21901James Madison to Isaac A. Coles, 3 October 1834 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his best respects to Col: Coles, requests the favor of him to have the enclosed delivered to his brother, if in the neighbourhood. Should he have left it, and be out of immediate reach, Col C. will be so obliging as to return it to me, with a notice of the most expedient address for a letter to his brother. [printer’s fist] The enclosed letter contains a check on the B. Bank of...
21902Thomas Jefferson to Isaac A. Coles, 7 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Have you any orchard grass seed left? or have your brothers any ? I want about a bushel to finish a grass lot now prepared for it, an d should be very thankful for that much.— I looked for you at court to invite you to come and see mrs Madison & mr Madison , but could not fin d you. I thought too you ought not to need an invitation to come here or to see them. Appleton
21903Thomas Jefferson to John Coles, 5 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In the hope you may be returned from Richmond , I send to ask the favor of you to attend for examination on Tuesday next, the day after court , at Milton where I have given notice that I should examine some witnesses, tho’ I have none now to examine but yourself & Col o T. M. Randolph who is just returned from Richmond . it is of capital importance to me to prove that while the jury were...
21904Thomas Jefferson to John Coles, 25 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Taking for granted you must have returned to your harvest, and it not being yet too late to get your deposition relative to the Inquest of which you were a member, I send to beseech you to give us your testimony. the important object is to shew there was an opposition in a part of the jury to a part of the inquisition. this is distinctly proved by mr T. E. Randolph who was one of the jury,...
21905From Alexander Hamilton to Walter K. Cole, 3 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 25th. of February, and regret that circumstances should occur to lead you render it necessary for you to abandon relinquish the service—You will be pleased to signify your wish to the Commandant of your regiment that it may come thro’ him to me, and go from me to the Sey of War— This is the regular course in such cases— ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y....
21906From John Adams to W. K. Cole, 15 May 1798 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for this Address, as your Attachment to the Constitution is, and ought to be, a cogent motive to preserve it. It gives to the rich no Priviledges but their Property, and if it took away that, it would not only covet and Steal but deprive the honest and industrious, of the Reward of their Exertions. The fruits of their Labour cannot be preserved to the poor but by Laws, which Secure...
21907From Alexander Hamilton to William Colfax, 10 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is the arrangement of this State into Districts, and subdistricts, for the purpose of the recruiting service—Within each subdistrict it is contemplated that a Company will be raised—Provision must be made for the supply of the men as they are raised, having an eye to the particular place which is designated as the Rendezvous for each subdistrict. The Regimental Rendezvous is the town...
21908From George Washington to William Colfax, 3 November 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your Sick, Invalids and weak men—Your heavy Stores, & such other articles Papers excepted as you may judge proper, are to go by Water under the care of Mr Holden, or yourself, to the head of Elk; where they are to remain till the Waggons and other parts of the Baggage go round, to that place, by Land. When the whole are united, you will, if you should not receive further orders, proceed to...
21909From George Washington to William Colfax, 28 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed are the Instructions which I meant to deliver verbally, with some explanation—but—your absence has prevented it! When business or Inclination (especially on a March) calls you from your Command I should be glad to know it, that I may regulate myself, and orders accordingly. Your Rout, & every thing relative to the inclosed order, is to be kept secret till the nature of the...
21910From George Washington to Lieutenant William Colfax, 2 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
What Major Gibbs’s plan is—& what his present line of conduct tends to, I shall not take upon me to decide; nor shall I at this moment enquire into them—I mean to act coolly & deliberately myself, and will therefore give him an opportunity of recollecting himself. He has been guilty of a peice of disrespect; to give it no worse a term—such an one, as I much question if there is another officer...
21911From George Washington to William Colfax, 4 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
I want an acct of all expenditures—from the time we arrived at this place, till the first day of this Month. Also of every thing drawn from the Contractors during that period. I likewise desire, to have an acct of every thing else which may have been had from other Quarters, if any there be—As well Provision, Liquors, and Stores—as necessaries from the Quarter Master—these as before, from our...
21912From Alexander Hamilton to William Colfax, 30 March 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Lt. Leonard with a detachment of about one hundred men has been ordered from Windsor in Vermont to Albany and from thence to this City. You will be pleased to take immediate measures for supplying them with provisions, while in Albany, and for transporting them by Water to this place, the moment the opening of the River shall permit it. It will be proper to instruct your Agent in Albany to...
21913From George Washington to William Colfax, 7 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
Three or four Trusty men—the Woman of the Guard—the Box of papers, and such parts of my Baggage as will be particularly named to you, with all the cover’d Waggons & such others as the Q.M. Genll shall direct are to go round by Land to the Army in Virginia. The Guard—Stores & other Baggage, are to be embarked on board of some good Vessel (for which you are to apply to Genll Lincoln in time) and...
21914John Martin Baker to Collector at Port of Discharge, 28 September 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 September 1811, Palma, Majorca. Requests the collector at the port of discharge to receive articles from Jesse Y. Hinks, captain of the schooner Ruthy of Boston, for delivery to JM. Lists the articles in a postscript: “One Qr. Cask 7. Years old Granache White Wine / One Bag Soft Shelled Almonds. / Three Boxes Capers. / Three Boxes Olives.” RC ( DLC ). 2 pp. Docketed by JM.
21915From James Madison to Collector of the Customs, 7 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
The British Minister, Mr. Erskine, has communicated a document representing that a British Vessel, which had sailed from Norfolk, was captured in June last, soon after getting to sea, by an armed Schooner, which had followed her from Hampton Roads. I inclose herewith a copy of the representation, with a request that you will, by proper enquiries endeavor to ascertain whether the armed schooner...
21916Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors and Surveyors of the State of Virginia, 18 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I am informed through one of the representatives of the State of virginia, that some co-operation with the executive of that State on the part of the Officers of the Customs is necessary to the perfect execution of the Tobacco inspection Law. That acts directs, that the Tobacco inspectors Shall by every boat or other craft loaded with Tobacco, Send a List of the marks weights &ca of every...
21917Circular Letter to Collectors of Customs, 1 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
It will not have escaped your observation that the commencement of the present war calls for your particular attention, in seeing the act of Congress of the 28th May, 1796, relative to seamen, carried rigidly into effect as far as it involves your agency; and more especially the sections of it which require protests and declarations respecting impressments. It has been suggested that in some...
21918Circular Letter to Collectors of Customs, 23 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
Notice is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean passport issued to Vessels of the United States; that from the eighth day of July next, those of the new form will be issued at the Custom-houses to every Vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport of which she...
21919Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 30 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
In my Circular letter of the 31st. of October last I directed you to claim the duties which had arisen on Imports since the first day of August last, and prior to the organisation of the Customhouses in the respective districts, and if the same was controverted by the parties liable thereto to prosecute this claim to a legal determination. As the decision in one case will probably form a rule...
21920Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 8 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I am to request your attention to the in-closed Paper and that in the Columns opposite the described Article of Merchandise or Package (for containing them,) the rates of Freight which are paid from your Port to the Countries expressed in the Head Lines be inserted, and returned to me as early as the Inquiry will admit. With great consideration I am Sir Your obedient Servt. LS , to Jeremiah...
21921Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 18 December 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
You will have perceived by the Act of the last session, entitled an Act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States, that after the end of the present month the duties on distilled spirits are regulated according to certain classes of proof, to be determined by Dycas’s Hydrometer. Doubting whether it might be convenient to the several officers of the Customs to...
21922Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 16 April 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I herewith enclose for your government an Act entitled “an Act to prevent the exportation of goods not duly inspected, according to the laws of the several States.” I observe that the 27th. and 28th. sections of the coasting act have by some of the Collecters of the Customs been so construed as to require, that all licensed vessels of the burthen of twenty tons and upwards bound to any port...
21923Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 18 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
As one of the periods for the payment of Bonds taken for Duties is arrived, it is proper that the respective Collectors should be apprised of my expectation with regard to the conduct to be observed by them. It is, that if the Bonds are not paid, as they fall due they be immediately put in Suit. On this point, the most exact punctuality will be considered as indispensable . And accordingly it...
21924Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 30 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Having observed that the several Collectors have hitherto differed in the mode of transmitting to this office, the drafts of the Treasurer of the United States which have been drawn on them and paid: I now desire that those drafts with a receipt endorsed on them, may be transmitted, as soon as they are paid, to my Office , when they shall be covered by a regular Warrant, and your account...
21925Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 31 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
A question has been submitted to me by the Collectors of certain ports, which being of a general nature, I have thought fit to make the subject of a circular instruction. It is this, whether the duties are demandable on importations after the first of August, and prior to the organisation of the Custom houses in the respective districts. After mature reflection on this point, I am of opinion...
21926Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 13 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
The second moiety of one years pensio⟨n⟩ will be payable to the Invalids on the fifth day of June next: The sum to be paid in your State is estimated to be Eight thousand two hundr⟨ed⟩ and fifty three dollars, which you will retain in your hands out of the Monies received by you for duties on Imports and Tonnage and pay the same upon such evidences as the Secretary at War shall direct,...
21927Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 31 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeably to an order of the Senate of the United States, passed on the 7th of May last, a copy of which is herewith transmitted, I have to request that you will furnish me, immediately after the first of October next with the particular statements required by the said order. From these a general Abstract is to be formed at the Treasury; and as Uniformity in the mode of stating the receipts...
21928Treasury 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...
21929Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 17 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
It appears probable that the public interests would be promoted by my receiving the earliest information when breaches of the Revenue Laws take place. I therefore request; that whenever a seizure shall be made within the sphere of your duty, you will transmit me by the first opportunity an account of the transaction, containing such particulars as will enable me fully to understand the case. I...
21930Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 20 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
It is with great satisfaction I have it in my power to acknowledge the zeal and good disposition, with which the Officers of the Customs generally have executed the instructions which have, from time to time, proceeded from the Treasury Department. I am happy to be able to say, that the instances of exception are few, and I ascribe such as have happened rather to an inaccurate view of the...