1From Alexander Hamilton to Andrew G. Fraunces, 18 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 16th instant has been duly received. The want of sufficient light with regard to the warrants in question must defer the payment of them. I advise the holders to notify them as claims under the act of the last session, entitled, “An Act relative to claims against the United States not barred by any act of limitation, and which have not been already adjusted.” I am, Sir, with...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Andrew G. Fraunces, 2 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I received your application of yesterday, respecting two warrants drawn by the late Board of Treasury. I do not think it necessary at present, to answer the several questions stated in your former letter, to which you refer. All I can say on the subject is, that as far as can now be judged, these warrants will constitute a good demand in favor of the holders upon the public: But there are some...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Andrew G. Fraunces, 2 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of this date, at which I am astonished more than I can express. Do you imagine that any menaces of appeal to the people, can induce me to depart from what I conceive to be my public duty! As to what you call the affair of the Umpire , I cannot even divine what you mean by it. But whatever it may be—whatever guilty project you may have entered into, to better your...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Andrew G. Fraunces, 3 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I find on a second reading of your letter yesterday, that I mistook the expressions contained in it, and was led to give to it a meaning which is entirely foreign to it. I hasten to correct my error, and to assure you, that I am extremely pained at the harsh inference I was led to draw and to express. I feel myself bound without loss of time to apologize to you for it, and to declare to you my...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Andrew G. Fraunces, 3 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of yesterday I received last night. The contents of it surprize me. Could you imagine that the menace of an appeal to the people, would induce me to swerve from what I thought my public duty? If you believe that it will be of any advantage to you, I have no objection to your making it, whenever you think proper. The President has put into my hands your letter, in order that I may...
6George Washington to Andrew G. Fraunces, 3 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 30th. of July. The matter of it being of a serious nature I have directed the Secretary of the Treasury to report to me in writing how far the Representation is founded in fact and the reasons on his part for declining the payment of the Warrants. But I do not expect that he can, consistently with objects of a more general concern, make his report ’till some...
7Tobias Lear to Andrew G. Fraunces, 14 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
In the letter which I wrote to you by the President’s order on the 3d inst. you was informed that the President had directed the Secretary of the Treasury to report to him, in writing, on the subject of your letter to the President of the 31st of July. This Report has accordingly been made by the Secretary—and the President directs me to inform you, that he finds therein such cogent reasons...
8From Alexander Hamilton to Andrew G. Fraunces, 1 October 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Contemptible as you are, what answer could I give to your last letter? The enclosed is a copy of what will shortly appear in one of the Gazettes of the city of New-York. The [New York] Diary: or Loudon’s Register , October 11, 1793. For background to this letter, see Fraunces to H, May 16, 1793 . On October 11, 1793, the New-York Daily Gazette , a morning newspaper, and The Diary , an evening...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew G. Fraunces, 27 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
It would have highly gratified me had it been in my power to furnish the relief you ask: but I am preparing for my departure and find, on winding up my affairs, that I shall not have one dollar to spare . It is therefore with sincere regret I have nothing better to tender than the sentiments of good will of Sir, Your most obedient servant, MS not found; reprinted from Hamilton, Observations,...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew G. Fraunces, 28 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I know well that you were a clerk in the Treasury Department while I was in the office of Secretary of State; but as I had no relation with the interior affairs of that office, I had no opportunity of being acquainted with you personally, except the single occasion on which you called on me. The length of time you were in the office affords the best presumption in your favour, and the...