31601From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 23 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of your note, transmitting the copy of one from mr. Genet of yesterday. As our laws stand no transfer of any part of her cargo from one vessel to another within our Ports, can take place ’till after a regular entry and the paying or securing the payment of the duties. You are sensible, Sir, that I have no discretion to dispense with their requisitions. If the wines are to be...
31602From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 23 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, May 23, 1793. “You will herewith receive a package of Sea letters, which I request you to distribute among the Collectors of your State, as they shall apply for them. A further and a larger parcel will be forwarded to you, for the same purpose in a few days.…” L[S] , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury, 1789–1807, National Archives; copy, RG...
31603From Alexander Hamilton to William Short, 23 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 23, 1793. The catalogue description of this letter reads: “Introducing Major Jackson to the United States Minister at the Hague.” Letter not found. ] ALS , sold by Stan V. Henkels, Jr., October 9, 1914, Lot 774. William Jackson, who had served as secretary of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and as George Washington’s secretary from 1789 to 1791, was a business partner...
31604To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 24 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Baltimore, May 24, 1793. On June 12, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Williams : “Your letter of the 24th Ultimo was received some time ago.” Letter not found. ]
31605From Alexander Hamilton to Edmond Charles Genet, 25 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton presents his Compliments to Mr. Genet—has the honor to inclose him a sketch of the state of payments on account of the three Millions for which an arrangement was made with Mr. Ternant —shewing a sum yet to be paid of One hundred and seventy six thousand three hundred and Eighty three Dollars and Eight-Nine Cents, beyond those heretofore paid and those for which collateral...
31606From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox, 25 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is a letter from Mr Stephen Bruce, on the subject of certain articles furnished by him upon the order of Lieutenant Greaton and disallowed in the settlement of his accounts on the principle of their not having been conformable to instructions—together with a copy of the settlement at the Treasury shewing what those articles were. I request to be informed whether the requisition of...
31607From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, [25 May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The proper fund for the payment of the enclosed is the 10,000 Dollars for defraying the contingent Expences of the Government. Will you add a few words directing it to be paid out of that fund? Yours LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See H to George Washington, May 25, 1793 .
31608From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [25 May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President; submits the draft of an Act relative to the points lately determined upon by the President.
31609Enclosure: [An Act Making Allowances for Certain Services], [25 May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
An act making allowances for certain services & contingencies in the collection of the Revenue during the year ending on the 30 day of June 1792. Whereas it has been found necessary to provide a compensation for the legal admeasurement of Stills during the year ending on the 30 day of June 1792. it is hereby established & declared, that there may & shall be allowed to the Collectors of the...
31610To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 27 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Newport [ Rhode Island ] May 27, 1793 . “… Last saturday evening I recd. a letter from you dated containing directions for filling Sea Letters, and enclosing four of these Letters. The day before I received them, I received two Sea-Letters in a blank wrapper directed to me and freed Oliver Wolcott. It gave me great Satisfactn to receive your particular directions for filling Sea Letters, and I...
31611To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 27 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your circular Letter of the 14th instant, covering Four blank Sea Letters; together with Two more from the Comptroller’s Office: more of which will be speedily wanted. I am entirely at a loss to know what Office the list of Mariners & others, on board any Vessel clearing for a foreign Port, is to be lodged; and who the “proper Officers” are, by whose knowledge and permission they...
31612To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 27 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I herewith transmit an extract from a Law of the Commonwealth of Virginia passed on the 26th. of Decr. 1792. Also extracts from a Letter written by Jno. Hopkins Esq. dated Jany 3d. 1793. & from a Letter written to him from this office dated February 22d 1793. These papers will shew, that the Commonwealth of Virginia authorised the Treasr. to issue from the State Treasy. certain Certificates of...
31613To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Dufouer, 28 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I intend going into the Merchantile line of Business and have a good prospect before me of doing well had I any Begining. When I was at Philadelphia you was so generous as to make me an Offer of some Cash if I had any Inclination of going into Business, an Oppertunity now Offers and if you will be so kind and send the Cash to my Friend Mr. Robert Lenox I will give him my Obligation for the...
31614From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Morris, 28 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 28, 1793. Hamilton endorsed a letter of May 20, 1793 , from Morris: “Ansd. May 28.” Letter not found. ]
31615To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 28 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed are, A , a copy of my letter to the Surveyor of the port respecting a French Privatier and her prize lately arrived; B , a Copy of the Surveyors report and, C , a translation of the French Commission in possession of the commander of the Privateer. As the laws of Congress, which govern the conduct of the Officers of the customs have no reference to the present case, and as we have...
31616Introductory Note: Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on the Depredations of the Creek Indians Upon the State of Georgia, 29 May … (Hamilton Papers)
Throughout 1792 and the early months of 1793 the Washington Administration had received reports of Indian depredations and Spanish intrigue on the southern frontier. In 1790 the Creek Nation under the leadership of Alexander McGillivray had signed a treaty of peace and friendship with the United States at New York, which among other stipulations had provided for a survey of the boundary...
31617Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on the Depredations of the Creek Indians Upon the State of Georgia, 29 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The President of the United States having assembled the heads of the respective departments and the attorney General, laid before them for their advice thereon, sundry communications from the Governor of Georgia, and others, relatively to the recent alarming depredations of the creek Indians upon the state of Georgia. Whereupon after the subject was maturely considered and discussed it was...
31618To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of communicating to you the information which has been received for the subscriptions to the loan payable in the principal and interest of certificates or notes issued by the respective States, and of the amount admitted on loan, under the Acts of August 4th. 1790 and May 8th. 1792 In certificates of the State of New Hampshire subscribed under the act of august 4: 1790...
31619To Alexander Hamilton from John Addison and Peter Van Gaasbeck, 30 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Kingston, New York, May 30, 1793. On June 15, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Addison and Van Gaasbeck : “I received two or three days since your letter of the 30th. of May.” Letter not found. ] Both Addison and Van Gaasbeck were residents of Kingston. Van Gaasbeck was elected to the House of Representatives from New York in March, 1793.
31620Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 30 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It being the opinion of the Executive, that there is no general law of the land, prohibiting the entry and sale of goods captured by foreign powers at war—and consequently that such entry and sale are lawful; except in cases where a prohibition is to be found in the treaties of the United States— It becomes the duty of this Department to make known to you, that the entry of vessels captured...
31621Agreement with the President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States, [31 May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Articles of Agreement between Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, on behalf of the United States of the one part, and the president Directors & Company of the Bank of the Ud. States of the other part, made & concluded the 31st day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety three. Whereas by the third section of the Act entitled, an Act making appropriations...
31622From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 31 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have directed the Treasurer of the United States to furnish you with draughts for Sixty five Thousand Dollars, on the Office of Discount & Deposit of the Bank of the United States at Boston, to be applied by you towards discharging the Interest which will become due the 30th. of the ensuing month on the several species of Stocks standing on your Books. I have further to add, that if the...
31623Defense of the President’s Neutrality Proclamation, [May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
1. It is a melancholy truth, which every new political occurrence more and more unfolds, that there is a discription of men in this country, irreconcileably adverse to the government of the United States; whose exertions, whatever be the springs of them, whether infatuation or depravity or both, tend to disturb the tranquillity order and prosperity of this now peaceable flourishing and truly...
31624Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on Sending an Agent to the Choctaw, 1 [–5] June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
That an Agent be sent to the Choctaw nation to endeavor secretly to engage them to support the Chickasaws in their present war with the Creeks, giving them for that purpose arms and ammunition sufficient: and that it be kept in view that if we settle our differences amicably with the Creeks, we at the same time mediate effectually the peace of the Chickasaws & Choctaws, so as to rescue the...
31625To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 1 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you the following portion of a Draught of a letter to M. Genet in answer to his ⟨– – –⟩. do. to order away the privateers fitted out in our ports. do. to Messrs Carmichael & Short on the letter of Viar & Jaudenes. do. to Viar & Jaudenes in answer to their letter. with these are all the preceding letters respecting the same subject. The ideas are in the form approved...
31626To Alexander Hamilton from John Nicholson, 1 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
A suit hath been commenced against me in the Supreme Court for recovery to the State of the Amount of New Loans subscribed to the United States whether by myself or others. In this Cause the Attorney General of the United States with other Able Counsel are engaged in my defence the decision therein will determine also the question as to their assumability in the Loan of the United States for...
31627To Alexander Hamilton from William Bell, 2 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The note, which I endorsed for Mr. Edmund Randolph for twenty five hundred dollars, and is now in your hands, I acknowledge to be as binding on me, as if a demand had been made from me for the same, when it became due or at any time since. LS , in the handwriting of Edmund Randolph, New-York Historical Society, New York City. This letter was enclosed in Edmund Randolph to H, June 4, 1793 . For...
31628To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 3 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newport, Rhode Island ] June 3, 1793 . “When Aaron Usher returned I made all the inquiry I could into the cause of his departure from the American coast, and the sale of his Vessel at Port au Prince. I asked for his protest. He answered he had made none. I told him it would have been proper to have made one at Hispaniola. He said it might; but it would have cost him as much as his vessel was...
31629To Alexander Hamilton from Edmond Charles Genet, 3 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ June 3, 1793. An extract of this letter reads as follows: “I pray you to put hereafter in the disposition of Citizen Bournonville, Secretary of Legation of the Republic, the funds destined to the acquittal of the drafts of the Colony of St. Domingo, according to the order of payments settled between you & my predecessor.” Letter not found. ] This extract has been taken from H to George...
31630From Alexander Hamilton to William Heth, 3 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 3, 1793. On June 14, 1793, Heth wrote to Hamilton : “I am favor’d with your private address of the 3d. Inst.” Letter not found. ] Heth was collector of customs at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia.
31631From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It was not till within an hour, that I received your letter of the 1st with the papers accompanying it. I approve all the drafts of letters, as they stand, except that I have some doubt about the concluding sentence of that on the subject of Henfield . If the facts are (as I presume they are) established—may it not be construed into a wish, that there may be found no law to punish a conduct in...
31632To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 3 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Pay to the Director of the Mint, or his order, five thousand Dollars for the purposes of that Establishment. 5,000 Ds. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. On June 3, 1793, David Rittenhouse, the director of the Mint, transmitted his accounts to Thomas Jefferson and wrote: “I was unwilling to ask a further Sum of money on account of the Mint until the Treasurer had obtained a...
31633To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [3 June 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The question of admitting modifications of the debt of the US. to France, having been the subject of consultation with the heads of the Departments & the Attorney General, and an unanimous opinion given thereon which involves the enclosed propositions from the French Minister, you will be pleased, under the form of a report to me, to prepare what may serve as an answer, making it conformable...
31634From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 3 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The failure of the late enterprize against the United Netherlands may be expected to have made a favourable alteration, in regard to the prospects of obtaining Loans there for the United States. Such an expectation is also countenanced by a late letter from our bankers at Amsterdam, which however as yet gives no certainty, that can be a basis of operation. The existing instructions from this...
31635To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 4 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 4, 1793. On June 22, 1793, Hamilton wrote to George Washington and referred to a letter “of the 4 inst. from the Commissioner of the Revenue on the subject of compensations to Keepers of Light houses.” Letter not found. ]
31636From Alexander Hamilton to Edmond Charles Genet, 4 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Absence from Town, occasionned by circumstances of ill health, prevented my receiving the letter, which you did me the honor to write me yesterday, till today. I shall with pleasure conform to the arrangement you indicate, for the future payments of the monies destined for the acquittal of the Drafts of the Colony of St Domingo, according to the order of payment settled with your predecessor....
31637To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 4 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, June 4, 1793. “… Inclosed is Mr. Bell’s paper. From Baltimore I shall remit that Sum, which I mentioned to you in part of your kind favor.…” ALS , New-York Historical Society, New York City. For background to this letter, see Randolph to H, April 3, 1793 , and William Bell to H, June 2, 1793 .
31638Draft of a Report on the French Debt, [5 June 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secy. of the Treasury, to whom were referred by the President of the US. sundry documents communicated by the Min. Plenipy. of the Republic of France, respectfully makes the following report thereupon. The object of the communication appears to be to engage the US. to enter into arrangements for discharging the residue of the debt which they owe to France by an anticipated payment of the...
31639To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Banning, 6 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Oxford, Maryland, June 6, 1793. On June 21, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Banning “In answer to your letter of the 6th instant.” Letter not found. ] Banning was collector of customs and inspector at the port at Oxford, Maryland.
31640To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [6 June 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Upon a mature consideration of your communication to me of the 3d. instant, recommending a still further Loan in Holland, if obtainable, to the amount of 3,000,000 florins—and stating, that in case the recommendation should meet my ideas, my special approbation thereof would be proper, I have thought it necessary, in order to make the subject clear to my mind, before any steps are taken in it,...
31641From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Whipple, 7 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 7, 1793. On June 19, 1793, Whipple wrote to Hamilton : “I had the honor to receive … your letter of the 7th. instant.” Letter not found. ]
31642From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 7 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, June 7, 1793. “I duly received your letter of the 28th Ultimo.… In reply to this letter, I have to refer you to my Circular one of the 30th Ultimo.” LS , Columbia University Libraries.
31643From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Smith, 8 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 8, 1793. On June 16, 1793, Smith wrote to Hamilton : “I receivd your Letter of the 8 Inst.” Letter not found. ] Smith was a Baltimore merchant who had been an officer in the American Revolution and a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1790 to 1792. In March, 1793, he was elected to Congress.
31644To Alexander Hamilton from John Cleves Symmes, [8 June 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[ June 8, 1793. “The Secretary of the Treasury put into my hands a letter from Judge Symmes, dated 8th June on the subject of the land granted to him & his associates.” Letter not found. ] JPP “Journal of the Proceedings of the President,” George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. , 142. See H to William Rawle, January 6, 1793, note 2 .
31645From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 8 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to send you a report on the communication from the Minister plenipotentiary of France respecting the reimbursement of the residue of the Debt of the United States to that Country, altered in conformity to your desire; and to be with perfect respect &c. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. For background to this letter, see Washington to H, June 3, 1793, note 1 ;...
31646Enclosure: [Report From the Minister Plenipotentiary of France], 8 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred a Communication from the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of France, on the subject of the Debt of the United States to France, respectfully makes thereupon the following Report. The object of this communication is to engage the United States to enter into an arrangement for discharging the residue of the Debt, which they owe to...
31647Conversation with George Hammond, [10 June–6 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
For this purpose, I waited on a very influential member of the American administration, who informed me that the fact was much as it had been communicated to the public, and that Mr. Genêt’s conduct was a direct violation of a formal compact, originally entered into with Mr. Ternant and subsequently confirmed by himself both in conversation and in writing, and on the faith of which the last...
31648To Alexander Hamilton from Andrew G. Fraunces, 10 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I had the honor of receiving your letter of the 18th ult. I observe what you advice with respect to the warrants of the late Board of Treasury, and shall lodge those I possess in the proper office, agreeably to the act quoted by you. Having purchased these warrants from an idea that they would immediately be paid on presentation, I feel a little embarrassed at receiving information that they...
31649From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 10 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Comptroller of the Treasury has reported to me that “On examining the subsisting contracts between the United States and the Government of France and the Farmers General and a comparison thereof with the foreign accounts and documents transmitted to the Treasury the following facts appear. That, previous to the Treaty of February 1778, the sum of Three millions of livres had been advanced...
31650From Alexander Hamilton to John Chaloner, [11 June 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton presents his Compliments to Mr Chaloner requests to be informed what is the amount of the Mortgage on Holkers land in which Mr. Church is interested principal & interest & what proportion belongs to Mr. Church. The inquiry demands dispatch. AL , Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Chaloner was a Philadelphia merchant who formerly handled the business affairs of...