29251From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 19 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In the documents which you transmitted to me concerning the goods of MacRae and Morrison which have been seized, I observe— That one of the cases of Hats both in the Bill of Sale and deposition of Mr Frazer is numbered 12 and that no such number appears in the statement of the packages imported and of which the Goods seized are alleged to have been a part. The numbers of all the cases stated...
29252From Alexander Hamilton to Jabez Bowen, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 20, 1791. “… It is a rule necessary to be strictly adhered to that the certificates of any state which have once been surrendered to such State shall be deemed to be extinguished and shall cease to be considered as a part of its debt, assumable on the principle of the Funding Act.” Letter not found. ] ALS , sold at Samuel Freeman Company, November 18, 1924, Item 167....
29253Contract with William Hall, [20 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Agreement between AH on behalf of a certain Society or Comp for establis Manufactures in the state of N Jersey & Hall. The said Hall shall superintend and carry on for the said Society or Company the business of printing staining and bleaching of Cottons and Linnens, in all its parts, upon the like principles and in the like method, as the same is now carried on in the Kingdom of Great...
29254To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Lee, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your Circular of the 5th. of August and due attention shall be observed respecting the Certificates of Registry therein mentioned. I have returned an account of Decked Vessels up to the 1st. of March last and of Imports and Exports to the 1st of July last; also of the Inward Tonnage to the last mentioned period; and the best account of the outward Tonnage in my power to make...
29255From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 29th. Inst. In addition to the measures you have taken in the case you mention, I do not doubt you will also advert to the circumstance that the party who received the cotton is by the 26th. Section of the collection law liable to a penalty of four hundred dollars. A rigorous prosecution of the receivers of run goods may produce a...
29256To Alexander Hamilton from William Polk, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
When I wrote you last from Hillsborough I suggested to you that I was doubtfull of the Instrument for stamping the Certificates for the Inspectors would not be received before it would be incumbent on me to deliver them to the different Officers. In this I have not been deceived. No such instrument has yet been received & I have delivered to the Inspectors the Certificates without Stamping. No...
29257Receipt from William Pearce, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 20, 1791. “Received Philadelphia Aug. 20, 1791 of Alexander Hamilton, one hundred dollars towards providing the use of Society for the establishment of Manufactures in the State of New Jersey certain machines & models of Machines to be delivered to the said Alexander Hamilton.” Receipt not found. ] AD , sold by Stan V. Henkels, Jr., May 15, 1931, Lot 23. On December 7,...
29258From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 20, 1791. On August 25, 1791, Seton wrote to Hamilton : “I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Letters of the 20 & 22d.” Letter of August 20 not found. ]
29259From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [21 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I was made very happy, my beloved Betsey by the receipt of your letter, informing me that one of mine had at length got to hand and that your spirits were recovered. I had suffered not a little at the idea that I must have appeared to you negligent. Nor am I able to imagine what can have become of my other letters. There is certainly some very foul and abominable practice, which it will not be...
29260To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 21 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In the opinion, given by Mr. Bradford and Mr. Ingersoll, I find the case of Mr. Robert Buchanan to be accurately stated; but after paying a respectful attention to the sentiments of those gentlemen, I am compelled to say, that I differ in the conclusion drawn from that statement: for I cannot agree, that any interest is to be received upon ⟨the⟩ certificate for the year 1791. I acknowledge...
29261Contract with Joseph Mort, 22 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 22, 1791. The minutes of the proceedings of the directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures for December 9, 1791, read: “The Governor laid before the Board a Letter from Collo Alexander Hamilton, enclosing an Agreement … with Joseph Mort dated 22d. August.” Contract not found. ] “Minutes of the S.U.M.,” MS minutes of the Society for Establishing Useful...
29262To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Huntington, 22 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Norwich [ Connecticut ] August 22, 1791 . “I am favourd, with your letter of the 27th of June which reached me the 8th: Instant. By the Certificate of the Comptroller of the public accounts in this State, which is herewith inclosed, you will be informed that this State hath not Issued any Certificates in exchange for those of the United States; which it is presumed, gives the needfull...
29263From Alexander Hamilton to Stephen Keyes, 22 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 22, 1791. “I now request that you will endeavour to procure a Map which delineates the North Western parts of your State from actual Survey … and that you will send me a sketch protracted upon a larger scale … of so much of those parts including Alburgh and its vicinity as will serve to give an accurate idea not only of the situation of that Township but of any...
29264To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Lee, [22 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Cox was about taking to you my riding horse, but my apprehension of yr. necessary hurry & my wish to compare him with a horse I have sent for, concluded a procrastination of my execution of your request & my ardent desire. No other consideration could have induced me to postpone a measure you reckon essential to your health. Nor shall time be lost in presenting you with this trivial...
29265From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin, 22 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the Governor of Pennsylvania, and has the honor to inform him that the vacancy in the office of Auditor, is no impediment to the adjustment of the affair of the lands with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The only source of delay is a difference of opinion, concerning the Certificates in which payment is to be made; the Comptroller of the...
29266From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 22 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of Yours of the 18th instant. The Transfers of the stock, which You have purchased on account of the united states, must be made to the vice President, the Chief Justice, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, and the Attorney General for the time being . In all future purchases, it will be most convenient to have the stock in the first...
29267To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 23 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
This will be accompanied by a weekly return of monies recd. and paid, and the copy of an endorsment on Certife No. 22 granted Apl. 23d. 1791 at this Port. To your letter of the 10th of this month, requesting the particular circumstances that led to a remeasurement of the Brig Sally &c I would answer; that the property of said Brig having been transferred to Messrs Lyon and Lawrance citizens of...
29268From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 23 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 23, 1791. Sends commission for Jeremiah Greenman as second mate for the revenue cutter “for the Connecticut & Rhode Island station.” LS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Providence, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives; copy, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters...
29269From Alexander Hamilton to Timothy Pickering, 23 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 23, 1791. On August 26, 1791, Pickering wrote to Hamilton : “I have received … your letter of the 23d instant.” Letter not found. ] Pickering had been appointed Postmaster General on August 12, 1791.
29270To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 23 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I acknowleged the reciept of your letter of the 24th. of May in my last of the 8th. of August. I have now the honor of acknowleging that of the 30th. of June inclosing one of the 25th. of the same month (both duplicates) which came to my hands yesterday by the way of the French packet. My former letters will have informed you of the progress & issue of the affair of the reduction of interest....
29271Conversation with George Beckwith, 24 August [1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. —— The National Assembly of France passed a decree a short time before Mr. Ternants embarkation, authorizing the formation of a new treaty of commerce with this country; if the influence of La Fayette and his friends, shall finally prevail in The French Councils, their general dispositions towards us, will tend greatly to forward this object. D , PRO: F.O. Transcripts or photostats from...
29272Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, [24 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, established by a Law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at a Meeting held the twenty fourth Day of August One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety one for the purpose of promoting the design of their institution, elected Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of...
29273From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 24 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 24, 1791. Ellery endorsed the letter book copy of his letter to Hamilton of August 8, 1791 , “Answered Augt. 24th 1791.” Letter not found. ]
29274From Alexander Hamilton to Joshua Wentworth, 24 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 24, 1791. On September 7, 1791, Wentworth wrote to Hamilton : “I was honored by your’s of 24th Ulto.” Letter not found. ] Wentworth was supervisor of the revenue for the District of New Hampshire.
29275To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 24 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 24, 1791. “The Revenue Cutter being ready for Sea will proceed on a Cruize immediately; no arms or Military Stores having yet come to hand, I will borrow for the first Cruize Such as may be necessary. The person named for 3rd mate Should have been Samuel Hobart instead of Saml Hubert as copied in your letter of the 12th. Ulto. Herewith is inclosed a...
29276From Alexander Hamilton to George Biscoe, 25 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 25, 1791. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Samuel Freeman, May, 1947, Item 502. Biscoe was collector of customs at Nottingham, Maryland.
29277From Alexander Hamilton to George Cabot, 25 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 25, 1791. On September 6, 1791, Cabot wrote to Hamilton : “Being absent from home when your letter of the 25th ultimo arrived, it has been out of my power to answer the enqueries it contains until this day’s post.” Letter not found. ] Cabot, a wealthy merchant from Beverly, Massachusetts, had been elected United States Senator in June, 1791.
29278From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 25 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have considered the case you State in your letter of the 22nd July respecting the repairs of a french vessel. I am of opinion that she will not be entitled to an American register if rebuilt in any manner whereby the identity of the Vessel is preserved. But if she be wholly taken to pieces, I perceive there can be no impropriety in making use of her Timber in the building of a new Vessel. I...
29279To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 25 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your circular letter came to hand by the last post. Very particular attention will be paid to the certificates of Registers you mention. In a few day will be forwarded all the papers due from this office. Inclosed is a copy of the table of fees set up in this office, an exact copy from the law, which is literally followed here as explained by Messrs: Jones and Harison excepting for the entery...
29280To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 25 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I shall pay particular attention to the directions in your circular Letter of the 5th. instant, relative to the Certificates of registry, &c. of the Sloop Lurana and Schooner Fortitude. From your not noticing the loss of the Certificate of registry No. 56, granted by me the 13th. of December 1790, for the Schooner Nicholas, Wm. Cory first Master, I am led to suppose, that the Note at the...
29281To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 25 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Letters of the 20 & 22d. Agreeable to your desire Mr. William Hill has been paid 4000 Dollars on account of his Clothing Contract & enclosed you have his receipt for the same. The Transfers of the Stock purchased on account of the United States shall be made in the names you point out. Since my last I have only purchased 6810 30/100 Dollars...
29282To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 25 August … (Hamilton Papers)
[ Amsterdam, August 25, 1791. On August 29, 1791, Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard wrote to William Short: “Begging leave to confirm our Respects to you of 25 Instant, We have now the honor to inclose you Triplicate of our Letter of same date to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United-States.” Letter not found. ] The letter from Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard to Short is quoted in...
29283To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 26 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeably to my expectation the Sloop Betsy is condemned, and is to be sold on the 14th. day of the next month. I should be happy to receive your direction with respect to the conduct of the Officers of the Customs as to the sale of said Sloop, prior to the day of sale; and it would add to my happiness if at the same time you would give me your opinion how the monies arising from the sale...
29284From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 26 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the Secretary of State. He returns the draft of Ratification with some alterations to conform more accurately to the fact which are submitted. The Secretary of State will recollect that there is another loan (the contract for which was also forwarded to him) concluded by Messrs. Willinks & Van Staphorsts & of which likewise a Ratification...
29285From Alexander Hamilton to Le Roy and Bayard, [26 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Being informed that you are drawing bills, if it is convenient to you to let me have 1000 pounds Sterling at 4 ⅌ Ct above par payable in London on my note at thirty days, including the discount, you may remit that sum by the Packet to John Barker Church Esquire & on notice of its being done my note shall be given accordingly. I remain with much consideration & esteem Gentlemen Your Obed...
29286To Alexander Hamilton from Timothy Pickering, 26 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received and considered your letter of the 23rd instant, proposing that a credit should be given to the Supervisors of the Revenue for the postage of Letters, until their collections should render it convenient to make payment. I shall as you request instruct the Deputy Postmasters, at the places by you enumerated, to open accounts with the respective Supervisors, and to accommodate the...
29287From Alexander Hamilton to James Brown, John Graham, and George Pickett, 27 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I learn, with real regret, the disappointment you experienced in your intended subscriptions to the Bank of the United States. It was very much my wish that the property in the Stock of that Bank should be generally diffused throughout the States. But its not having been foreseen, any where, that so rapid a subscription would take place, has been the cause that adequate provisions were not...
29288To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Peters, 27 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you the best Answer to your Enquiries on the Agricultural Subject I can at present think of. I thought it best to draw it up in the form of an Account tho’ I have filled up the columns you sent me. The manner I have pursued will furnish you with every thing you require, tho’ much of it may be useless to you & inapplicable perhaps to your immediate Object. If any thing is deficient...
29289Enclosure: [Account on the State of Argriculture], 27 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The farms I have selected keep on an average 16 head horned Cattle, 4 horses, 12 Sheep & 12 Swine. Dr. Farm To annual Int: on capital 200 a[cre]s £ 8 ⅌ acre £1600 @ £ 6 ⅌ cent £ 96. 0. 0 Stock and implements. { 4 horses at £ 15 each £60. 0. 0
29290To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 29 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote a letter to you by the Post, last Friday, because I wished to receive as early an information on the subjects mentioned in it as might be convenient. I am informed that the situation and circumstances of Thomas Cotterell late owner of the Sloop Betsy are such that if the prosecutions to which he is liable should be commenced against him, and be successful he and his family would be...
29291To Alexander Hamilton from William Hall, 29 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Mort & myself have examin’d the Delaware as high as Pequest about 94 miles above Philadelphia & have found several good situations. On the Raritan there are none. Our Money running short oblig’d us to come to New York for a supply. We propose going up the Pasaic in a few Days, after which you shall receive a report of our observations. I call’d on Mr. Marshall and deliver’d your Letter. He...
29292To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Keais, 29 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Washington [ North Carolina ] August 29, 1791 . “Inclosed is a Copy of John Braggs & Stephen Tinkers Bond, taken in Consequence of a Contract for Staking out the Channel of news River leading to New Bern. I have also Contracted with John Payne for Staking out the Channel leading to Edenton for Fifty dollars.…” ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “A,” Pennsylvania and Southern...
29293To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 29 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a Return of the Stock I have purchased on account of the United States to this day inclusive, being 13291 8/100 of 3 ⅌ Cents & 173708 88/100 Deferred, amounting to Dollars 116542 69/100 which Sum has been ⟨received⟩ from this Bank. I expect in a day or two to compleat the whole investiture of 150,000 Dollars. I have the honor to be with the greatest respect Sir &c...
29294To Alexander Hamilton from William Skinner, 29 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have heretofore at different times taken the liberty of communicating to you the desire this State had of subscribing to the Loan for the Certificates in the Treasury and Comptroller’s offices, and that attempts had been made for that purpose, in behalf of the State, That not answering their wish, That another attempt had been made to subscribe for them in the name of the Comptroller, this...
29295To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Wynkoop, 29 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of the 13 instant, I received this day week ago. I have endeavoured to comply with your request in the best manner I was capable, yet not altogether in the way you mentioned. The novelty of the subject—and never having kept any regular account of the annual produce of my lands—nor knowing any person to whom I could apply for such minute information, made it necessary for me to...
29296Enclosure: Bucks County Pennsylvania, 29 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Quantity. 200 acres. value 3.200 Ds. Two hundred acres being nearly the average quantity of the Farms in this quarter, have taken that as the most convenient portion from which to form the required Estimates. Arable land 125 acres. The arable Land divided into five fields of twenty five acres each, makes in the whole 125 Acres. Pasture 50 acres The course of cropping pursued here requiring...
29297To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 30 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I make use of this conveyance by the English packet merely to announce to you that the bankers at Amsterdam have in consequence of my letters to them had a loan contracted for in behalf of the U.S. for six millions of guilders. The celerity with which it was taken up, as they inform me, shews the continuance of the high ground on which the credit of the U.S. stands at that place. The bankers...
29298To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, [31 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to the Secretary of the Treasury and incloses him the proposed letter to the Minister of France, in which however he shall be glad to make any modifications of expression to accomodate it more perfectly to the ideas of the Secretary of the Treasury. It will be necessary to shew it in it’s ultimate form to the President before it be sent. AL ,...
29299From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, [31 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton presents his compliments to the Secretary of State. He would think the turn of expression on the whole safer, if instead of what follows the words “depreciated medium” the following was substituted—“and that in the final liquidation of the payments, which shall have been made, due regard will be had for an equitable allowance for the circumstance of depreciation.” JCHW John C....
29300From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, [31 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The only person definitively concluded upon by the President, is Philip Thomas, as Inspector of the revenue for Survey No. 2, in the District of Maryland, comprehending the counties of Alleghany, Washington, Frederick, & Montgomery. It is his intention also to appoint Mr. Morris, the now 3d. mate of the Cutter at N.Y., to the Office of first mate, Mr. Boudenot having written me a letter of...