101To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 3 November 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have returned to this place from Union Town. A letter from Governor Lee which goes with this probably informs you of the plan of future operations —but lest it should not I shall briefly state it—The right wing is to take a position with its left towards Budds ferry & its right towards Greensburgh—The left wing is to be posted between the Yocghagani & Monongalia with its left towards the...
102To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 31 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
The New Jersey Infantry and Brigade of Cavalry are at this place—The Pensylvania Infantry will be here this Evening—The light Corps is advanced about two Miles. No official account, since that heretofore communicated has come from the left wing —But a person who came from Union-Town yesterday informs, that Morgan with the advance was there—the main body about twenty miles behind—I propose in...
103To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 29 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Light Corps with the Jersey Infantry and Brigade of Cavalry are at Indian Creek in Legonier Valley—where they continue ’till this division gets up, which will be this evening, as the march will commence in an hour. This division had, I believe, the worst road, and was besides encumbered with all the spare Stores, which has thrown it a day’s march behind the other. But by a letter received...
104To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 26 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
The very late arrival of the waggons the injury to a number of them & the dispersed situation of the troops render it impracticable to leave this place today as was inten[d]ed—But the baggage & stores go forward & tomorrow the troops must move—I apprehend no material derangement of the general plan. An express has been dispatched to Governor Lee advising him of the state of things here....
105To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 25 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
We arrived here this afternoon. A very heavy rain has rendered the march extremely arduous and distressing; but we find here much better shelter than was foreseen. Our baggage & stores are just beginning to arrive—The Jersey line & Brigade of Cavalry took the right hand road about five miles back. Tomorrow we shall continue our march & I hope that we shall conform to the general arrangement...
106To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 23 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
Col. Mentges delivered me your letter from Hartley’s —Upon interrogating him, I do not find that there are more than two detachments of Militia on the way—one of New Jersey which by his account is likely to be pretty far advanced of Carlisle—& the other of Pensylvania from Allen Town, about fifty or sixty, more in arrear. Mentges is not very perspicuous which may have led you to a different...
107To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 29 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you two communications from the Commissioner of the Revenue dated the 24 & 25 instant, and to submit my opinion, that it is adviseable to ratify all the contracts to which they refer except that last mentioned with Green Parker. With perfect respect &c. LB , DLC:GW . Tench Coxe’s letter to Hamilton of 24 Sept. enclosed "proposals from Mr John McCauley for the...
108To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secry of the Treasury presents his respects to The President. He finds it will be impracticable for him without injury to the public service to leave town on Monday , but he will do it the day after & overtake the President. However he begs leave to inform the President that from the information received, there is no prospect of a pretty general assembling of the Pennsylvania & N. Jersey...
109To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 19 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Upon full reflection, I entertain an opinion, that it is adviseable for me on public ground, considering the connexion between the immediate ostensible cause of the insurrection in the western Country & my Department, to go out upon the expedition against the insurgents. In a Government like ours, it cannot but have a good effect for the person, who is understood to be the adviser or proposer...
110Alexander Hamilton to Daniel Morgan, 13 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am instructed by the President to express to You his wish that every practicable exertion may be made to accelerate the assembling of the Militia at their appointed places of Rendezvous, Winchester and the Vicinity of old Fort Pleasant Alias Moorefield. you are probably informed that a junction of the Virginia and Maryland Troops at Fort Cumberland has been contemplated. You are at liberty...
111To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 10 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed I have the honor to transmit to you a claim of Joseph Tatlow’s against the United States for his services as an Express in April 1794 from New Castle to Philada with public dispatches from London by Cap: Truxton, which claim has been allowed at the Treasury. As I know of no other fund out of which this money can be paid, I would beg leave to suggest to the President, whether it ought...
112To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury requests the favor of the President to send him the communications from the Governor, on which he not long since reported, containing imputations on the conduct of the officers of the U. States employed in the Western Counties. They will be useful in forming the reply to his last letter, in which a considerable progress has been made. LB , DLC:GW . Hamilton...
113To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The state of my health since you were pleased to refer to me the letter from Governor Mifflin of the 22 of August has been such as to delay the necessary previous examination in order to a reply—and prevents now its being as full and particular as I had wished it to be. I premise for greater clearness, that by official influence, I understand, that influence which is derived from Official...
114To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 27 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President incloses a recommendation of persons for officers of the Revenue Cutter in South Carolina. Capt. Cochran who is now here expresses an opinion that as the person recommended for third Mate is very young, it will be adviseable to defer his appointment ’till some further trial of him. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed recommendation...
115To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 21 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of War contemplated the sending about this time two months pay to the troops & mounted volunteers under General Scott. A law directs that the payments to the troops may be so regulated as that there shall be at no time in arrear more than two months pay. The requisite Treasury arrangements are made & every thing is ready for making the contemplated remittance to the army. But a...
116To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 21 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to The President. The letter written to the President on the 16. respecting the publication of the Report of the 5. was written at the Secy of State’s Office, where Mister H. expected a copy of it had been taken previous to its delivery. But when Mister H. sent to enquire for a copy in order to the publication of it, he found none had been...
117To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 19 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
A temporary absence from the seat of Government, & the extra avocations which have occupied me since my return have delayed my submitting to you the inclosed communication of the 15th of July from the Commissioner of the Revenue. The arrangement proposed is the result of a previous consultation between the Commissioner of the Revenue & myself, and appears to me proper. If adopted, it will...
118To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 18 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury submits to the President the draft of a letter on the subject of the proscribed privateers. Would it not be adviseable to communicate the matter to the French minister & to request his cooperation in causing our ports to be no longer affronted by those vessels? The appointment of Collectors for the Districts of Hampton & Snow-Hill is become urgent, the present...
119To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 16 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
It appears probable that advantages will result from giving to the Citizens at large information on the subject of the disturbances which exist in the Western parts of Pennsylvania. With this view, if no objection to the measure should occur to you, I would cause a publication to be made of the Report which I had the honor to address to you, dated the 5th instant. With the most perfect respect...
120To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 15 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to The President—incloses him a letter which Mister Coxe has just brought to him for his perusal. It is conceived that a reply may be given to this Letter, by Mister Coxe, which being published with the letter, may do good. If the President sees no objection, the idea will be pursued. Augt 15. 1794. It is said that papers have been received...
121To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 14 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Attorney for the District of Virginia has presented to the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, a claim against the United States for his services in attending at Norfolk by direction from the Secy of State, in order to take depositions respecting a british vessel alledged to have been taken by a french privateer within the limits of the United States; which claim has been...
122To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 12 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President & sends him two letters which were received last night from Pittsburgh. Would it not be adviseable to put the Garrison of Fort Franklin in the power of Major Butler, so that if he deems it advisable he may draw a part of it to his aid? An attack from the Indians appears at present improbable, & an attack from the Insurgents...
123To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 6 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President, sends him the statement of facts promised. The date is proposed to be two or three days before the Proclamation, when it was in fact begun. There is a blank to be filled with a quotation from a former proclamation which is not immediately at hand; but the blank will be filled before it goes to the press. If the President...
124To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 5 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The disagreeable crisis at which matters have lately arrived in some of the Western Counties of Pennsylvania, with regard to the laws laying duties on spirits distilled within the United States and on Stills, seems to render proper a review of the circumstances which have attended those Laws in that scene, from their commencement to the present time—and of the conduct which has hitherto been...
125To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, 5 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The draft of a proclamation and that of an instruction to the Commissioners being both prepared, we take the liberty to suggest that we think a meeting tomorrow morning at such hour as may be convenient to the President, may be adviseable. The Secretary of State & Attorney General being out of town we cannot consult them, but we will engage the attendance of the Attorney General provisionally...
126To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
In compliance with your requisition I have the honor to submit my Opinion as to the course which it will be adviseable for the President to pursue in regard to the armed Opposition recently given in the four Western Counties of Pennsylvania to the execution of the laws of the U. States laying duties upon Spirits distilled within the United States and upon Stills. The case upon which an Opinion...
127To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 23 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
When I left Philadelphia I did not doubt that a week would be the extent of my absence. But circumstances have unavoidably delayed me beyond that time, & at this moment I am under a necessity of embarking to accompany Mistress Hamilton on her way to Albany as far as Fish Kill, where I shall land & repair to Philadelphia. I hope & believe that no material inconvenience will attend my absence—&...
128To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 13 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have considered the two subjects upon which you desired my opinion as maturely as my situation has permitted. With regard to the proceedings on Kentuke, I perceive nothing that can with propriety or utility be done; unless the Attorney General on full and careful examination should be of opinion that they furnish indictable matter, in which case I should think it very material that...
129To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 11 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President. the state of health of his little boy & the situation of Mrs Hamilton in consequence of it, oblige him to request the President to excuse him from attending the interview with the Indians today & also to ask the President’s permission to make an excursion into the country for a few days to try the effect of exercise & change...
130To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 10 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits to the President of the U. States a Communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue of yesterday, transmitting a provisional contract for oil for the use of the Light houses —with his opinion that a ratification of the contract will consist with the interest of the United States. LB , DLC:GW . Tench Coxe’s letter to Hamilton of 9 July...
131To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
From communications with the Secretary of State, in your absence, it would appear expedient to place the powers in Holland for making a Loan for the purpose of the Algierine-negotiation earlier than may be practicable, if the Minister resident there is to be the agent. Under this view of the subject, I request your instruction whether the power shall be sent to our Commissioners at Amsterdam...
132To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
Private Sir Philadelphia June 22. 1794 The Secretary of State on referring to you the question of the answer to be given to Mr Hammond concerning compensation for certain captured vessels will I presume transmit to you the opinions of the other Gentlemen as well as his own. Besides the reasons hastily sketched in the memorandums given to the Secretary of State—there is one of a delicate nature...
133To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed Letter from the Collector of Hampton, of the 26th of May, shews that the necessity of appointing a successor to that Officer has at length become absolute, & suggests some names for consideration. Another letter from mister Carrington of 19th of December last suggests another name. The enquiry was made of Mister Carrington with your permission, but with cautious guards against...
134Enclosure: Opinions of Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, 22 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am not willing to give a pretext for not doing us justice by the appearance of carelessness or indifference as to the fulfilment of our engagements. I continue to think that the idea of a special instruction to Mr Jay is proper, because it is an evidence of our being in earnest, because as Mr. Jay’s mission was produced by circumstances subsequent to the communication to Congress, that...
135To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 16 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
It is with regret, I inform you, that another Collector has suffered Treasury drafts to return unpaid, which were drawn upon monies reported by him to be in his hands. Abraham Archer Esquire of York town. Inclosed are letters of apology on the subject. All the drafts which were at first declined were afterwards paid. I perceive nothing substantially to distinguish this case from that of the...
136To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 14 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President. He had thought that the appointment of a Supervisor for pennsylvania might without inconvenience be deferred ’till the return of the President, & therefore deferred mentioning it. But on more particular reflection as a new revenue year commences with the first of July, he believes it would be of use to accelerate the...
137To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 11 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
The second instalment on the loan of two millions of Dollars, made of the Bank of the United States, having become due in the month of December last, I have the honor to request that you will be pleased to authorise me, to carry into effect an Act of Congress passed this Session, entitled, "an Act providing for the payment of the second instalment due on a loan made of the Bank of the United...
138To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 11 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to communicate a letter of the 19 of May from the Collector of Charleston with it’s enclosures—which announce a very exceptionable & dangerous interference, by certain Citizens of that place, with the Government, Treaties and lawful authorities of the U. States —and to be with the highest respect &c. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosures have not been identified, but the collector,...
139To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 11 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits to the consideration of the President the enclosed communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue respecting two mooring chains for the river Delaware, with his opinion that it will be for the public interest to ratify it. The draft of an authorisation for paying the second instalment of the two million Loan of the Bank of the U. States is...
140To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 10 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of submitting herewith to the President the draft of a power to borrow One million of dollars, by virtue of the Act passed the 9 instant, intitled "an Act making appropriations for certain purposes therein expressed.["] I need only observe as to the necessity of making the loan, that the objects for which the Act provides will call for immediate expenditures—and that the funds...
141To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 9 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to send herewith sundry papers which relate to the Petition of William Martin & contain full information on the subject. Upon the whole as Mr Martin is undoubtedly an innocent sufferer, I incline to the opinion that a pardon may be adviseable which would operate to remit one half the penalty incurred. With perfect respect &c. LB , DLC:GW . William Martin (1733-1814)...
142To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to reply to your Letter of the 29th of May, on the subject of the Million of dollars granted by the Act of the 20 of March last. As a day or two must determine the question of the fund, and will probably produce the requisite disposition concerning it—measures may be taken provisionally on that supposition. I therefore send here with the draft of a power for making the loan to...
143To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
Upon receipt of the communication to you from the Governor of Pennsylvania of the 18 of April last, I put that letter and the papers attending it into the hands of the Commissioner of the Revenue to examine into the suggestions made & report to me concerning them. The result is contained in a letter from that Officer dated the 25 of April, (which hurry of business put out of sight) and which...
144Alexander Hamilton’s Proposed Presidential Message to Congress, March–May 1794 (Washington Papers)
In my speech to the two houses of Congress at the opening of the session I urged the expediency of being prepared for war as one of the best securities to our peace —Events which seem dayly to be unfolding themselves press still more seriously upon us the duty of being so prepared, indicating that the calamities of war may by a train of circumstances be forced upon us, notwithstanding the most...
145To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 27 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
In answer to the enquiry you have been pleased to make, I have the honor to inform you that nothing has been yet done upon the first section of the Act of the 20th of March last, which appropriates a million of dollars, to defray any expenses that may be incurred in relation to the intercourse between the United States and foreign Nations; authorising the President if necessary to borrow the...
146To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 27 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
I sometime since communicated an intention to withdraw from the office I hold, towards the close of the present session. This I should now put in execution but for the events which have lately accumulated of a nature to render the prospect of a continuance of our peace in a considerable degree precarious. I do not perceive that I could voluntarily quit my post at such a juncture, consistently...
147Alexander Hamilton’s List of Candidates for Minister to France, 19 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Georgia Nathaniel Pendleton (District Judge) Baldwin S. Carolina J. Rutlege E. Rutlege C. C. Pinkney Pinkney (late Governor)
148To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 15 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to transmit herewith for the President’s signature, the draft of a passport upon application from the French Minister, which is also enclosed. LB , DLC:GW . On this date GW "Signed a passport for the vessel L’aimable of port de paix (St. Domingo) now at Phila. to depart in ballast & to proceed to sd. Island" ( JPP Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of...
149Cabinet Opinion, 13 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
At a meeting of the heads of the departments and the attorney General, at the house of the President, of the United States, the subject of affording an auxiliary force to Major General Wayne for the purpose of enabling him to make a vigorous and offensive campaign against the hostile Indians being considered, it is advised, that he be authorised, to call for two thousand mounted volunteers...
150To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 12 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President & sends the enclosed for his decision —submitting his opinion that it is not adviseable to grant the permission requested. This case is not precisely within the rule already adopted as a general one. LB , DLC:GW . Hamilton probably enclosed French minister Jean-Antoine-Joseph Fauchet’s letter to Edmund Randolph of 12 May,...