1To John Adams from Alexander Contee Hanson, 6 December 1792 (Adams Papers)
I cannot flatter myself, that after the lapse of sixteen years, you can have any recollection of the man, who now addresses you. In the year 1776, he had the pleasure of lodging with you, under the same roof, at Philadelphia; and he has often since reflected on the circumstance, with satisfaction— I take the liberty of introducing to your notice Mr. Elie Valette, a young gentleman of real...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 6 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] December 6, 1792 . “By the President’s command, T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of the Treasury, with the President’s approbation affixed thereto, the Contract entered into by Thomas Newton junr. on the part of the U.S. with John McComb junr. to execute certain additional objects specified in said Contract, to the Lighthouse lately erected on Cape Henry.…” LC...
3From Alexander Hamilton to John F. Mercer, 6 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In my last letter to you, I informed you of my having transmitted copies of your answer of the 16th of October and of certain certificates accompanying it to Major Ross. I have lately received a letter from him of the 23rd of last month, of which and of the documents, to which it refers, I now send you copies agreeably to the Major’s request. No strictures on the policy or tendency of my...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 6 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, December 6, 1792. “The continued Complaints of the Merchants and Sea-Faring People, residing in this District, That the different Practices of different Collectors occasion an unequal operation of the same Law in the collection of the Revenue; together with the Censures thrown out against me for not conforming to that which is the most favorable to the Importers, constrains me Sir,...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Maria Reynolds, 6 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 6, 1792. During an interview with Maria Reynolds on December 12, 1792, James Monroe and Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg saw in Mrs. Reynolds’s possession “two notes; one in the name of Alexander Hamilton, of the sixth of December.” Letter not found. ] “Reynolds Pamphlet,” August 31, 1797 . The statement by Monroe and Muhlenberg is printed as document No. III in the appendix...
6To Alexander Hamilton from James Waters, 6 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Permit me to inform you, that I shipt several Cargoes, the produce of this state to Cape François there to be sold for my Account, in Augt & Septr last with positive orders, not to sell to Govt, that the French Consul had published he would not pay any Bills drawn on him by the Govt of St Domingo. Notwithstanding my positive Orders, not to sell any property to Government they were compelled to...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 6 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to transmit the following statements of disbursements by the Department of War in the years 1790 & 1791. Number 1. Being a statement of the accounts of Henry Knox Esq. Secretary at War as settled at the Treasury. No. 2. Being a statement of the accounts of Joseph Howell Esq. from the 10th. of Sept. 1789. to the 1st. of March 1790. as settled at the Treasury. No. 3. Being a...
8Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 6 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command, T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of the Treasury, with the President’s approbation affixed thereto, the Contract entered into by Thomas Newton jur on the part of the U.S. with John McComb junr to execute certain additional objects specified in said Contract, to the Lighthouse lately erected on Cape Henry: And to inform the Secretary that the...
9Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 6 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit to the President of the United States, the enclosed letters, from Brigadier General Wilkinson and John Belli deputy quarter master—dated Oct: 4th and 8th 1792; which I have just received. Yours sincerely, LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed letters from James Wilkinson and John Belli have not been identified.
10To George Washington from Henry Knox, 6 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
In explanation of the speeches from the chiefs of the six nations herewith submitted, it may be proper to observe that Jasper Parish who is a temporary interpreter to those tribes informs verbally that the said chiefs returned from the hostile tribes to Buffaloe Creek about the last of October—That they immediately sent a runner to General Chapin the temporary Agent to the six Nations, and who...