1To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 1 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Favor of the 25th Ult was received on the 29 and has this day been laid before the Directors, as well as your Official Confirmation of the Agreement made with your Assistant Mr. Duer on the 17th of September respecting the Loan of 50,000 drs. Your Open Letter to our Collector was delivered to him directly and he has in consequence thereof, and in Conformity of the third Article in our...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, [13 October 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
We received your favor of the 6th. inst. and agreeable to your request we resolved to furnish the Treasury with the 20 000 dollars on Loan. This sum has since been paid to the Treasurer and his receipt taken for the amount the payment has been made 5000 dollars in our Banks notes and the residue in post notes at 30 days from the instant we dont find it prudent at present to Issue the Postnotes...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 18 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I have just received your Favor of the 14th Instant. the explanation you have drawn up in the Official Instrument now sent me, is Substantially ye purport of the Original Agreement as we understood it. I have now the pleasure to return you one of the two papers executed under the Seal of this Institution and my own Signature as president. We had never any Idea of passing the produce of the...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 30 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Yours of the 25th. did not reach me till yesterday noon. I call’d the Directors at 9 oClock this Morning and by the enclosure to the Treasurer with the Post Notes also sent him you will see that your application for a further Loan of twenty thousand dollars has been complied with; and I have no doubt that you will send forward a Treasury Warrant indorsed by the Secretary for the Amount...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 9 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
We Reced your favor of the 3 Ins with its inclosures. One of the 15th being your Official Article of Agreement Respecting the third Loan being for twenty thousand Dollars the Recet of which you now acknowledge and say that the Treasr would by the same post send us a warrant for the Amot. We have only this moment Reced the Warrant from the Treasurer which has prevented our Returning [it] till...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 24 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I reced by the last post yours of the 17th. Inst with all its enclosures respecting the protest of the Treasury Drafts on Norfolk & this day they have been laid before the Directors. I thank you for the trouble you have taken in your free and full explanation of this disagreeable transaction. The mistake made in the Office considering the early State of the business, was a natural One, & I...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 24 February 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I have had this day the honor of your’s inclosing yr. power of Substitution on behalf of Mr. Church. At present the Sale of Stock, & indeed every other Money transaction is nearly at a stand. The Produce of the State, & the Sale of Bills of Exchange will alone command it, untill we receive a Supply from Sea. Mr. Constable has inform’d me of the purchase he had made of 20 Shares, & when they...
8To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 12 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I have consulted the Directors on the Subject of yr. letter of the 8th Inst. in which you say you shall shortly have Occasion for a loan of 50,000 Drs. We found it necessary to stop our Discount last Week, & I think we shall not find it convenient to open it again for three or four Weeks to come. If yr. application shou’d be postponed till the Middle of next Month, I have no doubt but we shall...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 22 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
The scarcity of Money has produced a stagnation in every kind of business, beyond any thing I have known—the few who have the command of Cash here, have turn’d their Eyes to Bills of Exchange—these have got as low, as 45 nay even to 42½ ⅌ Ct. & untill Exchange shall rise considerably, I dont expect to see any demand for Stock, or Public Certificates. A Single Share has been sold day by day, at...
10To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 8 April 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
In our last of the 12th Ulto. we had the honor to tell you, that it was probable we shou’d be in a situation by the middle of this Month to meet your application for a Loan of Fifty Thousand Dollars; but that if it became necessary for you to be accommodated sooner, & it shou’d be in our Power to do it, you might depend on our disposition to render you every facility we cou’d. We are now...
11To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 23 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 23, 1792. On May 23, 1792, Hamilton acknowledged the receipt of "Mr. W Letter of today.” Letter not found. ]
12Agreement with the President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States, [25 May 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Agreement between Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of the President of the United States of the one part and The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States of the other part— Whereas in and by the Act intitled “An Act for raising a further sum of money for the Protection of the Frontiers and for other purposes therein mentioned” it is among other...
13To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 29 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 29, 1792. On June 11, 1792, Hamilton acknowledged the receipt of Willing’s “letter of the 29th of last month.” Letter not found. ]
14Agreement with the President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States, [25 June 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Agreement between Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, by virtue of authority from the President of the United States, on behalf of the United States, of the one part, and the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States of the other part. Whereas in and by the Act, intituled An Act to incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United...
15To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 28 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, February 28, 1794. On March 3, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Willing : “I received your letter of the 28th ultimo.” Letter not found. ] Willing was president of the Bank of the United States.
16Agreement with the President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States, [28 January 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Agreement between Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of the United States of the one part; and the President, Directors & Company of the Bank of the United States of the other part; made January the Twenty eighth 1795. The said President Directors & Company shall forthwith transfer or cause to be transferred into the name of Messrs. Wilhem & Jan Willink & Nicholas & J. Van...
17To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 3 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The President & Directors of the Bank of the United States acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st. Ulto. & feel with peculiar sensibility the notification of your Resignation; With sincerity they offer their best wishes, that you may be as happy in private, as your administration has rendered you useful, in public life. They recollect with extreme satisfaction the liberal and...