27611To Alexander Hamilton from Sharp Delany, [16–31 October 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
My indisposition has prevented me from forwarding such remarks as I thought would have been of some use to you in directing the Revenue System but I hope soon to be able to lay them before you. Your letter of the 2nd Inclosing forms of keeping Accts I recd as also that of the 17th respecting the Bank and one covering a Letter to the Wardens. In respect to the Mode transmitted respecting weekly...
27612To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Lawrence, Junior, 16 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, October 16, 1789. “When I look around me and see distress penury and want stare me in the face with all their horrors and no prospect of Employ, Judge my Dear Sir how dreadfull must be my sensations, such being Actually my Situation … if Sir it is in your power to afford me Employ let me entreat you do it [and] save me and my family from distress.…” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of...
27613To Alexander Hamilton from John Rice, 16 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, October 16, 1789. Reports on the maintenance of navigational aids in Boston harbor. ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “B,” New Hampshire and Massachusetts, National Archives. This letter is in reply to “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” October 1, 1789 .
27614From Alexander Hamilton to John Rice, 16 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, October 16, 1789. “I am favored with yours of the 9th. instant transmitting your Return of Receipts and Payments to that day. Out of the Monies then stated to be in hand, you may exchange Notes of the Banks of New York and Philadelphia to the amount of Ten thousand Dollars.…” L[S] , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury, 1772–1818, Vol. 6,...
27615From Alexander Hamilton to Elie Williams, 17 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 10th Instant, in which you inform me, that you have drawn Bills on me on account of Issues under your first Contract, Supposed to be due in the Months of October, November & December, to the amount of Six Thousand Dollars, payable at Twenty, Fifty, and Eighty days. Although I have every disposition to facilitate the execution of your Contract (So far as I can...
27616To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Goodhue, 18 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Salem, Massachusetts, October 18, 1789. On October 29, 1789, Hamilton wrote to Goodhue : “I am duly favoured with your letter of the Eighteenth instant.” Letter not found. ] Goodhue, a Salem merchant and a Massachusetts state senator, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1789. As a Congressman, Goodhue played a major role in drawing up the revenue laws.
27617To Alexander Hamilton from Philemon Gatewood, 19 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Norfolk, Virginia, October 19, 1789. On November 7, 1789, Hamilton wrote to Gatewood : “I have duly received your letter of the 19th. of October.” Letter not found. ] Gatewood was naval officer at Norfolk and Portsmouth.
27618From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 19 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, October 19, 1789. “I have this day drawn on you … a sett of Bills of Exchange payable at Sight for Two thousand Dollars.…” L[S] , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury, 1789–1807, Vol. 4, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Boston, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National...
27619To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 20 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, October 20, 1789. “… if any change in this present mode of discharging the Interest on the Domestic Debt should be thought necessary, still I presume some office similar to the present, or somehow aiding the public creditors in obtaining their Interest in an expeditious & cheap manner will be established in the Several States or Districts, in which case I shall hope to be continued in...
27620To Alexander Hamilton from William Constable, 20 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I shall answer your letter with strict accuracy as soon as I am able, which will be next Week at furthest; but I have been confined to my room for a Week past almost, so that I have all that leeway to bring up. If You are in immediate want of the required information the following may be taken as data. Wines Cost & Chgs delivered at N. yk exclusive of Impost Madiera ⅌ G’n of London particular...