1James Hamilton: Commission to Treat with the Indians, 22 September 1753 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania , V (1851), 658–9. The renewal of the French advance into the Ohio Valley was signalized in June 1752 by the attack on the Indian town of Pickawillany. Awakening slowly to the threat, the Pennsylvania Assembly the following May voted £200 to the Twightwees as a condolence, and £600 to the other tribes on the Ohio for “the Necessities...
2James Hamilton: Commission to Treat with the Indians, 13 May 1754 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Public Record Office, London The Board of Trade in London recognized that the French were trying to seduce the Iroquois from their British alliance and that the colonies, especially New York, were contributing to the danger by violating treaty engagements with the Indians and ignoring their complaints. Hence the Board wrote the governor of New York, Sept. 18, 1753, directing him to meet...
3James Hamilton to Jared Ingersoll, 8 July 1762 (Franklin Papers)
Extract from a transcript: Massachusetts Historical Society Governor Hamilton of Pennsylvania and Jared Ingersoll had become friends while both were in England in 1758–59, and they corresponded occasionally thereafter. The letter from which an extract is printed below deals chiefly with the threatened settlement by the Connecticut Susquehannah Company on lands within the charter boundaries of...
4To George Washington from James Hamilton, 25 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Hamilton, 25 Nov. 1778. On 29 Nov., GW wrote Hamilton : “I was last night honored with your polite Letter of the 25th Instant.”
5To George Washington from Brigadier General James Hamilton, 24 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
Having obtained Colonel Woods consent to Write Your Excellency, I shall in as few Words as possible mention, that since the 6th of January When the scarcity of Meal begun the Troops of Convention Quarter’d in Albemarle Barracks have been in the greatest distress. First When that article was Wanted and the Inhabitants prohibited selling What the Comissaries could not supply the Troops with—&...
6To Thomas Jefferson from James Hamilton, 24 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of receiving Your Excellencies Letter of the 3d Instant, with an extract from Major Genl. Phillips’s Letter, which by adhering to, in Your ordering any Sum from one to five thousand Pounds in Specie to be paid Mr. Geddes here for the use of the Troops of Convention, I shall immediately Write to New York, that Your Prisoners may receive an equivalent Sum there, payable to those...
7To Thomas Jefferson from James Hamilton, 27 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The friendly but imprudent Zeal of Mr. Cruse of Alexandria, to promote what he supposed my Interest, makes it necessary to trouble you with this Letter. I hope you will do me the Justice to believe that the application which his Letter of last Post informs me he has made on my behalf is entirely without my privity or Knowledge. I had not at any moment contemplated or thought off the office he...
8To Thomas Jefferson from James Hamilton, 26 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
On the momentous Questions respec ting our foreign Relations lately discussed, although, the republican Interest has divided [us]—the Confidence of the Public in Purity and Wisdom of your Administration is unimpa[ired]. Having had the Honor by your Nomination of holding an office under you and by a la[te] appointment having become connected with the Judiciary of this State, I have thought I...
9James Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Robert Hamilton of Petersburg wrote you Some time ago, requesting the favour of you to notify the Subscribers to an obligation given M r MClure now of your neighbourhood, that the same has been assigned to me, and that the conditions on the part of M r M c Lure have been complied with—He has not received an answer from you As there are several debts which I have assumed to pay for M r