1To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 1 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
By this mornings post your letter of the 21st. Ulto. was received As also a letter covering one directed to our Minister at the Court of Great Britain. We have a vessel now loading & will sail in a few days for Amsterdam so that your letter directed to Messrs. Willink & Van Staphorst will go directly to its address in Holland agreeably to your wishes. LC , Massachusetts Historical Society,...
2To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 3 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newport, Rhode Island ] February 3, 1794 . “A question has arisen respectg. the disposition of that part of the net proceeds of the sales of the Schooner Hannah which appertains to a Surveyor which I wish you would answer. I am in doubt whether it should be paid to the Surveyor of this Port, or of Bristol … the forfeiture of the Hannah was not incurred in either of those ports … for at the...
3To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 3 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
This Letter will be accompd. by a represent. of the case of Samuel Pearsall, junr. master of the Sloop Nancy. His Representn. is true as far as it concerns her being licensed—her tonnage, her arrival here, her being visited by an Inspector, her not having a manifest, her being wholly laden with the produce of the United States, and his payment of Twenty dollars. That part of it which relates...
4[Report on Such Further Sums as May Be Expected to Come Into the Treasury], [4 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to an order of the House of Representatives of the 30th. of January last respectfully reports as follows. The Statement A herewith transmitted shews the Monies now in the Treasury and (as far as official documents hitherto received furnish information) such further Sums as may be expected to come into it before the first day of April next, and the...
5Enclosure A: Probable State of Cash up to the First of April Ensuing, 4 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Proba[b]le Demands on the Treasury to the first of April vizt. Amount of Cash in the several Banks ⅌ Treasurer’s return of the 3d. instant 332,177.50 For the Department of War 113,827.38 Amount of Cash in the hands of the several Collectors of the Customs and Supervisors ⅌ Abstract of returns dated the 3d. instant. 134,605.96 For the payment of Foreign Officers 133,961.64 By Amount of Sums...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas, and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 4 February … (Hamilton Papers)
Confirming our last respects of 14 Ultimo, We have now but to transmit You the Account Current of the United States with us, up to 31st January last, the Balance whereon, due by us Holld. Curry. f 923,284.13.8. We transfer to the Credit of the United States in a New Account. The Delivery of the Bonds the preceeding Month has been very brisk: Among them were 144. Bonds of the Half of the Loan...
7To Alexander Hamilton from George Bush, 5 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Wilmington, Delaware, February 5, 1794. On February 17, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Bush : “In your letter of the 5th. instant.” Letter not found. ] Bush was collector of customs at Wilmington, Delaware.
8Edmund Randolph to Edmond Charles Genet, 5 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I do myself the honor of informing you that the French Ship L’Orient of Bengal now lying in the port of Philadelphia attracts the attention omit these words (and excites the suspicion) of the Executive. It is represented that on her arrival she was a private ship the property of the French East India company and though armed was without a public Commission (had a complete military equipment...
9From Alexander Hamilton to John Adams, 6 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Having made the necessary examination into the means possessed by the Treasury for complying with a late order of the Senate and of the time which would be requisite for preparing them, I have the honor now to communicate the result. Several Custom-house returns of Exports amounting to a large sum having been rendered for a term longer than a quarter; it is found impossible to make up that...
10To Alexander Hamilton from Isaac Holmes, 6 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Charleston, South Carolina, February 6, 1794. On February 28, 1794, Hamilton sent to George Washington “a letter from the Collector of Charlestown of the 6th instant.” Letter not found. ]
11Americanus No. II, [7 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Let us now turn to the other side of the medal. To be struck with it, it is not necessary to exaggerate. All who are not wilfully blind must see and acknowlege that this Country at present enjoys an unexampled state of prosperity. That war would interrupt it need not be affirmed. We should then by war lose the advantage of that astonishing progress in strength wealth and improvement, which we...
12To Alexander Hamilton from William Bradford, 7 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have considered the letter from the Collector of Newport inclosed in yours which I received yesterday, and the questions which he states as arising upon the proviso to the 66§. of the Collection Act passed on the 4th August, 1790, and I am of opinion. That a capias or attachment issued within three years after the penalty of forfeiture was incurred, and returned by the proper officer, is a...
13From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 7 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, February 7, 1794. On March 3, 1794, Ellery wrote to Hamilton : “I have received your letter of the 7th of Feby. last.” Letter not found. ]
14To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 7 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, February 7, 1794. Encloses “the Bond of Henry Cooper, as Consul at St. Croix.” Approves Cooper’s securities and “transmits the Bond, bearing date the 8th day of November, 1793, to be deposited in the Treasury Office.” LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 6, January 2–June 26, 1794, National Archives. John Wilcocks, who was related to Cooper, had...
15Agreement Between John Nicholson and Alexander Hamilton, Abijah Hammond, and Nicholas Low, 8 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] February 8, 1794 . “… in Consequence of certain Agreements between Alex Hamilton Esq of Philadelphia City and Nicholas Low and Abijah Hammond of the City of New York Merchants of the One part, and John Campbell now or late of Patterson in the State of New Jersey of the other part and which have by Mutual Consent since been disolved, the party first herein named deem it...
16To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 10 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newport, Rhode Island ] February 10, 1794 . “By the last post I recd. your letter of the 31st. of Dece. last acknowledgg. the receipt of two duplicate Rects of the Bank of Providence No. 49. 53 amountg. to Fifteen thousand Dollars. Your letter too of the 23d. of Jany. last, concerning the forwardg. by the district Atto. of New york of the documents relative to the papers of the Enterprize...
17To Alexander Hamilton from James Lingan, 10 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Georgetown, District of Columbia, February 10, 1794. “I some time ago purchased an Iron Chest, for the safe keeping of the public money, price Forty Five dollars, and would wish to have your approbation as to the propriety of making it a Charge against the United States.” LS , RG 217, First Comptroller’s Office, Miscellaneous-Revenue Collectors, 1789–1834, Georgetown, D.C., National Archives....
18Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 10 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
A Provisory arrangement has been agreed upon with the Ambassador of Great Britain contained in a letter from the Secretary of State to him dated the 26th December last, to ascertain the losses by detention, waste, or spoliation, sustained by such vessels the property of subjects of Great Britain, as have been or shall be captured by French Privateers armed and equipped in the Ports of the...
19From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 10 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The enclosed letter of the 27 of last month from the Collector of Tappahannock, relates to a subject equally delicate & disagreeable. It is my duty to add, that bills have returned protested to the amount of 3000 Dollars. This conduct, though I trust proceeding from no ill motive in the Collector, is of a nature so fatal to the punctual collection of the revenue, and at the same time so...
20To Alexander Hamilton from John Nicholson, 11 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I feel myself indebted for your attention to my former requests, permit me further to request that you will direct a copy of the opinion of the late Atty. Genl. to you on the subject of the subscribability of the Pennsa. New Loan debt in the Loan opened by Congress per Act of Augt. 4th. 1790 —“for such Certificates bearing date before Jany 1790, as had been issued by the respective States as...
21To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 11 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Not wishing to infringe upon one moment of your time during the arduous & busy scene you have been engaged in, I have till now delayed my communications respecting my operations for Mr. Church. On the 17th of December I purchased for him 9 Shares of U S. Bank Stock @ 13 ⅌ Cent and 12 Shares at 13½ ⅌ Cent—on the 20th of that month I further purchased 5 Shares @ 13 ⅌ Cent & 5 Shares at 13¼ ⅌...
22To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 12 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] February 12, 1794 . States “that the existing Light House act will expire in the ensuing recess of Congress by its own limitation.” LC , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters, Vol. I, National Archives. Coxe was commissioner of the revenue. “An Act supplementary to the act for the establishment and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers” ( 1 Stat. The Public Statutes at...
23From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox, 12 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed you will find the copy of a letter from Mr. Habersham of the 16th ultimo. The bearer of it (who is mentioned in it) informs me that from the month of June last till he left Georgia, there had been kept on foot from a thousand to twelve hundred Militia and that arrangements appeared to be going on for encreasing the number. The expense you will perceive, has been out of all proportion...
24To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 12 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] February 12, 1794 . Requests “original papers transmitted in a letter from Mr. Morris … in order to complete the papers from that minister called for by the Senate.” LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 6, January 2–June 26, 1794, National Archives. See “Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on Communicating to the Senate the Dispatches of Gouverneur Morris,”...
25Report on the Petition of Stephen Porter, [12 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred the Petition of Stephen Porter, respectfully makes the following Report. The Petitioner claims compensation and indemnification in relation to 1st a quantity of Grain which he furnished for the Use of the Army in the Year 1778. 2nd. the rent of a Store-House belonging to him, which was occupied for the Use of the Troops of the United States...
26From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 12 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] February 12, 1794 . Transmits “the … extract of a letter from the Supervisor of Virginia.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Edward Carrington’s letter to H has not been found.
27To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 15 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
You will have been informed by the Commissioners at Amsterdam of their having received your letters to them & to me of the 12th. of Aug. last. In forwarding mine they inclosed me a copy of their answer to you. As it then appeared that there was no possibility of making the loan, the direction you gave me as to the co-operation of course could not take its effect. Circumstances having since...
28Enclosure: William Short to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 12 February … (Hamilton Papers)
The duplicate of your letter of Dec. 27. has come to my hands with its inclosures. The first has not yet been recieved. I mention this as a guide. In future I will thank you to send under the cover of Mr Humphreys who has returned to Lisbon, such letters as you address me by that route. Your letter informed me of the loan you had opened for the U.S. & by the copy of that you wrote to the Sec....
29From Alexander Hamilton to ———, [16 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
I recollect that Mr. Morris sometime previous to the first of May instant mentioned to me the subject of some new emission money with inquiry what was to be done with it & that I advised its being presented at the Treasury. ALS , Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. For a description of “new emission” money, see Charles Pettit to H, April 30, 1791, note 3 .
30From Alexander Hamilton to George Bush, 17 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
In your letter of the 5th. instant it is mentioned that the Merchants of Wilmington claimed an indulgence of 30 days after Bonds for duties fall due on a supposition of a similar indulgence at the Bank of the United States. This is probably a mistaken conception of a different arrangement for selling drafts at the Bank upon collectors, for which in some instances a credit of 30 days is allowed...