79201Enclosure C: [Statement of Interest Payable in the Year 1794], 6 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Guilders. Guilders. Guilders S: d. rate of excha. ⅌ Guilder Amount in Dollars Cents Five ⅌ Cent: Loans effected at Amsterdam. On 4,000,000 of the loan of 5,000,000 ⅌ Contracts dated June 11: 1782, at interest from June 1: 1793 to June 1: 1794 200,000 on 1,000,000 ⅌ Contract dated June 1: 1787, at interest for the same period 50,000 on 1,000,000 ⅌ Contract dated march 13: 1788, do do
79202To George Washington from Charles Burrall, 6 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
The office of Postmaster General being vacated by Colo. Pickerings late removal to the War Department, permit me in the most respectful manner to offer myself as a candidate to supply the vacancy. Confiding implicitly in your disposition to do justice to every individual, as well as your vigilance to promote the public service I should not have troubled you with a direct application, but from...
79203To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 6 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have taken into consideration the petition of James Kerr, which you did me the honor of referring to me. It appears from the testimony of the Reverend John McMillan, and Thomas McNary, that James Kerr did actually sign the paper of submission in time, and exhorted others to do the like. The persons who thus testify are intimately known by Mr James Ross, the Senator of the United States, to...
79204Conversation with George Hammond, [23 December 1794–5 January 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Although I have had no reason to suspect, that this government has ever deviated from the resolution, which I have formerly attributed to it, of declining to enter into any political connexion with Sweden and Denmark, I have nevertheless, since the receipt of your Lordship’s last instructions, renewed my enquiries upon the subject, in an incidental conversation with Mr. Hamilton, from whom I...
79205John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
By this Days Post I have your Letter of the 26. Ult. I believe that some incomprehensible sympathy or other, made me low Spirited all the time you were Sick, tho I neither knew nor suspected it. I rejoice to be inform’d of your Recovery. If I were not afraid of every Change in your Situation, that might endanger your health, I would plan a Project for next Winter: but I must leave that for a...
79206To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 5 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] January 5, 1795 . Requests “an early opportunity of confering … upon the rough draught of an Act for the President relative to compensations, which he finished yesterday.” LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1794–1795, National Archives. For background to this letter, see Coxe to H, July 15, 1794, notes 4 and 5 , December 13 , 26 , 30, 1794 ; H to Coxe, December 9 ,
79207To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 5 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Newport [ Rhode Island ] January 5, 1795 . “This will be accompanied by the Accounts of Walter Channing Agent for fortifics in this Port, and his letter to me relative to said Accts and the purchase of land for said fortifics….” LC , Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island. Ellery was collector of customs at Newport. DS , RG 217, Miscellaneous Treasury Accounts, 1790–1894, Account...
79208From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Francis, 5 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed I send you a letter from the Commissioner of The Revenue of the 3rd. instant respecting Mr. Copperthwaits mission. I will add to it that Mr. Copperthwaits power ought to be complete & absolute as to the management of the whole business, subject only to the instructions which he shall receive from hence. It is necessary to efficacy & to avoid the embarrassments heretofore experienced...
79209To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Lee, 5 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote to you the other day in reply to your ler. recd from Col. Carrington. The communications from my friends since my return go to tell me that I have become an object of the most virulent enmity of a certain political junto who affect to govern the U S & belch their venom on every Citizen not subservient to their will. Mr. Marshall says that my imagination cannot present to me in true...
79210From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Matthews, 5 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 5, 1795. On February 16, 1795, Edmund Randolph wrote to Oliver Wolcott, Jr.: “Let me beg the favor of you to take some immediate and definitive arrangements respecting the pilot-boat, upon which your Predecessor wrote to General Matthews on the 5th. ultimo.” Letter not found. ] Wolcott was comptroller of the Treasury from November 5, 1791, until he succeeded H as...