981To Alexander Hamilton from Jedediah Huntington, 22 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
New London [ Connecticut ] September 22, 1790 . “Mr Nathaniel Richards will contract to supply the Light House at this Port, for one year from the first of October next with Oil, Wick, Candles & Soap … for 380 Dollars.… I have agreed to give Daniel Harris for tending the Light 80 dollars ⅌ year.…” ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “C,” Connecticut and New York, National Archives....
982To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 23 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston ] September 23, 1790 . “I recd. your circular Letter of 16th Inst. enclosing the various Forms prescribed for transacting the bussiness assigned to this Office.… I shall take the liberty to request the favour of your answers to the following Queries: Wether Warrants upon the Treasurer for Indents are to be taken up by the Loan Officers? Wether the Old Emission Money is to be...
983To Alexander Hamilton from John Habersham, 23 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Savannah, September 23, 1790. Encloses weekly returns. Recommends Captain Hendrick Fisher to command a revenue cutter. ALS , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Habersham was collector of customs at Savannah.
984To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 23 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, September 23, 1790. “The repair of the Light-Houses on Plumb Island are now finished & the accounts have been presented for settlement; they correspond with the agreement I made saving the Painter’s bill—that I reported to you would be seven pounds fourteen shillings: the painters have charged sixteen pounds odd; the mistake arises in this way; they estimated the expence of painting it...
985To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Lee, 25 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Alexandria, Virginia, September 25, 1790. On October 10, 1790, Hamilton wrote to Lee concerning the “purchase of a Boat such as is generally described in your letter of the 25th Ulto.” Letter not found. ]
986To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Gilman, 27 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
September 27, 1790. On October 6, 1790, Hamilton wrote to George Washington : “I have received from Nathl. Gilman … a letter of the 27th. September.” Letter not found. ] Gilman had been appointed commissioner of loans for New Hampshire in August, 1790, but declined the appointment.
987To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Knox, 27 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Tyler of Deer Island in the Province maine has shewn me a statement of his case drawn up by Judge Sewall which has been transmitted to you. If no inconveniences should result from your postponing your judgemt untill his arrival you can oblige. I am Sir Yr humble Svt ADfS , Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. George Tyler had been convicted of a violation of the smuggling laws and...
988To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 27 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. John Cogdell having resigned his appointment as Collector of the port of George town in south Carolina, I have to request that you will make enquiry respecting a proper person to succeed him. Mr. Corbin Braxton having also resigned his appointment as Surveyor of the ports of Richmond and Manchester—Colonel Heth informs me that he has nominated Mr. Z. Rowland to do the duties of the office...
989To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 29 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston ] September 29, 1790 . “I had the honor of writing you the 23d. Inst., since which I am favoured with yours of 23d Inst.… I now transmitt you an account of the Registers which I now have on hand, as far as they respect the Army Accounts & the Accounts of the Five great departments.… I have employed Printers to strike off blanks of the various Forms and Bookbinders to prepare the...
990To Alexander Hamilton from Sharp Delany, [30 September 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
Your circular Letter of the 23rd Inst. I recd. and shall pay due regard to the instructions therein. I beg leave to observe that from the Nature of the Accounts and the Number of them in my office it will be hardly possible with every exertion to make the returns agreeably to the forms before the Middle of November, although the Accounts in my books are up to the 20th of last Month, but...