31To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 24 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 24, 1794. On June 26, 1794, Randolph wrote to David Rittenhouse, Director of the Mint: “Permit me to consign to your immediate attention the enclosed letter from the Secretary of the Treasury of the 24th instant, in answer to mine of the 23d.” Letter not found. ] LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 6, January 2–June 26, 1794, National Archives.
32Edmund Randolph to Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, 2 May 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] May 2, 1794 . “The Secretary of State submits to the Secretaries of the Treasury and War, whether any, and what step can be taken upon the inclosed memorial of John Leamy.” LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 6, January 2–June 26, 1794, National Archives. Leamy was a Philadelphia merchant. His memorial has not been found.
33To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 28 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, April 28, 1794. “The Secretary of State has the honor of sending to the Secretary of the Treasury the applications for … passports.” LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 6, January 2–June 26, 1794, National Archives.
34To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 17 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I had intended to have paid my respects to you this morning. But being deprived of that pleasure by a bad cold, and bad weather, I beg leave to offer to yourself, Mrs Hamilton and family, my best wishes for your and their happiness; and to assure You of the true esteem and regard, with which I am Dear sir Your mo. ob. serv. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. The Hamilton family was...
35To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, [12 July 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
E. Randolph with best respect to Col. Hamilton, incloses to him an account of Mr. Knox, our late Consul at Dublin, which E. R. thinks reasonable, and proper to be paid out of the contingent fund in the President’s hands. Col. Hamilton’s opinion is reques[t]ed, whether it be a proper charge against the United States, and if it be so, how it is to be paid. LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the...
36Edmund Randolph to Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, 2 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have just taken the oath of office, which reminds me that I am brought into a nearer relation to your department than hitherto. While official men are under no less an obligation than others, to live in harmony; there are too many opportunities for misconception and misrepresentation to interrupt it. I have therefore prescribed this rule for myself: that if anything, supposed to be done in...
37To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 9 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] June 9, 1794 . States that the persons “interested in the Ship William, being very importunate, E R is again obliged to beg the favor of Mr. H to transmit the papers together with his opinion concerning that vessel.” LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 6, January 2–June 26, 1794, National Archives. For the William , see H to Rufus King, June 15, 1793...
38To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, [17 June 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of inclosing to the Secretary of the Treasury all the papers, which General Knox admits himself to possess, respecting the Ship William. E. R. intreats Colo. Hamilton to forward his opinion, together with the other papers; as he is hourly invaded by those, who are interested for the French Captors. LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 6,...
39Edmund Randolph to Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox, and William Bradford, 14 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The President wishes your opinion, as to the step, proper to be taken, upon the inclosed address. To send to congress, what the President thinks unfit for himself, will be unkindly received; being uncivil in itself. To acknowledge the body, as such, is in every view inadmissible. So that the question seems to turn upon this; whether it be better to treat the paper with unqualiffied and silent...
40To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, [18 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor to send inclosed to the Secretary of the Treasury some Documents concerning John Cleves Symmes’s purchase, which he this moment found in a bundle marked “papers to be acted on” and which he supposes may throw some light on the subject of the lands in question. LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 6, January 2-June 26, 1794, National...
41To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 31 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The question, arising upon Mr Lovell’s letter, turns upon the identity of the vessel. If she remain a french bottom, a Register cannot be granted; if she has been converted into an american bottom it may. I shall enter into no subtle disquisition on such an occasion; but shall conform myself to practical ideas. It seems to be agreed in England and Philadelphia, that a vessel of the description...
42To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 5 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, September 5, 1794. “The Secretary of State has the honor of informing the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to his letter of the 3d. instant, that Mr. Higginson’s papers have been withheld from the Department of State, at the desire of Mr. Ralston, who is supposed to be one of the health Committee. As soon as they are delivered, whatsoever appears respecting payments to Mr....
43To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 4 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, June 4, 1793. “… Inclosed is Mr. Bell’s paper. From Baltimore I shall remit that Sum, which I mentioned to you in part of your kind favor.…” ALS , New-York Historical Society, New York City. For background to this letter, see Randolph to H, April 3, 1793 , and William Bell to H, June 2, 1793 .
44To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 31 May 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, May 31, 1794. “I do myself the honor of inclosing to you Mr. Rittenhouse’s answer upon the coinage of the French Silver. You know the state of the Treasury, and can better judge, whether the advance of the money can be injurious to our own calls. If not, I conceive it to be too small a favor to hesitate about.” LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 6,...
45To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 18 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] June 18, 1794 . Encloses “a note from the Chief Clerk in the Department of State explanatory of the delay in the publication of the laws, which the Secretary of the Treasury intimated to him the other day.” LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 6, January 2–June 26, 1794, National Archives. George Taylor, Jr. A letter book copy of Taylor’s letter to...
46To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 21 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In the opinion, given by Mr. Bradford and Mr. Ingersoll, I find the case of Mr. Robert Buchanan to be accurately stated; but after paying a respectful attention to the sentiments of those gentlemen, I am compelled to say, that I differ in the conclusion drawn from that statement: for I cannot agree, that any interest is to be received upon ⟨the⟩ certificate for the year 1791. I acknowledge...
47To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 1 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to the letter which you did me honor of writing to me on the 27th ultimo, but which was not received until yesterday; I take the liberty of recommending that Col. Humphreys our Minister at Lisbon shall be charged with the disposition of the 800,000 Dollars, destined for Algerine objects. It is true that the French republic has interested itself, and probably with benefit to the...
48To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 10 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I do myself the honor of inclosing to you a copy of a letter from the Minister of the French Republic, dated yesterday. I will thank you to inform me at the earliest moment of your convenience, whether the additional thirty thousand Dollars cannot be obtained. If practicable, this sum will, I perceive, be a very cordial relief. I have the honor to be, Sir, with great respect and esteem, &c:...
49To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 12 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your Official letter of the 19th. of February last I beg leave to observe: that the supplies and services therein mentioned as having been furnished and rendered by individuals for the use of the Public, were undoubtedly from the nature of Contracts, originally debits against the United States: that the Officers who granted the Certificates, debentures or other acknowledgments for...
50To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 30 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 30, 1794 . “The Secretary of State has the honor of inclosing … a paragraph from a letter of Mr. Pinckney, dated January 10th 1794. It respects M. la Colombe, a french Officer, formerly in our army … and seems to lie more particularly in the department of the Secretary of the Treasury. Any answer, which may be thought adviseable the Secretary of State will forward to Mr....
51To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 26 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your communication of yesterday, on the case of Col. Heth the Collector of Bermuda Hundred, I have the honor to inform you, that his enquiries demand different solutions. The contract, made before the passing of the law, to which he alludes, may be consummated on the 2nd day of January next without impropriety. For the restriction on Collectors, on the disposal of public...
52To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 10 June 179[2] (Hamilton Papers)
In our conversation Yesterday we reduced the substance of your favor of the 7 Instant to this question: Whether you ought, under any modification, to suspend the payment of Interest to a State, which is intitled under the 17th. section of the act “making provision for the debt of the United states,” to receive interest to the amount of the nonsubscribed deficiency; In trust for the...
53To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 2 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Department of State, July 2, 1794. “The Secretary of State has the honor of submitting … the inclosed demand of Mr. Campbell, the Attorney of the district of Virginia. How it comes to be addressed to this department, is not clear.… But the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury is requested.” LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 7, June 27–November 30, 1794, National...
54To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 21 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I understand from your communication of the 2d instant, that you do not wish my opinion upon any other point, than that which seems to have produced a schism between the Gentlemen of the NewYork and Virginia bar. The former are interpreted to declare, that sixty Cents and no more are demandable by the Collectors for every entry of an inward Cargo directed to be made in conformity with the...
55To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 24 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] September 24, 1794 . “The Secretary of State, not having time to have the inclosed from Mr. Jaudenes translated, presents it to the Secretary of Treasury; as it relates to a privateer fitted out in the neighborhood under French colours, and being just ready to sail.” LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 7, June 27–November 30, 1794, National Archives....
56Edmund Randolph to Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, 2 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, July 2, 1794. “The Secretary of State has the honor of forwarding to the Secretaries of the Treasury and of War the opinion of the President, as to the answer to be returned to Mr. Hammond on the subject of compensation; and requests their judgment upon the kind of answer, which will best conform to the President’s views.” LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State,...
57To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 26 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, June 26, 1794. “The President left in my hands the inclosed letter from A. G. Fraunces of the 28th. ultimo, to examine, what was best to be done. My opinion being that nothing ought to be done upon it, and that silence is the proper answer, I shall observe this course, unless you can suggest something more eligible.” LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol....
58To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 8 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Persuaded as I am, that the last effort for the happiness of the United States must perish with the loss of the present Government, and that to be unable to execute laws because a few individuals are resolved to obstruct their operation is nothing less, than a surrender of it, I went into the consideration of the carolina and pittsburg papers with a determination to spare no pains to ascertain...
59To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 28 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, August 28, 1794. “… it is the wish of the President of the United States, that General Miller should be sent into the counties of Pennsylvania, west of the Susquehannah, to ascertain their real temper, in case they should be called upon to quell the insurrection in the West. This idea arose from the suggestion in Mr. Bradford’s private letter, and is certainly important. The...
60To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 30 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The question which I had the honor of receiving in your letter of the 20th of March instant, is, Whether certain certificates of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania , originally issued in lieu of Continental certificates, and lately offered to be subscribed to the Loan in State debt, according to the Act supplementary to the Act, making provision for the debt of the United States, can be legally...