501From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Lee, 20 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have it in special instruction from the President of the United States, now at this place, to convey to you on his behalf, the following instructions for the general direction of your conduct in the command of the Militia army, with which you are charged. The objects for which the militia have been called forth are. 1. To suppress the combinations which exist in some of the western counties...
502From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin, 17 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The President directs me to acknowlege the receipt of your letter of the 16th—enclosing one from Governor Howel. The Quarter-Master & Commissary General will leave this place early in the Morning for Bedford to endeavour to remedy any defects which may exist. You observe that Col Blaine has not been with the Column. I am sure I understood from him & I think I did from Col Biddle that the...
503From Alexander Hamilton to Ephraim Blaine, 11 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
There are in the store at this place under the care of Capt Gamble or Mr. Parker sundry Quarter Master’s articles as Campkettles Knapsacks Canteens &c. which you will please to take under your direction and leaving a small supply here for accidental calls (the most of the troops being now up) You will cause the Residue to be forwarded to Bedford without delay . The same must be done with any...
504From Alexander Hamilton to Jasper Yeates, [11 October 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Carlisle, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1794. The description of this letter in the dealer’s catalogue reads: “Regarding a young Lieutenant James Renshaw of the corps of dragoons, who was being recommended as a proper person for some service needed by Judge Yeates.” Letter not found. ] The Collector: A Magazine for Autograph and Historical Collectors , LVIII, No. 3 (April-May, 1945), 84. Yeates...
505From Alexander Hamilton to Ephraim Blaine, 10 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is an account which has been presented to me in order that provision might be made for the payment the whole amounts to seventeen pounds 13 Shillings & 6 pence. It is represented as relating altogether to sick persons of the New Jersey line. I have desired the surgeon to refer the persons to you. When they apply you will desire them to present their accounts which you will please to...
506From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 10 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Tomorrow we leave this for Fort Cumberland. We are very strong & the Insurgents are all submissive so that you may be perfectly tranquil. My health thank God is excellent. But I have heared from you only once. You must continue to write to this place sending your letters to General Knox to forward to me. God bless you & my dear Children. Yr. ever affect ALS , Mr. George T. Bowdoin, New York...
507From Alexander Hamilton to Jared Ingersoll, 10 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The President directs me in reply to your letter of this day to observe that nothing can be more proper than that the party by whom the homicide was done should be placed under the disposition of the civil Magistrate. It is only desireable that this course may be so conducted as to satisfy reasonably all the considerations which are connected with the case. It is understood that Judge Yates of...
508From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin, 10 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The President thinks he ought not to leave this place without a formal expression of the very poignant regret he has felt at the unfortunate accidents which happened in two instances previous to his arrival at this place, having occasioned the death of two persons, and of his extreme solicitude that all possible pains may be taken to avoid in future not only accidents of a similar kind but all...
509From Alexander Hamilton to Ephraim Blaine, 9 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
You have herewith a letter of credit upon Mr. Dallas for three or four thousand Dollars. Of these you will advance to the Governor of New Jersey two thousand Dollars for which you will take his receipt. The residue will be for your use, except what may be necessary to pay for about Twenty dozen pair of Stockings which Mr. Gamble has been directed to procure & for which he will give orders upon...
510From Alexander Hamilton to Alexander J. Dallas, 9 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Carlisle [ Pennsylvania ] October 9, 1794 . “I request that you will advance to Col Blaine the sum which you mentioned to me. If it can without inconvenience be extended to four thousand the accommodation will be the greater.” ADf , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. See H to Ephraim Blaine, October 9, 1794 . On the back of this letter H wrote: “These letters explain the nature of an...
511From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox, 8 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Hodgsdon is a worthy man but between us incompetent to a great operation. It is impossible in my judgment that transportation should be so difficult to procure as he makes it. The troops are every where a head of their supplies. Before I left Town I directed some Cloathing to be forwarded. Not an iota of them has arrived or that I can find had been sent so late as the 6th & some of the Militia...
512From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 8 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Carlisle, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1794. On October 11, 1794, Wolcott wrote to Hamilton : “I have recd. your favour dated 7: & 8: inst.” Letter of October 8 not found. ]
513From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Parley, [8 October 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Carlisle, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1794. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] ALS , sold by Arthur Pforzheimer, New York City, 1937, Rare Books and First Editions, Item 60.
514From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 7 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
It is with distress I find that the troops are every where a head of their supplies. Not a shoe, blanket or ounce of ammunition destined for this place is yet arrived—except what Mr. Wright conductor for the Pensylvania division brought on with him. I begin to fear infidelity in some of your conductors of Waggons. For Heaven sake send forward a man that can be depended upon on each route to...
515From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 7 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you this Morning by post, mentioning the tardiness of the waggons with Stores. I just learn that one or two are arrived which were part of the brigade with ⟨–⟩ of which the part destined for Fort Cumberland had previously past. The rifles have also arrived from Lancaster & are gone on. The bearer tells me there is no chain of expresses established to this place but that he came the...
516From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 7 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Carlisle, Pennsylvania, October 7, 1794. On October 11, 1794, Wolcott wrote to Hamilton : “I have recd. your favour dated 7: & 8: inst.” Letter of October 7 not found. ]
517From Alexander Hamilton to Edmund Randolph, 6 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Carlisle, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1794. On October 8, 1794, Randolph wrote to William Rawle: “The Secretary of State … has the honor to communicate … the following Extract of a letter of the 6th instant this moment received from the Secretary of the Treasury.…” Letter not found. ] LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 7, June 27–November 30, 1794, National Archives....
518From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Lee, 4 October [1794] (Hamilton Papers)
There is something about our friend Smith that perplexes and distresses me. I cannot suppose any thing wrong yet it is certain that he has done nothing but paint black from the beginning. However the force of Maryland may be suffered to melt away it is a consolation that a sufficient force will be had elsewhere. Smith is mistaken when he supposes Pensylvania will do nothing. She has now on the...
519From Alexander Hamilton to ———, 30 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 30, 1794. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads: “Directing that Mrs. Hamilton shall have authority to draw checks against his private account.” Letter not found. ] ALS , sold by Stan V. Henkels, Jr., March 22, 1910, Lot 96.
520From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 30 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 30, 1794. On October 1, 1794, Coxe wrote to Hamilton : “I received … your letter of the 30~ Ulo. relative to the forwarding of the militia supplies.” Letter not found. ]
521From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 30 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
It is with regret I perceive by your return of yesterday that there is still a considerable deficiency of some essential articles for the Militia Army Knapsacks Canteens Musket Cartridges Blankets and shoes. I am to request that you will press forward additional supplies of these articles as fast as possible to Fort Cumberland and Carlisle proportioned to the number of Militia to assemble at...
522From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 30 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] September 30, 1794 . On October 2, 1794, Wolcott wrote to Hamilton : “I have recd. your letter of Sept. 30th.” Letter not found. ]
523From Alexander Hamilton to Ephraim Blaine, 29 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The President whom I have the honor to accompany leaves this place tomorrow for Carlisle, where he will probably remain three or four days. He wishes you to provide for him some convenient rooms (say three) during his stay. It will be most agreeable for them to be at a private house on the express condition that they are to be paid for; for The President will not by any means be accommodated...
524From Alexander Hamilton to Philip A. and Alexander Hamilton, Junior, [29 September 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
We have been very sorry to hear that our dear Alexander has been unwell but thank God that he was better. We hope he will soon be quite well. Your Mama will leave this place tomorrow or next day for Trenton to bring you herself to Town. I expect to set out tomorrow for Carlisle. But you must not be uneasy about it. For by the accounts we have received there will be no fighting and of course no...
525From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 29 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 29, 1794. On September 30, 1794, Tench Coxe wrote to Hodgdon: “Permit me to ask your greatest attention & exertion to fulfill the requests of the Secy. of the Treasury in his letter to you of the 29 inst.” Letter not found. ] LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National...
526From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Smith, 29 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter informing me of your determination to proceed to Frederick Town. It is the wish of the President, that you proceed with the Militia under your command with all reasonable expedition to Fort Cumberland there to form a junction with that of Virginia, which he is desirous should not be delayed. Orders went yesterday to Mr. Gale by express to provide and forward to Fort...
527From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 29 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you two communications from the Commissioner of the Revenue dated the 24 & 25 instant, and to submit my opinion, that it is adviseable to ratify all the contracts to which they refer except that last mentioned with Green Parker. With perfect respect &c LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Tench Coxe’s first letter to H of September 25, 1794 , has not...
528From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Being about to leave the seat of Government for a few Weeks to accompany the Army on its march against the Western Insurgents of Pennsylvania, I commit to you during my absence the management of those matters which are reserved to my superintendance under the constitution and regulations of the Department, especially the receipts and expenditures of money, and I rely upon your deligence and...
529From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of New York, 28 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 28, 1794. On September 28, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Gulian Verplanck : “Inclosed is a Letter for the President & directors of the Bank of New York.” Letter not found. ] Verplanck was president of the Bank of New York.
530From Alexander Hamilton to George Gale, 28 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Your two letters of the 25th. are before me. It will be agreeable to me that you have made and forwarded to Fort Cumberland as many Jacketts and Trowsers as you will be able to get there by the 15th. of October; sending them forward as fast as they are ready. The Jacketts ought to be made of some of the Stuffs of which sailors Jacketts are usually made, and like them without Skirts, but of...
531From Alexander Hamilton to Gulian Verplanck, 28 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is a Letter for the President & directors of the Bank of New York. I have it at heart for various reasons as a matter very interesting to the public service that the loan requested should be made—but I would not wish the Letter to be formally presented until it was certain there would be a compliance. For this reason I send it to you that you may sound the Directors before presenting...
532From Alexander Hamilton to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 27 September … (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 27, 1794. On January 5, 1795, Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard wrote to Hamilton : “We have to acknowledge the Receipt of your esteemed favors of 27 September and 27 October, the latter signed by Oliver Wolcott Esqr.” Letter of September 27 not found. ]
533From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 25 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I request that you will furnish me on Saturday Evening at my house with a complete return of all the articles you will by that time have forwarded for the Militia army distinguishing how much to the Militia of each state and at the same time of all arms accoutrements cloathing and Camp Equipage fit for service which remain in store at and near Philadelphia. Substantial accuracy will suffice &...
534From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, [25 September 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton requests Mr. Hodgsdon to specify in the returns which he is desired to make on Saturday the particular destinations of the different parcels which have been sent on. AL , The Sol Feinstone Collection, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. See H to Hodgdon, first letter of September 25, 1794 .
535From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, [25 September 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton requests Mr. Hodgsdon to be so obliging as to inform him whether he has in his power or eye any horse which would be proper as a riding horse for Mr. Hamilton—easy gated of some blood & capable of rendering service. Mr. Hamilton would mean to purchase him. AL , The Indiana Historical Society Library, Indianapolis.
536From Alexander Hamilton to George Mathews, 25 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
In the absence of the Secretary at War, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letters to his department, of the 5th, 19th, and 30th of August and to reply to such parts as are the most pressing, referring the others to the return of that Officer. Among the Posts which have been established that at Doctor’s Town creates a question in consequence of Lieut. Colonel Gaithers...
537[Proclamation by George Washington], [25 September 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
JCH Transcripts John C. Hamilton Transcripts, Columbia University Libraries. ; JCHW John C. Hamilton, ed., The Works of Alexander Hamilton (New York, 1851–1856). , V, 31–33; HCLW Henry Cabot Lodge, ed., The Works of Alexander Hamilton (New York, 1904). , VI, 442–45; Hamilton, History John C. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, a History of the Republic of the United States of America...
538From Alexander Hamilton to Anthony Wayne, 25 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 25, 1794. On November 12, 1794, Wayne wrote to Henry Knox: “I have the honor … to acknowledge the receipt of a letter from Colo Alexr Hamilton of the 25th. of September enclosing an extract of a letter from Mr. Jay … dated the 12th of July 1794, also a letter from Major Stagg, of the 4th Ultimo.…” Letter not found. ] Knopf, Wayne Richard C. Knopf, ed., Anthony Wayne:...
539From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States, 24 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The large extra demand upon the Treasury, which has been occasioned by the expedition going on against the Western Insurgents, obliges me to request of you to permit me by anticipation to draw upon you for the whole of the remainder of the last Million loan on the first of October ensuing. You will recollect that 400,000 Dollars are on that day to be paid to you on account of a former loan....
540From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 24 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, September 24, 1794. “I have directed the Treasurer … to remit to you, a draught for Ninety Thousand Dollars on account of the Interest payable … on the several species of stocks standing on your books.” Letter not found. ] LS , sold at Swann Galleries, March 8, 1945, Lot 18. Cochran was commissioner of loans for New York. Extract taken from dealer’s catalogue. On September...
541From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Sim Lee, 24 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a letter of the 18. instant from the Executive Council of Maryland and to congratulate you & them on the disappearance of the insurrection in Maryland. The President has seen with great satisfaction the laudable vigour with which it was met by the Government, the excellent disposition manifested by the Citizens, and the speedy termination of the...
542From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [24 September 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secry. of the Treasury presents his respects to The President. He finds it will be impracticable for him without injury to the public service to leave town on Monday , but he will do it the day after & overtake the President. However he begs leave to inform the President that from the information received, there is no prospect of a pretty general assembling of the Pennsylvania & N Jersey...
543From Alexander Hamilton to Alexander J. Dallas, 23 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ War Department, September 23, 1794. The catalogue description of this letter reads as follows: “on the appointment of a Surgeon in the Pennsylvania Militia.” Letter not found. ] ALS , sold at Anderson Galleries, June 3, 1914, Lot 109. See Dallas to H, September 20, 1794 .
544From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 23 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
You will furnish the Pensylvania Militia with the additional supply of arms & accoutrements which you mention have been called for. You will forward to the Virginia Militia swords, pistols & other horsemens equipments saddles excepted sufficient with those already sent to complete the detachment of horse called for. I am uneasy at the delay which has attended the forwarding of the articles...
545From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King, [22 September 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you My Dr. Sir for your letter of the . A few days previously I wrote you pretty fully. I hope my letter got to hand. The inclosed paper gives you the substance of our European intelligence under the Philadelphia head. The Returns from the Western Counties of this state are just come to hand. They shew a valuable division, ranging on the side of the laws the most influential men & a...
546From Alexander Hamilton to William Moultrie, 22 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 22, 1794. On this date George Washington “Approved drafts of Letters to the Governors of South Carolina & Georgia submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury.” Letter to Moultrie not found. ] See H to George Mathews, September 25, 1794 . JPP “Journal of the Proceedings of the President,” George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. , 309.
547From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin, 20 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department, September 20, 1794. Sends same letter he sent to Thomas Sim Lee on September 18, 1794 . Pennsylvania Archives , 2nd ser., IV Pennsylvania Archives , 2nd ser., IV (n.p., 1876). , 334.
548From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Smith, 19 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving your two letters of the 16th: instant. The circumstances they announce are upon the whole satisfactory. The zeal which has been called forth by the threatened attack upon the magazine at Frederick is in the highest degree commendable and is an earnest of the ultimate reliance which may be placed on the principles of good Order in our Country. As...
549From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 19 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Upon full reflection I entertain an opinion, that it is adviseable for me, on public ground, considering the connection between the immediate ostensible cause of the insurrection in the Western Country and my department, to go out upon the expedition against the insurgents. In a government like ours, it cannot but have a good effect for the person who is understood to be the adviser or...
550From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Sim Lee, 18 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The intelligence received from the western Counties of Pennsylvania, which comes down to the 13th: instant, and announces as far as it was then known the result of the Meetings of the people in the several townships and districts, to express their sense on the question of submission or resistance to the laws —while it shews a great proportion of the inhabitants of those Counties disposed to...