29401To Alexander Hamilton from William Allibone, 28 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, September 28, 1791. Encloses estimates for “the Present quarter” and for “one year comencing the 15th of August.” Reports that the navigational aids in the Delaware River “are now in good order.” ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “A,” Pennsylvania and Southern States, National Archives. Allibone was superintendent of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, public piers, and...
29402From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 28 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The law making provision for the reduction of the public debt requiring that an account of the purchases should be laid before Congress within the first fourteen days of each session, and as I am informed that only a part of the purchases made by you, yet appears on the books of the Treasury, I am to request that you will without delay have this business completed and all such stock as may...
29403From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin, 28 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am very sorry that the absence of the Comptroller of the Treasury, in consequence of ill health, renders it impossible to complete at this time the adjustment of the purchase, which is the subject of your Excellency’s letter of the 26th instant. Immediately after his return, which will probably be in about ten days, the most particular attention will be paid to the business. I observe with...
29404From Alexander Hamilton to ———, [30 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars for a few days, be so good as to send it by the bearer. I have just put myself out of cash by payment of Major l’Enfants’ bill. James A. Hamilton, Reminiscences of James A. Hamilton (New York, 1869), 7. James A. Hamilton does not identify the addressee beyond saying that he was a “friend” of H. According to James Hamilton, the letter was...
29405To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Hazard, [30 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Wolcott going sooner than I expected, gives me little Time. The Council of Appointment met Yesterday, & appointed Willett Sheriff again. The Governor it is thought, gained Webster. Miles Hughes, tried for it. I negotiated for him, with I. Roosevelt; Tillotson we suppose was for Willett. Peter Schuyler was sick at Home. Miles’s Practice I apprehend is not large. Mel. Smith & N. Lawrence...
29406From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 30 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 30, 1791. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] ALS , sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, May 12, 1947, Lot 261.
29407Treasury Department Circular to the Supervisors of the Revenue, 30 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Increasing embarrassments concerning the seizure of spirits for want of being accompanied with Certificates render it necessary that the ideas communicated in particular cases should be made general. I therefore make them the subject of this Circular letter. A disagreable dilemma presents itself. This is either to forbear seizures for want of marks and certificates, which will materially...
29408From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [30 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States a contract entered into by the Deputy Collector of Wilmington in North Carolina with James McStephens & Henry Toomer for the stakage of the shoals of Cape Fear River. The sum stipulated to be paid, not being considerable, the fixing of new sets of stakes being a part of the business, as...
29409To Alexander Hamilton from ———, [September–October 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I have had the honor to transmit to you a sketch, which you appeared to desire of the arrangements necessary for the execution of the plan chalked out in your prospectus. I confined myself to class the objects with which you propose to begin the business on each of these heads. I might have entered into more particular details, and given, if not an exact estimation, at least an Idea of the...
29410To Alexander Hamilton from William Playfair, [September–December 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I must once more request your Pardon for the liberty which I again take of writing to you about the affairs of the Sioto but they are in So extraordinary a State and the Interests of Such a Number of Individuals are at Stake that I hope you will excuse me. I have written to Mr Dewer by this Same Packet and have Entered into the affair at great length but as it would be very improper to trowble...