1To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Hodgdon, 17 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 17, 1792. On December 18, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Hodgdon : “I am to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of yesterday.” Letter not found. ] Hodgdon, who had been a member of the commissary department of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, had served as quartermaster general of the United States Army from March, 1791, to April, 1792. At the time this...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 17 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] December 17, 1792 . “The Secretary of the Treasury … transmits herewith sundry Commissions which from time to time have been returned.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
3From Alexander Hamilton to James Monroe, Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, and Abraham B. Venable, [17] December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
On reflection, I deem it adviseable for me to have Copies of the several papers which you communicated to me in our interview on Saturday evening, including the notes, and the fragment of Mr. Reynolds’ letter to Mr. Clingman. I therefore request that you will either cause copies of these papers to be furnished to me, taken by the person in whose hand writing the declarations which you shewed...
4To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 17 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 29th. ulto by the English packet, the day after I had recieved the letters of the Secretary of State relative to the business in Spain. I expected then to be able, to set out from this place, much sooner. I have been detained by the answer from Paris not arriving as soon as it might have done & by my wish to recieve from the commissioners at Amsterdam &...
5To George Washington from Frederick A. Muhlenberg and Other Citizens of Pennsylvania, 17 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
We the Subscribers being well acquainted with John Witman junior of the Borough of Reading in the State of Pennsylvania recommend him to your Excellency as a man of Integrity whose Capacity activity and Attention to Business point him out as a fit Person to execute the Office of an Inspector of the Revenue for this District—He was formerly the Excise Officer for Berks County and is at present...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 17 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Cadiz, 17 Dec. 1792 . Even though he could wish to hold this letter until the contents can be confirmed, he sends it by way of Gibraltar and Baltimore for want of a vessel sailing from here to America. A vessel which arrived at Gibraltar from Tangier on 13 Dec. brings word from Peter Wyke, the Swedish consul there, that Ischem has had his father-in-law Rachmani executed and that Bashas Ben...
7From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Federal District, 17 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing that there was a Mason here (Traquair) who was in the practice of importing workmen in his own line from Edinburgh, I took occasion to enquire of him whether it might not be possible for you to have some imported thro the means of his correspondent, whom he represented as having both address and zeal to forward his countrymen to this country to which he means after some time to come...
8Notes of a Conversation with George Hammond, 17 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 17. Hammond says the person is here to whom the 6. nations delivered the invitation for Simcoe to attend, who says they insisted on it and would consider his non-attendance as an evidence that he does not wish for peace. But he says that Simcoe has not the least idea of attending.—That this gentleman says we may procure in Upper Canada any quantity of provisions, which the people will...
9Notes on the Reynolds Affair, 17 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 17. the affair of Reynolds & his wife.—Clingham Muhlenb’s clerk. testibus F. A. Muhl. Monroe. Venable.—also Wolcott et < forsan > Wadsworth. known to J.M. E.R . Beckley & Webb. < Reynolds was speculating agent in the speculns of Govt. arrearages. He was furnished by Duer with a list of the claims of arrearages due to the Virga . & Carola. lines & bought them up, against which the Resolns...