32101From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 23 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the consideration of the President a communication from the Commissioner of the revenue, dated the 18th of December respecting Mr. James Collins, Inspector of the Revenue for Survey No: 2 of the District of Pennsylvania. It has at length become certain (what has been for some time feared) that Mr. Collins is incapable of executing the...
32102To Alexander Hamilton from John Laurance, 25 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your favors. I have sent the draft of my answer to your queries to Mr King to peruse. Your queries are very comprehensive, containing much matter and have a relation coextensive with an acquaintance. I have traced in my memory every circumstance, which has the least relation, in my opinion, to them, and have mentioned it to the best of my recollection and belief. I shall have...
32103To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Troup, 25 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Frances I find is persisting in his persecution of you and As he has thought proper to complain to Congress, the business has acquired a degree of importance which perhaps is not unworthy of your attention. Under the influence of this idea I applied yesterday to Dunscomb to give me a memorandum of what he had some time ago told me had passed between you & him with relation to some matter in...
32104From Alexander Hamilton to Isaac Hazlehurst, 26 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
On a review of the Papers which you furnished me respecting the Sloop Hannah, I observe no charge for Insurance. Concluding therefore that none was made upon her, I request that you will be good enough to take the further trouble of having it done. The errand she went upon need not be declared. Some inconvenience might still arise from its being known, that this particular vessel was the...
32105From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 26 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 26, 1793. On January 5, 1794, Schuyler wrote to Hamilton : “nor are we without apprehension on your Account, from what you say in Your letter of the 26th. ult:” Letter not found. ]
32106From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 26 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It being intended to establish immediately a recruiting rendezvous at Albany, I take the liberty to request you, to engage a Person who will furnish the necessary Supplies; informing me of what has been done. The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following Articles Vizt— 1 lb of Bread or flour 1 lb of beef or ¾ lb of pork ½ jill of Rum, brandy or Whiskey 1 Quart of Salt { per...
32107To Alexander Hamilton from Ebenezer Stevens, 26 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, December 26, 1793. On January 5, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Stevens : “Your letter of the 26 of December is received.” Letter not found. ] Stevens had served as a lieutenant colonel in the artillery of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. After the war he moved from Providence to New York City, where he became a successful merchant with extensive interests in foreign...
32108To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 26 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth [ New Hampshire ] December 26, 1793 . “I received your favor of the 9th Instant.… On estimating the Allowances to Vessels licensed after the last day of May for the Cod Fishery & those licensed before that date & since the 1st. of January last which were intended for that Fishery I find the amount to be 2497 ³⁰⁄₁₀₀ Dollars, as it is probable Some of the Vessels licensed may fail in...
32109To Alexander Hamilton from Daniel Brent, 27 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, December 27, 1793. “I think it necessary to inform you that it is my intention to give up my station in the Treasury Department in the early part of next month.…” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Brent was a clerk in the Treasury Department.
32110From Alexander Hamilton to Angelica Church, 27 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I embrace this opportunity, My Dear Friend, by Mr. Marshall, to tell you that my health which had suffered a severe shock by an attack of the malignant disease lately prevalent here is now almost completely restored. The last vestige of it has been a nervous derangement; but this has nearly yielded to Regimen, a certain degree of exercise and a resolution to overcome it. The political...
32111To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 27 December … (Hamilton Papers)
Our last respects were of 1 Instant, since when we are deprived of your esteemed favors. The Five per Cent Bonds of the United States having almost entirely reached the Coffers of our Money Lenders, who do not bring them upon the market, we availed ourselves of this Circumstance combined with that of the money that will be let loose by sundry Reimbursements and the payment of large sums of...
32112To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 28 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 28, 1793. Asks that a warrant for three hundred and ninety-two dollars be issued in favor of William Allibone to enable Allibone “to discharge the accounts falling due in the quarter ending the 31st December instant.” LC , RG 26, Light House Letters, Vol. 1, National Archives. Allibone was superintendent of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public...
32113From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 28 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 28, 1793. On January 14, 1794, Ellery wrote to Hamilton : “I am much obliged by … your letter of the 28th of the last month.” Letter not found. ]
32114From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox, 28 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 28, 1793. On December 30, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Knox and referred to “My Letter of the 28 instant.” Letter not found. ]
32115To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 30 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newport, Rhode Island ] December 30, 1793 . “The Schooner Hannah is condemned. The Evidence was so strong against her, and the Vessel is of so little value that the Owners did not think proper to put in claim.… I shall pursue the Capt. & Mate with writs, continue my endeavours to find out the vessel, which received the Rum out of the Schooner, and who were employed in that business; and do...
32116From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox, 30 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I am content that the Post of Fort Franklin be supplied with Whiskey for the time mentioned in Major Craigs letter on the account of the Contractors and upon the terms mentioned. My Letter of the 28 instant marks out generally the plan to be pursued with regard to the supply of the army with Whiskey. You will perceive that the places of Deposit are Forts Washington Steuben & that lately...
32117To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 30 December 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 becoming due to the Several Creditors on the Books of the Treasury on the 31st. of December 1793 and to the trustees for the 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...
32118From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 31 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 31, 1793. On February 10, 1794, Ellery wrote to Hamilton : “I recd. your letter of the 31st. of Dece. last.” Letter not found. ]
32119To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 31 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, December 31, 1793. “In your circular letter under the date of Decr 20th Instant You request that all my acct to the end of the year should be promptly rendered. Those for the third quarter will be presented herewith, the fourth will follow some time in Jany. The reasons why we are so late with our third quarter arise from the sickness of my Clerks one of which is yet confined and...
32120From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 31 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 31, 1793. “The Secretary [of the Treasury] in a report to the House of Representatives of the 21st. December 1793, submitted a proposition for making provision for the second instalment. None having been made, he by a Letter to the Bank of the 31st. December 1793, informed that the Legislature not having yet had leisure to provide for the second instalment of the two...
32121List of French Distressed Persons, [1793] (Hamilton Papers)
1 Madame Le Grand with two Children lives near the little Market at the house of Mr. Peter French Hatter in the greatest Indigence 2 Madame Gauvin second street North No. 83 with three Children equally destitute 3 Madame Demarie blind with a daughter who is a widow and a little Child No. 19 Cedar Street in dreadful distress 4 Madame Noel 7 Children and an orphan of whom she took charge....
32122On the Rise of a War Party, [1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Every new political occurrence renders it more and more apparent, that there is a description of men in this country, continually on the Watch to defame and if possible to convulse the Government of the UStates. No important measure of that government from whatever quarter it proceeds, can escape their malevolent vigilance. Tis a consolation, however, that by overacting their part, they betray...
32123Articles of Agreement Between Alexander Hamilton and Robert Elliot and Elie Williams, 1 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, January 1, 1794. “… This Indenture witnesseth, that … Alexander Hamilton, for and on behalf of the United States of America, and … Robert Elliott and Elie Williams for themselves, their Heirs Executors and Administrators have mutually covenanted and agreed … as follows: First, that the parties of the second part … shall supply, and issue as many Rations to consist of the articles...
32124To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 1 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 1, 1794. Requests “a warrant … for six hundred Dollars” to pay “Mr. Samuel Wheeler who is making the two Lanterns for the Lighthouses at Tybee Island in Georgia and Bald Head in North Carolina.” LC , RG 26. Lighthouse Letters, Vol. I, National Archives. See H to George Washington, April 25, 1793 .
32125From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, [1 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
What regulations have been made by France since the commencement of the present Revolution including the Constituent Assembly with regard to the following articles— Flour, Tobacco Rice, Wood, Salted Fish, Fish Oil, Pot & Pearl Ash, Beef & Pork, Indigo, Live Animals What was the situation of these two Articles in France prior to the Revolution. Their situation in the West Indies ⟨is⟩ known....
32126Edmund Randolph to Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, 2 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have just taken the oath of office, which reminds me that I am brought into a nearer relation to your department than hitherto. While official men are under no less an obligation than others, to live in harmony; there are too many opportunities for misconception and misrepresentation to interrupt it. I have therefore prescribed this rule for myself: that if anything, supposed to be done in...
32127To Alexander Hamilton from Winthrop Sargent, 2 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
In Consequence of your Queries relative to the Absence of Governour St. Clair from the Territory northwest of the Ohio—causes thereof &ca. I have made a reference to the Records of Proceedings of the Executive Department of that Government (now in the Office of the Secretary of State) and it appears that his first Absence was from the 24th of January 1789 to the 24th. of December of the same...
32128To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [3 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that there is a tariff or table of duties, free articles &ca. established by the Government of France which must throw great light upon your enquiries of the 1st. instant. This document must doubtless be in the Secretary of States office and could be furnished for the necessary time by Mr. Randolph. Mr de la forest shewed me a copy of it but he has since departed...
32129To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 3 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I was informed by my predecessor, that he has been in the practice of remitting to the Bankers of Amsterdam ten thousand dollars every quarter for the objects of the foreign fund in his disposal. He added, that two quarters ought now to be provided for. Shall I beg the favor of you to enable me to execute this part of my trust? Bills furnished by the Bank, would be more agreeable to me than...
32130From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [4 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred, by the President of the United States a Letter from the Minister of the French Republic to the Secretary of State, dated the 21st instant, respectfully makes the following, Report. The Minister observes, that it results from the report of the Secretary of the Treasy. that upon an accidental error, the interests of the French republic and the...
32131To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 4 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The question whether Stock standing on the books of the Treasury & the Loan Offices respectively, is liable to attachment, being yet undecided, I judge it necessary to apprise you, that consequences unfavourable to the public Credit, are to be apprehended. The most considerable Credits which have been attached are those standing in the names of John Warder & Co & Donald & Burton; and the...
32132To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Schuyler, 5 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
We are Alarmed at the state of my Dear Elizas health, nor are we without apprehension on your Account, from what you say in Your letter of the 26th. ult: I fear much from the incessant application which you are under the necessity to give to the business of your department, increased as It of consequence must be, whilst Congress is in session. I have hitherto been much averse to the...
32133Enclosure: [Account of Funded Stock on the Books of the Treasury], March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
An Account of Funded Stock on the Books of the Treasury, on which Attachments have been Laid. Time when notice of the Attachment was given at the Office. By whom attached. Proprietors of the Stock. Six &⅌ Cents. Three &⅌ Cents. Deferred. Dollars. Cents. Dollars. Cents. Dollars. Cents. 1793. June 29th: 11 Minutes past 7. A: M: Robert Morris.
32134From Alexander Hamilton to Ebenezer Stevens, 5 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 26 of December is received. The sum you mention per Month appears high for the object. From a calculation made here it is concluded, that Two thousand five hundred Dollars would be a large allowance upon an œconomical arrangement. If the French Minister should express to the Government a desire that this sum per Month should be furnished for such a purpose, I take it for...
32135To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 6 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The House of Representatives having directed in March last, that a return exhibiting certain details relative to the Revenue arising from Spirits distilled in the United States and from Stills, should be made to them by you on the first Monday of the Current Month, I have the honor to reiterate to you the measures, which have been taken to procure in time the necessary materials. On the...
32136Proposed Presidential Message to Congress Concerning Revocation of Edmond Charles Genet’s Diplomatic Status, [6–13 … (Hamilton Papers)
Since the application, which was made to the Government of France, for the Recall of its present Minister, that Minister has furnished new and material causes of dissatisfaction with his Conduct. But these occasions of offence have hitherto passed without particular notice; in the hope that it would not be long before the arrival of an order of Recall would terminate the embarrassment—and in...
32137Report on Domestic and Foreign Tonnage for the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, and 1792, [7 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to the Order of the House of Representatives of the 3d. instant, Respectfully Reports. The Statements A & B herewith transmitted. The Statement A exhibits a comparative view of the Domestic and Foreign Tonnage, aggregately taken, according to the inward Entries at the several Custom-Houses, with an extension to the year 1789, as far as that was embraced...
32138To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, [8 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, January 8, 1794 ] “By the 61st: Section of the Act intit⟨led⟩ ‘to provide more effectually for the collection of duties &c’ … it is necessary that the importer should be the exporter to intitle him to the suspension of his bond. A practice is now crept into Existance which creates a vast deal of confusion & delay in doing the business in this office for most of the importers come &...
32139To Alexander Hamilton from John Nicholson, 8 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
A letter of 8th June 1791 was addressed by you to Thomas Smith Esquire, in answer to one from him to you. As it related to information on which he consulted me about the time I had the perusal of your letter that part thereof which relates to the subscribability to the Loan of Congress of the New Loans of this state is of importance to me on my approaching trial. I will therefore thank you to...
32140To Alexander Hamilton from William Gardner, 9 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Portsmouth, New Hampshire, January 9, 1794. On January 22, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Gardner : “I duly received your letter of the 9th inst.” Letter not found. ] Gardner was commissioner of loans for New Hampshire.
32141To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [10 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inclose to the Secretary of the Treasury, a copy of an answer to certain queries proposed in pursuance of the Secretary’s enquiries, to the consul of the United Netherlands, relative to the commercial intercourse between the United States, and the Dutch American continental Colonies. L, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Jan Hendrick Christian Heinaken. See enclosure.
32142Enclosure: Jan Hendrick Christian Heinaken to Tench Coxe, 9 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Heineken has the honor of informing Mr Coxe in answer to his note of the 7th Inst That he does not know of any law of the United Netherlands, admitting a free commercial intercouse of Foreign nations with the Dutch colonies on the continent. It has been tolerated in paying a duty of 5 ⅌ Ct. on Imports, and the Vessels of the United States have carried there flour, Indian corn, pork, beef,...
32143To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 10 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
E. Randolph begs the favor of Colo Hamilton, to inform him, whether the bills mentioned in a note the other day, on Amsterdam for the use of our ministers, be attainable? Mr. Marshall is going to England in a day or two, and E.R. wishes to inform them of the supply. LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 6, January 2–June 26, 1794, National Archives. See Randolph to H,...
32144Report on the Actual Tonnage Employed Between the United States and Foreign Countries for a Year Ending the 30th of … (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully reports to the House of Representatives a Statement of the actual Tonnage employed between the United States and Foreign Countries for a year ending the 30th of September 1792, which is the statement that remained to be reported of those required by their order of the 3d instant. Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, 1784–1795, Vol....
32145To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Hodgdon, 11 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ January 11, 1794. On January 13, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Hodgdon concerning “applications similar to yours of the 11th instant.” Letter not found. ] Hodgdon, who had served in the commissary department of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, was quartermaster general of the United States Army from March 4, 1791, until April 12, 1792. From the fall of 1792 until June, 1794, he...
32146To Alexander Hamilton from Medad Mitchell, [11 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury will pardon a Man who no longer considers himself an American, for this address to his feelings, his honor, and his humanity. There was a time when Patriotism induced me to lay open the intrigues of a foreighn Court, at that time poverty made me desperate, and what I laid, before the Secretary, was the efforts of the greatest industry, that distress coud extort...
32147To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, [11 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State begs the favor of the Secretary of the Treasury to order a warrant to be made out on account of the foreign fund, in the disposal of the department of State, for twenty thousand Dollars; this being the sum, which from Mr. Jefferson’s memoranda, appears to be proper to be remitted now to the Bankers in Amsterdam for the use of our ministers abroad. Bills are engaged at...
32148From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 13 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, January 13, 1794. “… applications similar to yours of the 11th instant should pass through the office of the Secretary at war—whence they will come to the Treasury.…” LS , Columbia University Libraries. Letter not found. This letter is endorsed “Answer’d.” Letter not found.
32149From Alexander Hamilton to William Rawle, 13 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed you will find the Copy of a letter of the 4. instant from the Comptroller of the Treasury. The subject of it is particularly interesting to the public Credit. I request that you will adopt such prompt and efficacious measures as you shall deem advisable to bring the point of the liability of public Stock to attachment to a determination in the Court of the U States. Haveing heretofore...
32150Report on the Petition of Daniel Parker, [13 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred by the House of Representatives the Memorial of Daniel Parker, respectfully makes thereupon the following Report. The Suggestions contained in the Memorial do not appear to be of a nature to call for a readjustment of the Account. The probability of peace within the Year was an event to have been calculated upon on both Sides in forming the...