1To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Marshall, [June 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Men, Women, and Children employ’d in the Above Mill (in the preparing and Spinning Departments) will be at least 150. And the Weight of Twist Spun will not fall short of 768 lbs of No 20’s pr. Week. When the Mill is Completed it will be Indispensibly Necessary to have in Constant Employ, A Clock Maker, a Turner, a Joiner, and a Smith and Striker. On the Onset the Number of Trademen must be...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 30 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] June 30, 1792 . Transmits “three Contracts entered into for the stakage of certain waters in North Carolina, which have been submitted to the President of the United States & have received his approbation.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See H to Tench Coxe, June 30, 1792 .
3To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [30 June 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
For carrying into execution the provisions of the third section of the Act intitled, “An Act making certain appropriations therein specified,” passed the Eight day of May in this present year. I do hereby authorise you the said Secretary of the Treasury in the name and on the credit of the United States to borrow of any body or bodies politic, person or persons whomsoever the sum of Fifty...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 30 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, June 30, 1792. “I recd. by the post last evening your letter of the 21st instant. Soon after the receipt of your letter of the 4th of February last, I wrote you under date of the 28th of that Month and transmitted the Name of Benjamin Gunnison as a Suitable person in my opinion for first Mate of the Scammel.… I now beg leave to renew my nomination of Mr. Gunnison.…”...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 28 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, June 28, 1792. Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of “three contracts for Stakeage in the rivers and Bays of North Carolina from the port of Beaufort inclusively to the northern part of Albemarle sound.” LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives.
6To Alexander Hamilton from William Heth, 28 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your very friendly & polite favor of the 7th Inst; was received—unsealed—a day or two ago in Richmond with sundry official letters. I beg, my dear Sir, that you will accept of my sincere thanks for the condescending attention which you have paid to my private concerns, and for your assurances of friendship. The business & system of banks, being but new in this country, I have never thought...
7To Alexander Hamilton from John Langdon, 28 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I was honor’d with your favor of the 18th Inst. by post; by which I see, Mr. Church supposes he was not one of the Owners of the Ship Portsmouth, at the time she was in France, in which he will find himself Mistaken, when he recollects, that he Came to this place with Mr. Moore and Mercer and Recd. his proportion of a very Valuable Prize, called, the New Duckinfield, which was Captured, by the...
8To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 28 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, June 28, 1792. “By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return … a contract, with his approbation subjoined, between the Superintendant of the Delaware Lighthouse &c. and Thomas Davis & Thomas Connaroe.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See Tench Coxe to H, June 20, 1792 , and H to George Washington, June 26, 1792 .
9To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 28 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of resuming from this place my correspondence with you which has been lately suspended by my change of place & circumstance. My late letters & particularly those to the secretary of State will have shewn by what cause so long a space of time has elapsed between my appointment & my arrival here. I am anxious that it should be seen that there was no activity wanting on my part...
10To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 28 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
A necessary attention to my health required my leaving Baltimore, for a time, and occasions my writing to you from the vicinity of Frederick town. I have just received your letter, dated the 18th Inst: relative to certain communications by the Commissioner of the Revenue, comprehending a letter from me of the 3d. of May last, to the Surveyor of the district of Baltimore. It is matter of very...
11To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 27 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Among the Cases, which have been brought before the Auditor of the Treasury and myself in consequence of the 7th. Section of “the Act making Alterations in the Treasury and War Department” is one in which the Secretary at War is the Claimant. In a conference with the Auditor it appeared to Us a matter of doubt whether the Case is within the meaning of the law, and I do myself the honor to make...
12To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 27 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, June 27, 1792. Encloses “a contract between the Superintendant of the Delaware light House and Benjamin Price for two mooring Chains for two of the Beacon boats stationed in the bay of Delaware.” LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives. William Allibone.
13To Alexander Hamilton from Catharine Greene, 26 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The bearer Mr Miller will wait on you to learn the particulars of the transaction with Mr Royal Flint respecting the Certificate I obtained from Baron Glausbeck. I beg you will consider him as My particular friend and any information you can give on this or any other Subject relating to the affairs of My unfortunate family, who, as he will inform You (are all on float again) will greatly...
14To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 26 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your communication of yesterday, on the case of Col. Heth the Collector of Bermuda Hundred, I have the honor to inform you, that his enquiries demand different solutions. The contract, made before the passing of the law, to which he alludes, may be consummated on the 2nd day of January next without impropriety. For the restriction on Collectors, on the disposal of public...
15To Alexander Hamilton from Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 26 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
J’ai recu la lettre du 23 de ce mois par laquelle vous me comuniquez le résultat de votre travail sur la fixation de pair intrinséque de nos especes respectives, pour servir de regle à la liquidation des objets fournis et des sommes payés ou à payer ici par votre gouvernement à compte de sa dette envers la france. Je desirerois que ce principe de liquidation recut son application en france, et...
16To Alexander Hamilton from Daniel Huger, [22–25 June 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
As it may be of some importance to the Federal revenue, relative to the excise on whiskey, I take the liberty to inform you that during my Journey thro’ Virginia, I learnt that it was customary with the North Carolinians to convey Large quantities of their distilled Spirits into that State, which, as privileged people, they Sold at a Cheaper rate than those of their Sister State could afford...
17To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 25 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your three Circular Letters of the 4th 8th & 11th. of this month; and shall pay due attention to the Explanations and directions contained in them. By the 14 Sec: of the Act for registering and clearing vessels &c “if any ship or vessel after having been registered in pursuance of this act, shall in any manner whatever be altered in form or burthen” &c. “such vessel shall be...
18To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 25 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have made a long delay in answering your favours of the 12th & 19th. owing to not being able to meet with Col. Walker to settle the Bill for 300 Dollars. He has just sent me word that he will call up & pay it tomorrow. The amount will then be past to your Credit in Bank. I shall watch a favorable opportunity for the disposal of your Stock —at present it does not go beyond 27 or 28 ⅌ Cent...
19To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 25 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office, June 25, 1792. “I have considered the proposition stated in … Governor Mifflins Letter to you dated the 23d. instant, and can discover no objection to an arrangement being made, for permitting transfers to the Commonwealth of Pensylvania, of the sums which have been subscribed in the State Certificates. If this is done the Commonwealth will be...
20To Alexander Hamilton from William Gardner, 24 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Portsmouth, New Hampshire, June 24, 1792. On July 13, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Gardner : “I duly received your letter of the 24th ult.” Letter not found. ]
21To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you the answer of the Minister of France to the letter I wrote him on the subject of the complaint of the Collector of Bermuda hundred against the French Consul at Norfolk, whereby you will see that he undertakes to have the latter set right. I have not thought it necessary to reply to his observation that “Le Consul de Norfolk est sans doute obligé de maintenir les...
22To Alexander Hamilton from James Reynolds, [24 June 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Received philadelphia 24th June. 1792 of Alexander Hamilton Esq. Fifty Dollars. which I promise to pay on demand to the said Alexr. Hamilton or Order as witness my hand. 50 Dollars “Reynolds Pamphlet,” August 31, 1797 This receipt is printed as document No. XX in the appendix of the “Reynolds Pamphlet,” August 31, 1797 . For background to this receipt, see Reynolds to H, June 23, 1792 , and H...
23To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Dufouer, 23 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I am Again under the necessity of troubling you, and Appealing to your goodness of Heart to Excuse the Intrusion I make on your time while you Read this. It is long since I spent my last shilling relying on that Government for Bread by my Attachment to which I lost the place I held in the Customs & Obliged to behold Men in Office who would have waded thro’ blood to Oppose it. I have the most...
24To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Lee, 23 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I cannot so well execute Mr. Randolph’s desire as by enclosing his letter to me. Whatever he has said in favor of Mr. Johnston may be reckoned on with certainty. It has been a long time since I have heard from you, tho daily I hear of you: commended by some, condemned by others—sometimes you are mounted to the skys on the wings of fame, again whisked into the infernal pit. I have withdrawn...
25To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Mifflin, [23 June 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
By a late act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, provision is made, among other things, for paying the nominal amount of the State Certificates, which are subscribable to the loan, proposed by Congress to the State Creditors, “upon this condition, and not otherwise, that the State Creditors subscribe to that loan, and thereupon, on or before the 1st day of July next , transfer to the...
26To Alexander Hamilton from James Reynolds, 23 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Goodness will I hope overlook the present application you will infenately Oblige me if you Can let me have the Loan of fifty dollars. for a few days. what little money I had I put into the turnpike Scrip. and I dont like to sell At the low advance the[y] are selling at. at present. as its very low. if you Can Oblige me with that much in the morning sir you shall have it in a short time...
27To Alexander Hamilton from James Reynolds, [3–22 June 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I am now under the necessity of asking a favour from you which if Can Oblige me with the loan of three Hundred dollars. it will be in my power to make five hundred Before the Next week is out. and if you Can oblege me with it. you may Rely on haveing of it again the last of Next Week. if I am alive and well. the use I wont it for is to Subscribe to the turn pike Road. there is a nomber of...
28To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 22 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] June 22, 1792 . Transmits “the Contract made with Abraham Hargis for sinking a Well for the accomodation of the Delaware Lighthouse, which has received the President’s approbation.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See H to George Washington, June 19, 1792 ; H to Lear, June 22, 1792 ; Tench Coxe to H, May 28, 1792 . On June 25, 1792, Tench Coxe wrote to...
29To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 22 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to enclose for your inspection a statement of the Loans recd. by the United States from the Government of France with a calculation of the Interest due thereon to the 1st. day of January 1792. In this statement no notice is taken of the advances made at the Treasury of the United States or of the remittances by the Dutch Commissioners on account of said Loans. In the account...
30To Alexander Hamilton from John Daves, 21 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
New Bern [ North Carolina ] June 21, 1792 . “I transmitted you in the month of February last the description and dimentions of the Revenue Cutter built at Washington.… I should be thankful how soon her necessary Papers could be sent on, as she … will be ready for sea in a short time.” Copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at New Bern, National Archives. Letter not found.