141To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 2 May [1796] (Hamilton Papers)
The inclosed letter will give you all the information that we have on the Subject to wh. it relates. It seems problematical whether PH. can be induced to agree in the arrangement —some circumstances of which I have lately heard incline me to believe that he will not. Our session will close by the first of June provided no farther impediment is thrown in the way of the Provision for giving...
142To Alexander Hamilton from William Tatham, 2 May 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Being fully satisfied that the sentiments of our two very young Representitives in this Country holding the appointments of Charge de Affairs and Consul, of the United States are so different from those you have openly avowed that you will not be amongst the number of their correspondents, a knowledge of your public Character without a personal acquaintance induces me to communicate to you...
143To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 1 May [1796] (Hamilton Papers)
In committee of the whole on friday it was resolved by the casting vote of Muhlenburgh the chairman, to make provision by Law for carrying the Treaty with England into Effect. Yesterday the Resolution of the Committee of the whole was passed in the House by 51. against 48. A proposition to prefix to the Resolution a Preamble declaring the Treaty to be injurious to the Interest of the US. and...
144To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your favour of the 20th. The affair with Bond stands thus, & is truly attended with some perplexing circumstances. The communication states, that provisional orders have been given for the surrender of the Posts whenever the House of Representatives shall have indicated an intention to give effect to the Treaty & when an article shall have been negociated explanatory of the sense...
145To Alexander Hamilton from Stephen Rochefontaine, 28 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
West Point, April 28, 1796. Asks for Hamilton’s “advice in a very disagreeable case” concerning the aftermath of an abortive duel between Rochefontaine and Lieutenant William Wilson. Describes the case, his continuing difficulties with Wilson and other officers at West Point, and submits “a few Queries which I would wish you to favor with your opinion upon and as soon as convenient, in order...
146To Alexander Hamilton from William Lewis, 27 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 27, 1796. On April 27, 1796, Robert Morris wrote to Hamilton : “Mr. Lewis … says he has written you two letters, the last of them this morning.” Letter of April 27 not found. ]
147To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Morris, [27 April 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter without date arrived within this half hour & in consequence I run down to Mr Lewis from whom I am just returned he says he has written you two letters, the last of them this morning & it was sent to the Post Office before I got there. If Mr Lewis does me justice he will tell you that I called on him more than once with a strong desire to finish the business. I am mortified not a...
148To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Platt, 26 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, April 26, 1796. Asks Hamilton to join with his attorneys, Robert Troup and Brockholst Livingston, in a case before the New York Supreme Court on the following day. States that “The Amount of the Debt is too triffling to ask any interposition of you as Counsel, on the Defendant side, but the Consequences of it’s possible result may involve a Question of the first magnitude to all...
149To Alexander Hamilton from John Marshall, 25 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Yours of the 14th only reachd me by the mail of this evening. I had been informed of the temper of the house of representatives & we had promptly taken such measures as appeard to us fitted to the occasion. We coud not venture an expression of the public mind under the violent prejudices with which it had been impressd, so long as a hope remaind that the house of representatives might...
150To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Schuyler, 25 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Unadvised of the measures pursuing at New York, relative to the treaty with Britain, It was not deemed prudent to convene the citizens here on the Subject, until we received information from your city. On Saturday morning the mail arrived, and the Herald announced what had been done —about forty Citizens were immediately convened, and unanimously agreed to petition in the words of the new York...
151To Alexander Hamilton from Walter Livingston, 22 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Livingston Manor [ New York ] April 22, 1796 . Asks Hamilton to serve as his attorney in a suit against “the Executors of my late brother Robt. C. L. for the recovery of my ⅓ of three Bonds given to him by Mr. Robt. Morris for £3333 23/68 pensy. Curry. each—as a doceur for not biding for the Lands held by Massachusets in this State.… to Consult with Mr. Saml. Jones, respecting the Action...
152To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 20 April [1796] (Hamilton Papers)
The Petitions of the Merchants and others will be printed today, and it is said they have been signed by almost every Merchant & Trader in the City —Pettit, Barclay, & some few others are exceptions. A counter Petition has been very industriously carried through the City and its Suburbs; and though very few merchants, Traders, or principal mechanicks have signed it, it will shew a long...
153To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 17[–18] April [1796] (Hamilton Papers)
In general I agree in the Course you recommend. Separate Bills will be reported to the House this morning, providing for the Sp. Ind. & Alg. Treaties—they will pass the H. and be sent to the Senate by the middle of the week. I percive no impropriety in adding to the first of these Bills recived by the Senate, and in succession to each of them if requisite, a Provision for the Br. Treaty. Such...
154To Alexander Hamilton from Woodbury Langdon, 18 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth [ New Hampshire ] April 18, 1796 . “I conceive it will be necessary for you to have the original note which I hold against Michael Wentworth deceased, in order to settle matters with Mr. Edward Goold. I intended to have left it with you on my return from Philadelphia, but forgot it when I was with you last.…” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Langdon was a Portsmouth, New...
155To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 18 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 18, 1796. On April 20, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott : “I have received your letter of the 18th. instant.” Letter not found. ]
156To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Cowper, 16 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
About three weeks past I Recd two letters, one from the post Master of Philadelphia Coining one bearing the Signature of A. Hamilton True Copy of which I now Send you with the Deposistion of Caleb Haskins who Recd the letters at Suffolk and dld. them to Robert Patton post master Philadelphia. Also Send you Copys two others which Came at the Same time and was Conveyed to Philadelphia and back...
157To Alexander Hamilton from Germain Pierre Decrosses, 16 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, April 16, 1796. “j’ai eu l’honneur de me presenter chez vous ce matin, mais je nai pas eu celui de vous y rencontrer. je quitte sous huit-jours cette terre hospitaliére pour aller dans un pays ou se trouvent réunis tous les fléaux qui peuvent affliger l’humanité. des raisons d’une grande importance me font desirer d’être recû citoyen americain. je suis resident ici dans cette ville...
158To Alexander Hamilton from Fisher Ames, 13–14 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 13–14, 1796. On April 15, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Rufus King and referred to “A letter by yesterday’s Post from our Friend Ames. Letter not found. ] Ames was a Federalist member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
159To Alexander Hamilton from Justus Erich Bollmann, 13 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
A few days ago I had the pleasure to inclose You a copy of a letter which I had written to the President of the United States. In consequence of that I was called on Friday last to the State office, where Mr. Pickering told me that the President had some inclination to make a new effort to relieve the Marquis, and desired me at the same time to communicate to him by writing my Ideas on this...
160To Alexander Hamilton from Justus Erich Bollmann, 10 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 10, 1796. On April 13, 1796, Bollmann wrote to Hamilton : “A few days ago I had the pleasure to inclose You a copy of a letter which I had written to the President of the United States.” Letter not found. ] Bollmann to Washington, April 10, 1796 ( ALS , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress).
161Admission to Practice Law in the United States Circuit Court for the New York District in the Eastern Circuit, [6 April … (Hamilton Papers)
That Alexander Hamilton, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Brockholst Livingston and Peter Stephen Du Ponceau be and they are hereby respectively admitted to practice as Counsellors of this Court. Whereupon they were respectively qualified as Counsellors and respectively subscribed the oath on the roll of Counsellors. D , RG 21, Minutes, Trial Notes, and Rolls of Attorneys of the United States Circuit...
162To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 1 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 1, 1796. On April 2, 1796, Hamilton wrote to King : “Thank you for yours of yesteday.” Letter not found. ]
163To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 31 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I do not know how to thank you sufficiently, for the trouble you have taken to dilate on the request of the House of Representatives for the Papers relative to the British Treaty; or how to apologize for the trouble (much greater than I had any idea of giving) which you have taken to shew the impropriety of that request. From the first moment, and from the fullest conviction in my own mind, I...
164From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 31 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
I do not know how to thank you sufficiently, for the trouble you have taken to dilate on the request of the House of Representatives for the Papers relative to the British Treaty; or how to apologize for the trouble (much greater than I had any idea of giving) which you have taken to shew the impropriety of that request. From the first moment, and from the fullest conviction in my own mind, I...
165To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Morris, 30 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I delivered your letter to Wm Lewis Esqre together with yours to me and a draft of the Mortgage. He promised attention but as the Supreme Court is Sitting I believe he is much hurried. It will be over in a few days & then I suppose we shall get the business finished. In the mean time I drop this line that you may know that no delay occurs on my part. On the Contrary I wish to put you perfectly...
166To Alexander Hamilton from Timothy Pickering, 22 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
The President is anxious to ascertain whether the gentlemen he has thought of for Commissioners under the 6th & 7th articles of the British treaty will accept of those employments. He has concluded to appoint Egbert Benson Esqr. one of the Commissioners for executing the 6th article, relative to the debts owing to British subjects—if he will accept of the employment. He is held in such high...
167To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 22 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 22, 1796. On March 24, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Washington : “I had the honor to receive yesterday your letter of the 22.” Letter not found. ]
168From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 22 March 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Alexander Hamilton, 22 March 1796. On 24 March, Hamilton wrote GW: “I had the honor to receive yesterday your letter of the 22.”
169Receipt from Morgan Lewis, [18 March 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
Received New York March 18th 1796 of Alexander Hamilton [Four thousand two hundred & fifty] Dollars in full for the consideration money of a lot and part of a lot of Ground adjoining thereto situate on the Broadway and Marketfield Street in the City of New York as particularly described in a certain indenture bearing date the first day of May MDCCXCIII made between Carlisle Pollock William...
170To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Morris, 14 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeably to my promise I enclose herewith a List of the Lands which I propose to mortgage to you as Security for the debt due to Mr Church and I think the value more than Sufficient. For some of these Lands the Patents are issued, for some they are not issued, but the Patents are only considered as Evidence of Title, because when Warrants of Survey are granted the money is paid & a return of...