43661To Alexander Hamilton from Royal Flint, 14 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, June 14, 1790. Discusses the qualifications of various residents of Rhode Island who were candidates for positions in the Treasury Department. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Originally a resident of Connecticut, Flint became a prominent New York businessman. In the seventeen-eighties he had been closely associated in several ventures with William Duer and Jeremiah Wadsworth.
43662To George Washington from Royal Flint, 20 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have delayed making my report, for the present month, from an expectation of getting fuller & more decided information. Some circumstances have however taken place, that oblige me still to postpone giving a satisfactory account a few days longer. The prospects, of affording ample supplies of meat, continue so favorable, that I am persuaded every demand may be satisfied. I am not particular,...
43663To George Washington from Royal Flint, 15 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
From the prospect of supplies for the next campaigne there seems to be a necessity of reducing the quantity of flour now issued in a ration. The deficiency will be made up either in meat or rice. There will be considerable quantities of rice ready early in the season for the purpose of such a substitute; and there is no reason to fear but meat both salt & fresh may be procured in the greatest...
43664Enclosure: Royal Flint to John Ross, 15 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have before me your favor of the 11th instant and am sorry I can make no reply that will give you satisfaction. The partners of the late firm of Daniel Parker & Co have not yet exhibited their accounts in such a manner as to render a close of them practicable. Nor have I now, any more than I always have had, the least expectation that this object will ever be accomplished. If the...
43665To George Washington from Royal Flint, 10 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
Though I am out of public Employment, I feel myself too much interested in the welfare of the Army, not to look with concern on every curcumstance, that is unfavourable to it—I was no less disappointed than troubled to find, that the Legislature of this State had dissolved without taken any measures to promote the Supply of the Army —This information appeared still more alarming, when I found...
43666To George Washington from Royal Flint, 6 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
Having finished my service, under the late Comisary General, and having no further connection with the department, my authority, over the affairs of it, is at an end. My continuance here, in such a situation, will afford no advantage to the public, and consequently no great satisfaction to myself. The circumstances, that have occasioned my leaving the army, have no ways abated my wishes for...
43667To Alexander Hamilton from Royal Flint, 23 December 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] December 23, 1779 . States that there appears to be an ample supply of cattle in Connecticut for the Army’s use. LC , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
43668To George Washington from Royal Flint, 5 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
On inspecting the inclosed account, it appears, that some part of the flour, which that specifies, was not lodged on the Susquehannah, when the return was made out. By a letter from Colo. Blaine, which accompanied it, I find that those provisions mentioned, as being at York, Frederick & Cumberland counties, are collecting at Harris’s ferry; and those in the upper part of Lancaster county, at...
43669To George Washington from Royal Flint, 23 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Colonel Beatty, the Comisary General of Prisoners, mentioned to me yesterday; that there were several hundred head of cattle grazing in the pastures about Amboy. He observed that the inhabitants of the adjacent towns were driving their stock cattle to that place to take advantage of the early grass in that neighborhood. As such a collection of cattle, near the seaside, in so defenceless a...
43670To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Des Watines [de Flobecq] and Other Favor Seekers, 1 May 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society On May 1, 1781, in the letter published below, a distressed nobleman writing from his château in Flanders is convinced that his runaway son will apply to Franklin with some kind of scheme, the details of which are given in an enclosed letter (now missing) addressed to the son. When the young man arrives, would Franklin hand over the letter and prevail upon...