1To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 22 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Have you seen or heard more of young Fayette since you last wrote to me on that subject? Where did he go to? Did you deliver him the letter I sent under cover to you for him? His case gives me pain, and I do not know how to get relieved from it. His sensibility I fear is hurt, by his not acknowledging the receipt of my letter to him; and yet, if considerations of a higher nature are opposed to...
2To Alexander Hamilton from John Lowell, Junior, 19 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, December 19, 1795. “I … enclose to you two notes of hand against two Gentlemen in New York for 750 dollars each. The money you perceive ought to have been long since paid and I am informed that the nonpayment has not been occasioned by inability. The notes were put into my hands to collect under the expectation that ye parties would have been in this place some time since. Having no...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Morris, 18 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Your friendly letter of the 14th came to hand on the 16th. It should have been answered yesterday, but my engagements did not permit. I wrote to you on the 16th of Novemr last mentioning a Negotiation opened with Boston in consequence of which I expected to redeem $140,000 Deferred Debt which I have pledged there. This Negotiation was opened under the auspices of Mr Swan, but I begin to think...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas FitzSimons, 17 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, December 17, 1795 . “Inclosed is the state of the Case depending between Mr. Church & Hollker, taken from the information given to me & submitted to Hollkers attorney here.… I have stated the facts as they Appear & in a Way that requires no evidence. If you approve them, after you have Named a Professional Man I will Name some other & let them chuse a third so that their decision...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 16 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you Dunlap of this Morning, in it you have the foreign intelligence. Fenno Dunlap & others have erroneously stated that Mr Warder brought the Ratification of Great Britain—no official Dispatch has been received. Rutledge was negatived yesterday by the Senate. From present appearances the address to the President by the House will pass without a Debate. The Draft has been by agreement in...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Timothy Pickering, 14 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The printer of Mr. Randolph’s vindication advertises that it will be published next Friday. The translation of Fauchet’s letter will be in it. This translation was made by Mr. Taylor at Randolph’s request; but Mr. Taylor, who desired the use of mine, told me that he had made but few variations. Now if I have mistaken the sense in any material passages, it is highly probable that they will be...
7To 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...
8To 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...
9To 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,...
10To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 1 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have not been able to ascertain all the points upon which you requested me to write to you. In February 1780 a Comtee. reported a conference with the Minister of France, the substance of which was —That the King of Spain wished for an alliance with the United States, but that it was necessary that the United States should explain their claims precisely. That the Cabinet of Madrid, construed...
11To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 28 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
If indisposition, or business of a pressing nature, should have prevented your looking into, and making a digest of the papers I sent you on the 16th. Inst I pray you to return them to me by the first Post after this letter is received. The meeting of Congress is near at hand and there is good reason to expect a punctual attendance of the members. I should be extremely unwilling therefore to...
12To 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.
13To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 23 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Enclosed are letters for Mr. de la Fayette, and his Tutor. I leave them open for your perusal; and notwithstanding the request in my letter of the 18th. I shall cheerfully acquiesce in any measures respecting them which you (and others with whom you may be disposed to consult) may deem most eligible. As there can be no doubt, that the feelings of both are alive to every thing which may have...
14To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 18 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Having no doubt that the petition contained in the enclosed Gazette, will make its appearance in the Virginia Assembly; and nearly as little of its favourable reception in that body, I resolved to give you the perusal of it, at this moment. But my principal view in writing to you now, is, to request that you would desire young Fayette and his Tutor to proceed to this place without delay;...
15To Alexander Hamilton from Timothy Pickering, 17 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The interest you take in all public measures of importance, and the peculiar solicitude you must feel at this time of general agitation, when so many are busy apparently to undermine the government which you so effectually laboured to establish, and have so eminently contributed to maintain—induce me, with that sincerity which I trust has ever marked my character, and that frankness which an...
16To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Morris, 16 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have a Negotiation in hand which will probably enable me to transfer to Mr Church the Deferred Debt which my Son agreed to pay him. Before I can speak positively a Correspondence which is opened with Boston must ripen, and I expect that the intercourse of a few Posts will reduce the matter to a certainty one way or other. I have $140,000 Deferred Debt deposited with the Treasurer of...
17To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 16 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
(Private & confidential) The papers herewith enclosed are so full, on the subject of my former request, that nothing more remains than to refer to them for every information I can give, as the ground work of the Superstructure you are to build. When you are done with them be so good as to return the whole to me again, with those sent before; together with the letter respecting young Fayette,...
18To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 16 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Private I sent you on Saturday an imperfect translation of Fauchets Letter I now send you a Copy of the original; you may at your discretion use the Letter, except causing copies to be taken, or suffering it to be printed. Mr. Randolph has intensively circulated a Letter in which he attributes his disgrace to the artifices of a “British Faction” —his Letter is accompanied with an explanatory...
19To Alexander Hamilton from Jean Marie de Bordes, 15 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, November 15, 1795. “… On the end of 1776 being recommended to you by General Washington, I was received and Served as a volunteer in your company of Artillery.… Few days after, from your company I was promoted to the duty of an aid-de-camp and temporaly acted as a Brigade-major… to the end of this memorable Campain. Called afterwards by peculiar reasons to the South of America, I...
20To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 14 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, November 14, 1795. On November 16, 1795, Wolcott wrote to Hamilton : “I sent you on Saturday an imperfect translation of Fauchet’s letter.” Letter not found. ] Saturday was November 14, but Wolcott endorsed H to Wolcott, October 30-November 12, 1795 : “ansd. 13th. Nov. & sent on Copy of Fr—— Letters.…”
21To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 10 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
(Private) Your favor of the 5th. has been duly received, but nothing was said in it of young Fayette. I am willing, as I said in my last, to receive him under any circumstances, or in any manner you may conceive best; & wish to know what that is. Having, since I wrote to you on the 29th. ult received more agreeable—tho’ not conclusive—accounts from abroad, I pray you to suspend your...
22To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 2 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose a statement of the Presidents account quarterly, which shews that he has not been in advance a quarters salary at any time. You will see that the Aurora denies that the members of Congress have ever recd. monies which were not earned & refers to a Letter of mine to prove the fact. I never wrote a Letter on the subject except to the Speakers Muhlenbergh & Trumbull in answer to an...
23To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 29 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
(Private) Two or three days ago I wrote you a few lines in haste, and promised one more lengthy when I was more at leisure. For this purpose I am now seated. The letters from young Fayette and Mr. Frestal; my letter to Mr. Cabot; and his answer (all of which are herewith enclosed for your perusal—mine in the rough state it was first drawn and to be returned when read) will give you a full view...
24To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 29 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
A voluminous publication is daily expected from Mr. R——. The paper alluded to in the extract of his letter to me, of the 8th. instt. and inserted in all the Gazettes, is a letter of my own, to him; from which he intends (as far as I can collect from a combination of circumstances) to prove an inconsistency in my conduct, in ratifying the Treaty with G. Britain, without making a rescinding (by...
25To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you abstracts of all the payments to the President to the present time. It is a fact that more money has been at times advanced than was due for service , but never a Dollar for which there was no Appropriation . The villany of the suggestion against the President has induced me to reply to the Calm Observer on the 26th. & 28th. You will see what I have said & the inclosed papers will...
26To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Schuyler, 12 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you my Dear Sir for informing me that you and all the family are in health; may you continue so is my anxious wish, but I am Still not without my fears. If you should remain, I hope the heavy rain of Yesterday has reached NYork. I have written to Mr. Church and my daughter recommending that she should bring out with her all the articles relative to which she has requested information...
27To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Morris, 8 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 6th at a moment when I am extreamly hurried in preparing letters Papers &ca. &ca. for the Dispatch of my Son in Law James Marshall Esqr for Europe. My Daughter goes with him and they expect to Sail on Sunday. I must therefore pray your Excuse untill they are gone when I will take up the Subject of your letter I expect to your satisfaction notwithstanding the...
28To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 6 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I will in a few days inform you of the facts upon which my former Letter was predicated. The inclosed case of the Betsey Capt. Furlong excites much alarm here & I think with reason: the same principles will extirpate nine tenths of our claims for spoliations & lead to new assaults upon our Commerce. I wish to know your opinion of the mode of proceeding under the 7th. Article of our Treaty with...
29To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Ogden, 5 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Newark [ New Jersey ] October 5,1795. “Being informed that Mr Dessasure has lately resigned his Office as director of the Mint; and that several Characters of the very first respectability of this State, have recommended to the President of the United States, David Ford, as a proper person to succeed him; I take up my pen to inform you, that I think him very well Quallified to fill that...
30To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 26 September 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. you Letter of the 20th. and regret the cause which deprived me of the pleasure of seeing you. Nothing is known of the authors to which you allude. The “Features of the Treaty” were doubtless painted by Dallas. Doctrs. Logan & Leib, Bache, Beckley, T. L. Shippen, are much suspected —S. Sayre of New Jersey is I understand very violent—perhaps the avowed intemperance of these men...