28821To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 2 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, April 2, 1791. “… I have now to inform you that I began yesterday morning to pay Interest on the Public Debt agreeably to the Act of Congress making provision for the same. I have compleated the Dividend book in which are Stated 863 Stockholders. The Duplicate Receipts are also prepared agreeably to the Instructions.…” LC , RG 53, Massachusetts State Loan Office, Letter Book,...
28822From Alexander Hamilton to John Hopkins, 2 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 2, 1791 . Authorizes Hopkins to send Thomas Williams to Hillsboro, North Carolina, to testify in a case concerning the alteration of North Carolina certificates. States “The expences of his Journey will be repaid to him.” Extract, RG 217, Miscellaneous Treasury Accounts, 1790–1894, Account No. 4289, National Archives. Hopkins was commissioner of loans for Virginia. This...
28823From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Smith, 2 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 2, 1791. On May 10, 1791, Smith wrote to Hamilton : “I am honored with your favor 2nd April.” Letter not found. ]
28824From Alexander Hamilton to Mathew Carey, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 4, 1791 . Presents his compliments to Carey and declines an invitation to a dinner of the Hibernian Society. Copy, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Carey, publisher of The American Museum , had emigrated to Philadelphia from Ireland in 1784. Early in the seventeen-nineties he organized the Hibernian Society for the relief of Irish immigrants.
28825To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The private letter which you was so good as to accompany your Official communication with, calls for and has my warmest acknowledgements. The point which I have mentioned in my Official letter, as determining my acceptance of the Office of Supervisor, would have produced that issue, had the measure been less eligible in other respects than it really is, but had I upon any consideration been...
28826To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, April 4, 1791. “Agreeable to the request expressed in your letter of the 31st. Mr. William Hill has been paid Five thousand Dollars.…” LC , Bank of New York, New York City. Letter not found. See Seton to H, March 28, 1791 .
28827To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 27th. Ult. came duly to hand. For the information contained in it and for the notes which accompanied the same, I thank you. Every expedient, as I believe you know, is in operation to avert a War with the hostile Indian tribes and to keep those who are in treaty with us in good temper; but I am nearly thoroughly convinced that neither will be effected, or, if effected, will...
28828George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Knox, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
As the public service may require that communications should be made to me, during my absence from the seat of government, by the most direct conveyances and as, in the event of any very extraordinary occurrence, it will be necessary to know at what time I may be found in any particular place, I have to inform you that unless the progress of my journey to Savannah is retarded by unforeseen...
28829To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 4, 1791. Acknowledges receipt of Hamilton’s “letter of the 18 Decr. last together with Dycas’s & Colles’s Hydrometers.” States that Colles’s hydrometer may not be “truly graduated” and that there is a defect in the bulb of Dycas’s hydrometer. Requests a new bulb. LC , RG 36, Portsmouth Collector, Letters Sent, 1790–1791, Vol. 2, National Archives; copy, RG 56,...
28830From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 5 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The section of the collection law relative to the tares to be allowed at the Custom house upon the several species of goods therein mentioned appears to require that the allowance ⅌ Centum upon Coffee in bags } be computed upon the hundred pounds, do. in bales do. in casks pepper in bales do. in casks and that the allowance ⅌ centum upon sugars (other than loaf) in hogsheads & boxes be...