151From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jones, Brockholst Livingston, and John H. Livingston, 22 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 22, 1791. On the back of a letter dated March 15, 1791, from Jones and Brockholst and John H. Livingston, Hamilton wrote : “Answered 22d March 91.” Letter not found. ]
152From Alexander Hamilton to John Beale Bordley, 23 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, March 23, 1791. “The President having been pleased to appoint you one of the Commissioners to receive subscriptions to the Bank of the United States, you will find in this in-closure his commission.…” LS , Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore. Bordley, a lawyer and landholder on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, moved to Philadelphia in 1791. See H to Tobias Lear, March 23,...
153From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 23 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I find it necessary to request of you the Commissions of the several gentlemen, whom the President was pleased to appoint as Commissioners to receive subscriptions to the Bank of the United States. The persons appointed are Thomas Willing } of Pennsylvania David Rittenhouse Saml. Howell John Beale Bordley of Maryland and Lambert Cadwalader of New Jersey. You will oblige me by procuring the...
154To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 23 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] March 23, 1791 . “I have the honor to transmit you agreeably to your request the five commissions for the Commissioners to receive subscriptions to the Bank of the United States.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. H to Lear, March 23, 1791 .
155To Alexander Hamilton from John Nicholson, 23 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I was yesterday informed by the Auditor that the quarterly payment will be made from the Treasury of the United States for the Interest of Certificates of the registered Debt as the Credits of the same appear on the Books of the Treasury as to non subscribers on the first of April next. By an Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania passed in 1786 a Loan was opened by this State for Certificates...
156From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 24 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 24, 1791. On April 9, 1791, Appleton wrote to Hamilton : “Your special Letter 24th March … and also your Circular Letter 25th March are this minute come to hand.” Letter of March 24 not found. ]
157To Alexander Hamilton from John Cochran, 24 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, March 24, 1791. On March 28, 1791, Hamilton wrote to Cochran : “Yours of the 24th is just come to hand.” Letter not found. ] Cochran was commissioner of loans for New York.
158To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 24 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, March 24, 1791. “The Legislature of this State have incorporated the Bank, limiting its capital to a million of Dollars and its duration to twenty years . The Treasurer is authorised to subscribe to the Loan proposed to Congress all the Continental paper in the Treasury and by a bill that passed the Legislature this morning, he is directed to take in behalf of the State, one...
159From Alexander Hamilton to John Nicholson, 24 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 24, 1791. On March 25, 1791, Nicholson wrote to Hamilton : “Your favor of the 24th with which I was honored.…” Letter not found. ]
160From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Wilkerson, [24 March 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I left in the hands of Robert Troupe Esquire all the papers relative to the business of Mr. Charles Godwin which he was directed to deliver to you, in conformity to Mr. Godwin’s request. If you have not yet received the papers, you may have them by applying to Mr. Troupe. I am Sir Your Obed. & hum. Servt ALS , anonymous donor.
161To Alexander Hamilton from John Beale Bordley, 25 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, March 25, 1791. Acknowledges receipt of commission to receive subscriptions to the stock of the Bank of the United States. ALS , Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore. See H to Bordley, March 23, 1791 .
162To Alexander Hamilton from John Nicholson, [25 March 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Your favor of the with which I was honored had placed the certificates of Registered debt the property of Penna. but not yet assigned into as good a situation I thought as we could have desired, but it hath been since suggested to me that the arrangement with the bank is to be considered as payment of one quarter Interest, whether the party apply for it or not. If this should be the case and...
163Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 25 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 25, 1791. On April 9, 1791, Nathaniel Appleton wrote to Hamilton : “Your special Letter 24th March … and also your Circular Letter 25th March are this minute come to hand.” Circular of March 25 not found. ]
164To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Burrall, 26 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In the absence of the Postmaster General I have received your letter respecting a Balance due from the Estate of Edwd Davies late Depy. Postmaster in Savannah. The situation in which the late P. M. G. left his business, makes it peculiarly necessary, in my opinion, that he should be called upon for a settlement of his Accounts. There are balances due from his Deputies to the Amount of 15,000...
165From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, [26 March 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I have just received information that General Hand will serve as Inspector of the revenue, in which case it was the Presidents pleasure that his name should be inserted in the Blank commission, which was to be left for the purpose. You will please accordingly to have the name of Edward Hand inserted, & to get the commission completed. I shall be glad to receive it this forenoon. Yrs. sincerely...
166To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 27 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] March 27, 1791 . “About two hours ago I had the honor to receive your letter of yesterday, which the door keeper of your Office says he forgot to deliver sooner. This will account for your not receiving the commission for General Hand yesterday forenoon as you requested. I have now the honor to enclose it.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
167From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 27 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] March 27, 1791 . “I have embraced the first moment of leisure to execute your wish, on the subject to which the enclosed notes are applicable. They are neither so accurate nor so full, as I should have been glad to make them; but they are all that my situation has permitted. Nothing new has occurred in my Department worth mentioning. I thought that the following extract of a...
168Enclosure: Notes on the Advantages of a National Bank, [27 March 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The Report to the House of representatives proposing the plan of a Bank, enters fully into the advantages attending institutions of this nature. They are summarily these. 1. They tend to increase the active or productive capital of a country by keeping it in more constant employment and by adding to the real, an artificial capital in the credit of the Bank which answers equally with specie the...
169From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 28 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Yours of the 24th is just come to hand. I have directed the Treasurer to transmit by tomorrow’s post a draft in your favour on the Bank of New York for Twenty six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; which according to your statement will enable you to pay the ensuing quarters interest. I am content with the plan you intend to pursue with the Bank; though my idea was that the business might...
170To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 28 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is my weekly return of Cash and a Certificate of Registry No. 15, dated at the Port of Dighton March 30 1790, and delivered up on account of transfer of property. On the Twenty first day of this month I received a letter from the Commr. of loans informing me that on inquiry of Col. Olney he found, that he would be able to furnish as much money as would be wanted to pay the first...
171To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 28 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
On the 26th. of this month arrived in this Port the Sloop Betsy of Providence James Munro junr. master. He reported that he took in his Cargo consisting of Fifty four Hogsheads & ten bbls of Molasses, One hundred and thirty five barrels of sugar, part of a piece of broad Cloth, and one Umbrella at Cape Francois, proceeded therewith to Charleston So. Carolina, but not finding a suitable market,...
172To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 28 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. William Hill with two competant Surities have duely executed the Bond endorsed in your letter of the 21st. and I have deliver’d to him the Contract. As you do not desire the Bond to be returned, I hold it for your further orders. Mr. Hill expected he was to receive immediately from this Bank a payment of Five thousand Dollars, but he was informed your orders did not extend to the payment....
173To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 30 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, March 30, 1791. “I wrote you 20 instant when I transmitted a duplicate Statement of the Stock apparently standing on my Books. I am this Evening favourd with your Circular Letters of 17th & 18 instant. In answer to the former, I have recd Register Certificates & admitted them upon the new Loan persuming that your instructions of 19th November permitted it. In evry case I have conformed...
174To Alexander Hamilton from William Playfair, 30 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I take the liberty of writing to you on an affair which concerns a great number of Idividuals as well as myself which liberty I would not take if it were not that from the total want of letters in answer to mine to Mr Duer of Newyork I am left in the most Cruel Situation Possible as well as a great number of individuals who have their near Relations in America. I undertook eighteen Months ago...
175To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Smith, 30 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The amount of the several kinds of Stock on the books of this office on which Interest is payable is as follows with Interest Calculated to 1st April 1791 Viz. Principle Interest Funded 6 ⅌ Cent 864 203.54 ——— 12061.97 Funded 3 ⅌ Cent 364 890.61 ——— 2735.40 Deferred 6 ⅌ Cent 410.369.31 Non subscription Stock 29 573.77 } 355.66 Interest 5 323.25 16033. 3
176To Alexander Hamilton from George Thacher, 30 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Biddeford [ District of Maine ] March 30, 1791 . “… The Bonds which Mr. Cutts gave the Collector for the port of Biddeford & Pepperellborough will become payable about the 10th of May, & he is anxious to have your opinion on the justice of paying them as early as possible.” ALS , Maine Historical Society, Portland. Thomas Cutts. Jeremiah Hill.
177Agreement with John McComb, Junior, 31 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, March 31, 1791. A contract for the construction of the Cape Henry lighthouse by McComb. Copy, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Lighthouse Deeds and Contracts, National Archives.
178From Alexander Hamilton to John Habersham, 31 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 31, 1791. On May 20, 1791, Habersham wrote to Hamilton : “I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st of March last.” Letter not found. ]
179To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The publication of the laws of the U.S. and the purchase of those of the several states call on us immediately for about five hundred dollars, for which sum I must ask a warrant from you to be accounted for. The contingent expenses of my department to the 1st. inst. are now stated and will be settled with the Auditor tomorrow. I have the honor to be with great esteem & respect Sir Your most...
180To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 31 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, March 31, 1791. “I have received Mr. Coxe’s circular Letter of the 10th. instant. The Returns of Vessels built in this District, within the periods therein mentioned, shall be forwarded as soon as I can obtain a competent knowledge thereof. And should any Documents, relative to the Commerce, Manufactures &c. of this State, fall into my hands, they shall be transmitted agreeable to...
181From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 31 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 31, 1791. On April 4, 1791, Seton wrote to Hamilton concerning “the request expressed in your letter of the 31st.” Letter not found. ]
182From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 31 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The device intimated to me in your letter of the 26th. of January, I consider as a mere evasive expedient, which ought not to protect the owner of the vessel from a prosecution for perjury. It is my desire therefore that if any such case should occur you may direct proceedings on that ground against the offender. I am, Sir, Your obedt. Servant LS , Columbia University Libraries.
183From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 1 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
You will find in this inclosure two copies of a contract with John McComb junr, of New York, for building a light house on Cape Henry. I request the favor of your sending for Mr McComb & procuring his execution of them. It will be necessary that the inclosed bond be also executed by Mr McComb, & two competent Sureties. The Persons offered to me were Messrs Nicholas Cruger & Peter Kemble, whom...
184To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 1 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your instructions of the 18th ulto and the copy of a letter to Mr Appleton came by the last Post. I shall with the utmost cheerfulness attend to his applications and he may always depend on my best aid. You have I hope before you several letters from me, one of Feby 23rd one of Feby 25th one of March 9th & one 18th. I wish to receive an answer to that of the 23rd Feby as early as it shall be...
185From Alexander Hamilton to John McComb, Junior, 1 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have transmitted to Richard Harison Esq. two copies of the Contract for the lighthouse executed by me. You will call upon him and execute them. I have also forwarded to Mr. Harison a bond to be executed by you, and Mr. Peter Kemble with some other sufficient surety in lieu of Mr. Cruger, who is absent. Mr. Harison will select one out of the persons you may offer to him. On the execution of...
186From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 1 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 1, 1791. On April 11, 1791, Seton wrote to Hamilton : “I have to acknowledge the honor of your Letter of the 1st. instant.” Letter not found. ]
187To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 2 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, April 2, 1791. “… I have now to inform you that I began yesterday morning to pay Interest on the Public Debt agreeably to the Act of Congress making provision for the same. I have compleated the Dividend book in which are Stated 863 Stockholders. The Duplicate Receipts are also prepared agreeably to the Instructions.…” LC , RG 53, Massachusetts State Loan Office, Letter Book,...
188From Alexander Hamilton to John Hopkins, 2 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 2, 1791 . Authorizes Hopkins to send Thomas Williams to Hillsboro, North Carolina, to testify in a case concerning the alteration of North Carolina certificates. States “The expences of his Journey will be repaid to him.” Extract, RG 217, Miscellaneous Treasury Accounts, 1790–1894, Account No. 4289, National Archives. Hopkins was commissioner of loans for Virginia. This...
189From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Smith, 2 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 2, 1791. On May 10, 1791, Smith wrote to Hamilton : “I am honored with your favor 2nd April.” Letter not found. ]
190From Alexander Hamilton to Mathew Carey, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 4, 1791 . Presents his compliments to Carey and declines an invitation to a dinner of the Hibernian Society. Copy, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Carey, publisher of The American Museum , had emigrated to Philadelphia from Ireland in 1784. Early in the seventeen-nineties he organized the Hibernian Society for the relief of Irish immigrants.
191To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The private letter which you was so good as to accompany your Official communication with, calls for and has my warmest acknowledgements. The point which I have mentioned in my Official letter, as determining my acceptance of the Office of Supervisor, would have produced that issue, had the measure been less eligible in other respects than it really is, but had I upon any consideration been...
192To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, April 4, 1791. “Agreeable to the request expressed in your letter of the 31st. Mr. William Hill has been paid Five thousand Dollars.…” LC , Bank of New York, New York City. Letter not found. See Seton to H, March 28, 1791 .
193To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 27th. Ult. came duly to hand. For the information contained in it and for the notes which accompanied the same, I thank you. Every expedient, as I believe you know, is in operation to avert a War with the hostile Indian tribes and to keep those who are in treaty with us in good temper; but I am nearly thoroughly convinced that neither will be effected, or, if effected, will...
194George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Knox, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
As the public service may require that communications should be made to me, during my absence from the seat of government, by the most direct conveyances and as, in the event of any very extraordinary occurrence, it will be necessary to know at what time I may be found in any particular place, I have to inform you that unless the progress of my journey to Savannah is retarded by unforeseen...
195To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 4, 1791. Acknowledges receipt of Hamilton’s “letter of the 18 Decr. last together with Dycas’s & Colles’s Hydrometers.” States that Colles’s hydrometer may not be “truly graduated” and that there is a defect in the bulb of Dycas’s hydrometer. Requests a new bulb. LC , RG 36, Portsmouth Collector, Letters Sent, 1790–1791, Vol. 2, National Archives; copy, RG 56,...
196From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 5 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The section of the collection law relative to the tares to be allowed at the Custom house upon the several species of goods therein mentioned appears to require that the allowance ⅌ Centum upon Coffee in bags } be computed upon the hundred pounds, do. in bales do. in casks pepper in bales do. in casks and that the allowance ⅌ centum upon sugars (other than loaf) in hogsheads & boxes be...
197From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 5 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 5, 1791 . Asks for commissions for seven inspectors of the revenue. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
198To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 5 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 5, 1791 . Sends commissions requested by Hamilton. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
199To Alexander Hamilton from Francisco de Miranda, [5 April 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Ayez la bonté d’agreer mes Complimens, et mes Respects, dans I’ocasion du depart de notre mutuel ami le Col: Smith, qui a passé quelques Semaines dans cette Capitalle ici: qui m’a fait l’amitié de passer bien des moments ensamble; et a qui, J’ai êu le plaisir de voire parffaitement acueilir par tout le monde qui l’a connue antèrieurement, et vue dans l’ocasion actuelle. Il pourrá vous dire...
200From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 6 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 6, 1791. On April 19, 1791, Ellery wrote to Hamilton : “I have received your letter of the 6th. of this month.” Letter not found. ]