29301To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 31 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
When I reported to you that I had contracted for the Cutter to be built in this State I mentioned that she was to be compleated fit for the sea that is with riging sails boats &c for 1440 dollars. After Captain Williams was appointed master he suggested to me his wishes that there might be some deviation from the plan I had given and on which the agreement was founded. On this I wrote to the...
29302To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 31 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I had the honor of announcing to you yesterday by the way of the English packet the loan contracted for at Amsterdam for six millions of florins. I thought it best to give you the details of what has happened with respect to the charges & commission by this conveyance which is a person going to embark at Havre. My several letters will have informed you of the several attempts I made to bring...
29303Enclosure: Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard to William Short, 25 August … (Hamilton Papers)
We had the pleasure to address you the 22nd. Inst. and now come to reply particularly to your respected favors of 12 & 14 ditto. We must confess to you Sir, that your sticking to reduce the Charges We fixed with you for the Five per Cent Loans of the United-States, after We had placed them upon the very lowest footing, is truly surprizing to us, more especially as It is striving to recede from...
29304From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [31 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to transmit herewith to the President of the United States the result of the enquiry on the subject of Mr. Drayton. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. H may have misdated this letter to Washington or it was misdated by the copyist, for “the result of the enquiry on the subject of Mr. Drayton” may be found in Oliver Wolcott, Jr., to...
29305To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The account of the Chinese trade is in many respects similar to information and conformable to experience I have had. I do not observe any thing contrary to what I have heard from authority. The accot. of the East India trade is minute so far as it goes, and gives some useful information. The increase of the consumption of the finer kinds of Teas deserves notice. The quantity of Specie (at 2...
29306To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Guest, August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New ] Brunswick [ New ] Jersey, August, 1791 . Urges Hamilton to establish at New Brunswick “the public Manufactory” of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Guest, who had originally been a tanner by trade, was one of New Brunswick’s leading businessmen.
29307Prospectus of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, [August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The establishment of Manufactures in the United States when maturely considered will be fo⟨und⟩ to be of the highest importance to their prosperity. It ⟨is⟩ an almost self evident proposition that that com⟨muni⟩ty which can most completely supply its own w⟨ants⟩ is in a state of the highest political perfection. ⟨And⟩ both theory and experience conspire to prove that a nation (unless from a...
29308To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 1 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, September 1, 1791. On September 27, 1791, Hamilton wrote to Appleton : “You observe in your letter of the first instant.” Letter not found. ]
29309From Alexander Hamilton to Theodore Foster, 1 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving your two letters of the 23rd July & 4th of August. You concluded rightly that it could require no apology for entering into the detail with which you have favored me. On a subject so interesting to your State, your desire to communicate information was indulged with peculiar propriety, & on any subject I shall always esteem myself obliged by your...
29310To Alexander Hamilton from Le Roy and Bayard, 1 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Esteemed Favor of the 26 Ulto. only reached us this day, and that after the Sailing of the Packet. We were done drawing, or Should have been happy in Supplying you with a bill for £1000. Stg. We desired Mr. Mc.Evers to Spare you whatever he had left of those, we sent him for Sale. The Exchange we sold at was from 4½ to 4 p ct Cash. Probably we may again Shortly be drawing, when we will...
29311To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [1 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Wolcott respectfully informs the Secretary of the Treasury, that Stephen Drayton Esq: of south Carolina, is charged on the Books of the Quarter Master Department, with between, three & four Millions of Dollars in old emissions recd. by him, principally during the years 1779. & 1780. Also that certificates of Specie value, to a large amount, were issued by said Drayton & his assistants,...
29312From Alexander Hamilton to William Short, 2 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Since my last to you of the first of August I have received your several letters of the 3d. 5. 10 & 19th of June. Most of the points mentioned in those letters will find sufficient answers in my several communications of the 9th & 24th of May, June 25 & 30th & the 1st of August, all of which having gone, by duplicates at least, and some by triplicates, I take it for granted have gotten or will...
29313To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Breck, 3 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In conformity with your wishes it wou’d afford me great pleasure to make you acquainted with the exact State of the Duck & Glass manufactories in this Town, but an Account of the former having already been communicated, by our Agent, to Mr Gorham to be forwarded to you will render any observations on that branch unnecessary except that the demand for our Sail Cloth far exceeds the quantity...
29314To Alexander Hamilton from Daniel Delozier, 3 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It appears by the books and Invoices of this Office, that Mr Thomas Fraser imported in the Ship Hope, Andrew English, Master, from Liverpool the 23 June 1790 five Cases hats marked and numbered from 9 to 13 inclusive. Cases, number 9, 10, 11 & 12 were assorted alike and cost £26..9..3 sterling each, and number 13 cost £54. 13..9 Sterling. Mr. Fraser avers that in his acco. of packages...
29315From Alexander Hamilton to George Gale, 3 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 3, 1791. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Charles F. Heartman, April 6, 1929, Lot 96. Gale was supervisor of the revenue for the District of Maryland.
29316To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 3 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] September 3, 1791 . “The enclosed letter, which I have the honor of transmitting to you by the President’s order, will shew the necessity of making a change in the commissions for the Port of Charleston.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
29317To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 3 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I received last night the inclosed copy of a letter from the bankers at Amsterdam which they desire me after perusal to forward to you. In my two last of the 30th & 31st ulto I announced to you the loan therein mentioned & informed you it would be appropriated agreeably to your directions—so that from the time of your recieving this information you may consider the 2½ million of florins at...
29318Enclosure: William Short to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 3 September … (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 22d of August informed me that you had opened a loan for six millions of ⟨florins⟩ & it gave me real pleasure as it never could have entered into my mind that any other conditions than those presented & repeated in my several letters authorizing the loan could have been adopted. Your letter of the 25th informs me that you have ⟨presented⟩ other conditions for this loan not...
29319To Alexander Hamilton from Daniel Stevens, 3 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeable to your request, have wrote a circular Letter to the most leading Characters, throughout the State, relative to the Manufactures that may be carried on in the several Counties. As yet, have only two Letters on the subject, one contains some small Samples of the Cotton and Linen manufacture carried on in families for their own wear. As any others come to hand, I will transmit them to...
29320Enclosure: Silvanus Walker to Daniel Stevens, 1 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeable to your request I am to inform you that there is no manufactories carried on in the interior parts of this State only in private families; and they in general manufactor as much as they commonly wear a few samples of which I have enclosed you but am convinced from the small knowledge I acquir’d of that business and situation of that part of the country if the people could meet with...
29321To Alexander Hamilton from William Hall, 4 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Last night Mr. Mort & myself return’d from the Pasaic Falls. One of the finest situations in the world (we believe) can be made there. The quality of the water is good & in sufficient quantity to supply works of almost any extent. Every thing nescessary as to situation is here to be found. The Lands ly well are shelter’d from the winds & are not subject to inundations. This situation so far...
29322From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [4 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I hoped with the strongest assurance to have met you at Eliz Town; but this change of weather has brought upon me an attack of the complaint in my kindneys, to which you know I have been sometimes subject in the fall. So that I could not with safety commit myself to so rude a vehicle as the stage for so long a journey. I have therefo⟨re⟩ prevailed upon Mr. Meyer to go to Elizabet⟨h⟩ Town to...
29323To Alexander Hamilton from William Campbell, Benjamin Smith, Henry Toomer, George Hooper, M. R. Willkings, Auly … (Hamilton Papers)
Wilmington [ North Carolina ] September 5, 1791 . “We take the present favourable opportunity of replying to yours of the 11th. June by inclosing all the answers We conceived necessary to your queries.…” LS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Early Lighthouse Letters, National Archives. These men were North Carolina commissioners to regulate shipping on the Cape Fear River.
29324Enclosure: Answers to Queries, 5 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Quere 1st. When was the building commenced? Answer. About the 1st. June 1788. Qr. 2d. Is there any the least appearance of its suffering from the winter or winters it has sustained since it was built and in what parts? A. Not materially. Indeed the brick work not at all but the frames of the windows a little, the Lumber on the beach which was provided for the light house and not yet made use...
29325From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, [5 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his compliments to Mr. Lear and sends the two commissions for south Carolina. He would wait on the president to day but is prevented by a slight attack of a disorder common to him at the change of weather usual at this season. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See Lear to H, September 3, 1791 .
29326To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 5 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Having compleated the full investiture of the 150,000 Dollars directed by you to be laid out in the purchase of Stock for acct. of the United States, I have the honor to enclose a Return of the same, & your account in Bank is debited with the amount. I am with great respect LC , Bank of New York, New York City. For background to this letter, see H to Seton, August 15, 1791 ; H to the President...
29327To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 5 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
By my Public Letter you will see I have compleated the investiture of the 150,000 Dollars in the purchase of Stock—in fact it was finished the middle of last week but I could not get some of the Transfers passed till this day. The whole stands now in the Name of the Vice President &ca. I wish to know if I am to take out the Certificates & forward them & to whom. Great as this relief has been...
29328To Alexander Hamilton from George Cabot, 6 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Being absent from home when your letter of the 25th ultimo arrived, it has been out of my power to answer the enquiries it contains until this day’s post. Almost 4 years have expired since a number of Gentlemen in this place associated for the purpose of establishing a manufactory of cotton goods of the kinds usually imported from Manchester for men’s wear. The various parts of this complex...
29329To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 6 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Newport [ Rhode Island ] September 6, 1791 . “I have recd. your letter respecting the article of Pumpings, and shall attend to your directions. Please to favour me with an answer to my letter of the 6th. of June relative to the lawful portion of the compensations Surveyors are to receive for Regrs &c., to the question in my letter of the 4th. of July Should not every vessel receive her first...
29330To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, [6 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 6, 1791. ] Transmits Isaac Holmes’s commission “appointing him collector of Charleston in South Carolina.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
29331From Alexander Hamilton to Le Roy and Bayard, [6 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 6, 1791. On September 11, 1791, Le Roy and Bayard wrote to Hamilton : “Your esteemed favor of the 6 Instt has been complied with.” Letter not found. ]
29332To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 6 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, September 6, 1791. “The missing Certificate of Registry for Schooner Nicholas, mentioned in my Letter of the 25th Ulto. proves to have been all the Time in the Collector’s Office at Newport: Capt. Potter, who is now here, says he took it from thence to bring up with him, but left it at Home through forgetfulness. He promises to send it hither on his return, which will be in a few...
29333To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 7 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
By the Presidents command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury for his information a letter from Colo. Ballard, Inspector of the port of Baltimore, stating the trouble & expence attending the execution of the duties of his Office, for which there is no compensation. At the same time the President directs the enclosed letter from Genl. Lincoln to T. L. (which has...
29334From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of New York, 7 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I request you to furnish the Cashier of your Bank with the further Sum of Fifty thousand Dollars to be by him applied towards purchases of the Public Debt on acct. of the United States. P. S. A Warrant will issue tomorrow to cover the 150,000 Dollars already advanced for the same purpose. Copy, in the handwriting of William Seton, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. See the second letter...
29335From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 7 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been represented to me that a Brig, called the Trinidada, lately belonging to Messrs. Brown & Francis of your district, has arrived in the district of Wilmington on Delaware with a copy of a register issued from your Office which does not agree with the vessel in two material particulars. The register, which is No 25 & bears date on the 25th of Augt. 1790, appears, from the copy, to...
29336Receipt from William Pearce, [7 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Received Philadelphia Sep 7. 1791 of Alexander Hamilton, Fifty Dollars towards providing Machines for a Cotton Manufactory. D , in writing of H and signed by Pearce, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. For a list of these machines, see “Receipt from William Pearce,” August 20, 1791, note 2 .
29337From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 7 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I write herewith to the Directors of the Bank of New York to advance you a further sum of fifty thousand Dollars, towards purchases of the public Debt ⟨on⟩ account of the United States, on the ⟨sa⟩me principles with the sum heretofore advanced to you for the like purpose. With great consideration I am Sir Your Obed servt ALS , Bank of New York, New York City; LS , Bank of New York; copy,...
29338From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 7 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I regret though I am not surprised at what you disclose in your private letter of the 5th. I have for sometime foreseen the effects of a too sanguine disposition in the dealers of your City; particularly in relation to Bank Script; and have anticipated that it would lead to a necessity of sacrifices injurious to the funds. We got beyond the force of our own capital & beyond the point to which...
29339To Alexander Hamilton from Joshua Wentworth, 7 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The 2d Instant I was honored by your’s of 24th Ulto. inclosing five forms of the System for the government of the Revenue, those Compleats my receipt of the whole. And inclosed is a return of form No. 1. This I shou’d have forwardd. some time past, but supposing others might be necessary to accompany it, delayed transmiting this return until the whole of the System had reached me, to which and...
29340To Alexander Hamilton from Fisher Ames, 8 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The immoderately long letter which I took the liberty to write you some time ago, will, probably, have surprised you. You will wonder why I should take pains to establish opinions which you have never held in dispute. I will confess to you that the rumour of the intended connection between the U.S and NY. Banks gave me some uneasiness. My friend Mr Gore will leave this town next week, and you...
29341From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 8 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am informed there is reason to believe, that a vessel belonging to Elizabeth Town in New Jersey has been employed by a merchant in Philadelphia to run a cargo of rum, by carrying the hogsheads in the hold and a quantity of shingles on the Deck. The intelligence comes to me in such a way as to render it proper that you know it for the purpose of giving the necessary intimation to the officers...
29342From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 8 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have considered the case proposed to me in your letter of the 11th. July, and do not find myself authorised to instruct you to set off the drawback against the bond of the importer Mr. Telles. The legislature had not seen fit to make any provision of this nature in the first collection law, and in the existing act they have only extended it to the importer , and not to the purchasers from...
29343From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 8 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you a private letter last Evening which went by a private opportunity. Its principal object was to inform you— That I could not exceed the sum now directed to be advanced for want of authority—the present 50000 completing the sum heretofore appropriated by the Trustees & there not being here a sufficient number for a board. That purchases by the Treasurer were going on here. That there...
29344From Alexander Hamilton to William Skinner, 8 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 29th. of August is just come to hand. My circular of the first of November which you had received required that you should not admit on loan the Certificates of the State of North Carolina upon its own account. The reason of this would operate in regard to the Comptroller or any other Officer of the State, or any individual who might be the acknowledged or secret Agent of...
29345To Alexander Hamilton from Aaron Dunham, 9 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
On the 19th of June I wrote a Circular letter to such Gentlemen in the Different parts of this State, as I conceived would be likely to give me the best information respecting Manufactures of every kind carried on Within their knowledge. The letter inclosed is the only one as yet received in answer; as they come to hand shall forward. I am Sir, with all due respect your Very Humb Sert. ALS...
29346Enclosure: Silas Condict to Aaron Dunham, 25 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of of your favour of the 19 ult. on the important Subject of our Manufactories. I Should be happy to have had it in my power to give you a more favourable account of the matter than I can do. However, in General I can Say that Industry and an attention to Mechanism is gaining Ground, tho’ we have no established Companies, or Manufactories carried on here, the...
29347To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 9 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The day before yesterday came on the trial at Salem of Capt Davis & yesterday his mate charged with landing good at tarpaulien cove as mentioned to you July 29. Although the fact was clearly established to the satisfaction of the Court, and so far as I can learn, to every by stander even the defendants Council gave up the matter Yet the Jury did not in either case find a verdict though sent...
29348To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 9 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
With my letter to you of the 24 Ulto. I inclosd a description of the Cutter & gave a name for her which was handed to me at the Moment of closing the letter. Since which I have been informed there is a British public Vessel of the Name of the Ferret in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland. I conceive there woud be an impropriety in giving a Cutter of the United States the Same Name & therefore request...
29349To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, 10 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you Copies of a Letter of 3 Augt. from Jacob Cuyler, and of my answer of this Date. It is natural for men circumstanced as he is, to be anxious; and as adversity too often begets neglect, marks of attention are doubly acceptable to men in his Situation. I fear you will find it difficult to do much for his Son. A little will to him be much. At any Rate write to him, and let him percieve...
29350To Alexander Hamilton from Eliphalet Pearson, [10 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I feel myself happy in the honor of acquainting a gentleman of Mr. Hamilton’s merited distinction that the American Academy of Arts & Sciences has elected him a Fellow; of which the instrument, herewith transmitted, is a Certificate executed in the usual form. With sentiments of highest esteem, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient & very humble servant, ALS , Hamilton Papers,...