1To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Smith, 16 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Before I receivd your Letter of the 8 Inst. I had Convers’d with Mr. Randolph who had nearly Satisfied my Mind. I had his permission to mention Such points of our Conversation as tended to Allay the fears of the people relative to a War & I have taken the Liberty to use some parts of your Letter to serve the same desireable purpose. These are those parts that prove the Imprudence of a...
2Cabinet Meeting. Opinion Respecting French Privateers, 17 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
At a meeting of the heads of departments at the President’s this day, on summons from him, a letter from mr Genet of the 15th. inst. addressed to the Secretary of state on the subject of the seizure of a vessel by the Govr. of New York as having been armed, equipped & manned in that port with a design to cruize on the enemies of France, was read, as also the draught of an answer prepared by...
3To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 17 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I acknowledge the receipt of your circular letter of the 30th of may last concerning the entry of vessels and their Cargoes captured and brought into our ports by the ships of war and privateers of France, and of five Sea letters in a blank wrapper freed by you. Permit me to ask whether vessels so captured and brought into our ports, and sold to citizens of the United States may be registered....
4Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, [19 June 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the Secretaries of the Treasury & war, draughts of two letters of this day’s date to the Ministers of France & England. He confesses himself not satisfied with the latter altogether, as it has somewhat of the appearance of evasion. The gentlemen will be pleased to propose any alteration either may desire, handing the letters round to him to be finally...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 19 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I had the honor to receive by the last post, your letter of the 7th. instant. Capt Yeaton being absent on a Cruize I cannot obtain his final answer respective the Supply of Rations for the Scammel other than his proposal already transmitted which I shall do on his return. In the mean time I could wish to be informed in case of a Contract with others, what amount of Articles shall be contracted...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Williams, 19 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Richmond, June 19, 1793. States that he wrote to Hamilton on October 31, 1791 , requesting payment for expenses in traveling to North Carolina under Hamilton’s orders to testify in a case concerning the alteration of North Carolina certificates. Repeats request for $77.50. ALS , RG 217, Miscellaneous Treasury Acounts, 1790–1894, Account No. 4289, National Archives. Letter not found. See H to...
7Cabinet Meeting. Opinion Respecting a Communication from the Spanish Commissioners, 20 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
At a meeting this day of the heads of departments at the President’s on summons from him, a letter from Messrs. Viar & Jaudenes dated June 18. & addressed to the Secretary of state, was read: whereupon it is the opinion that a full detail of the proceedings of the US. with respect to the Southern Indians, & the Spaniards be prepared, and a justification as to the particular matters charged in...
8To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [20 June 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
I have received & paid attention to your report of the 15 instant. The result is, that the Loan of 2,000,000 of florins ought, in my opinion, to be urged without delay, if it can be obtained within the limitations of the Law. The further proposal of borrowing 3,000,000 of florins in addition, I shall (seeing no inconvenience that will arise from the delay) take a few days longer to consider;...
9From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 20 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, June 20, 1793. Transmits “the President’s Ratification of the Contract lately made with the Bank of The U States for Eight hundred thousand Dollars.” ALS , Lloyd W. Smith Collection, Morristown National Historical Park, Morristown, New Jersey. Willing was president of the Bank of the United States. For background to this letter, see H to George Washington, March 18, second...
10From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Banning, 21 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 6th instant, I refer you to mine of the 30th of may. I should earlier have sent you a direction, in the particular case; but that I had understood that proceedings at law had been commenced, which had removed the Eunice from your custody to that of the Court. If still in your custody she is to be surrendered to the Captor. with consideration I am Sir Your...
11To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Harison, 21 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I feel myself infinitely obliged to you for your late confidential Communication. The Principles you have stated are perfectly just, and your Hints will be carefully attended to. It has been very unfortunate that I should be sent from New York at so important a Period; but whilst your Officers are without Salaries they cannot possibly neglect the Business upon which they depend for their daily...
12From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 21 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Considerations, relative both to the public Interest and to my own delicacy, have brought me, after mature reflection, to a resolution to resign the office, I hold, towards the close of the ensuing session of Congress. I postpone the final act to that period, because some propositions remain to be submitted by me to Congress, which are necessary to the full developement of my original plan,...
13From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 21 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I learnt with real pleasure, your return from the West Indies in improved health. Be assured, that I interest myself, with friendship, in your welfare. The Collector of Anapolis has announced his intention to resign by the first of next month. Do you know a character there fit and probably willing to serve? There is a salary of 200 Dollars a year besides the per Centage & fees. The whole...
14From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Lee, 22 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
There is no foundation, My Dear Sir, that I know of, for the Report of the Offence said to have [been] taken by the British Minister, in relation to the subject of my circular letter. No symptom of dissatisfaction on this score has appeared; nor, as I believe, exists. I presume, it is regarded as a measure, in which the Executive Government had no option. I need not tell you how much my ideas...
15From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 22 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to submit to the consideration of the President [a recommendation] of the 4 inst. from the Commissioner of the Revenue on the subject of compensations to Keepers of Light houses, being the result of an enquiry some time since instituted. When this business was first organized, the only guide which presented itself was the previous arrangements of the respective States. It is...
16Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 23 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 18th. inst. I am instructed by the President to inform you that the fund in question has been so clearly understood on all hands to be specifically appropriated for the payment of the bills which were recognised by the former agents of France here as to be incapable of being diverted without disappointing the just expectations of our citizens holders of those...
17To Alexander Hamilton from Gouverneur Morris, 23 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The annexed is Duplicate of what I had the Honor to write on the twentieth of May. For your better understanding of it I will here add a short explanation of the Plan I had formed and would have carried into Effect. It was to open a loan for Stg £300000 of which the Interest of 4p% was to be paid here annually and the Capital at the End of fourteen years. For the Interest one of the first...
18To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Gibbs, 24 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Convinced as I have always been My Dear Sir of the sincerity of your friendship towards me, and still retaining the same Idea, leads me again to address you. Fortune has once more altered my situation and returned me to this place with my little family where I have been but a few days. Mrs. Gibbs being very unhappy in the country owing to the seperation from her connextions; the impossibility...
19To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, 24 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
On Saturday week last I arrived at Pha. and very early the next monday morning set out in the Stage for this place. I recollected your Deed, but as Mr Iredell came to Pha. with me, and could take the acknowledgmt. I am persuaded you will excuse my passing on without waiting for that Business. The G. Jury at Richmd. requested a Copy of the Charge, the Burden of which was neutrality , and...
20From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, June 24, 1793. “… The Collectors have been furnished with all the Sea letters that have been received from your Department and … a demand exists at several of the Custom Houses for more.” LS , Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City. See “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” May 13–16, 1793 .
21To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 24 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Register’s Office, June 24, 1793. Encloses “to the Secretary of the Treasury a Certificate agreeably to his Request of this Morning.” AL , RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1793, Vol. “135-T,” National Archives. AD , RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1793, Vol. “135-T,” National Archives; LC , George Washington...
22From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 24 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Pursuant to your requisition of the 20 inst., I have the honor to submit a statement of the application of the whole of the monies borrowed by virtue of the Acts of the 4. & 12. of August. The precise accuracy of this statement cannot be warranted, ’till there shall be a settlement at the Treasury of all the accounts on which it depends (a business now in train). But the items generally are so...
23Enclosure: [Confirmation of the Amount Paid by the Treasurer of the United States], 24 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
These are to Certify that the Sum of Two hundred and Eighty four thousand nine hundred and One Dollars Eighty nine Cents is the Amount which has been paid by the Treasurer of the United States during the present Year to the Trustees for the Reduction of the Public Debt out of the Monies arising from Loans made in Holland, vizt. Warrant No. 2454 for 50.000. 2482 ” 234.901. 89/100 Dollars...
24Enclosure: [Account of Loans Made Pursuant to the Acts of 4 and 12 August 1790], 22 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Dr. Accot. of Loans made pursuant to the Acts of the 4. & 12. of August 1790. Total amount of Loans 19,550,000 guilders, equal, at 36 ⁴⁄₁₁ ninetieths ⅌ Guilder, to 7.898.989.88. Deduct amount of original charges respecting Contracts 872,000 Guilders at 36 ⁴⁄₁₁ 352.323.24. Nett product 7,546.666.64 Contra Cr. Amount heretofore stated to have been transferred to the United States...
25Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, [25 June 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Th. Jefferson has the honor to submit to the correction & approbation of the Secretaries of the Treasury & War, the inclosed draughts of letters to the French minister on the subject of the ship William & others in her situation, & to Mr. Hammond & mr. Pinckney on the subject of the Snow Suckey. AL , letterpress copy, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress. The William , a British...
26From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, [25 June 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The letters to Mr. Hammond & Mr. Pinckney appear to me proper, according to the facts stated in them. The object of that to Mr. Genet also appears to me desireable; but I am not wholly without scruple as to the proposition going from the UStates. ALS , Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress. For background to this letter, see Jefferson to H and Henry Knox, June 25, 1793 . H’s reply was...
27From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox, 25 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have concluded to direct purchases of distilled spirits to be made on account of the Government and for the use of the army in the Western Parts of Pensylvania Maryland & Virginia and in the State of Kentucke, to be delivered; according to the convenience of the sellers, at the several Forts McIntosh, Washington and Steuben, and also at the Mouth of Musskingum; a mode in which I intend by...
28To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 25 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It is a long while since I have had the pleasure to hear from you, and nothing has occured here worth attention. The Custom House refusing to take our Bank Notes I concluded to be the natural consequence of the establishment of the Bank of the United States —it rather militates against us in our Exchanges with the Branch, as we are obliged to pay out their Notes to our Dealers who have Duties...
29Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 25 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It appears that the summary of the amount of Duties on Imposts and Tonnage which accrued within your district during the first Quarter of the present Year has not yet come to hand. The importance of Punctuality in this particular, was strongly indicated by my Letter of the 12th of October 1792. The delay embarrasses me, and is a cause of regret. I hope for your exertions to avoid a similar...
30To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 26 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Sloop Abigail of this Port, burthen 46 ⁶³⁄₉₅ Tons, Michael Anthony Master, arrived here on the 24th instant, having a Register, and a License which expired on the 5th Day of the present Month: he cleared his Vessel at New-York on the 20th Instant; and appears to have committed a breach of the 6th Section of the new Coasting Law; but as that Section makes a distinction between registered ,...