61From Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, 19 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have occasion for a public purpose to allude to the reprobated instructions to our commissioners for making peace with Great Britain obliging them to act under the direction of the French Assembly. But though I have a general recollection of their tenor it is not precise enough for my object. I take it for granted your papers can afford the exact information. You will much oblige me by...
62From Alexander Hamilton to John Marshall, 19 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, August 19, 1800. On August 23, 1800, Marshall wrote to Hamilton : “I receivd to day your letter of the 19th inst.” Letter not found. ] On May 12, 1800, John Adams nominated Marshall, who was a member of the House of Representatives from Virginia, to be Secretary of State. The Senate confirmed the nomination on May 13 ( Executive Journal , I Journal of the Executive Proceedings of...
63From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 19 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, August 19, 1800. On September 3, 1800, Wolcott wrote to Hamilton : “I am favoured with your Letters of the 3d. and 19th.” Letter of August 19 not found. ]
64To Alexander Hamilton from George Cabot, 21 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
An exposition of the reasons which influence many men of unquestionable patriotism & loyalty to withhold from Mr Adams the confidence he once enjoyed, may be useful by satisfying the intelligent & candid part of the public that those men act, as they have ever done, on genuine national principles; the reasons are strong & require only to be placed in a clear light—but this must be done with...
65To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 22 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Do you possess enough of the second sight to tell me what our friends have done and intend doing to the Eastward? God forgive me, if I make false calculations about them or deliver myself up too easily to dreams and reveries. I see nothing ex cathedra in that division of Country from which I can augur a determination adverse to the election of the present chief. Johnson says somewhere, in his...
66To Alexander Hamilton from George Cabot, 23 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have shewn to several of our wisest & best men a copy of what I wrote you on the 21st instant —they all concur in the sentiments it contains, Still it is probably fit & it may be indispensable to expose Mr Adams fully to the public; the countenance & authority given by him & his friends to the vile calumnies against us may strengthen their credit so much as to render them irrefutable without...
67To Alexander Hamilton from John Marshall, 23 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I receivd to day your letter of the 19th inst. accompanying a memorial from the Governor General of the Danish West india islands respecting the conduct of some of our ships of War. This paper shall be immediately communicated ⟨to the⟩ secretary of the Navy. Our dispatches from Paris come no later than the 17th. of may. There is in them nothing on which a positive opinion respecting the result...
68To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Wadsworth, 23 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Hartford, August 23, 1800. Requests Hamilton’s advice on the procedure which the executors of Nathanael Greene’s estate should follow in selling lands in New York. LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. For background to this letter, see “Report on the Petition of Catherine Greene,” December 26, 1971 . Wadsworth, a Connecticut Federalist, was deputy commissary general and commissary...
69To Alexander Hamilton from William Bingham, 24 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Adams had 70 & Mr Jefferson 68 Votes at the last Election. In Pennsylvania, Virginia, N Carolina, he had a Vote in each State. From the result of the Enquiries I have made, & the best Calculation I can form, Mr J cannot procure more than 58 Votes, on a presumption that this State will have no agency in the Election, & that he obtains half of those of No Carolina. Great Efforts are making in...
70To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, 25 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I was this moment favd. with yours of the 19th Instant; requesting Copies of the Instruction, and of the Letter mentioned in it. I shall without Delay look for these papers. I presume that I have preserved them, but am not certain. When I removed from my House in the Broadway to the Govt. House, all such of my papers as were not in use, or which did not respect Property, were packed up with...
71To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Schuyler, 25 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Your favor of the 13th Instant with the plan of your intended house was delivered me on Thursday last that of the 18th by the mail I received yesterday. I have deliverd Mr Putnam the builder the plan and a paper of which you have a copy on the other side, and Expect his answer to morrow. If the house is boarded on the out side, and then Clap boards put on, and fitted in the inside with brick I...
72To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Stoddert, 25 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I am honored with your letter of the 18, enclosing papers respecting the conduct of Capt Perry, towards the Danish schooner, William & Mary. The Gentlemen at whose request you transmitted me these papers, may be assured that a strict scrutiny shall be made into this affair—& that no proper step shall be omitted to vindicate the Character of Capt Perry, if innocent, or to punish him, if guilty....
73To Alexander Hamilton from Fisher Ames, 26 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have communicated your letter, by Mr Coolidge, to Mr Cabot and two or three friends I have desired him and he has promised to write to you on the subject. Since it’s reception I have had a long profoundly sensible and interesting letter from Mr Wolcot. The same friends have also considered that, and we all agree in the result. We understand that at the close of the late session the Feds....
74From Alexander Hamilton to William Jackson, 26 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Never was there a more ungenerous persecution of any man than of myself.—Not only the worst constructions are put upon my conduct as a public man but it seems my birth is the subject of the most humiliating criticism. On this point as on most others which concern me, there is much mistake—though I am pained by the consciousness that it is not free from blemish. I think it proper to confide to...
75To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, 26 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Yesterday I recd. and answd. yours of the 19 Instant. I have found a Copy of the Instructions, made by Wm. T. Franklin who was our Secy. They contain the following, verbatim —vizt. “You are to make the most candid and confidential communications upon all Subjects, to the ministers of our generous ally the King of France, to undertake nothing in the negociation for peace or Truce without their...
76Petition to the Mayor and Corporation of the City of New York, [26 August 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
To the Honble. Mayor & Corporation of the City of New York Humbly sheweth That we the Subscribers, your Petitioners & the Public in general, suffer great Inconvenience, and Danger, from the public Road as it now runs between the nine and ten Mile Stones, through the Land of Doct. Samuel Bradhurst, ascending that very difficult & dangerous Hill, being the only direct Way of Communication for...
77To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 27 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I recd this morning at this place, the country residence of my Son in law Mr. Caton, your letter of the 7th instant. I wish it were in my power to give you pleasing intelligence of the politics in this my State —Our county (Ann Arundel) wh was lately so federal, is at present much divided; in the upper part of it, I suspect, there is a majority for antifederal Delegates to our State Legislate:...
78To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, 27 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I recd. and answered your Letter of the 19 Inst: on Monday. Yesterday I found the Instructions, & immediately wrote to you a Letter containing a Copy of the Paragraph in question. My search for the Letter of which I made the use you mention, was fruitless until this morning, when I found it, and now enclose a Copy —It does not quite answer your Expectation as to the opinion—But I know and am...
79To Alexander Hamilton from Herman Le Roy and William Bayard, 27 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, August 27, 1800. Requests opinion on the “Compensation … proper for us to claim against the Directors of the Holland Land Company, by reason of our having acted as Co-Trustees and Agents in relation to their Genesee Lands.…” Copy, Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, Holland Land Company. In 1964 the Holland Land Company documents were transferred to their present location from the...
80From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 27 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Indeed, My Dear Mac, I have not enough the gift of second sight to foresee what N England will do. The mass of the people there are attached to Adams and the leaders of the second class pretty generally. The leaders of the first class pretty generally promote the joint support of Adams & Pinckney either because they dislike Adams or hate & fear Jefferson. Upon the whole I believe though not...
81To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 30 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your friendly and confidential letter of the 7th. Inst. and am much obliged by your information as to the state of public opinion in the Eastern & Middle states in regard to the approaching presidential election. In return I will give you such as I possess Southwardly; yours however must be far the most perfect, as to particular circumstances, from your late tour through the...
82To Alexander Hamilton from “Hambden”, [30 August 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
A young Man, who, from his Situation in Life has some Leisure; and who wishes to devote it, to, what he most conscientiously considers, the true Interests of his Country, incloses you a paper, which is intended as the first of a series of the like Tendency & Style. Unknown to, and by, You, it will hardly be considered even a Compliment, when I profess to view your person as the most regularly...
83Receipt from William Barton, [September 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
1800 Genl. Alexander Hammelton To William Barton Sept. 2d. To an arch Bar & Crain eye for a fire place Wt 40 lb. .. £ 2. 00 10 To a Crain for Ditto Wt 36½ lb .. 1. 16.0 £ 3. 16.0 DS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Barton was a blacksmith in New York City. For background to this document, see the introductory note to Philip Schuyler to H, July 17, 1800 .
84From Alexander Hamilton to Herman Le Roy and William Bayard, 1 September 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, September 1, 1800. Has reviewed their request for compensation from the Holland Land Company and concludes that their “Claim is reasonable and moderate.” Copy, Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, Holland Land Company. In 1964 the Holland Land Company documents were transferred to their present location from the Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief, Amsterdam. This letter was written in...
85Receipt from Isaac McComb and Company, [2 September 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Isaac McComb & Co for Genll. Hambleton By Van Geld S. Septb 2 1800 To 3 Cask Lime @ 14 ⅌ Cask To Carting 2 £ 2.4. 0 DS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. McComb was a stucco plasterer in New York City. For background to this document, see the introductory note to Philip Schuyler to H, July 17, 1800 . Abraham Van Gelder was a lime dealer and lime inspector in New York City.
86From Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, 3 September 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you for your three letters in compliance with my request. They contain what I desired. But as they mingle the fact, respecting the communication of my letter to you to Lord Grenville, which I always understood to be confidential, I will thank you to send me a certificate of the sentiment which you recollect to have been given by me, and I will beg you to let it be as full and as...
87To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 3 September 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I am favoured with your Letters of the 3d. & 19th. instant. You will have thought it strange that the first has not been acknwledged—it has been out of my power: the effects of a new Climate want of exercise and too much application to official business, produced a serious indisposition, which disabled me from writing for a forth-night; I am now recovering, though I remain weak. I had...
88Enclosure: James McHenry to Philemon Dickinson, [3 September 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
In Maryland from causes which you will easily comprehend it will be extremely difficult, if at all possible to bring the federalists generally into vigorous action, in favour of Mr. Adams, and yet from the force of the impulse which has been given to the people before the subject could be understood, it is likely, whether the electors be chosen by the people, or the Legislature, that Mr. Adams...
89To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 4 September 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I recd. this morning your letter dated the 27 Ulto. with the one at first intended for Major Jackson. I sincerely beleive that there is not one of your friends who have paid the least attention to the insinuations attempted to be cast on the legitimacy of your birth, or who would care or respect you less were all that your enemies say or impute on this head true. I think it will be most...
90To Alexander Hamilton from Francis A. Vanderkemp, 15 September 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Oldenbarneveld [ New York ] September 15, 1800 . Recalls Hamilton’s kindness to him on his arrival in the United States. Proposes that the Society of the Cincinnati establish archives for “all what might be of any worth to Posterity” and that the archives include “all Orations Eulogys Sermons on Solemn occasions—all remarkable incidents anecdotes &c.” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of...