1To Alexander Hamilton from Abishai Thomas, 14 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, October 14, 1790. Recommends “a Sea faring gentleman of my acquaintance in North Carolina … Captain William McDaniel of Washington” for command of a revenue cutter. ALS , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Thomas, a resident of North Carolina, had applied for the post of commissioner of loans for North Carolina in August, 1790.
2To Alexander Hamilton from Abishai Thomas, [18 June 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Congress having appropriated Money for payment of the Invalid pensioners commencing with the 4th March 1789, and payment for the whole of that year having been made by the State of North Carolina to all the pensioners on the returns of that State, prior to the appropriation aforesaid, or at least prior to the knowledge thereof being obtained within the State, it follows that the money sent...
3To Alexander Hamilton from James Taylor and Abishai Thomas, 14 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
This Afternoon we were honor’d with yours of the 3rd instant, in which you request to be informed, “ Whether the State of North Carolina has ever issued its own Certificates in lieu of those of the United States ,” together with our “ opinion of the real state of the thing .” In answer to the first after giving the most ample investigation to the subject which the means in our power would...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Abishai Thomas, 6 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In submitting the following facts and observations to your consideration perhaps I may have exceeded the bounds of propriety in obtruding any thing like an opinion on the subject, but I have been involuntarily drawn into the measure, I hope it is done with due deference and I rely on your candour for an extenuation of the fault. On the subject of the claim of Wm Courtney esqre refer’d to you...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Abishai Thomas, 18 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I am directed by a Resolution of the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina to “Inform myself by what means this State obtained a Credit with the United States for a quantity of Leather received of Richard Blackledge,” and to “transmit to the next General Aseembly such vouchers or other information as I may deem proper to give the necessary information to the General Assembly.” To...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Abishai Thomas, 12 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
As Agent of the State of North Carolina I subscribed on Account of the loan to the United States proposed by Act of Congress of the 4th of August 1790 a Certificate or Receipt of James Green junr. late Treasurer of Loans in said State, for 96,300 dollars of the emissions of May 20, 1777, and April 11th. 1778. which had been deposited in his hands to be exchanged, which Certificate the Auditor...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Abishai Thomas, 14 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have duly considered your letter of the 13th with the Comptroller’s answer to your reference to him of my letter to you of the 12th Inst. The certificate or receipt in question is in fact what the Comptroller has only “supposed” it to be as may be fairly inferred from the face of the paper itself. The deposit being made “ until further orders ” does not in my opinion destroy the validity of...
8To Alexander Hamilton from Abishai Thomas, 9 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
By an act of the Legislature of the State of North Carolina I am directed to make a return of all the settlements of Army accounts which hath been made in the State; designating by whom the claims of the Officers & Soldiers had respectively been drawn, in effecting this I have had recourse to the original Vouchers which were deposited with the Commissioners of accounts, & are now in the...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Abishai Thomas, 13 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Ab Thomas has the honor & the satisfaction to inform the President that Letters are received from Capt. McNeill & the Navy Agent at New York , announcing that the Frigate Boston was got off the ledge of Rocks on which she had struck, at 10 OClock P.M. on the 9th inst.—previous to which all the water had been started and all the Guns, shot, provisions, anchors & heavy stores taken out of...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Abishai Thomas, 3 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to the instruction of the President A Thomas had the honor to Submit the enclosed *Statement to the Secretary of State, who approved of the information it contains being communicated to Mr. Pichon. [ In TJ’s hand :] *of French prizes carried into Mass. New Hamp. Connecticut & Rhode island. RC ( DLC ); with TJ’s note written in margin; address on verso partially torn away:...