1Extracts of Correspondence on Indian Affairs, October 1792 (Washington Papers)
General Wilkinson Fort Hamilton—6th Sepr 1792 Refers to a letter dated 31st Augt from Fort Jefferson—Marched that evening at 9 ‘Oclock with 26. mounted Infantry and 80 Rifle men, & reached Genl St Clairs field of Action next morning —The road filled up in many places by the floods of last sprg and by Shrubs, grass, & weeds. Intended to reconnoitre as far as the confluence of the St Marys & St...
2To Alexander Hamilton from James Lovell, October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreably to the directions of your circular letter of August 31st. covering an order of the Senate passed on the 7th. of may last, I now transmit the demanded account. I cannot, however, refrain from expressing an Hope that my statements may not prove injurious to such Officers as have had usual & necessary Assistance of Clerks, without being driven to devote their own Nights as well as days...
3From Alexander Hamilton to John Daves, 1 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, October 1, 1792. “I enclose you a letter for Captn Cooke. … I have … concluded to alter the station of the Revenue Cutter from New Bern to Wilmington. The Collector of that port will of course have to perform the duties which were heretofore committed to you relative to the Said Cutter.” Copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at New Bern, National Archives; LC , RG 26,...
4To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 1 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th and of the 20th of the last month, the first in answer to mine of the 4th. respectg. the Sale of property on board vessels abroad, the 2nd in answer to mine of the 10th of the same month respectg. the credit on salt &c; and hope to be favoured, as soon as you can make it convenient, with answers to my letter of the 20th....
5To Alexander Hamilton from Meletiah Jordan, [1 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Frenchman’s Bay, District of Maine, October 1, 1792. On November 17, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Benjamin Lincoln : “The Collector of Frenchmans Bay in his letter to me dated October the 1st.” Letter not found. ]
6To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 1 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 22d. ulto., with it’s enclosures, came duly to hand. Lest any material disadvantage should result from delay, I have signed the Act which has been drawn by the Commissioner of the Revenue & approved by you, for arranging allowances to the Supervisors &c. and now forward it; but I would rather, if this is not likely to be the case, have it retained in your hands until my...
7To George Washington from Joseph Donaldson, 1 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
After a labour of thirty years in this Country I am reduced to distress—My first place of residence was Fredericksburg—I removed from thence to York in Pennsylvania and acquired by industry a fortune—I came to Baltimore and by giving too extensive credit I lost my all, during the War my services in York County were not unprofitable to the cause of Liberty, I exerted myself in sending out men...
8From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 1 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 22d ulto, with it’s enclosures, came duly to hand. Lest any material disadvantage should result from delay; I have signed the Act which has been drawn by the Commissioner of the Revenue & approved by you, for arranging allowances to the Supervisors &c.—and now forward it; but I would rather, if this is not likely to be the case, have it retained in your hands until my...
9Thomas Jefferson’s Conversation with Washington, 1 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
This morning at Mt Vernon I had the following conversation with the President. he opened it by expressing his regret at the resolution in which I appeared so fixed in the letter I had written him of retiring from public affairs. he said that he should be extremely sorry that I should do it as long as he was in office. and that he could not see where he should find another character to fill my...
10From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 1 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Expecting this letter will find you in Philadelphia—I wish you wd begin in time to compare all my Speeches in Congress with the subsequent Acts of that body; that I may see what parts of them have passed altogether unnoticed, or which have been only partially noticed; thereby enabling me to judge whether any, and what parts of them should be brought forward again. It is my request also, that...