30711To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 20 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Our Cutter proves to be a very dull sailer, after various experiments by altering the Standing of the masts the bowsprit and altering the Sails to make her sail better, is consequently a very improper Vessel for the business assigned her. We have now an opportunity to Sell her for a Sum, with the Saving of the pay & rations for the hands, which would build one of fifty odd tons, a Size large...
30712To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 20 [September] 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been confined by a fever to my bed ⟨for⟩ 17 days. Yesterday and to-day I have sat up a little. I have just recd your letter of the 10th Ulto. which arrived du⟨ri⟩ng the hight of my illness after having gone to Fayettville in N. Carolina and back to Philada. I expect a visit from Bishop Carroll on his return to Balt. which may be next week. I have thought if I shewed him a paragraph in...
30713To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 20 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, September 20, 1792. “I have received your circular Letters of the 31st of August and 8th Instant; and will pay due attention to their Contents.” ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.
30714From Alexander Hamilton to ———, 21 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I take the liberty to in-close you the copy of a letter from a very respectable friend in New York. The contents surprised me—nor am I quite persuaded that the appearance of Mr. Burr on the stage is not a diversion in favour of Mr. Clinton. Mr. Clinton’s success I should think very unfortunate. I am not for trusting the Government too much in the hands of its enemies. But still Mr. C———is a...
30715From Alexander Hamilton to George Clymer, [21 September 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 21, 1792. On September 28, 1792, Clymer wrote to Hamilton : “I was honoured with yours of the 21st.” Letter not found. ]
30716From Alexander Hamilton to William Henderson, [21 September 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 21, 1792. On September 24, 1792, Henderson wrote to Hamilton : “Your favor of the 21st. inst. I duly received.” Letter not found. ] Henderson was a New York City insurance broker, a stockholder in the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, and a land speculator.
30717To Alexander Hamilton from Gouverneur Morris, 21 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I receive this Instant a Letter from a very respectable Commercial House of Rouen Messieurs Le Couteulx and Company. By the bye before I mention the business I will tell you an Anecdote of them. Louis the fourteenth desirous of encouraging Commerce and breaking down the Barriers which Prejudice had raised against it, offered to this House which was even then of great Antiquity to give the...
30718From Alexander Hamilton to Arthur St. Clair, [21 September 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 21, 1792. On December 5, 1792, St. Clair wrote to Hamilton : “Your letter of the 21st. Septr. enclosing a Copy of an Order of the Senate relative to the Salaries fees and emoluments of Persons holding Offices under the united States … came to hand a few days ago.” Letter not found. ] St. Clair was governor of the Northwest Territory. Although H’s letter of September...
30719From Alexander Hamilton to Winthrop Sargent, 21 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, September 21, 1792. Requests information for report ordered by the Senate on May 7, 1792. LS , Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland. Sargent, who had surveyed in the Ohio country in 1786, was elected secretary of the Ohio Company in 1787 and was active in the planting of the Ohio settlements. In 1787 Congress appointed him secretary of the Northwest Territory. The...
30720To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 21 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Under cover of this Letter you will receive the Proclamation which is just returned to me with the counter signature of The Secretary of State. I have erased the words “dictated by weighty reasons of public exigency,” & scored others with a pencil, which you are hereby authorised to take out or retain as you may think best. As the Instrument is drawn I could do no other than fill up one of the...