1From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 3 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It is a cause of no small regret that there appears in a considerable part of the citizens of South Carolina a strong disinclination to the law laying a duty on distilled spirits; and that in consequence of it, difficulties occur in obtaining proper characters to carry it into execution. This was the more unexpected as the duty in question has been rendered necessary by a measure peculiarly...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 25 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have duly received your letter of the 25th of May, by duplicates, with the first and second of a set of bills of Exchange for £ 200 sterling, received by you on account of Mr. Church’s bond. Your former remittance of £ 300 Carolina money was also received and I thought had been acknowledged; but I find by your letter that this was not done. It is not easy for me to give you an idea of the...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 10 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I duly received your letter of the 6th of September; and have sent an extract of it to Mr Church for the explanation which is necessary. I feel myself truly obliged by your friendly allusion to my unpleasant situation, and for the consolation you are so kind as to offer me. The esteem of the discerning and virtuous must always support a mind properly formed under the pressure of malevolence...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 22 January 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Give me leave to recommend to your civilities Mr. Winstanly the bearer of this an English Gentleman who came to this City some years. After former generosity and carelessness of temper disposes of a little fortune, he has assumed the business of Landscape Painting and in pursuance of his plan visits your County, which also he is desirous through curiosity of seeing before he goes to Europe. He...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 11 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] July 11, 1796 . “I received the letter which you did me the favour to write me by Mr. Huger, whose acquaintance I was glad to make. The Bill for 2770 Dollars on Mr. Comfort Sands was received & duly answered.” ALS , Pinckney Family Papers, Library of Congress. Pinckney to H, June 5, 1796 . See Pinckney to H, June 5, 1796, note 9 .
6From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, [12 September 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter transmitting me a draft on H & S Johnson & Co. for 857 Dollars & 14 Cents on account of Kinloch’s debt to Mr. Church. Lest I should not see you here give me leave to request information in whose care the affairs of Mr. Church have been left by you—& whether any thing more has been done with Mrs Cattle’s alias Bowman’s note. The above bill has been accepted. I...