33601To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 25[–27] December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have Just received your letter of the 24th instant with the papers from the President of the U: S: and the letter of the Secretary at War contained in the same enclosure. It is proper for me to remind You that the arrangement which was made for procuring the timber for the Frigates, was the result of our United Judgments founded upon enquiry & consideration, that the appointments of the...
33602From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 25 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 25, 1794. On December 26, 1794, Coxe wrote to Hamilton : “I have received your letter of the 25th. inst: relative to anchors.” Letter not found. ]
33603From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed are the copies of two Acts one of Congress authorising The President to borrow two millions of Dollars another of the President authorising me to carry that act into effect. The extensive payments becoming due to the Bank of the UStates added to the large demands for the current service oblige me to ask of the Bank the loan of the whole sum. The expence of suppressing the late...
33604From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 26, 1794. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads as follows: “Asking for an extension of a loan to Treasury.” Letter not found. ] AL , sold at Anderson Galleries, February 3, 1909, Lot 170. See H to Joseph Ball, December 28, 1794 .
33605To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been favored with yours of the 19th. Instant covering your private letter of the same date to Governor Lee. I hear he has left Winchester, & will probably be here tomorrow or next day, and have thought it best to keep his letter until his arrival. The explanations contained in this letter to him, are such as I had anticipated, as you might have perceived from mine to you of the 11th....
33606To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “I have received your letter of the 25th. inst: relative to anchors. You will find my letter of the 25th June, the highest supposed prices &c. of the anchors, and in mine of the 8th. inst. you will find the particular anchors yet wanted.…” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of...
33607To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “It is with extreme concern that I enclose to you a letter of a very improper tenor indeed, from Messr. Nicholas Hoffman & Co. at New York, to Tench Francis Esqr. dated on the 22d instant, and this day received by me from the hands of Mr. Francis.…” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the...
33608To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “Enclosed is a copy of a letter from T: Francis Esqr: of this date, concerning advances for Fort Mifflin &ca. You will be pleased to cause such order to be taken on it as the necessity of the case shall appear to require.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and...
33609To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “A considerable impediment to the arrangement of compensations adjusted on Thursday night has just occurred. The 13th Section of the law of the 5th June has been inadvertently caused to refer to the 30th day of June 1795 (‘next’) by the postponement of the consummation of the Act from the preceding month until the commencement of the...
33610To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “The Superintendent of the Virginia Lt. House (col William Lyndsay) has reported the Death of the late keeper Captain Goffigan. He has placed in that Station Mr. Henry James a native of the place, an old Seafaring Man, whom he thinks every way calculated for a keeper. No other person offers for the service.…” LC , RG 26, Lighthouse...
33611To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Coxe presents his compliments to Mr. Hamilton, with the inclosed, just received from a Committee of the Snuff manufacturers. LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1794–1795, National Archives.
33612Enclosure: [Manufacturers of Snuff in Philadelphia Remonstrate], [December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Manufacturers of Snuff in Philadelphia Remonstrate Against the manner in which the Excise or Duty is laid and to be collected on Snuff—eight Cents per pound this is on an average fifty ⅌ Cent. This is an encouragement for a defraud of the Revenue as the Excise is an encouragement so to do. Also give Bond in the Sum of Five thousand Dollars and must keep an account from day to day of the...
33613Report on an Account of Receipts and Expenditures of the United States for the Year 1793, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to transmit a letter of this date, from the Comptroller of the Treasury, together with the Statements mentioned in it, which it has been impracticable to transmit Earlier in the Session, And to be, with perfect respect, Sir, Your obedient Servant, An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States, for the Year 1793. Stated in Pursuance of the Standing Order of...
33614Enclosure: Statement of Monies Drawn from the Appropriation Made by the Act of August 12th, 1790, [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Monies Drawn. From the said surplus being 1,374,656 dollars and 40 cents, the following sums have been drawn by warrants on the Treasurer, viz . Dolls. Cts. 1790, December 15, No. 776, in favour of Samuel Meredith, 200,000. 1791, January 26, 856, ditto, 50,000. February 5,
33615Enclosure: Statement of the Application of Monies Drawn from the Appropriation of Two Millions of Dollars, [26 December … (Hamilton Papers)
Monies Drawn. The following sums have been drawn from the said appropriation by warrants on the Treasurer, viz. Dollars. Cts. 1793, February 4, No. 2454, in favour of Jonathan Burrall, 50,000. 19, 2482, Samuel Meredith, 234,901.89 Septemb. 2, 3085, Ditto,
33616Enclosure: Statement of the Application of Monies Drawn from the Appropriation Made by the Act of the 8th of May, 1792 … (Hamilton Papers)
Monies Drawn. 1791. Dollars.Cts. March. Interest received and expended in purchases by Benjamin Lincoln, 5.51 31. Interest due this day, 4,230.63 June 30. ditto, 5,013.02 Sept. ditto, 8,635.18 Dec. 31. ditto, 6,989.01 1792. Mar.
33617Enclosure: [Statements of the Revenue Arising from the Postage of Letters], [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Statement of the Revenue Arising from the Postage of Letters, &c. from the 1st of October, 1789, to 30th june, 1791. Expenses Postmaster General, Gross amount of postage. For transportation of the mails. For compensation to the postmaster general, his assistants and clerks including incidental expenses For compensations to the deputy postmasters, including incidental expenses. For ship...
33618Enclosure: [Summary Statement of Monies Received into the Treasury of the United States], [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
A Summary Statement of Monies Received into the Treasury of the United States, in the Year 1793. For Duties on Merchandise and Tonnage. From the Collectors of the Customs, agreeably to the preceding statement of the said duties. On warrants passed to the credit of the respective collectors in the year 1792, which are included in the treasurer’s accounts for the year 1793, 44,905.96 On warrants...
33619Enclosure: Payments for the Support of the Civil List, [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
To the President of the United States, On Account of his Compensation. 1793. January 4. Warrant No. 2364 1500. 15. do. 2398 1000. March 9. do. 2548 4000. 22. do. 2606 1000.
33620Enclosure: [Statement of Monies Transferred to the United States], [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Guilders. Rate of exch. Dols. Cts. Dols. Cts. Amount of bills of exchange drawn by the Treasurer on the Commissioners in Amstedam, Guilders 5,649,621.2.8 Deduct bills repurchased of the Bank of the United States, and cancelled, 495,000. . 5,154,621.2.8 sold for 2,104,566.24 Amount applied in Europe and at the Treasury for the interest on the foreign debt, in the years 1791, 1792 and 1793,...
33621Enclosure: [Amount Expended in Purchases of the Domestic Debt], [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Amount expended in purchases of the domestic debt of the United States, pursuant to the fourth section of the Act of August, 12, 1790, entitled “An Act making provision for the reduction of the public debt,” viz . By Jonathan Burrall, per warrant, No. 2454, dated February 4, 1793, 50,000. By Samuel Meredith, 2482, dated Feb. 19, 1793, 234,901.89 By ditto, 3085, dated Sept. 2, 1793,...
33622Enclosure: [General Statement of Certain Appropriations Made by Law], [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
A General Statement of Certain Appropriations Made by Law for the Service of the Year 1793, Including the Balances of Former Appropriations Unexpended on the Last Day of December, 1792; Exhibiting Also, the Expenditures of the United States for the Year 1793, on Warrants Issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Unexpended Balances of the Said Appropriations, which Are to Be Accounted...
33623Enclosure: General Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Public Monies in the Year 1793, 25 November 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Dr. General Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Public Monies in the Year 1793. Cr. To amount of Expenditures in the year 1793, as stated in page 63 6,582,796.19 By balance in the Treasury on the last day of December 1792, 783,444.51 From which deduct the expenditures of the Trustees for the redemption of the public debt, out of the Interest Fund 102,818.22 Amount of Receipts in...
33624Appendix: [Various Statements], [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Funded Domestic Debt. Dollars. Cents. Six per Cent. stock 18,169,213.15 Deferred six per Cent. stock 9,084,608.46 Three per Cent. stock 12,432,649.64 39,686,471.25 Funded Assumed Debt. Six per Cent stock 8,120,824.11 Deferred six per Cent. stock 4,060,411.78 Three per Cent. stock 6,090,551.57 18,271,787.46 Registered Debt. Principal of registered debt remaining on the books of the Treasury...
33625To Alexander Hamilton from John Wendell, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
It is with great Reluctance that I address myself again to you on the Subject of Monsr Dumons Memorial which I presented several Congresses & which was committed to you for yr. Consultation & Report. I am conscious that I have tresspessed upon your Important Station when so many Matters of public Exigencies call for yr most attentive Exertions but I have submitted with patience & Subserviency...
33626To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to transmit a Statement of the Rects. & Expenditures of The United States for the year 1793 which has been prepared pursuant to the Order of the House of Representatives passed on the 30th. of Dece. 1791. To this Statement an Appendix has been added, exhibiting the operation of the Fund for reducing the Domestic Debt, to the close of the year 1793, also statements of the...
33627To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 27 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose to you, a letter to me from Tench Francis Esqr. this moment received, as the explanation of his application of yesterday for Cash. You will observe he now requires 35,000 Dols. You will perceive that it would be necessary to my expressing an opinion, 1st That a statement of the business between the Treasy. & the Agent has been furnished with your letter of the 4th of April committing...
33628From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Purviance, 27 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The President of the United States having been pleased to pardon and remit to Munnikhuysen & Sadler, Owners of the Schooner Martha the Offence and Penalty incurred by them by the Captain’s permitting certain goods to be laden on board the said Schooner in the Island of St. Domingo, contrary to the intent and meaning of an Embargo Bond given by them to your predecessor in Office —I have to...
33629From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Ball, 28 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his Compliments to Mr. Ball Chairman of a Committee of the Bank of The UStates. He would propose that the three hundred thousand Dollars remaining unpaid of the 400000 loan should be paid in three equal installments on the first of November December and January. The point of credits for bills deposited is reserved for further consideration but will be...
33630To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 28 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I finished yesterday my letter relative to the Arrangements for procuring the timber from Geora. having commenced the same on Christmas day in Consequence of the receipt of your letter of that date. This last communication (which it will require two days to copy) and that made under the date of the 22d. inst. concerning the naval armament in consequence of the order of the House of...
33631From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 28 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 28, 1794. On December 30, 1794, Coxe wrote to Hamilton and referred to “your letter of the 28th inst.” Letter not found. ]
33632From Alexander Hamilton to William Rawle, 28 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Delaney has obtained information as to the fitting out of some privateers from this & a neighbouring port which I have desired him to communicate to you without delay. The most delicate considerations render it essential that whatever is now practicable should be done. Pray give the matter the most particular attention. With consideration & esteem I am Sir Your obed serv ALS ,...
33633To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 29 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 29, 1794. “I beg the favor of a payment as usual on account, to the Superintendent of the Delaware Light House, & the establishments for the Shipping to the amount of three hundred & eighty five Dollars. It is to enable him to discharge, the accounts which will become due on or before the 31st instant.” LC , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters, Vol. I,...
33634To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 29 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 29, 1794. “I enclose copy of a letter from Wm Pennock Esqr. Naval Agent at Norfolk Virginia with an estimate of money wanted to the amount of 7450 Drs exclusive of the freight of Timber from Georgia.…” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National...
33635From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 29 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, December 29, 1794. “In answer to your letter of the 26 instant, I remark, that it is not clear the words ‘the thirtieth day of June next’ may not be understood as equivalent to the ‘ next thirtieth day of June’ which last would conform to the known intent of the Legislature. At least this is a point to be referred to the President. It will naturally come up when the new...
33636From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 29 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your two letters of the 13th & 28 instant. I think my conduct must have proved to you that it has not been my intention to impute to you blame for any delays or deficiencies, which may have existed or which may exist in the execution of those portions of the business of the Department which are confided to you. I have resolved them into the natural effects of an extensive and...
33637From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 29 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Treasurer has been directed to remit to you a Bill on our commissioners at Amsterdam for 303, 115 Florins. It appears upon more particular examination that it would not leave in the hands of the Commissioners a sufficient sum for payment of interest to the first of March inclusively, which was the intention. I request therefore that you will so arrange the matter as that there be left in...
33638To Alexander Hamilton from William Rawle, 29 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 29, 1794. On January 2, 1795, Edmund Randolph wrote to George Hammond “respecting the privateer Gemeaux” and enclosing a “Copy of a letter from Mr. Rawle, Dist. Atty. of Pennsyla. to the Secretary of the Treasury dated 29th Decemr. 1794.” Letter not found. ] LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 8, December 6, 1794–October 12, 1795, National...
33639From Alexander Hamilton to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 29 December … (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 29, 1794. On June 10, 1795, Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard wrote to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, and referred to letters “from your Predecessor of 29 December and 25 January.” Letter of December 29, 1794, not found. ] LS , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
33640To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I trust that the first reason suggested, in your letter of the 28th inst. is that which has occasioned the letter it returned to me. It appeared indispensable that you should see it, as Mr. Francis found himself impelled to shew it to me, & requested advice. Messr. N: H: & Co. have had two or three Agencies for the purchase of Objects of no great size, which have been terminated. They were...
33641To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I shall apply myself to the draughting the plan of Revenue for the President as fast as possible. In the mean time such is the press of Business that to prepare it in a form, which may not eventually be adopted, will be to be regreted. I therefore request the favor of your obtaining the sense of the President upon the point. As the Revenue or Excise has been a topic of public feeling, as the...
33642From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 30 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been determined to import from Europe as expeditiously as may be, Twenty Anchors for the use of the Six Frigates for which provision was made in the last Session of Congress. I have been induced therefore to take the liberty of asking your care of the business and to request that you will without delay cause the number of Anchors required to be procured and shipped agreeably to the...
33643To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 30 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I am sorry to trouble you so often upon the same subject but Mr. Fauchet so constantly presses me and urges the right to arm merchant vessels for the mere purpose of defending them and their cargoes, that I must take the liberty of reminding you of your promise to send me not only the Instructions which have been given from the Treasury department to the Collectors in relation to this subject,...
33644To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 31 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Coxe presents his complts. to the Secy. of the Treasy. & requests that he will be pleased to take the necessary measures for the reception of the whiskey (to be purchased for 1795) at the deposite posts of Fort Washington & Pittsburg, and wherever besides the public service may be deemed to require it to be received. A Letter this day received from Kentuckey expresses a wish that this may...
33645To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Lee, 31 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Forced to meander on my ride home to close as far as I could the various matters which I considered under my care I never got to Richmond until the 29th. when Col. Carrington gave to me your favor of the 19th Decr. I am sure you understand too well my conviction of your constant efforts to give comfort to the late army with me, to suppose that I could for a moment impute to want of exertion in...
33646Measures in the War Department Which It May Be Expedient to Adopt, [December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
I To organize anew the Militia on a plan something like the following To be divided into five clases 1 Class consisting of all unmarried men from 18 to 25 except apprentices under 21 to Merchants Mechanics and Manufacturers and students under the same age in universities colleges & academies and of Divinity Law and Medecine. 2 Class consisting of all unmarried men from 25 to 40. 3 Class...
33647To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, [December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
When I renewed the note for your friendly favor, just before your departure for the Westward, I did not take up the former one. If you have it, I will thank you for it, when it is convenient to you to send it. But I cannot close this subject, without assuring you of the sense, which I have ever entertained, of this, your disinterested kindness, and which, I can truly say, has never been...
33648The Cause of France, [1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The cause of France! We are every day told, that this is a cause, which ought to engage our warmest affections our best wishes, and there are not a few who think that we ought to hazard upon it our dearest interests. If we ask what is the cause of France, the ready answer is that it is the cause of Liberty . It is the cause of a nation nobly struggling for the rights of man, against a...
33649The French Revolution, [1794] (Hamilton Papers)
In the early periods of the French Revolution, a warm zeal for its success was in this Country a sentiment truly universal . The love of Liberty is here the ruling passion of the Citizens of the UStates pervading every class animating every bosom. As long therefore as the Revolution of France bore the marks of being the cause of liberty it united all hearts concentered all opinions. But this...
33650From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Hamilton will with pleasure execute the commands of the President by the time appointed and have the honor of waiting upon him. AL , Lloyd W. Smith Collection, Morristown National Historical Park, Morristown, New Jersey. This letter is dated on the basis of an account for 1794 in George Washington’s handwriting which is attached to the letter.