511General Orders, 17 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] March 17, 1800 . Announces “Regulations respecting soldiers allowed to be taken from the line of the army to attend an officer.…” LC , RG 98, Post-Revolutionary War Commands, Castle Island Record, National Archives. This document is the same as James McHenry to H, March 18, 1800 , with the exception of the first paragraph of McHenry’s letter, which is paraphrased, and the final...
512Enclosure: Instructions Relative to Certain Objects of Incidental Expenditure, [9 May 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
The following objects of incidental expenditure occur. 1. For travelling expences pursuant to the Regulations of the Department of War of 19 of Decemr. 1798. The allowance as to servants extends only to Field Officers and the Regimental staff. In computing the days journey, the following example is to govern supposing the whole distance to be Eight hundred Miles. Distance Rate days 200 40 5 150
513Indenture, 19 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, November 19, 1799. The catalogue description reads: “His signature in full to an indenture for a household servant aged 13 years and seven months.” Indenture not found. ] ALS , sold at Mercury Stamp Co., Inc., January 5, 1970, Lot No. 3071.
514Election by the Adjourned General Meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati, 5 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, May 5, 1800. “On Motion, The meeting proceeded to the election of a President General to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of General Washington, when Major General Alexander Hamilton was unanimously chosen President General.…” “Journals of the Cincinnati, 1784–1787, Vol. I,” 102, Library of Congress.
515Plan of the Formation of a Regiment for Exercise or Battle, [December 1799–March 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
A Regiment of Infantry is composed of a Lt Colonel Commandant 2 Majors first and second, An Adjutant a Pay Master and a Quarter Master who are Lieutenants, a surgeon & two surgeons Mates Two Sergeant Majors 2 Quarter Master sergeants Two Chief Musicians first and second Ten Captains Ten first and ten second lieutenants besides the three Lieutenants before mentioned, Ten Cadets Forty sergeants...
516Elements of the Tactics of the Infantry, [1799] (Hamilton Papers)
The Elements of the Tactics of the Infantry consists of three branches. The 1 comprehending the position of a soldier without arms and the motions of his head and body. The second comprehending the position of the soldier with arms and the manual exercise . The Third comprehending the principles of marching, of alignments, of conversions, and of changes of Direction. As to the first branch....
517Introductory Note: To Theodore Sedgwick, [4 May 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
Introductory Note The letter printed below is one of many which Hamilton and his correspondents wrote concerning Federalist prospects in the presidential campaign of 1800. These letters present several problems for the modern reader. In the first place, the electoral process in 1800 was so complicated that it appeared either through design or inadvertence to make the selection of the President...
518General Orders, 26 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The Troops will be mustered on the first day of June or as soon after as may be, and the pay Rolls for the time which remains to them to serve, and also for the three Months pay granted by the Act of Congress passed the 14th. instant will be predicated upon the muster then made, and forwarded with the necessary receipts and vouchers as has been heretofore directed. Should casualties with...
519Enclosure: Extract from the Proceedings of a Court Martial, 24 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
At a General Court Martial held at Oxford by Order of Lieutenant Colo Commandant N Rice of which Major John Walker was President—Uriah Stafford a Soldier belonging to the 16th Regiment was tryed—charged with disobedience of orders, striking and attempting frequently to strike his officer, then on duty—Was found guilty—& was sentenced to receive One hundred Lashes on his bare back—and to be...
520General Orders, [18 May 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
It is the Duty of Major General Hamilton to announce that an act of Congress passed the fourteenth instant which authorises the President of the United States to discharge on or before the fifteenth day of June next all such Officers non commissioned Officers and Privates as had been appointed commissioned or raised under and by virtue of the Act to augment the Army of the United States, &...
521General Orders, 4 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The General Court Martial, of which captain Amos Stoddart was President, having found James, alias Parker Hosmer, a private in the 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, guilty of repeated desertion, and having sentenced, that the pay now due him be made answerable for the expenses attending his apprehension; that he receive ninety-nine lashes upon his naked back, at three different times,...
522Enclosure: Act for Establishing a Military and Naval Service Academy, [9 March 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
An Act for establishing an Academy for Instruction relative to the Military and Naval Service of the United States. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled That an Academy be established for the purposes of instruction relative to the military and Naval service of the U. States to consist of four Schools One to be called “The...
523General Orders, 27 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Pursuant to instructions from the Secretary of War, the terms of enlistment of recruits in future raised are to be changed, and instead of being enlisted for any particular corps or regiments, they are to be enlisted for the service at large. It is directed by the Secretary of War, by instructions dated January 25th 1800, that cadets in the fortifications upon the sea board, and West Point,...
524Enclosure: [Instructions to the Army on Funeral Honors for George Washington], [19 December 1799] (Hamilton Papers)
The President, with deep regret, announces to the Army the death of its beloved Chief, General George Washington. Sharing in the grief, which every heart must feel for so heavy and afflicting a public loss, and desirous to express his high sense of the vast debt of Gratitude, which is due to the Virtues, Talents and ever memorable services of the illustrious deceased, he directs that funeral...
525Enclosure: [Account with Le Guen], April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
April 1800. Compte a Monrs Burr Pour Onoraire jusqua Ce jour $2500. Plus fait Compte de Son ordre a Mr. Green 250. Compte D’Interet Sur Dollars 11200 ce que jai avancée En trois Sommes differentes et divers Epoques depuis Le Mois de Juillet et Aout 1798 au 15 avril 1799 Pour 8 mois a raison de 7⅌% 522.66/100 Interet d’un An Sur Cette de 13200 dollars 924. Dollars...
526General Orders, 21 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
It is in future directed that general court martials not only investigate and ascertain the time lost to the service by the non-commissioned officers and soldiers found guilty by them of desertion, and the amount of expenses accruing to the United States by their pursuit and apprehension, but that the number of days, months, or years so lost, be distinctly noticed in the sentence and added to...
527Conversation with Arthur Fenner, [25–26 June 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
[Newport, Rhode Island, June 25–26, 1800.] “Some time in the summer past, I believe in July, General Hamilton, an entire stranger to me further than the knowledge of him from his public character, came to my house in company with Colonels Christopher & Jeremiah Olney, General Barton, & Colonel Ogdon. General Hamilton was very familiar, open, & candid. He at once began the election of the...