1To Alexander Hamilton from James Wilkinson, 29 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
[ U.S. Frigate General Greene, June 29, 1800 . In a letter to Wilkinson dated July, 1800, Hamilton wrote: “I have this morning the pl⟨easure⟩ of your public and private letter of the 29 of June.” Public letter not found. ]
2To Alexander Hamilton from James Wilkinson, 29 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
My anxiety to reach the Station you have assigned me, after delays long, painful, & unexpected, but on my part unavoidable, has determined me to forego the pride, pleasure, & Interests of a personal Interview with you, and to proceed by the Cheasapeake & the shortest route to pitts Burgh; I will acknowledge that considerations of Œconomy, furnish subordinate motives for this Step. I have my...
3To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Hamtramck, 27 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inform you of the result of a number of experiments of marching, made with Men of different sizes, but as in real service the Soldier is obliged to carry his Musket, Knapsack & Havresack, on his back, the most of the experiments have been made with the men fully equipped a few, that is, ninety eight experiments, have been made without Arms. They were made with single men,...
4Conversation 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...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Ethan Brown, 25 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
This letter will be delivered to you by Judge Pendleton. If it finds you at Providence you will proceed in the stage to New York. Should you stand in need of money you will call on Col. Olney Collector at Providence who will furnish you with the necessary funds. Yrs with regard LS , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. On the envelope H wrote: “To be...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 21 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I am here, my beloved, & tomorrow shall leave it for Boston where I hope to arrive on Monday Evening. The next morning I intend to proceed for Providence & New Port where I shall take passage by water for New York. If I am fortunate in the passage I may hope to embrace you in Eight days from this time. Most tenderly yrs. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. For H’s itinerary on his trip...
7To Alexander Hamilton from John Adams, 20 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The itinerant Life I have led has prevented me from acknowledging the Receipt of your favour of May 24. till this time. Your Sentiments are very Satisfactory to me, and will be duly attended to. I anticipate Criticism in every Thing which relates to Col. Smith. But Criticism, now criticized so long, I regard no more than “Great George a Birthday Song.” Coll Smith Served through the War with...
8To Alexander Hamilton from John J. U. Rivardi, 20 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Fort Niagara [ New York ] June 20, 1800 . “I am honored this day with your letters dated May 31st. & June 5th. I Shall certainly pay the greatest attention To the hint contained in the former—& the necessity alone will impell me To receive in a public Maner the persons alluded To; indeed I fancy there is little probability of a visit of the Duke’s—as to the General I Suppose he will come...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan R. Wilmer, 18 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Altho’ I am not honored with your personal acquaintance, I have suggested to myself the liberty of asking your opinion relative to the political sentiments of the Legislature of New York. The information we have received has been so tinged with party spirit, that we can draw no accurate conclusions. If They should be Federal , and can be calculated on with certainty; it will supercede the...
10To Alexander Hamilton from William North, 15 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The enclosed are all the letters which have come to hand. I thought it better to send them on, than to let them remain here. You will, for some time hence play the General,—with respect to myself, the farce, is finished—forced on the stage, I have endeavoured to sustain the part alloted to me, & tho’ without a hope, or scarcely a wish to receive the plaudit of the Gallery, I did not expect to...
11From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 13 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
You will be pleased to cause to be furnished to Capt Amos Stoddard out of the articles now in the possession of your Brigade arms and accoutrements for twenty men—also two horsemens tents and sixteen privates tents. You will likewise cause to be furnished to Major Buel the like articles for as many men as he may now have & shall engage out of your Brigade not exceeding four Companies. With...
12From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 12 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The Hutts and any other articles of public property that may remain here together with such of the sick as are too ill to be removed will, when your command expires, be under the charge of the senior officer of the U States who may be on the ground. This Officer is at present Captain Stoddard who will continue to be so untill the arrival of Major Bewell. You will endeavor to engage some one of...
13From Alexander Hamilton to Arnold Welles, 11 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
It is just reported to me that, among the means of paying the troops which have been transmitted to this place, there is a Treasury draft on the Collector of Portsmouth for five thousand dollars. Without this sum the troops can not be put in possession of their dues, and a recourse to the Collector would be attended with considerable delay. It would therefore be necessary to keep an entire...
14From Alexander Hamilton to Arnold Welles, 11 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
We are making arrangements for paying off the troops previously to their disbandment. This event is near at hand, and it is important that the men should receive their dues before they return to their homes. We have on hand a number of large bills which it is necessary to have exchanged at Boston, and shall be much obliged to you as our time presses if you will facilitate and expedite the...
15From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 8 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I am just arrived my Dear Eliza at this place in good health and after breakfasting shall proceed on my journey. If I could be assured that your spirits were better and the health of yourself and Children good, I should enjoy much satisfaction from the agreeableness of the ride. The Country is truly charming. I remark as I go along every thing that can be adopted for the embellishment of our...
16General Orders, 7 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Major General Hamilton cannot permit the troops, which are about to retire from the Field, to depart, without carrying with them the assurance of the highest sense which he entertains of their highest merits. The zeal with which they came forward in defence of their country, when the signal of danger was given by the government, does great honor to their patriotism and spirit. Their conduct in...
17From Alexander Hamilton to Aaron Ogden, 7 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I am informed that the Accountant of the War Department has instructed you to settle with those officers who have drawn forage, by crediting them with the sums specified by law to be received in lieu of the Article when the Article itself is not furnished, and charging them with the quantity of forage supplied at it’s market value. This direction is in violation both of law and justice. And as...
18From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 6 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you My Dear Mac for the perusal of the Inclosed and wish you had not thought it necessary to forbid my taking a copy. Such a paper to be shewn confidentially would be very important. Charles Carroll of Carrollton ought as soon as possible to be apprized of all the circumstances. The man is more mad than I ever thought him and I shall soon be led to say as wicked as he is mad. Pray...
19From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Stoddert, [6 June 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the third instant, with the paper to which it refers. Tomorrow I set out for Oxford. Any communications which you may have for me you will be pleased to enclose to Brigr General North who will be here to execute any order of your department.
20To Alexander Hamilton from Robert G. Harper, 5 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
As your military cares, my dear Genl. are soon to end, you may, perhaps, find liesure to attend a little to affairs of a civil nature. How stands the Election in your state? We are yet in the dark respecting its result, of which very contradictory and varying accounts are published. It may be of use to you to know how matters stand, and are like to stand, in this quarter, and to the Southward....
21From Alexander Hamilton to John J. U. Rivardi, 5 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 8th of May has been received. I am pleased with the care you have taken in the affair with the Indians. This part of your letter, as also that respecting a road, has been communicated to the Department of War that they may give further directions as shall seem to them proper. I shall act on the Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry before I leave the Service. As to your being...
22To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Swan, 5 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I informed you in a letter dated the 21st ultimo that I expected to be able to report to you on the 31st. that all my part of the pending business would be completed and it was completed on that day, with the exception of the 10th Regt. whose paymaster was detained and did not Reach this place until the 3d instant. The rolls of that Regiment are now under examination and the paymaster will be...
23To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Hodgdon, 4 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I was duly honored with your letter of the 29th. ulto. I will examine into the state of the Clothing due the corps or Detachments that may arrive at Niagara from Detroit, or elsewhere, as soon as I Know their numbers and to what Regiments they belong—but from present information I am induced to believe it will be found they have received their full dues for the current year. When a regular...
24From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 3 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
If the troops should continue at their encampment beyond the fifteenth of the Month they will draw provisions as usual. I shall set out for Oxford on Friday next, when there I shall give direction relative to the Hutts. Df , in the handwriting of Thomas How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. For H’s trip to New England, see the to H to Benjamin Stoddert, June 6, 1800 .
25To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Stoddert, 3 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have this day received your two Letters of the 31st ulto to the Secretary of War, and transmit, agreeably to your request, a Copy of the List of recent promotions in the Army. I have considered your proposition of uniting the two Battalions of Artillery, but, the President being absent from the City, the regular Successor of Mr. McHenry not yet arrived, and myself ignorant in many...
26To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Hamtramck, 2 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The Sudden resolution of Congress Respecting the New Regiments was to me very unexpected, for I had Calculated on their Continuance until our affairs with France would have been finally Settled. I had also indulged my Self with a pleasing hope that Some of the New Corps would have been grafted on the old Establishment, and that our army would have been sufficiently Respectable as to have had...
27To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 2 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I placed Mr. Stoddert (who acts as Secretary of war under a temporary commission) this morning about 11 o’clock in the chair I have usually occupied; I then formally laid upon his head eight volumes of the “code militaire” by Briquet with Caesars commentaries in French; kept them upon it ’till he was nearly stupified, when I pronounced him duly installed and as well qualified to discharge the...
28To Alexander Hamilton from Lewis Tousard, 2 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Ce que j’avois prévû est arrive; après avoir été prévenir le Lt Col. Smith que j’avois établi trois rendezvous, et que J’allois commencer à éxécuter vos ordres. J’ai fait marcher un tambour et un fifre avec un Serjeant, quelques hommes et un drapeau. A peine ils étoient arrivés au centre du 13e Regt que le Major Ripley, quoiqu’il ne fut pas officier de jour, les a fait cesser, et leur a...
29General Orders, [April–May 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
The duties and functions of Inspectors. The Brigade Inspector is to inspect and muster the different Corps and Regiments in his Brigade once in every month and at such other times as may be directed. At each inspection and muster he must actually see, as well every man who may be returned on parade, as also every man who may be returned Sick, confined or on guard, in or near the Camp or...
30To Alexander Hamilton from Louis Le Guen, 1 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Lame Encorre Emue de Vos Procedés Généreux et Pleim de reconnoissance, je me Vois forcée D’executer ce que Vous m’avés Présent hier, En me Bornant a Vous remettre Cy-Joint La Modique Somme de Quinze Cents Dollars. Veuillés done Bien L’agreer, Et En meme Temps récevoir Lassurance, que Personne au Monde ne Vous Est plus respectueusement attachée, et Plus disposée que je ne Le Suis á Saisir...