32011To Alexander Hamilton from Bartholomew Dandridge, 26 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
By the President’s command I have the honor to enclose herewith two proposals made for repairing the masons work of the Tybee Lighthouse, & the letter of the Commissioner of the Revenue which accompanied them. Also two proposals for doing the wood work of the said Lighthouse, with the Commissioner of the revenue’s letter accompanying them —and to inform you that the President thinks it proper...
32012To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 26 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newport, Rhode Island, November 26, 1793. On January 14, 1794, Ellery wrote to Hamilton and referred to “my letter of the 26th. of Novr.” Letter not found. ]
32013From Alexander Hamilton to Edmond Charles Genet, 26 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It appears indespensable to adjust disagreeing Ideas with regard to the State of the Account between France and the UStates, that as much as shall be found practicable should be done without loss of time towards a settlement of it. With this view I have instructed the Accounting Officers of the Treasury to proceed in the business as soon as there shall appear some person on your behalf to...
32014John Jay and Rufus King to Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, 26 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
You will recieve herewith enclosed a Publication by Mr Genet denying his having declared that he wd. appeal from the President to the People —a publication by us that we would shortly proceed to state the Evidence and Circumstances relative to that Transaction, and also our manuscript address to the public containing such Statemt. We think it more expedient as well as more delicate with...
32015To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, 26 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr King & I have written this Day to you & General Knox. To that Letter and its Enclosures I refer you. All Men are under obligations to support the Cause of Truth. I presume therefore that the President will permit you to use all the Evidence of the tract in Question, which may be in his Possession or power, and consequently give you access to such Documents as may perhaps be in the office of...
32016To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 26 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
About a Fortnight since I wrote to you intimating the probability that Mr. Jay & I should call on you and General Knox on the subject of Mr Genets Declaration that he would appeal from the President to the people. A letter of this date from Mr. Jay & me will inform you & the General of the present posture of this Business—you will perceive that the Statement that we have concluded to publish,...
32017To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 26 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I took the liberty of writing you a few lines by my friend Mr. Maitland—who this day informs me of your exceeding kind & polite attention to him for which I beg you to accept my most gratefull thanks. This day United States Bank Shares began to decline & I presume in a day or two I shall be able to purchase for Mr. Church under your Limits of 15 ⅌ cent—but it strikes me that as this Stock has...
32018To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 26 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Baltimore, November 26, 1793. “… Inclosed is a copy of a letter received from the Captain of the Revenue Cutter respecting the Lieutinant. I wait your instructions how to proceed or what proceeding there are to be in that most disagreeable business.…” Copy, RG 53, “Old Correspondence,” Baltimore Collector, National Archives. This letter from David Porter, captain of the Maryland revenue cutter...
32019From Alexander Hamilton to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, [26 November … (Hamilton Papers)
[ November 26, 1793. On February 24, 1794, Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard wrote to Hamilton : “We … have now to acknowledge Receipt of the Triplicate of your esteemed favor of 26 November last.” Letter not found. ]
32020Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox to John Jay and Rufus King, 27 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
We have received your Letter of the 26th instant. We take to day to revise it and tomorrow or the day after we expect to hand it to some Printer for publication with our Certificate. We are with respect and esteem Your obedient servants John Jay } Esquires. Rufus King LS , in the handwriting of H, Columbia University Libraries. For background to this letter, see the introductory note to H to...
32021To Alexander Hamilton from Walter Stewart, [27 November 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[ November 27, 1793. “The Secretary of the Treasury sent for my information a letter to him from General Stewart, of 27. Nov. stating that in his present situation he doubted whether the law constituting the office of Surveyor, woud allow him, being concerned in commerce vessels &c. to hold that office—says, however, if he can be allowed to act in that office now , he can he thinks acquit...
32022To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Morris, 28 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I am Ashamed I have not before this performed my promise in proposing some Amendments to the Excise Law; had I not promised I Should not Have troubled you on the head, for tho I think Amendment necessary, difficulties Arise that I cannot gett over. I have Several times Satt down to Reduce my Amendments in form to a Law. I am Stoped almost in the first Sentence. I shall therefore Only Inclose...
32023From Alexander Hamilton to John Kean, 29 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Poor Fenno is ruined by his Patriotism. His weekly paper is at an end—and he cannot begin again without a loan of at least 1500 Dollars. As I think he deserves assistance from the goodness of his motives and that it is of consequence to the Fœderal cause that he should be enabled to prosecute a paper—I have set on foot a subscription to a loan for his use. The inclosed will shew its progress....
32024Statement by Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox on Edmond Charles Genet’s “Appeal to the People”, 29 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
We the subscribers, certify that we did severally communicate to the abovementioned John Jay and Rufus King, the particulars contained in the foregoing statement. That such of them as are therein mentioned to have been reported to Governor Mifflin by Mr. Dallas, were communicated by the Governor to each of us, as having been received by him from Mr. Dallas. That such of them as respect Mr....
32025Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox to John Jay, 29 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Notwithstanding the information of this Morning respecting the Insertion in Dunlap’s Paper on Monday, certain reasons determine us rather to return to you the Paper with our certificate. You will find that we have altered nothing material to your purpose. The omission of what concerned the President has proceeded from a scruple about official propriety. We are with respect & esteem Dr Sir ...
32026From Alexander Hamilton to James Lovell, 29 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Various circumstances have prevented an earlier answer to your letter of the 22d of August last. The question referred to having been stated to the Attorney General, you will receive a copy of his opinion herewith enclosed, in which I concur. I am Sir Your obedient Servant L[S] , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury, 1789–1807, Vol. 4, National Archives. Although...
32027To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 29 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the Honor to Enclose my Certificate in Relation to the Payment of the Claim of the Baron De Glaubeck and sundry other Papers thereunto belonging. I am Sir, your mo: ob: & mo: hb Serv. LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. For background to this letter, see Andrew G. Fraunces to H, May 16, 1793, note 9 . See also William Willcocks to H, September 1 , 5, 1793 ; H to Catharine...
32028Enclosure: [Papers Furnished in Relation to the Payment of Baron Glaubeck’s Claim], 29 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Papers furnished the Secretary of the Treasury, in Relation to the Payment of Baron Glaubecks Claim These are to certify that in Pursuance of an Act of the United States entitled “an Act to allow the Baron De Glaubeck the Pay of a Captain in the Army of the United States” passed on the 29th September 1789 the Auditor of the Treasury on the 16th. of november 1789 settled the Claim of said...
32029To Alexander Hamilton from Edmond Charles Genet, 30 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
J’ai reçu la lettre que vous m’avés fait l’honneur de m’ecrire Le 26. de Ce mois et Je me Suis empressé d’Envoyer au Citoyen Bournonville secretaire de la légation de la République les authorisations nécessaires pour mettre En régle le Compte de la france avec les Etats unis conjointement avec les personnes que vous nommerés à cet effet. À mon retour à Philadelphie je prendrai connaissance de...
32030From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 30 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have taken the opinion of the Attorney General on the case of the St Domingo Vessels, mentioned in your letter of the 2d September last, which confirms that which I had before entertained, and on further reflection continue to entertain—namely that those vessels do not fall within the meaning of the 38th Section of the Collection Law respecting vessels that put into our Ports from distress...
32031To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 30 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a Certificate of the Sums issuable from the Treasury of the United States for the payment of Interest which was due to the several Creditors on the Books of the Treasury on the 30th September 1793; and to the Trustees for Redemption of the Public Debt for Interest arising to the same Period upon the Stock standing in their names and in the name of Samuel Meredith in...
32032From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 30 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, November 30, 1793. Encloses “a letter … received from General Stewart on the subject of his proposed appointment.” Thinks “it consistent with a reasonable construction of the general interest of the Law to allow the indulgence which his situation requires.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Letter not found, but see Walter Stewart to H, November 27, 1793...
32033To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 30 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Baltimore, November 30, 1793. On January 22, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Williams : “I have before me your letter of the 30th of November last.” Letter not found. ]
32034Introductory Note: Outline for George Washington’s Fifth Annual Address to Congress, [November 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
In the period immediately preceding George Washington’s Fifth Annual Address to Congress on December 3, 1793, the President and the members of his cabinet held a series of meetings at which the contents of the message were discussed. Thomas Jefferson’s accounts of these meetings in the “Anas” indicate that he and Edmund Randolph disagreed with Hamilton on several occasions and that the...
32035Outline for George Washington’s Fifth Annual Address to Congress, [November 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Objects to be communicated in Speech & Messages I Proclamation II Embarrassments on carrying into Execution the principles of neutrality; necessity of some auxiliary provisions by law III Expectation of indemnification given in relation to illegal captures IV State of our affairs with regard to G Britain to Spain to France—claim of Guarantee —propositions respecting Trade V Indian affairs....
32036Draft for George Washington’s Fifth Annual Address to Congress, [November 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
It is greatly to be lamented, for the sake of humanity, that the flame of War, which had before spread over a considerable part of Europe has within the present year extended itself much further; implicating all those powers with whom the United States have the most extensive relations. When it was seen here, that almost all the maritime Nations either were, or were likely soon to become...
32037From Alexander Hamilton to Angelica Hamilton, [November 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
I was very glad to learn, my dear daughter, that you were going to begin the study of the French language. We hope you will in every respect behave in such a manner as will secure to you the good-will and regard of all those with whom you are. If you happen to displease any of them, be always ready to make a frank apology. But the best way is to act with so much politeness, good manners, and...
32038To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 1 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, December 1, 1793. “… As the Sum in Bank is not more than may be required to answer the Current Demand of Interest on the Registered Debt, I request that a Warrant may issue in favour of John Kean Cashier of the Bank of the United States for the Sum of Twenty four thousand Dollars and for which he should be charged and held accountable.” LC , RG 53, Register of the...
32039To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 1 December … (Hamilton Papers)
We had the pleasure to address you the 18 ultimo, and are since deprived of your respected favors. We transmit you inclosed the Account Current of the United States with us up to 30 ultimo, balanced by Holld. Cy. f 10767.12.8 due unto us, that we transfer to their Debit in a New Account. The Time approaching fast, when the Interest due thereby the United States the 1 proxo. ought to be...
32040To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 2 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The last proviso of Sec: 66 of the Colln. Law runs thus “And provided, That no action or prosecution shall be maintained in any case under this Act; unless the same shall have been commenced within three years next after the penalty of forfeiture was incurred.” On this proviso questions have arisen, concerng. which I request your opinion. 1st. Whether the issuing a Writ within three years next...