46521To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Dayton, 26 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Having been absent with my family on a visit to Staten Island and to the seashore, I did not receive, so soon as I otherwise should, your letter of the 15th. That Mr. Jefferson proposed to Freneau to repair to Philadelphia, and act in his department as interpreter of the French language, and that, subsequently thereto, a negotiation was had & completed between Mr. Madison and the latter to...
46522To Alexander Hamilton from William Wilson, 16 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Being for a long time in an ill state of health, which disqualified me from performing the regular duties of an officer, I was compelled to relinquish a station to which ambition prompted me accept and pride made me anxious to undertake, I herewith inclose you my letter of resignation which will shew what was my wish and feelings at the time I was compelled to offer it, I have by a change of...
46523To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 4 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
We had the honor to address you the 25 Jany. and 25 February, since when we have [not] received any of your respected favors. Mr. Short in answer to the Letter we wrote him the 24 January to Madrid, of which we forwarded you copy, has authorised us to open a Loan of Two Million of guilders for the United States at Five per cent Interest, to face the Reimbursment and Interest due the 1 June...
46524To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 31 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, May 31, 1792. “Prior to the recommencement of the building of the Light House on Bald Head, I found it necessary to make an examination of that part of the work which has been executed under the direction of the Commissioners appointed by the Legislature of North Carolina: and I do myself the Honor to state to you some ideas that have occured, together with...
46525To Alexander Hamilton from Aaron Ogden, 19 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
In consequence of the reference made to me in your favor of the 15th. instant, I have directed, that the paymaster do immediately proceed in the distribution of the Bounty-money, and the monies on account of pay, which he has received, among the company Officers, at the rendezvous of the respective sub districts, to which they are, respectively, assigned; and that the recruiting should...
46526To Alexander Hamilton from Major Nicholas Fish, 22 January 1778 (Hamilton Papers)
Valley Forge, January 22, 1778 . Requests written discharge for Captain Barent J. Ten Eyck, Second New York Regiment. LS , RG 93, Miscellaneous Records, National Archives. Fish, a major in the Second New York Regiment, subsequently became a close friend of H and a prominent New York Federalist. At the end of this letter, H wrote: “One of the Gentlemen below is requested to transact the...
46527To Alexander Hamilton from Timothy Pickering, 26 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received and considered your letter of the 23rd instant, proposing that a credit should be given to the Supervisors of the Revenue for the postage of Letters, until their collections should render it convenient to make payment. I shall as you request instruct the Deputy Postmasters, at the places by you enumerated, to open accounts with the respective Supervisors, and to accommodate the...
46528To Alexander Hamilton from William S. Smith, 1 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have experienced several difficulties in the course of the Winter, in consequence of the lattitude given in the Contract, to the Contractor—I was in hopes to have got thro’, the spring, without troubling on the subject of his arrangements—But notwithstanding my influence with the troops, and my indulgence to the Contractor, founded on his Repeated promises to issue better provission’s—I am...
46529To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 25 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Newport [ Rhode Island ] October 25, 1790 . “I received your letter of the 7th.,… with the Act of the United States therein enclosed. … Your idea is perfectly right that the Light money mentioned by me was for the purpose of supporting the Light-House establishments in this State, and distinct from the imposition you refer to to which Congress have declared their consent.… I have delivered to...
46530To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Sim Lee, 4 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 29th of August intimating the Presidents desire that the Eastern Shore part of the detachment of Militia required from this State should be immediately marched to Baltimore Town. I have also received and beg you to accept my thanks for your private letter of the same date. In conformity to the President’s direction I have...
46531To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Arnold, 29 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ East Greenwich, Rhode Island, October 29, 1790. On December 13, 1790, Hamilton wrote to Arnold : “Your letter of the 29th. October has been received.” Letter not found. ] Arnold was surveyor of the port of East Greenwich.
46532To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 16 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newport, Rhode Island ] January 16, 1792 . States that expenses for the customs office and officers as well as the allowance on exported domestic spirits will exceed expected receipts. Wishes “to know whether under the above circumstances any further deposits should be made in the Bank of Providence until those allowances shall be discharged.” LC , Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode...
46533To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 14 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is the form of the bond and oath given and taken by the Exporters of Distilled Spirits in this District. Please to revise, and correct them, and return them, or to furnish me with other forms as soon as may be convenient. It is made a question whether by the addition to the provisions contained in the fortieth and forty-first Sects. of the Act intituled an Act to prove more...
46534To Alexander Hamilton from William Cocks, 28 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Some time since Colo Smith informed me that you had been so obliging as to write to the Secretary at War, on the subject of Pay, while acting as Brigade Inspector—when in Philadelphia I waited on the Paymaster General in order to get the amount of the pay, he informed me that before he could give an order for the payment of it, it would be necessary for me, to procure a Certificate from you,...
46535To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [1 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Hamilton that an offer was made to him last Night of one dollar ⅌ Acre for two parcels one on Snow Valley run a water of Mahantango—& the other in Nescopeack—in all about 8500 As. belong to Church & Coxe—of the land purchased for Mr. Church & himself (Mr. C.) last Spring. The payment will be prompt. Mr. Coxe intends to accept the offer for his part, and...
46536To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 25 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The inclosed paper A contains a list of the articles which it will be expedient to import from Europe without delay for the naval armament. A ship the Pigou is expected to sail for London on the 28th instant. Considerations relative to certainty and to secrecy if the state of things in Europe should require it, appears to recommend the confiding the direction of the business to our Minister in...
46537To Alexander Hamilton from William Duer, [19 January 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I omitted writing to you last Evening in Expectation of Communicating more agreable Intelligence, than this Post will Convey you, for you will undoubtedly hear from Mr. Renslaer, that Mr. Burr was this day Elected by both houses, to succeed General Schuyler, by a large Majority in the Senate, and of five in the House of Representatives. This is the fruit of the Chancllor’s Coalition with the...
46538To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 10 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department, May 10, 1799. Encloses a letter from William Macpherson “relative to the positions proper to be maintained … by the regular troops, in the Country late the scene of insurrection and disaffection.” LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. For background to this letter, see McHenry to H, March 13, 1799, note 12 , March 15, 1799 . Macpherson to McHenry, May 3, 1799 (copy,...
46539To Alexander Hamilton from James Ricketts, 1 January 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Elizabethtown, New Jersey ] January 1, 1797 . “I feel you will think that I have not paid proper attention to your letter. Immediately on the receipt of it I wrote to Mr. Livingston to send me an account of the Dividends which he had made, and the proportions which he had paid me on acct. of his Sisters Legacy, his answer I recd. the day before yesterday which is as follows: ‘I have recd....
46540From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 11 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
I was led the other day to reflect, whether I had ever put into your hands the last, as well as the first letter, which A.G. Frauncis wrote to me concerning the Warrants. Finding no trace of any remarks from you to me, I take it for granted, that I omitted to do with respect to the last, what I had done with respect to the first. But being uncertain, how far the new matter, which is suggested,...
46541To Alexander Hamilton from Aaron Ogden, 13 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Thomas Y How in answer to my enquiry whether a second Lieutenancy, in the 11th regiment, in addition to his appointment, as Secretary to the Inspector General, would suit his ideas, says, “As the measure has been proposed by General Hamilton, he will accept with pleasure.” I have the honor to be with the most perfect respect your mo: ob. servt ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of...
46542To Alexander Hamilton from James Tillary, [14 January 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Mulligan will have the honor of seeing you in Phila. & promised to deliver this letter personally. It incloses 200 Dolls, which I have been indebted to you a most unconscionable length of time. When Mr Childs was in Phila. about a year ago, he was commissioned by me (having then the needful of my property) to discharge my pecuniary obligations to you. But disappointments pressed so severely...
46543From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 1 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I received the enclosed letter with the document therein, last night. For reasons which will appear obvious, I make you acquainted with the contents of them—being Yours ALS , DLC : Alexander Hamilton Papers. See Tench Coxe to GW, 31 January. Hamilton summarized that enclosure on the cover of this letter: “This covered a letter from Mr Coxe of the 31 of January 1795 contains a charge against Mr...
46544To Alexander Hamilton from Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet, (21 April 1794) (Hamilton Papers)
Les deux millions et demi tournois que le Gouvernement des Etats Unis a mis provisoirement a ma disposition sont la seule base Sur laquelle je puisse etablir le payment d’une foule d’objets de service arrière-Courant. Mais l’eloignement des époques qui m’ont ete indiquées me laisse dans un très grand embarras. Il m’est impossible de faire face à l’étendue des engagemens pris si ces époques...
46545To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Hamtramck, 5 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
as you have requested me to give you my opinion fully on the Military affairs of this Country, I take the liberty of Submiting Some Observations for your Consideration. it appears to me that the Want of Discipline in our troops is produced from the following causes. 1st. the incompleatness of the Regiments which for the want of Men never allows an officer a Command equal to his Rank, the...
46546To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Ustick, 20 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Since handing you my note requesting to have my name offered for a Commission in the Provisional Army, I have thought that it might not be improper to inform you that I at present depend upon my profession for a subsistence which whenever I may be called into service must cease and that then the pay which I may receive will be my only support, if therefore I should obtain a subalterns...
46547To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 8 November 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newport, Rhode Island ] November 8, 1790 . “… In my letter of the 12th. of July I expressed a wish that the fees for every service had been precisely ascertained. I hope that this will take place in the new Coasting Act.…” LC , Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island. Printed in this volume. See Ellery to H, September 20, 1790, note 1 (printed in this volume).
46548To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Hunewell, 24 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Yours of the date of April 10th. 13th. 15th. 17th. & 23d., have come to hand, after a long passage occation’d by the breaking up of the Kennabic River & irregularity in the carriage of the mail— Yesterday the Officers of my Regiment met in this town agreeable to notice, & made choice of Lieut. William Swan for Paymaster, who I think is well qualified for the Office—Lieut. Samuel P. Fay, I am...
46549To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [18 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, February 18, 1794. In an undated letter written sometime in 1797 to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Coxe reviewed his correspondence with Hamilton concerning the execution of the revenue laws in Pennsylvania. In the course of the letter Coxe wrote: “My letter of the 18th. of Feb. 1794 adds thirteen objects of Amendment to those suggested in Decr. 1792 & Augt. 1793. the 2d 7th. & 13th of...
46550To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Cass, 27 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
When I obtained your permission to go to Philadelphia last December it was for the purpose of Registering some Military land warrants, it is now an important object with me to have them located; the Secretary of the Treasury having appointed the 17th day of February next for that purpose, I am again necessitated to solicit your permission to go to Philadelphia about that time, three, or four...
46551To Alexander Hamilton from Francis Gibson, 7 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I beg leave to inform you that I am in a very bad State of health at Present—and if I do not soon get better I have every reason to fear an approaching consumption. if I coud obtain Leave of absence for five or Six weeks I woud go home to Carlisle where I woud have a better opportunity of Recovering as I woud have more care taken of me and my room woud be so much warmer than here I hope my...
46552To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 19 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Newport [ Rhode Island ] March 19, 1792 . “By the last Post I received a Letter from the Comptroller, inclosing a Statement of my Account from the first of July to the 30th. Septr 1791, by which I find that my charge for Scales & weights for the Port of Bristol … was rejected being unauthorized by you. Scales & Weights were absolutely necessary for that Port.… Please, Sir, to signify your...
46553To Alexander Hamilton from Lewis Tousard, 8 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I just receive a letter of Lt Dransy which I here inclose: The business for which he was Sent to Newport is far from being completed; and the usefulness of that officer who has already mounted ten Sea Coast Carriages, and has preparations for twenty more, is sufficiently obvious. who may continue the mounting as that officer can do? If it is necessary that an officer Should be Sent to his...
46554To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Kidder Meade, 16 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Frederick [ Virginia ] July 16, 1799 . Recommends Edmund Taylor as a brigade inspector and adds: “… I have often delighted myself with the pleasing idea of seeing you before our long farewell, & it now appears as if we were approaching each other—the nature of your office may lead you here, but if not into this Valley, a few score miles will be no bar to my carrying my heart & hand to you. I...
46555To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 4, 1791. Acknowledges receipt of Hamilton’s “letter of the 18 Decr. last together with Dycas’s & Colles’s Hydrometers.” States that Colles’s hydrometer may not be “truly graduated” and that there is a defect in the bulb of Dycas’s hydrometer. Requests a new bulb. LC , RG 36, Portsmouth Collector, Letters Sent, 1790–1791, Vol. 2, National Archives; copy, RG 56,...
46556To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Underwood, 14 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Your friendly letter of the 7th. March I Received this day, which will ever place me under obligations to yr. Excellency, I do assure you it is my wish to Continue in the army If it will not injure the public service for me to be Stationd in Virginia or any of the Atlantic States, my only reason for Resign’g was my ill state of health & knowing should I be sent to the Western Country I could...
46557To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 22 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Yesterday at noon I received by Express via Providence the Resolution of Congress of the 18 of this month continuing the present Embargo until the 25th. day of May next, and also the Resolution relative to the Embargo of the second of this month. On Tuesday last towards evening the Ship Britannia of London Edward Redman master arrived here under convoy the Bomb Ketch Vesuvius mounted with 12...
46558To Alexander Hamilton from William Allibone, 5 April 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, April 5, 1790. “… Agreeably to your circular letter, of the fifth of October last, the several establishments in the Bay and River Deleware have had every necessary attention paid to them.… A scarcity and rise in the article of oyl is likely to take place owing to the demand for the European Market, and the moment any is landed here it is bot. up for that purpose, this has...
46559To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 5 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Trenton, October 5, 1799. Protests against having to send money by mail to Army officers whom he does not know. States that it has always been a rule “to make a book entry of cash received or paid, at the time of the transaction, filing the voucher at the same time.” Also writes: “As there is provision … for the travelling expences of military Officers,… whether in the first outset in...
46560To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Morris, 12 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I am concerned to perceive by your letters of the 10th & 8th Inst a degree of solicitude which I did not expect or intend to excite. You will recollect that it was a point conceded by you that even after the Mortgage I might sell & change the Security for one equally Satisfactory, and as I was in Treaty for a Sale, I thought a delay untill that Treaty finished one way or the other was not of...
46561To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 14 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your instructions respecting the Brige. Trimmer and she shall be dispatched accordingly. What you say of disbursements of money actually made may make it necessary to inform you that in the case of the Brig Trimmer, and in others similar thereto (where the matter of illegality was duly reported without reserve, and manifestly without any intention of evading the law) the custom...
46562To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 9 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office, June 9, 1794. “The following case has occurred in this Office in which I take the liberty to request that the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States may be obtained. In the beginning of the year 1787, Benjamin Eyre, being then and still a Creditor in the Unfunded Stock of the United States, became a bankrupt in London, in consequence of...
46563To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 13 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department, April 13, 1799. “The enclosed copy of a letter from Lieutenant Colonel Strong dated the 23rd: of January ultimo. was intended to have accompanied the papers referred to you in my letter of the 11th. instant.…” LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; LS , letterpress copy, James McHenry Papers, Library of Congress; ADf , James McHenry Papers, Library of Congress. David Strong...
46564To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 2 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I had the honor of recieving yesterday your letter of the 28th. of August. Being desirous from its nature to answer it in the speediest manner possible, I do it immediately (without waiting for the account, for which I wrote yesterday to the commissioners, in the instant of recieving your letter) this day’s English post being the last which will be in time for the New-york packet of Wednesday...
46565Receipt from Peter Goelet, [4 October 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
Received New York Octo 4 1796 of Alexander Hambleton Esqr. Six Hundered and fourty One pounds being principle and Interest on the third Instalment of the Purches Money for Lands bught at Acction belonging to the American Iron Company as mentioned in the Receipt of the first payment. £641 Copy, Miscellaneous Chancery Papers, American Iron Company, Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Albany, on...
46566To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 12 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth [ New Hampshire ] July 12, 1794 . “Since my letter of the 9th. instant the Marshall of the District of N Hamp. applied for & recd. the 2d M[o]iety of the 200 dollars directed to be Advanced to him.… Considering that your instruction to me of the 2d of July 1793 restricts these payments to 200 dolls Per year I cannot consistant therewith make a further payment to him in the present...
46567To Alexander Hamilton from Aaron Ogden, 15 January 1801 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose the within power, confiding that the Trustees agree in an opinion, that no investment in real property, should be assented to, unless, in such, as would be productive to Mrs. Le Guien, in case of accident to her husband. If the power be not sufficiently ample, or in proper form, be pleased to cause such an one to be sent to me, as you may judge requisite & I will return it duly...
46568To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 26 March 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received this morning your letter of the 23d inst. I shall write to day or to morrow to a Mr. Timothy Phelps a Merchant in New Haven Connecticut to know whether he will undertake to store and deliver the Cloathing to the Quarter Master for the 1. and 2d. District formed in that State and if he will I shall send the apportioned quantity to him as soon as it comes into the public store. I...
46569To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [30 January 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Presuming the legality of the propositions contained in your Letters of the 24. & 25. Instant, I consent that you give an eventual instruction to our Minister at the Hague to postpone the instalment of a Million of Florins, to become due on the first of June next on account of the Dutch Debt; and I also consent, that you cause to be allowed for charges, upon the last Loan of 3,000.000 of...
46570To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 21 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Bearer Mr. David Maitland is a partner in my House of Commerce & my particular friend he solicits the honour of being known to you, and I trust you will excuse the liberty I take in introducing him. Mr. Maitland wishes to become a Citizen of America & I have heard that there is a shorter way of getting at this benefit, than an absolute residence of two years in the Country, if such exists...