1From Alexander Hamilton to Phineas Bond, 1 September 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is a letter to Judge Morris which speaks for itself. I shall be glad to hear from you on the subject of it & that at any rate if you do not come, you will authorise some discreet person to cooperate with me on your behalf. If you should turn your attention to a law character, it may be well you should know that Messrs. R: Harrison & R Troupe are concerned for the trustees. With esteem...
2From Alexander Hamilton to James Greenleaf, 9 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
You request my opinion of your title to the lands lately purchased by you of James Gunn and his Associates called the Georgia Company. I wish it was more in my power than it is to give you one embracing the whole subject, but never having had an opportunity of examining the title of the state of Georgia, I can pronounce nothing on that head. I can only say that from all that came under my...
3From Alexander Hamilton to the Editor of The Argus, [6 November 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
For the Minerva . The Defence No. 22, if I recollect aright was sent you on Sunday last, accompanied with an intimation that the subsequent numbers would be transmitted with greater frequency, and requesting that their publication might be accelerated. You could be at no loss to conjecture the motive. Since that time, to facilitate dispatch, two other numbers have been sent you. Instead of...
4To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 28 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, November 28, 1795. Second letter of November 28 not found. ] In the “List of Letters from G—— Washington to General Hamilton,” Columbia University Libraries, two letters to H from Washington for November 28, 1795 , are listed.
5To Alexander Hamilton from James Butler, 1 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
(Tho’ I have not the honour of your acquaintance) I shall take the liberty of addressing you, to inform you of the real pleasure & satisfaction it gives me to read your Explanation in favour of the Ilustrious President. And to inform you of Some of his Charitable donations—I mean What came Within my knowledge, which I am Sure are but trifling if compar’d With the imense Charities he bestows,...
6To Alexander Hamilton from James Hardie, 2 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Princeton [ New Jersey ] December 2, 1795 . “… During the time of the yellow fever in New York, some business called me to that city. A person to whom I had rendered very considerable service served a writ upon me even in his own house & as it happened at a late hour I was sent to jail, where I continued for three days.… The trial will come on, during the Christmas week, when I shall endeavour...
7To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 31 August 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Since my return to this city, I have recd: a letter from you dated August — We know officially, as well as from the effects, that an order for siezing all provision vessels going to France has been issued by the British government: but so secretly, that as late as the 27th. of June it had not been published in London: It was communicated to the cruisers only, and not known until the captures...
8To Alexander Hamilton from Phineas Bond, 2 September 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 2, 1795 . A letter which Hamilton wrote to Bond on September 1, 1795 , is endorsed: “answered 2d. Sept.” Letter not found. ]
9To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 16 August 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I expected to have the pleasure of seeing you here at the supreme court; when I meant to Enter into, a full conversation with you. But being disappointed, I shall only beg you to read a letter, which I have this day written to Mr. Jay; and requested him to shew to you. If I do not mistake, your ideas and mine were not very different as to the provision-order I am dear sir with real esteem and...
10To Alexander Hamilton from John Habersham, 7 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, December 7, 1795. Encloses a letter from “Monsr. De Bordes, a French Gentleman, who was formerly an Officer in the Georgia Line.” Describes De Bordes’s service during the American Revolution. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Habersham served in the American Revolution in the First Georgia Continental Regiment. He was a member of the Continental Congress in 1785 and...