15251To Alexander Hamilton from Walton and Cruger, [19 October 1771] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Jamaica, October 19, 1771 . On November 27, 1771, Hamilton wrote to Jacob Walton and John H....
15252From Alexander Hamilton to The Royal Danish American Gazette, [6 April 1771] (Hamilton Papers)
I am a youth about seventeen, and consequently such an attempt as this must be presumptuous; but...
15253From Alexander Hamilton to Edward Stevens, 11 November 1769 (Hamilton Papers)
This just serves to acknowledge receipt of yours per Cap Lowndes which was delivered me...
15254Probate Court Transaction on Estate of Rachel Lavien, [19 February 1768] (Hamilton Papers)
Skifte brev no. XXIX . Som udi Skifte-Sessions Protocollen er behandlet under No. XXIV sc: efter...
15255Introductory Note: To ———, [December–March 1779–1780] (Hamilton Papers)
Generations of H scholars have not been able either to date this letter or to determine its...
15256Introductory Note: To Francisco de Miranda, [23 November 1784] (Hamilton Papers)
According to his biographer ( Robertson, The Life of Miranda William S. Robertson, The Life of...
15257Introductory Note: Notes on the History of North and South America, [December 1786] (Hamilton Papers)
These Notes, which Hamilton divided into two parts entitled “Notes on the History of North...
15258Introductory Note: New York Assembly. An Act for Raising Certain Yearly Taxes Within This State, [9 February 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
The Assembly of the New York legislature resolved on January 17, 1787, “that a Committee be...
15259Introductory Note: Constitutional Convention Speech on a Plan of Government, [18 June 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
There are five versions of Hamilton’s speech of June 18 to the Constitutional Convention. In the...
15260Introductory Note: The Federalist, [27 October 1787–28 May 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
The Federalist essays have been printed more frequently than any other work of Hamilton. They...
15261Introductory Note: New York Ratifying Convention, [17 June–26 July 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
On February 1, 1788, the New York legislature voted to call a convention to ratify or reject the...
15262Introductory Note: Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit, [9 January 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
Sources for the ideas expressed by Hamilton in his Report Relative to a Provision for the Support...
15263Introductory Note: First Report on the Further Provision Necessary for Establishing Public Credit, [13 December 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
There are two drafts of this document in the Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. The final...
15264Introductory Note: Second Report on the Further Provision Necessary for Establishing Public Credit (Report on a National … (Hamilton Papers)
In preparing his “Second Report on the Further Provision Necessary for Establishing Public...
15265Introductory Note: Report on the Establishment of a Mint, [28 January 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Precedents for Hamilton’s “Report on the Establishment of a Mint,” can be found in the writings...
15266Introductory Note: Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank, [23 February 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
There are at least eight manuscript versions of this famous document. One of these is an...
15267Introductory Note: Report on Manufactures (Hamilton Papers)
Like Hamilton’s other major state papers, the “Report on Manufactures” is distinguished not so...
15268Introductory Note: From Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
This letter concerns the problem of the so-called lost million. As early as September, 1775,...
15269Introductory Note: To George Washington, 4 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The completion of the census of 1790 offered Congress its first opportunity to reapportion...
15270Introductory Note: To Thomas Jefferson, [20–27 May 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
On March 5, 1792, George Hammond, the British Minister to the United States, submitted to...
15271Introductory Note: To John F. Mercer, 26 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
This letter marks the beginning of a protracted dispute between Mercer and Hamilton. In 1792...
15272Introductory Note: View of the Commercial Regulations of France and Great Britain in Reference to the United States … (Hamilton Papers)
Although Hamilton’s “View of the Commercial Regulations of France & Great Britain in reference to...
15273Introductory Note: From George Latimer, 2 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
This letter from Latimer, a Philadelphia merchant, concerns one phase of the involved question of...
15274Introductory Note: To George Washington, 15 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
According to Gouverneur Morris, United States Minister Plenipotentiary to France, Edmund Charles...
15275Introductory Note: From Andrew G. Fraunces, 16 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
This letter from Andrew Fraunces initiated a controversy over the payment of two warrants issued...
15276Introductory Note: Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on the Depredations of the Creek Indians Upon the State of Georgia, 29 May … (Hamilton Papers)
Throughout 1792 and the early months of 1793 the Washington Administration had received reports...
15277Introductory Note: To Rufus King [13 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
This letter marks Hamilton’s initial involvement in a protracted and acrimonious dispute between...
15278Introductory Note: Outline for George Washington’s Fifth Annual Address to Congress, [November 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
In the period immediately preceding George Washington’s Fifth Annual Address to Congress on...
15279Introductory Note: To Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, [16 December 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
On December 16, 1793, the Speaker of the House of Representatives “laid before the House a Letter...
15280Introductory Note: To George Washington, [14 April 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The threat of war with Great Britain in the spring of 1794 was met in the United States with...
15281Introductory Note (Hamilton Papers)
This report is among the more significant and neglected of Hamilton’s state papers. Its...
15282Introductory Note: From Tench Coxe, [13 February 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
This is one of a series of letters concerning Tench Coxe’s speculations in Pennsylvania lands....
15283Introductory Note: To Robert Morris, [18 March 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
This letter is the first in a protracted—although one-sided—correspondence, which lasted even...
15284Introductory Note: To Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 10 April 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The contents of this letter can best be understood in the context of Hamilton’s “Report on a Plan...
15285Introductory Note: From Robert Morris, [7 June 1795], with enclosures (Hamilton Papers)
This letter is one of many which Morris wrote to Hamilton concerning a debt which Morris owed to...
15286Introductory Note: The Defence No. I, [22 July 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
This is the first of thirty-eight articles entitled “The Defence” and signed “Camillus,” which...
15287Introductory Note: From Philip Schuyler, [31 August 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
The opening paragraph of this letter contains the first reference in Hamilton’s extant...
15288Introductory Note: From Robert Morris, [27 April 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
This letter is the first in Morris’s correspondence with Hamilton that refers to a debt which...
15289Introductory Note: To George Washington, [10 May 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
The opening paragraph of this letter contains the first reference in Hamilton’s extant...
15290Introductory Note: From Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [3 July 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
The events described in this letter precipitated the final phase of what has come to be known as...
15291Introductory Note: To James McHenry, [1 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
This letter contains the first of many references to the plans for the fortification of New York...
15292Introductory Note: From George Washington, [14 July 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
This letter contains the first mention in Hamilton’s extant correspondence of the question of who...
15293Introductory Note: To James Gunn, [22 December 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
This letter concerns proposals for reorganizing the Army. This is a complicated subject, for it...
15294Introductory Note: From Philip Schuyler, [31 January 1799] (Hamilton Papers)
The opening paragraph of the letter printed below contains the first reference in Hamilton’s...
15295Introductory Note: To Theodore Sedgwick, [4 May 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
Introductory Note The letter printed below is one of many which Hamilton and his correspondents...
15296Introductory Note: To Benjamin Stoddert, [6 June 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
As Hamilton indicates in the letter printed below, he was about to set out on a trip to New...
15297Introductory Note: From Philip Schuyler, [17 July 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
This letter contains the first explicit reference to the Grange, Hamilton’s country home in upper...
15298Introductory Note: Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq. … (Hamilton Papers)
Hamilton’s record as Secretary of the Treasury demonstrated to all but his most inveterate...
15299Introductory Note: The Examination Number I, [17 December 1801] (Hamilton Papers)
This is the first of a series of eighteen articles entitled “The Examination” and signed by...
15300William P. Van Ness’s Narrative of the Events of June 18, 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
On the afternoon of the 17th June last I received a Note from Col: Burr requesting me to call on...