas Fish, giving you the first option. I am therefore to request, that you will inform me as speedily as possible, whether the appointment is acceptable to you. The present gross emoluments of it may amount to about 1300 Dollars of...
71From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Arnold, 13 December 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 29th. October has been received. It will be proper for you to make application on the subject of fees to the Collector of your District. It is his duty, both as it regards the persons who hold the employment of surveyor and the public service, to pay to the several surveyors the lawful portion of the compensations, according to their several services. And I presume if any...
72From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Arnold and Others, 12 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In the month of July last Mr Thomas Arnold left at the Treasury a note relative to the tonnage and impost on the Sloops Betsy & Peace, stating that those duties had been paid at the foreign rates by their Captains on entries at Wiscassett and Bath subsequent to the adoption of the federal Constitution by the Convention of Rhode Island. On examination it appears that the entries were made in...
73From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Arnold, 14 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 14, 1792. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads: “Arnold’s annual allowance as Surveyor.” Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Stan V. Henkels, Jr., May 17, 1932, Lot 166. Arnold was the surveyor of the customs at East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
74From Alexander Hamilton to Welcome Arnold, 22 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have before me your letter of the 15 instant, which first apprised me of any controversy between the Collector and yourself, about the validity of any part of the demand on you. From the simple statement of the fact to me, I had been led to conclude that there had been a delay of payment of an acknowleged and undisputed debt, and as I had understood that your situation precluded the...
75From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Baldwin, 27 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have this morning received your Note of yesterday as Chairman of the Committee on the State of the Treasury Department. I beg the Committee to accept my acknowlegement for the politeness they manifest. They are not mistaken in assuring themselves of my most cheerful cooperation to give the fullest effect to the object with which they are charged. In this disposition, I shall with pleasure...
76From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Ballard, 31 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 20th. instant I have to inform you that no provision for compensation to the Inspectors of the Revenue for Ports, has yet been made; But in consequence of greater latitude given to the President by the Act, concerning the duties on Spirits distilled within the United States, the subject will be shortly under his consideration when your case will be duly attended...
77From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Ballard, 17 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, October 17, 1791. According to the dealer’s description of this letter, it relates to the “duty on spirits distilled from domestic and foreign materials.” Letter not found. ] Sold by Harvard Trust Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962. Ballard was surveyor of the port of Baltimore.
78From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Ball, 28 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his Compliments to Mr. Ball Chairman of a Committee of the Bank of The UStates. He would propose that the three hundred thousand Dollars remaining unpaid of the 400000 loan should be paid in three equal installments on the first of November December and January. The point of credits for bills deposited is reserved for further consideration but will be...
79From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Banning, 21 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 6th instant, I refer you to mine of the 30th of may. I should earlier have sent you a direction, in the particular case; but that I had understood that proceedings at law had been commenced, which had removed the Eunice from your custody to that of the Court. If still in your custody she is to be surrendered to the Captor. with consideration I am Sir Your...
80From Alexander Hamilton to John Barclay, 17 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been favoured with your letter of the 11th instant. More than was consistent with the constitutional powers of the Bank could not have been expected or desired. In manifesting a readiness to do all that is lawful, a proof is afforded that the Bank of Pensylvania will not be behind any other institution of this kind in a proper zeal for the service of the UStates. I beg through you to...
81From Alexander Hamilton to John Barney, 29 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I have duly received your letter of the 21. instant and beg you to accept my thanks for it. The intimations of Zealous and intelligent citizens will always be received by me with attention and acknowledgement. The ideas contained in your Letter appear to me solid and judicious. As far as my reflections have gone they coincide very much with the views you entertain of the matter. But at present...
82From Alexander Hamilton to William Barton, 13 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, May 13, 1790 . On August 9, 1790, Barton wrote to Hamilton : “the disposition to oblige me which you were pleased to express in Your letter of the 13th. of May.” Letter not found. ] Barton, a Pennsylvania lawyer and judge, was the nephew of David Rittenhouse.
83From Alexander Hamilton to William Barton, 20 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, September 20, 1790. The endorsement in Hamilton’s writing on the letter which Barton wrote to Hamilton on August 9, 1790 , reads: “From Mr Barton acknowleged Sepr 20. 90.” Letter not found. ] Barton was surveyor at Providence.
84From Alexander Hamilton to Sebastian Bauman, [31 August 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 31, 1792. On September 3, 1792, Bauman wrote to Hamilton : “I have recieved your favour of 31st Ult.” Letter not found. ] Bauman was postmaster at New York City.
85From Alexander Hamilton to John Bayard, Elisha Boudinot, and Nicholas Low, [June 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I have had a full conversation with General Schuyler on the subject of the several propositions which have been under consideration respecting the location of the buildings for the Manufactory. My original impressions on the point have been confirmed by the subsequent examination & I now entertain no doubt that the most adviseable course is to abandon for the present the idea of a Canal and to...
86From Alexander Hamilton to Herman LeRoy, William Bayard, and James McEvers, 16 December 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, December 16, 1796. Discusses the Holland Land Company’s interest in Robert Morris’s proposed negotiations with the Seneca Indians. ALS , Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, Holland Land Company. These documents were transferred in 1964 from the Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief, Amsterdam. LeRoy, Bayard, and McEvers were partners in a New York City mercantile firm which represented...
87Alexander Hamilton and Richard Harison to Richard Bayley, 19 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
We have looked into the Act to prevent the bringing in & spreading of Infectious Diseases in this State. By one of its provisions every Vessel arriving from parts beyond Sea, having on Board forty passengers, is subject to Quarantine of Cause, & may be removed to the place assigned for the same. We think that where the numbers of passengers is so great, the Health Officer may take a reasonable...
88From Alexander Hamilton to Hodijah Baylies, [5 December 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, December 5, 1793. “I have to request that you will retain in your hands a sufficient sum of the monies arising from the duties on imports … for the purpose of discharging the allowances to fishing vessels which will become due in your district … and which are to be paid agreeably to the instructions heretofore given for that purpose. If the funds accruing in your office...
89From Alexander Hamilton to William Beekman, [1 March 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, March 1, 1797. ] “Having reconsidered the case of your Uncle (Wm. Beekman’s) Will with the authorities—I advise the Devisees to claim all that by the Partition became his several property & which in my former opinion with Mr. Evertson was considered as passing by his Will, not merely a proportion equal to his interest before Partition in the part which remained to him after...
90From Alexander Hamilton to Clement Biddle, 10 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I had concluded to offer you the Agency for providing all such supplies for the War Department as are not objects of direct contract with the Treasury. The compensation about 800 Dollars a year. But it occurred to me, that you were engaged in the business of broker; and hence an apprehension has been excited, lest a connection of the kind contemplated with this department should be...