21From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 14 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
It is quite agreable to us to take at Port Royal the seventy five Barrels of flour you have purchased there in Exchange for so much we were to expect at Baltimore and any further Quantity you may procure at the former in lieu of the remaining Ballance at the latter place. Mr. John Brown Commissa[ry] for this State has orders to call for it and his Receipt will be good. I am &c., FC ( Vi ). At...
22From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel and John Smith, 23 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, August 23, 1790. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads: “On financial matters.” Letter not found. ] ALS , sold by Anderson Galleries, May 2, 1922, Lot 642. Samuel and John Smith, Baltimore merchants, were brothers.
23From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 9 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 5th. on the subject of the sloop Jane, which it was impossible to dispatch with the celerity you expected. It was necessary to copy the papers to communicate them to the French minister, and the copies are not yet ready. In the mean time I have seen Mr. Skipwith, who being to pass through Baltimore, I am persuaded his information to you will be thought...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 17 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13th. came to hand the night before last. I sent the papers to the French minister, from whom I have this moment recieved the letter now inclosed for the Governor of Martinique. Mr. Skipwith has been detained here by sickness, but will set out in tomorrow’s stage, and consequently will be in Baltimore Saturday night. Supposing that a line from yourself to Mr. Short, to...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 23 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been prevented by business from sooner answering your favor of the 15th. In the mean time you will probably have seen a correspondence in the public papers between Mr. Hammond and myself explanatory of the subject of your letter. Lest you should not however I have the pleasure to inclose it to you. Still I think it will be prudent in merchants who send vessels to England, to instruct...
26From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Smith, 8 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 8, 1793. On June 16, 1793, Smith wrote to Hamilton : “I receivd your Letter of the 8 Inst.” Letter not found. ] Smith was a Baltimore merchant who had been an officer in the American Revolution and a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1790 to 1792. In March, 1793, he was elected to Congress.
27From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Smith, 17 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 17, 1793. On August 20, 1793, Smith wrote to Hamilton : “Yours of 17 Inst. I have recd.” Letter not found. ]
28From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Smith, 26 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 26, 1793. On September 30, 1793, Oliver Wolcott, Jr., wrote to Robert Elliot and referred to “A Copy of a Letter from the Sec. of the Treasy. to Samuel Smith Esq dated August 26th. 1793.” Letter not found. ] ADf , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
29From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Smith, 15 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ War Department, September 15, 1794. “You will ere this (I presume) have received from the Governor of Maryland information and instructions respecting the assembling of all the Militia of that State destined to act against the Insurgents. The place of ultimate rendezvous is, Fort Cumberland. The whole are to assemble there as fast as they can be ready. I request that you will immediately...
30From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Smith, 19 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving your two letters of the 16th: instant. The circumstances they announce are upon the whole satisfactory. The zeal which has been called forth by the threatened attack upon the magazine at Frederick is in the highest degree commendable and is an earnest of the ultimate reliance which may be placed on the principles of good Order in our Country. As...