59101From Alexander Hamilton to Lewis Tousard, 6 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been represented that the Fort at Portsmouth wants a new magazine new platforms embrazures, that the walls require to be repaired and the cannon to be mounted. It is my wish that the state of this post may be surveyed and a specific report, made to me of what may be indispensable to be done, towards putting the Fort to in a state fit for service, with an estimate of the probable...
59102From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [16 March 1801] (Hamilton Papers)
On Saturday, My Dear Eliza, your sister took leave of her sufferings and friends, I trust, to find repose and happiness in a better country. Viewing all that she had endured for so long a time, I could not but feel a relief in the termination of the scene. She was sensible to the last and resigned to the important change. Your father and mother are now calm. All is as well as it can be; except...
59103From Alexander Hamilton to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 31 December … (Hamilton Papers)
You will herewith receive a duplicate of my letter to you of the 26th ultimo, advising you of Bills, which the Treasurer of the United States had been directed to draw upon you to the amount of one million and two hundred and fifty thousand guilders. You will please to observe, that this sum has been reduced to one million and two hundred and thirty seven thousand five hundred Guilders, which...
59104From Alexander Hamilton to Edward Carrington, 21 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 21, 1791. “The compensation annexed to that office is to consist of a Salary of One Thousand dollars per Annum and one per Cent of the product of the duties on the Spirits which shall be distilled within your district.… The subdivision of your district into surveys of Inspection has been deferred by the President, to be done, in the course of his journey. He will write to...
59105From 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...
59106From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 21 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, November 21, 1789. “I have received the letter which you enclosed to me in yours of this date.… I shall pay due attention to the information it conveys.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
59107Circular to the Commandants of Regiments, 19[–20] September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I request the favour of your opinion as to such of the Majors captains & Lieutenants of your Regiment as may be best qualified for service in the department of the Inspectorship or of the Quarter Master. This is an inquiry for information which will be extended to the several Regiments. It is hoped that the opinion will be given with freedom & frankness as it may be relied upon that it will be...
59108From 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.
59109To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
A Committee of the House of Representatives appointed to enquire into the state of the Treasury Department, is charged among other things to enquire into the authorities from the President to the Secretary of the Treasury respecting the making and disbursement of the Loans made under the act of the 4th and 12 of August 1790. You will perceive by the enclosed copy of a paper of this date...
59110From Alexander Hamilton to William Brickell, 13 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter I have just received yr. letter of the 18th. Jany. December. The subject has already been matter of communication between me, and the Secy. of War and myself. And your case is embraced in a general regulation which that Officer has thought proper to direct—An exception in the particular in question, would be, as you may will readily conceive, an irregularity extremely improper, as...
59111From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Cheriot, 18 November 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I am sorry that my departure from Albany prevented my receiving there your communication on the subject of Mr. Le Couteux. The facts which you state respecting him correspond with what I have always understood. This Gentleman having emigrated from France to the UStates in a time of peace between that country and Great Britain and having been fourteen years a naturalized citizen of this...
59112From Alexander Hamilton to John Adams, 9 September 1792 (Adams Papers)
I trust you are sufficiently convinced of my respect for and attachment to you to render an apology for the liberty, I am going to take unnecessary— I learnt with pain that you may not probably be here ’till late in the session— I fear that this will give some handle to your enemies to misrepresent—and though I am persuaded you are very indifferent personally to the event of a certain...
59113From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 12 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have maturely reflected on the subject of the within papers. I do not hesitate to give it as my opinion that if it were not for very peculiar personal circumstances the fittest arrangement upon the whole would be to consign the temporary execution of the Comptroller’s office to The Commissioner of the Revenue. But I could not advise this, because it could not fail for strong reasons to be...
59114From Alexander Hamilton to John Bishop, 26 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the twenty fifth instant has been delivered to me. Dividing your party into two detachments, the first to consist of four corporals sergeants, four corporals, and fifty six privates; and the last of the remainder of your new corps ———— Reserving from your party four serjeants, four corporals, the musicians and fifty six privates with the musicians , you will detach the remainder...
59115New York Assembly. Report on the Petition of Margaret Livingston, 31 March 1787 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, March 31, 1787. On this date Hamilton, as chairman of a committee on the petition of Margaret Livingston, brought in a bill entitled “An act for dividing the township of New Stamford in Ulster county.” New York Assembly Journal Journal of the Assembly of the State of New York (Publisher and place vary, 1782–1788). , 1787, 129. The bill introduced by H was incorporated in “AN ACT for...
59116From Alexander Hamilton to Nehemiah Hubbard, 3 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I heared with much regret, though under the appearances which must have struck you, not with much surprize, of your determination to decline the appointment of Superintendant of the Manufacturing Society. This institution has presented itself to my mind as of such real public importance, that I feel myself much interested in its success; and I acknowlege that I continue to entertain a...
59117From Alexander Hamilton to Major General Israel Putnam, 29 August 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
By command of His Excellency, I am to request you will immediately send on Major Blackden & the detachment that came with him to join this army. I am Sir Your most Obed serv ADfS , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. The date reads either 28 or 29, for one set of numbers has been written over the other. Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Blackden or Blagden, Second Continental Dragoons.
59118From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 3 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue of the 25th. of July, on the subject of a provisional Contract for the supply of the Lighthouse in New Hampshire; together with the Contract for your consideration & decision. I agree in the opinion expressed by the Commissioner of the Revenue. With the most perfect respect and truest attachment, I have the honor to be...
59119From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 2 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] May 2, 1793 . “The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to enclose for the information of the President a Letter of the 26 of February from our Bankers at Amsterdam.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard to H, February 26, 1793 .
59120From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 24 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, July 24, 1793. Acknowledges receipt of Olney’s letter “of the 26th ultimo” and states: “From the special circumstances growing out of a new law, I rather forbear to recommend the enforcement of Penalties in this case.” LS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Providence, National Archives; LC , RG 56, Letters to Collectors...
59121From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 23 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been heretofore understood between us, that the supplies furnished and payments made, or to be made, within the United States, on account of the debt due to France, should be liquidated according to the intrinsic par of the metals in the two Countries. It remains to settle what this par is, and to deduce from it the true value of a French livre in the legal Currency of the United...
59122From Alexander Hamilton to Lieutenant Colonel William De Hart, [7 May 1778] (Hamilton Papers)
By command of His Excellency, I am to desire, You will immediately march with your Regiment by the safest and most convenient route into the Jerseys, and there join, and put yourself under the command of, Col: Shrieve. You may regulate the march of your baggage, and the transportation of your sick in such manner as shall appear to you most elegible, either by giving them an upper route or...
59123From Alexander Hamilton to George Ingersoll, 9 December 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Captain Eddens informs me that there is a man on Governor’s Island who goes at large and has not done duty for a considerable time. He belongs to Captain Flemings company, and informed Capt. Eddens that he was brought to the island by his Captain in order to be transferred to some other company there being a discontent between him and the Company to which he belonged. I request an explanation...
59124From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 23 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I inclose you the return of Military Stores viz. at Fort Niagara and request that you will immediately forward a compleat supply of the Articles stated to be wanted ( Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
59125From Alexander Hamilton to Louis Le Guen, 6 March 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Albany, March 6, 1804. On March 22, 1804, Le Guen wrote to Hamilton : “Je nai recu que hier, Votre Lettre du 6.” Letter not found. ]
59126Receipt from William Pearce, 18 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] November 18, 1791 . “Received November 18. 1791 of Alexander Hamilton Fifty Dollars on account of Machines for a Cotton Manufactory.” D , in the handwriting of H and signed by Pearce, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. For “A list of Mr Willm Pearce’s Machines,” see “Receipt from William Pearce,” August 20, 1791, note 2 .
59127From Alexander Hamilton to James Bruff, 25 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The recruiting for your company being now in train, it becomes expedient to recur to the affair of your Charges against Major Rivardi. I have accordingly taken measures to constitute a Court of enquiry at Niagara, which I hope will be ready to enter upon the business by the time you can reach that place. I am therefore to desire that you will forthwith repair to Niagara. You will be entitled...
59128From Alexander Hamilton to the Convention of the Representatives of the State of New-York, [6 March 1777] (Hamilton Papers)
The change in my own circumstances and in those of your company of Artillery lately under my command make it necessary I should inform you of the present state of things, respect⟨ing⟩ it; in order that you may determine as to the future disposal of it; and I should be happy as speedily as convenient to know your pleasure on the subject. His Excellency has been pleased to appoint me one of his...
59129From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King, [March 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
It is a great while, My Dr. friend, since I have written to you a line. You will not I am sure impute my silence to any cause impeaching my friendship, for that must be always cordial and intire. The truth is that my professional avocations occupy me to the extent of the exertions my health permits, and I have been unwilling to sit down to write you without leisure to say something...
59130From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 12 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
By an Act entitled “an Act providing for the payment of the first installment, due on a Loan made of the Bank of the U. States” the President of the United States is authorised & empowered to apply two hundred thousand Dollars of the money which may have been borrowed, in pursuance of the 4th. section of the Act entitled, “an Act making provision for the reduction of the public debt,” in...