31081Enclosure: [From Joseph Nourse], [9 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Dr: His mo: Catholic Majesty in A/c with the united states Cr: By Int. on 17,892 dollars from 1 January 1781 to 31 dec. 1792 is 12 years @ 5 p.c. 1781 January 1. for so much recd. of the Court 17.892. Feb: 28 & March 6. do 32.000. April 28 do 9.036. May 9 do 14.000. June 22 do 12.000. Aug. 18 do
31082To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 9 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I must premise this letter by begging you a thousand pardons for the error committed in my last in stating from an oversight in subtraction that 36 taken from 54 left 28 —instead of 18 . According to that quotation therefore which you mention the depreciation that day was more than the fall of exchange & if adopted as the rule of indemnity would occasion a loss to the U.S. which is not the...
31083From Alexander Hamilton to James Watson, 9 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I was very glad to find your name on the list of Directors of The Manufacturing Society. I trust it will be in your power to give a portion of your time and attention to it; from which I am persuaded it will profit. When I was last at New Ark, I thought I perceived something like an intention to bring forward Mr. Samuel Ogden as Superintendant of the Manufactory. To you I do not scruple to say...
31084From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States, [10 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, October 10, 1792. On January 2, 1793, Hamilton wrote to the president and directors of the Bank of the United States and referred to “my letter to you of the 10th of October last.” Letter not found. ]
31085To Alexander Hamilton from George Clymer, [10 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
It remains, to compleat the several objects which I stand instructed on, that I state to you the condition of the westermost Survey of my district. The Survey includes in it five Counties—Washington, Fayette, Westmoreland, Allegany and Bed-ford. The temper and disposition of the first four of these Counties with respect to the Excise may be understood generally from what I have already wrote,...
31086From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 10 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
If a vessel bound to a foreign port, is by distress of weather, compelled to put into any port of the united States, where upon due examination such vessel is found to be unfit to proceed on her voyage, so as to render the transferring of her cargo to another vessel necessary, I am of opinion, that the Tonnage duty is not to be demanded. But an entry must be made of the cargo and the duties...
31087From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 10 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I duly received your letter of the 6th of September; and have sent an extract of it to Mr Church for the explanation which is necessary. I feel myself truly obliged by your friendly allusion to my unpleasant situation, and for the consolation you are so kind as to offer me. The esteem of the discerning and virtuous must always support a mind properly formed under the pressure of malevolence...
31088To Alexander Hamilton from Jean Marie Roland, 10 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de vous adresser ci-joint, Monsieur, un imprimé revêtu du sceau de l’Etat, de la Loi du 26 Aoùt dernier, qui confère le titre de Citoyens François à plusieurs Etrangers. Vous y lirez, que la Nation vous a placé au nombre des amis de l’humanité & de la société, auxquels Elle a déféré ce titre. L’Assemblée Nationale, par un Décret du 9 Septembre, a chargé le Pouvoir exécutif de...
31089To Alexander Hamilton from Daniel Delozier, [11 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Baltimore, October 11, 1792. On October 16, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Otho H. Williams : “Mr Delozier mentions in his letter of the 11th instant.” Letter not found. ] For background concerning this letter, see Williams to H, December 16, 1791 ; H to Williams, September 7, 1792 .
31090To Alexander Hamilton from William Irvine and John Kean, 11 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] October 11, 1792 . “Conformably to the order of the Senate of the United States to you of the 7th of May last, and to your request in your letter of the 6th. instant we herewith in-close the account required.” LS , RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury (2A-F2), National Archives. For this order, see “Treasury Department Circular to the...
31091From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 11 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have it in contemplation to make arrangements for the payment of the debt, which appears on the Books of the Treasury, to be due to His Most Catholic Majesty, being for advances made on account of the United States during the late War with G Britain. I make this communication, in order that if any reasons against the payment exist in the knowlege of the Department of State they may be made...
31092From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 12 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 4th instant I cannot but express my regret and disappointment, that you should have considered my letter of the 19th Ultimo as not sufficiently explicit to induce you to receive entries in case of collusive transfer. I have revised my letter, and to me it appears very explicit and very decisive. What more could I do, than give my opinion, that the appearances...
31093From Alexander Hamilton to the Directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, [12 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Minute of Matters which appear to require the attention of the Directors of the Society for establishing useful Manufactures. I The appointment of a Superintendant, if an unexceptionable person should present; but if none such should occur it may be still most adviseable to defer till the buildings shall be erected and the works in operation. II An Application to the Legislature to remove...
31094Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 12 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I request that henceforth immediately at the close of every quarter, you will furnish me with a summary of the amount of all Duties, which shall have accrued in your Office, during such quarter. It will at the same time be requisite to state the Drawbacks (if any) and the payments to Inspectors and other charges by computation, where the true amount cannot immediately be ascertained, in order...
31095To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 13 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In pursuance of powers which mr Short had confided to me, and urged by the circumstances of the moment, I thought it expedient to desire on the 19th. of April last that no transfer might be permitted of any stock standing in his own name or in the name of any other for his use. The circumstances no longer existing which dictated that caution I desire that the caveat may be considered as...
31096To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 13 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to inform the Secretary of the Treasury that the President has appointed William Lewis to be keeper of the Light-house on Cape Henry, with a salary of four hundred Dollars per annum. The president does not conceive that the circumstance of mr Cormicks being employed to oversee the building of the Lighthouse, tho’ in his favor, as sufficiently...
31097To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 13 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Baltimore, October 13, 1792. “Agreeable to your request, of the 8th of last month, I now enclose to you a list of the average freight usually paid from this port. The several rates of the respective articles usually exported from hence, have been ascertained by the Merchants who compose the insurance company, and whose information I deem the most to be relied on.…” Df , RG 53, “Old...
31098To Alexander Hamilton from William Heth, 14 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Private The Distressing dilemma in wch I felt myself when I last addressd you in this way, induced me to turn to the 8th Sect. of the Collection Law. The Surveyor of this Port , was, & still is, laid up himself, unable to come out of his room. But, if he was ever so hearty, he is, as totally incapable of performing any one part of the duties of my Office, as your French valet. He is seldom...
31099[Americanus], [15 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[Philadelphia] Gazette of the United States , October 20, 1792. Although Philip Marsh has stated that “‘Americanus’ … sounds very like Hamilton” (“Hamilton’s Neglected Essays, 1791–1793,” The New-York Historical Society Quarterly , XXXII [October, 1948], 295), there is no conclusive evidence that H was the author of this essay.
31100Draft of George Washington’s Fourth Annual Address to Congress, [15–31 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
It is an abatement of the satisfaction, with which I meet you, on the present occasion, that in felicitating you on a continuance of the national prosperity, generally, I am not able to add to it information, that the Indian hostilities, which have for some time distressed our N Western frontier, have terminated. You will doubtless learn, with as much concern as I communicate it, that...
31101To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 15 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
This letter will be accompanied by a Statement of fees &c recd. and expenditures made by me from Oct. 1, 1791 to Oct. 1792. and by similar Statements from the Inspector &c &c in this District; by the quarterly return required exceptg a Return of distilled Spirits exported, and a return of Exports, and their value which will be transmitted by the next Post. I have not received the expected...
31102To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Randall, 15 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, October 15, 1792. “Please to pay to Tench Coxe Esqr. Three Hundred and Eighty Dollars 77/100 for Oil bought … for the Light house at Cape Henry Virginia.” ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Lighthouse Expenses, National Archives. Randall was superintendent of the lighthouse at Sandy Hook, New Jersey.
31103From Alexander Hamilton to John Steele, 15 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The letter which you did me the favour to write me of the 19th of September came to hand two days ago. The late symptoms of acquiescence in the duty on distilled spirits, which you announce in your quarter are particularly satisfactory. If the people will but make trial of the thing, their good will towards it will increase. This has hitherto happened every where, where the law has gone into...
31104Fact No. II, [16 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
For the National Gazette. Genuine Truth never deviates into misrepresentation. That an impostor has assumed its name in the National Gazette of the 10th inst. is sufficiently evinced by the following circumstance. The writer, who appears under that signature, after endeavouring to torture certain expressions of the Secretary of the Treasury, into a meaning which, construed with candour, and in...
31105To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Mercer, 16[–28] October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
You must attribute the delay of my answer to yours of the 26th. of September to the extreme indisposition of my family. In replying now I cannot avoid noticing the Letter which you address’d to Major Ross at the same time and on the same subject and which that Gentleman consider’d himself as authoriz’d to circulate in an hand-Bill whilst my Election was depending. Altho we naturally enter with...
31106From Alexander Hamilton to William Short, 16 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
There being a Vessel in port ready to sail for Amsterdam, I take the opportunity to enclose you triplicates of my letters of the 13th Ultimo and 1st instant, and to note to you that I have directed the Treasurer to draw upon our Commissioners at Amsterdam for one hundred thousand guilders, in addition to the sums mentioned in my letter of the 25th of July. This I have done in consequence of a...
31107From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 16 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I request that you will have enquiry made on board the Cutter Active , whether she is in possession of a double set of arms muskets, pistols, &ca. The Collector of New York was directed to furnish each Cutter with ten muskets and bayonets, twenty pistols, two chissels, one broad axe and two lanthorns. These articles, it appears, have been shipped by Mr Lamb for each of the Cutters—but none...
31108From Alexander Hamilton to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 16 October … (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you the triplicate of my letter of the 19th ultimo—and have by this opportunity barely to inform you that I have directed the Treasurer to draw upon you for one hundred thousand guilders in addition to the sum mentioned in my letter of the 26th of July last. I am &c. Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Treasury Department, 1792–1793, Vol. III, National Archives. This letter was enclosed in...
31109Catullus No. IV, [17 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Attempts in different shapes have been made to repel the charges which have been brought against the Secretary of State. The defence of him however in the quarter in which he has been principally assailed, has hitherto gone no further than a mere shew of defending him. I speak as to his improper connection with the Editor of the National Gazette. But a more serious and more plausible effort...
31110To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 17 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, October 17, 1792. “I have the honor to in-close you a copy of an original Certificate transmitted to me by Thomas Newton Junr. Esquire, and signed by Lemuel Cornick the person employed by him to oversee the building of the Chesapeak light House. It appears from this Document that Mr. John McComb Junr. had completed the execution of his contract on the 2nd...