3921From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Gerry, 18 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of the 28 Ultimo was duly received. If it should appear to you that the former ad-measurements of Vessels have been materially inaccurate, read-measurements may be made. This, however, will not affect any thing past. A Thermometer was sent to you in March 1791. Inquiry will be made by what opportunity it was transmitted. In the mean time I should be glad to be informed whether none...
3922From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Gerry, 26 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, September 26, 1792. “I have directed another Thermometer to be sent.… The article being an expensive one, it is necessary that care be taken for its preservation.” LC , Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts; RC , Bentley Historical Library (Crouse Autograph Collection), Ann Arbor, Michigan. See H to Gerry, August 18, 1792 .
3923From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Gerry, 11 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, July 11, 1792. Cites case of the Schooner Dolphin , which was “admeasured” at both Baltimore and Marblehead. Asks why results of the “ad-measurement” at Marblehead were different from those at Baltimore and asks “to be particularly informed of the usal process which prevails at your port for the admeasuring of vessels.” LC , Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts. Gerry was...
3924From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel R. Gerry, [3 September 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, September 3, 1790. The description of this letter in the dealer’s catalogue reads: “Interesting letter to the newly appointed Collector of Customs at Marblehead (Massachusetts) enclosing a communication for the former incumbent of that office, Mr. Burrell Devereux, which will enable Gerry ‘to receive every thing in his hands relative to the duties of your office.’” Letter...
3925From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel R. Gerry, 28 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 5th instant has been received at the Treasury. It will be impossible for me to give any opinion on the disatisfaction expressed by some of the Owners ⟨-⟩ing at your port respecting the former admeasurement ⟨of the⟩ir Vessels, until I am informed of the particular causes which have induced them to solicit a readmeasurement. I am with consideration Sir, your most humble...
3926From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Russell Gerry, 9 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
You will find enclosed a Commission for the Office of Collector of the Customs for the District of Marblehead to which the President of the United States, with the concurrence of the Senate, has been pleased to appoint you. On the receipt of it you will be pleased to obtain from the Office of your predecessor the laws, & my several Circular letters for your government and information. The...
3927From Alexander Hamilton to Caleb Gibbs, 20 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 20, 1791. On May 16, 1791, Gibbs wrote to Hamilton : “I have been honored by your much esteemed favour of the 20th. Ulto.” Letter not found. ] Gibbs and H had been close friends during the American Revolution when both had been aides-de-camp to George Washington.
3928From George Washington to Caleb Gibbs, 21 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
When your letter of the 15 ulto came to this place I was in the act of setting off for Virga on urgent private business of my own—and, since my return that of a public nature has engrossed all my time. I write to you now because you have requested an acknowledgement of your letter—not because there is any place vacant (known to me), or⟨,⟩ that I would be under any promise if there was. I have...
3929From Thomas Jefferson to William B. Giles, 13 December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your favor of the 9th on the subject of the hire of my servant, but as my stay in Virginia will be too short to intermeddle with my affairs I must beg the favor of you to do in the matter as you would have done had I not returned.—I take the liberty of asking information from you, if you know who are the executors or administrators of the late young Mr. John Bannister, as I...
3930From Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 19 March 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I know not when I have recieved greater satisfaction than on reading the speech of Dr. Lieb in the Pennsylvania Assembly. He calls himself a new member. I congratulate honest republicanism on such an acquisition, and promise myself much from a career which begins on such elevated ground.—We are in suspense here to see the fate and effect of Mr. Pitt’s bill against democratic societies. I wish...