1To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 1 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, August 1, 1794. Requests “a payment to be made to John J. Feach & Co. of the sum of five thousand Dollars on a/count of a contract made with them for the casting of a quantity of Kentledge or Iron Ballast & Cannon ball.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies,...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, [1 August 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Sundry papers were sent to you to day by Judge Wilson to get the hand writing proved. Did you get them? Has the needful been done? Have they been returned? Pray be in Town tomorrow Morning at seven oClock. Yrs ALS , Tench Coxe Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Coxe wrote on the back of this letter that he had received it on August 1, 1794. The “Sundry papers” which...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, [1–15 August 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 1–15, 1794. ] “It will be proper to instruct Mr. Carrington to give facility to a legal decision in any case where it may be desired—taking care to secure an appeal in the last resort to the Supreme Court.” AL , RG 58, General Records, 1791–1803, National Archives. This note appears on an envelope addressed to H and attached to an “Extract of a letter from the Supervisor...
4Deposition of Francis Mentges, [1 August 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia (to wit) Francis Mentges at present of the City of Philadelphia maketh oath That he arrived at Pittsburgh in the County of Alleghanny on the 22 of July last past and continued there until the 25 of the same month. That it was there matter of public notoriety and general conversation that several collections of armed men had on the seventeenth of the same month successively made...
5To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, [1–6 August] 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Newport [ Rhode Island, August 1–6 ] 1794 . “On the 9th. day of May last the Schooner Harmony of Somerset whereof Preserved Pierce now is master or commander, an enrolled and licensed vessel arrived in this Port from Somerset in the District of Dighton laden with the produce and manufacture of the United States and desired to be endorsed master of said Vessel. I asked him for his papers, upon...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Nourse, 1 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 1, 1794. Sends a list of acts of Congress making appropriations “for the service of the year 1794, and for making good deficiencies, the sums following.” Copy, RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1794, Vol. “136-T,” National Archives. Nourse was register of the Treasury This list constituted Nourse’s warrant for making the payments...
7From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Nourse, 1 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 1, 1794. “In consequence of a new arrangement of the General accounts of appropriations and expenditures, you are hereby directed to make the following entries, for warrants drawn on the Treasurer from the first of January 1794, to the 31st of July following.…” DS , RG 39, Appropriation Warrants, Treasury Proper, August 1, 1794–January 2, 1795, National Archives....
8To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 1 August … (Hamilton Papers)
Being deprived of your esteemed favors, since We had the pleasure to address you the 15th Ultimo, We have now chiefly to transmit you the Account Current of the United States with us, up to 31 Ultimo, The Balance whereon due by us Holland Currency f 1,481,-729. 3.—We transfer to their Credit in a new Account. Mr. Jay, having wrote us, that his Powers not extending to the case upon which We...
The President opened the business by stating that it was hardly necessary to prepare the subject of the conference, as it was generally understood, and the circumstances which accompanied it were such as to strike at the root of all law & order; that he was clearly of opinion that the most spirited & firm measures were necessary to rescue the State as well as the general government from the...
10To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 2 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, August 2, 1794. “… from the best opinion which can be formed at present, it appears, that five thousand Dollars will be sufficient to be placed in the hands of each of the Naval Agents.…” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives. This letter...
11To Alexander Hamilton from John Fitzgerald, 2 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Alexandria [ Virginia ] August 2, 1794 . “A violent Rheumatic complaint, by which I am afflicted without intermission, obliges me to have recourse to the Berkley Springs.… Mr Gray will superintend the business of my Office during my absence.…” Copy, RG 56, Letters to and from the Collector at Alexandria, National Archives; typescript furnished by the National Society, Daughters of the American...
12From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 2 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have had the happiness to receive one letter from my beloved Eliza and I need not tell her how much consolation was given to me by whatever was flattering in the situation of my darling Johnny nor how much alarm I felt at the unfavourable change which happened on the day she wrote. Alas my Charmer great are my fears—poignant my distress. I feel every day more & more how dear this Child is to...
13From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 2 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
In compliance with your requisition I have the honor to submit my Opinion as to the course which it will be adviseable for the President to pursue in regard to the armed Opposition recently given in the four Western Counties of Pennsylvania to the execution of the laws of the U. States laying duties upon Spirits distilled within the United States and upon Stills. The case upon which an Opinion...
14To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 5 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The state of things in the western country raises some doubts whether it will be practicable to procure in that quarter Spirits lawfully distilled for the military supply of 1795. It remains to be considered therefore, whether that point (the spirits having been lawfully distilled) shall be adhered to as indispensible. Your letter of the 31st July relative to Mr. Wiats agency, was not received...
15To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 5 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, August 5, 1794. “I have the honor to request that you will place the sum of eight thousand eight hundred forty nine Dollars & 25 cents in the hands of Benj. Lincoln Esqr. for the purpose of enabling him to comply with the terms of the contract made by him with M. M. Hays on the 6th. day of June last for 19561 & ½ gallons Sperma Oil, for the use of the Light...
16Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox to George Washington, 5 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The draft of a proclamation and that of an instruction to the Commissioners being both prepared, we take the liberty to suggest that we think a meeting tomorrow morning at such hour as may be convenient to the President, may be adviseable. The Secretary of State & Attorney General being out of town we cannot consult them, but we will engage the attendance of the Attorney General provisionally...
17From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [5 August] 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The disagreeable crisis at which matters have lately arrived in some of the Western counties of Pensylvania, with regard to the laws laying duties on spirits distilled within the UStates and on Stills, seems to render proper a review of the circumstances which have attended those laws in that scene, from their commencement to the present time and of the conduct which has hitherto been observed...
18To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 6 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, August 6, 1794. “I have the honor to request you will place the sum of four thousand & forty seven dollars & 22 cents in the hands of Nathaniel Gorham Esquire of Boston for the purpose of paying for a quantity of copper & tin, necessary for making ten eight inch Howitz, and for a small advance upon the workmanship, agreeably to a contract with Paul Revere...
19From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [6 August 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President, sends him the statement of facts promised. The date is proposed to be two or three days before the Proclamation, when it was in fact begun. There is a blank to be filled with a quotation from a former proclamation which is not immediately at hand; but the blank will be filled before it goes to the press. If the President...
20From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 6 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 6, 1794. “I request that you will furnish William Bradford Esquire with Eight hundred Dollars for a matter relative to the public service.…” ALS , Connecticut College Library, New London, Connecticut. Willing was president of the Bank of the United States. This money was for the expenses of the United States commissioners—of which Bradford was one—appointed to...
21From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, [7–8 August 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton requests Mr. Coxe agreeably to the wish of the President to have the contents of the inclosed Letters published omitting and altering such things as disclose the Writers. Dunlaps Paper will be a good channel for this purpose. The sooner the better. AL , RG 58, General Records, 1791–1803, National Archives. H did not date this letter. At the bottom of the letter Coxe wrote: “recd....
22To Alexander Hamilton from Elizabeth Hamilton, 7 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Albany, August 7, 1794. On August 12, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Elizabeth Hamilton : “Your letter of the 7th alarms me.” Letter not found. ]
23From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 7 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 7, 1794. “A warrant has issued this day in your favor … for Eight Thousand, Eight hundred and forty nine dollars and twenty five Cents … for Spermiceti Oil for the use of the Light Houses in the United States.…” LS , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters and Papers re Lighthouses, Buoys, and Piers, 1789–1819, Vol. 3, National Archives. See Tench Coxe to H,...
24[Proclamation by the President of the United States], [7 August 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Although this proclamation concerning opposition to the excise laws in western Pennsylvania has been attributed to H in HCLW Henry Cabot Lodge, ed., The Works of Alexander Hamilton (New York, 1904). , VI, 389, and Hamilton, History John C. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, a History of the Republic of the United States of America (Boston, 1879). , VI, 73, no manuscript of this document in...
25Edmund Randolph to Thomas Mifflin, 7 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The President of the UStates has directed me to acknowlege the Receipt of your letter of the 5th instant and to communicate to you the following reply. In requesting an interview with you, on the subject of the recent disturbances in the Western parts of Pensylvania, the President, besides the desire of manifesting a respectful attention to the Chief Magistrate of a State immediately affected,...
26From Alexander Hamilton to John Quincy Adams, 8 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
You will find herewith sundry Documents marked A, B, C, D, E, F, G, & H—A being a copy of the Presidents Power to me to conduct certain loans, directed by two Acts of Congress therein referred to, B a Copy of a power from me to Messrs. Wilhem and Jan Willinks & Nicholas & Jacob Van Staphorst & Hubbard predicated upon that of the President to me, C a copy of a power from me to Mr. Short founded...
27Enclosure: [“An Act Making Provision for the Debt of the United States"], 8 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Whereas by an Act passed the fourth day of August in this present year, intitled “An Act making provision for the debt of the United States” it is among other things enacted that The President of the United States be authorised to cause to be borrowed on behalf of the United States a Sum or Sums not exceeding in the whole Twelve Millions of Dollars, and that so much of that Sum as may be...
28From Alexander Hamilton to William Bradford, 8 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter by express duly came to hand. The separate power has I understand been dispatched. General Nevil suggests that if a disposition to comply should appear, the best proof of it would be a request from the parties to Mr. Johnson to resume the exercise of his Office with assurances of support from them. This idea is well worth your attention; though I do not expect you will approach...
29To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 8 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
In the present deranged state of things, there appears little probability of obtaining a timely supply for 1795 of spirits lawfully distilled in the western survey of Pennsylvania, and there is a manifest possibility that like causes may prevent such a supply from Kentucky & the Western Survey of Virginia. It therefore becomes a matter of importance, that such eventual arrangements should be...
30From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 8 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I just take up my pen My Dear Eliza to assure you of all our health & of our continual & fervent prayers for you & those with you. Your last letter and one from Doctor Stringer have been received. The latter gave me hopes; though I shall tremble as often as I open a letter from Albany till My Darling boys situation has become more decided. God of his infinite mercy grant that he may be...