Title: Edmund Randolph to Thomas Mifflin, 7 August 1794
From: Randolph, Edmund
To: Mifflin, Thomas

Philadelphia Aug. 7. 1794
Sir

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, was influenced by the hope, that a free conference, guided by a united & comprehensive view of the constitutions of the UStates and of Pensylvania, and of the respective institutions authorities rights and duties of the two Governments—would have assisted him in forming more precise ideas of the nature of the cooperation, which could be established between them and a better jugment of the plan, which it might be adviseable for him to pursue, in the execution of his trust, in so important and delicate a conjuncture. This having been his object, it is matter of some regret, that the course, which has been suggested by you, as proper to be pursued, seems to have contemplated Pensylvania in a light too separate and unconnected. The propriety of that course, in most, if not all respects, would be susceptible of little question; if there were no Fœderal Government, Fœderal laws, Fœderal Judiciary, or Fœderal officers; if important laws of the UStates, by a series of violent as well as of artful expedients, had not been frustrated in their execution for more than three years; if officers immediately charged with that execution, after suffering much and repeated insult, abuse personal ill treatment, and the destruction of property, had not been compelled for safety to fly the places of their residence and the scenes of their official Duties; if the service of the processes of a Court of the UStates had not been resisted and prevented, the Marshall of the District made and detained for some time prisoner & compelled, for safety also, to abandon the performance of his duty, & return by a circuitous route to the seat of Government: if, in fine, a judge of the UStates had not in due form of law notified to the President, that in the Counties of Washington & Alleghany, in Pensylvania, laws of the UStates are opposed and the execution thereof obstructed, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of Judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshal of that District. It is true Your Excellency has remarked that in the plan suggested, you have only spoken as the Executive Magistrate of Pensylvania, charged with a general superintendance and care, that the laws of the commonwealth be faithfully executed, leaving it implicitly to the judgment of the President to chose on such evidence as he approves, the measures for discharging the analogous trust, which is confided to him in relation to the laws of the Union. But it is impossible not to think that the current of the observations in your letter, especially as to the consequences which may result from the employment of coercive measures, previous to the preliminary course which is indicated in it, may be construed to imply a virtual disapprobation of that plan of conduct, on the part of the General Government, in the actual stage of its affairs, which you acknowlege would be proper on the part of the Government of Pensylvania if arrived at a similar stage. Let it be assumed here (to be more particularly shewn hereafter) that the Govert. of the UStates is now at that point, where it is admitted, if the Govert. of Pensylvania was, the employment of force, by its authority, would be justifiable—and Let the following extracts be consulted for the truth of the inference which has been just expressed. “Will not the resort to force inflame and cement the existing opposition? Will it not associate in a common resistance those who have hitherto peaceably, as well as those who have riotously, expressed their abhorrence of the Excise? Will it not collect & combine every latent principle of discontent, arising from the supposed oppressive operations of the Fœderal Judiciary, the obstruction of the Western Navigation & a variety of other local sources? May not the magnitude of the opposition on the part of the ill disposed, or the dissatisfaction of a premature resort to arms, on the part of the well disposed, citizens of this state, eventually involve the necessity of employing the Militia of other States? And the accumulation of discontent, which the jealousy engendered by that movement may produce—who can calculate or who will be able to avert?”
These important questions naturally give birth to the following serious reflections.
The issues of human affairs are in the hands of Providence. Those entrusted with them in society have no other sure guide than the sincere and faithful discharge of their duty, according to the best of their judgments. In emergencies great and difficult, not to act with an energy proportioned to their magnitude and pressure is as dangerous as any other conceivable course. In the present case, not to exert the means, which the laws prescribe for effectuating their own execution, would be to sacrifice those laws and with them the Constitution, the Government, the principles of social order and the bulwarks of private right and security. What worse can happen, by the exertion of those means?
If, as cannot be doubted, the great body of the Citizens of the UStates are attached to the Constitution, which they have established for the management of their common concerns—if they are resolved to support their own authority in that of the constitutional laws, against disorderly and violent combinations of comparitively small portions of the community—if they are determined to protect each other in the enjoyment of security to person and property—if they are decided to preserve the character of republican Government, by evincing that it has adequate resources for maintaining the public order—if they are persuaded, that their safety and their welfare are materially connected with the preservation of the Union, and consequently of a Government adequate to its exigencies—in fine, if they are disposed to continue that state of respectability and prosperity, which is now deservedly the admiration of Mankind—the Enterprise to be accomplished, should a resort to force prove inevitable, though disagreeable and painful, cannot be arduous or alarming.
If in addition to these dispositions in the community at large—the officers of the Governments of the respective States, feeling it to be not only a patriotic, but a constitutional duty (inculcated by the oath enjoined upon all the officers of a State, legislative Executive & Judicial) to support in their several stations, the Constitution of the UStates—shall be disposed, as occasion may require (a thing as little to be doubted as the former) with sincerity and good faith to cooperate with the Government of the UStates, to second with all their influence and weight, its legal & necessary measures, by a real and substantial concert; then the enterprise to be accomplished can hardly even be deemed difficult.
But if contrary to the anticipations which are entertained of these favourable dispositions—the great body of the people should be found indifferent to the preservation of the Government of the Union, or insensible to the necessity of vigorous exertions to repel the danger, which threatens their most important interests—or if an unwillingness to encounter partial inconveniences should interfere with the discharge of what they owe to their permanent welfare—or if either yielding to the suggestions of particular prejudices, or misled by the arts which may be employed to infuse jealousy & discontent, they should suffer their zeal for the support of public order to be relaxed by an unfavourable opinion of the merits & tendency of the measures, which may be adopted,—if above all, it were possible, that any of the State Governments should instead of prompting the exertions of the Citizens assist directly or indirectly in damping their ardor, by giving a wrong byass to their judgment—or by disseminating dissatisfaction with the proceedings of the General Government—or should counteract the success of those proceedings by any sinister influence whatever—then indeed no one can calculate, or may be able to avert, the fatal evils with which such a state of things would be pregnant. Then indeed the foundations of our political happiness may be deeply shaken, if not altogether overturned.
The President however can suppose none of these things. He cherishes an unqualified confidence in the virtue & good sense of the people, in the integrity and patriotism of the Officers of the State Governments—and he counts absolutely on the same affectionate support, which he has experienced upon all former occasions, and which he is conscious that the goodness of his intentions now, not less than heretofore, merits.
It has been promised to shew more particularly hereafter, that the Government of the UStates is now at that point where it is confessed if the State Government was, the employment of force on its part would be justifiable. This promise remains to be fulfilled.
The facts already noted establish the conclusion; but to render it palpable, it will be of use to apply them to the positions which Your Excellency has been pleased to lay down.
You admit, that as the offences committed respect the State, the military power of the Government ought to be employed, where its judiciary authority, after a fair experiment, had proved incompetent to enforce obedience or to punish infractions of the law—that if the strength and audacity of a lawless combination shall baffle and destroy the efforts of the Judiciary Authority, to recover a penalty or inflict a punishment, that authority may constitutionally claim the auxiliary intervention of the Military Power—that in the last resort, at the requisition, & as an auxiliary, of the Civil Authority, the Military force of the State would be called forth. And you declare, that the circumstances of the case evidently require a firm and energetic conduct on the part both of the state and General Government.
For more than three years, as already observed, certain laws of the UStates have been obstructed in their execution by disorderly combinations. Not only officers, whose immediate duty it was to carry them into effect, have suffered violent personal outrage and injury and destruction of property, at different times, but similar persecution has extended to private citizens, who have aided countenanced or only complied with the laws. The violences committed have been so frequent and such in their degree as to have been matters of general notoriety and alarm—and it may be added, that they have been abundantly within the knowlege and under the notice of Judges and Magistrates of Pensylvania of superior as well as of inferior jurisdiction. If in particular instances, they have been punished by the exertions of those Magistrates, it is at least certain, that their efforts have been in the main ineffectual. The spirit has continued, and with some intervals of relaxation has been progressive, manifesting itself in reiterated excesses. The Judiciary authority of the ustates has also, prior to the attempt, which preceded the late crisis, made some fruitless efforts. Under a former Marshall, an officer sent to execute process was deterred from it by the manifest danger of proceeding. These particulars serve to explain the extent, obstinacy & inveteracy of the evil.
But the facts which immediately decide the complexion of the existing crisis are these. Numerous delinquencies existed, with regard to a compliance with the laws laying duties on spirits distilled within the UStates and upon Stills. An armed banditti in disguise had recently gone to the house of an officer of the Revenue in the night, attacked it, broken open the doors; and by menaces of instant death enforced by pistols presented at him had compelled a surrender of his Commission and books of office. Cotemporary Acts of violence had been perpetrated in other quarters. Processes issued out of a Court of the UStates to recover the penalties incident to non compliance with the laws and to bring to punishment the violent infractors of them, in the abovementioned case against two of whom indictments had been found. The Marshall of the District went in person to execute these processes. In the course of his duty, he was actually fired upon on the high road by a body of armed men. Shortly after, other bodies of armed men (in the last instance amounting to several hundred persons) repeatedly attacked the house of the Inspector of the Revenue with the declared intention of compelling him to renounce his office, and of obstructing the execution of the laws. One of these bodies of armed men made prisoner of the Marshall of the District, put him in jeopardy of his life, and did not release him till for safety & to obtain his liberty, he engaged to forbear the further execution of the processes with which he was charged. In consequence of further requisitions and menaces of the insurgents, the Marshall, together with the Inspector of the Revenue, have been since under the necessity of flying secretly and by a circuitous route from the scene of these transactions towards the seat of Governt. An associate Justice, pursuant to the provisions of the laws for that purpose, has in the manner already stated officially notified the President of the existence of combinations in two of the Counties of this State, to obstruct the execution of the laws, too powerful to be suppressed by the Judiciary authority or by the powers of the Marshal.
Thus then, is it unequivocally, and in due form, ascertained, in reference to the Government of the UStates—That the judiciary authority, after a fair and full experiment, has proved incompetent to enforce obedience to or to punish infractions of the laws—that the strength and audacity of certain lawless combinations have baffled & destroyed the efforts of the Judiciary Authority to recover penalties or inflict punishment, and that this authority, by a regular notification of this state of things, has in the last resort, as an auxilliary of the Civil Authority, claimed the intervention of the Military Power of the UStates. It results from these facts, that the case exists when according to the positions advanced by Your Excelly in reference to the State Govt, the Military power may with due regard to all the requisite cautions be rightfully interposed: And that the interposition of this power is called for, not only by principles of a firm and energetic conduct, on the part of the General Government, but by the indispensable duty, which the constitution & the laws prescribe, to the Executive of the UStates.
In This conclusion, Your Excellency’s discernment on mature reflection cannot it is presumed, fail to acquiesce: nor can it refuse its concurrence in the opinion which The President entertains, that he may reasonably expect, when called for, the zealous cooperation of the Militia of Pensylvania—that as citizens, friends to law and order, they may comply with the call without anything that can be properly denominated “a passive obedience to the mandates of Government,” and that as freemen, judging rightly of the cause & nature of the service proposed to them, they will feel themselves under the most sacred of obligations to accept & to perform it with alacrity. The theory of our political institutions knows no difference between the obligations of our Citizens in such a case, whether it relate to the Govermt. of the Union or of a State—and it is hoped & confided that a difference will be as little known to their affections or opinions.
Your Excellency it is also presumed will as little doubt on the like mature reflection, that in such a case the President could not, without an abdication of the undoubted rights and authorities of the UStates & of his duty, postpone the measures for which the laws of the UStates provide to a previous experiment of the plan, which is delineated in your letter.
The People of the UStates have established a Government for the management of their general interests. They have instituted Executive Organs for administering that Government and their Representatives have established the rules by which those Organs are to act. When their authority in that of their Government is attacked, by lawless combinations of the citizens of part of a state, they could never be expected to approve, that the care of vindicating their authority, of enforcing their laws should be transferred from the Officers of their own Government to those of a State—and this to wait the issue of a process so indeterminate in its duration, as that which it is proposed to pursue; comprehending a further and full experiment of the Judiciary authority of the State, a proclamation “to declare the sentiments of its Government, announce a determination to prosecute and punish offenders, and to exhort the Citizens at large to pursue a peaceable & patriotic conduct”—the sending of Commissioners “to address those who have embarked in the present Combinations, upon the lawless nature & ruinous tendency of their proceedings, to inculcate the necessity of an immediate return to the duty, which they owe their Country & to promise, as far as the state is concerned, forgiveness of their past transactions, upon receiving a satisfactory assurance that in future they will submit to the laws”—and finally a call of the Legislature of Pensylvania, “that the ultimate means of subduing the spirit of Insurrection and of restoring tranquillity and order may be prescribed by their wisdom & authority.”
If there were no other objection to a transfer of this kind, the very important difference, which is supposed to exist in the nature and consequences of the Offences that have been committed in the contemplation of the laws of the UStates & of those of Pensylvania—would alone be a very serious obstacle.
The paramount considerations, which forbid an acquiescence in this course of proceeding—render it unnecessary to discuss the probability of its success; else it might have been proper to test the considerations, which have been mentioned as a ground of hope, by the inquiry what was the precise extent of the success of the past experiment—& especially whether the execution of the Revenue laws of Pensylvania within the scene in question was truly & effectually accomplished by them—or whether they did not rather terminate in a tacit compromise, by which appearances only were served.
You are already, Sir, advised, that The President yielding to the impressions which have been stated, has determined to take measures for calling forth the Militia; and that These measures contemplate the assembling a body of between twelve & thirteen thousand men from Pensylvania & the neighbouring States of Virginia Maryland & New Jersey. The recourse thus early to the Militia of the neighbouring States proceeds from a probability of the insufficiency of that of Pensylvania alone to accomplish the object; your Excellency having in your conference with the President confirmed the conclusion, which was deducible from the known local and other circumstances of the State, by the frank and explicit declaration which you made of your conviction of that insufficiency, in reference to the number which could be expected to be drawn forth for the purpose.
But while the President has conceived himself to be under an indispensable obligation to prepare for that eventual resort, he has still consulted the sentiment of regret, which he expressed to you, at the possible necessity of an appeal to arms; & to avert it, if practicable, as well as to manifest his attention to the principle, that “a firm and energetic conduct does not preclude the exercise of a prudent and humane policy” he has (as you have been also advised) concluded upon the measure of sending himself Commissioners to the discontented counties to make one more experiment of a conciliatory appeal to the reason, virtue & patriotism of their Inhabitants, and has also signified to you how agreeable would be to him your cooperation in the same expedient, which you have been pleased to afford. It can scarcely be requisite to add, that there is nothing he has more at heart, than that the issue of this experiment, by establishing the authority of the laws, may preclude the always calamitous necessity of an appeal to arms. It would plant a thorn in the remainder of his path through life to have been obliged to employ force against fellow Citizens, for giving solidity and permanency to blessings, which it has been his greatest happiness, to cooperate with them in procuring for a much loved Country.
The President receives with much pleasure the assu[r]ance you have repeated to him, that whatever requisition he may make, whatever duty he may impose, in pursuance of his constitutional and legal powers, will on your part be promptly undertaken and faithfully discharged; and acknowleging, as an earnest of this and even more, the measures of cooperation which you are pursuing, he assures you in return, that he relies fully on the most cordial aid and support from you in every way, which the constitutions of the UStates & of Pensylvania shall authorise and present or future exigencies may require.
And he requests that you will construe, with a reference to this assurance of his confidence, whatever remarks may have been made in the course of this Reply to your letter, if it shall have happened that any of them have erred through a misconception of the sentiments and views which you may have meant to communicate.

With perfect respect & esteem   I have the honor to be   Sir   Your Excellency Most Obedient & most humble servant

His Excellency Thomas Mifflin EsqGovernor of Pensylvania


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to John Quincy Adams, 8 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Adams, John Quincy

Treasury Department August 8th. 1794
Sir,

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 also upon the Presidents power to me, D a copy of my general instructions to Mr Short transmitted with that power, E a list of the Loans which have been effected under these powers, F a Power from me to Messrs. Wilhem & Jan Willinks & Nicholas & Jacob Van Staphorst & Hubbard authorising them to make a Loan not exceeding one Million of Dollars for the purposes of an Act entitled “An Act making further provision for the expenses attending the intercourse of the United States with foreign Nations and further to continue in force the Act entitled “An Act providing the means of Intercourse between the United States and foreign Nations” G a copy of my instructions respecting the execution of that power, H a power from me to you to make such further Loans as are authorised by those Acts and as the public Service does or shall require.
These papers are intended to give you a general outline of the business. The instruction to Mr Short will serve to communicate ruling ideas which appeared to me proper to regulate the course of it. But subsequent circumstances have rendered many of the suggestions there inapplicable to the actual posture of things. In fact no Loan is to be made without further special instruction except that to which the Documents F & G relate.
This as well as the future ones which may be directed, you will consider as subject to your superintendence, as our Commissioners at Amsterdam will be informed. The instruction to them will in this particular be your guide. In the situation in which this object has been placed, you will easily appreciate what propriety towards those Gentlemen demands. And in general I may observe respecting them, that while you ought not to lose sight of the possibility of their having sometimes a personal interest, different from that of the Government, you ought to consider them as men who have established a well founded Claim to its confidence.
In the future progress of things it is probable that the subject here by committed to you will again become of great importance and delicacy & you will of course take pains to possess yourself of all requisite and useful information.
With the truest Wishes for your Success & happiness & with much personal consideration and Esteem,
I have the honor to be   Sir,   Your most Obedient Servant

Alexander HamiltonSecy of the Treasy
John Q Adams EsquireMinister Resident from the United Statesat the Hague


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 8 August 1794
From: Coxe, Tench
To: Hamilton, Alexander

T: D: R O August 8th 1794
Sir

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 made as will ensure to the Western Army the necessary quantity of distilled spirits. The point to be considered is whether the whole shall be procured from the places in which spirits are permitted to be lawfully distilled Vizt. Virginia & Kentucky.
I have the honor to be your mo obedt. Servt.

Tench Coxe Commissr.
The Secy. of the Treasy.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 8 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Hamilton, Elizabeth

Philadelphia Aug 8. 1794

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 preserved to us.
Adieu My Love
Thank the Doctor for his kind letter.


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Knox, 8 August 1794
From: Knox, Henry
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Philadelphia, August 8, 1794. On August 12, 1794, Tench Coxe wrote to Samuel Hodgdon: “I have just received from the secy. of the Treasy a letter to him of the 8th. inst. from the Secy. at War, containing a requisition of certain articles.” Letter not found.]


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Knox, 8 August 1794
From: Knox, Henry
To: Hamilton, Alexander

War Department, Accountant’s Office, August 8, 1794. “I have the honor to inclose you an abstract of pay due the dismounted Infantry for the defensive protection of the Territory south west of the Ohio … in 1793 and part of 1794, an estimate of expenses and for pay of the Federal troops in that Quarter, also an estimate of the ordinary expenses of Government for Governor Blount for the year 1794.…”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to John Quincy Adams, 9 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Adams, John Quincy

Treasury Department August 9th. 1794
Sir,

Upon a revision of the Loans, which have been made under the Acts of Congress of the 4th. & 12th. of August 1790, I have discovered, that a loan for One Millions of Guilders, made the 1st. of June 1793, is not upon the list marked E, accompanying the other papers, mentioned in my letter to you of the 8th. Instant.
In consequence of this omission, the sum already borrowed in pursuance of the said Acts, will amount to twenty three millions five hundred & fifty thousand Guilders, in place of Twenty two millions five hundred & fifty thousand as stated in the list and as inserted in the power from me to you. To give accuracy therefore, to the documents respecting this business I have transmitted to you herewith, a correct list of the Loans already made with a new power executed in form upon the receipt of which you will be pleased to cancel the other power and return it with the imperfect list under cover to me.
I have the Honor to be   with great respect   Sir   Your Most Obedient Servant

A Hamilton
John Q. Adams EsquireMinister Resident fromthe United Statesat the Hague.


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 9 August 1794
From: Coxe, Tench
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Treasury Department, Revenue Office, August 9, 1794. Calls attention to his letters of May 24, February 18, March 11, and April 19, 1794, “which have been transmitted or communicated to you for the purpose of obtaining the Decision of the President.”


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 9 August 1794
From: Coxe, Tench
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Treasury Department, Revenue Office, August 9, 1794. “Brown & Francis & Co. having agreed to make one hundred & twenty eight pieces of Iron cannon, I have to request that you will possess the supervisor of Rhode Island of the sum of 5400 Dollars which is to be paid them in advance.”


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Dayton, 9 August 1794
From: Dayton, Jonathan
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Elizabethtown [New Jersey] August 9, 1794. “Will you be so obliging as to turn your attention immediately to the subject of Judge Symmes’s purchase between the Miamis, in order to have the different writings prepared for executing upon his arrival in Philadelphia, which will be in four or five days? …”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 10 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Coxe, Tench

[Philadelphia] August 10, 1794. “Mr. Hamilton wishes to see Mr. Coxe at his house tomorrow Morning as early as may be not exceeding 9 oClock.”


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 11 August 1794
From: Olney, Jeremiah
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Custom HouseDistrict of Providence 11th Augt. 1794.
Sir.

On the 24th April last I had the Honor of Transmitting for your information Sundry Documents relative to the Suits of Messrs. Arnold and Dexter against me: my not hearing from you, Since, on that Subject, and as the Court meets in this Town on the 15th Septr. next, when Damages are to be assessed—I am induced to enclose a letter from Mr. Barnes to me, relative to his Idea of the Future Management of those Suits and respectfully to ask your advice & Instructions as to the Ultimate mode of Defence thereof, and to say with Deference, that I am in Sentiment with Mr. Barnes (Since a favourable Change in the Court has taken place) of Petitioning the Genl. Assembly for a New Trial. As there Seems to be no new points to be Stated before the Court in the assessment of Damages, I have deemed it inexpedient for the United States to be at any Further Expence for Counsil in the Defence of these Suits, than what will accrue in the employment of Messrs. Barnes & Eddy, but whatever instructions (in respect to this, or the ultimate modes of Conducting the Suits) you may please to Communicate shall attentively be carried into Execution.
I have the Honor to be &c.

Jereh. Olney Collr.
Alexander Hamilton Esqr.Secretary of the Treasury.


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 12 August 1794
From: Coxe, Tench
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Treasury Department, Revenue Office, August 12, 1794. “Mr. Coxe … will be glad to have the remittance of 5000 Dolls. transmitted to each of the Naval agents, who have not had that sum. Mr. Blagge of N York & Messr. Sterret of Baltimore have applied so lately as this day & yesterday for a payment on account. Mr. Coxe’s reply to the Secrys enquiry was sent the 2d instant.”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 12 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Coxe, Tench

[Philadelphia] August 12, 1794. “Mr. Hamilton requests Mr Coxe to call at his house as soon as he comes in this Morning.”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [12 August 1794]
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Hamilton, Elizabeth

[Philadelphia, August 12, 1794]

Your letters, my beloved Eliza, have been regularly received & I thank you much for your punctuality fatigued as you are with our precious infant. Would to heaven I were with you but alas ’tis impossible. My fervent prayers are not wanting that God will support you & rescue our loved Child.
I believe the course you are pursuing is as good a one as can be pursued—though I am somewhat afraid of the relaxing effect of the laudanum. I think well of the lime water but I count most on exercise and nourishment. Your letter of the 7th alarms me, in which you say he does not gain strength & that he was not so well as he had been. Yet I hope something from the favourable change of the weather.
You wish to hasten your return to me. Alas My Betsey how much I wish you with me. But I really hope more from the climate you are in than from this. Besides how could you without assistance make such a journey with our dear lamb without exposing him & yourself too much. I pray heaven that he may grow better & that you may be so far relieved as to benefit by your native air. My anxiety on your account is little less than for our dear Child.
Receive my most tender and affectionate wishes for you both. They are all I can now offer—Hard hard situation.

A Hamilton

I can advise you nothing better than to pursue the Doctor’s advice.

Aug. 12. 1794


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 12 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Hamilton, Elizabeth

[Philadelphia] August 12, 1794

I wrote to you my beloved Eliza by the post of to day. My heart cannot cease to ach till I hear some more favourable account from you. I sit down to write such further thoughts as have occurred.
If my darling child is better when this reaches you persevere in the plan which has made him so. If he is worse—abandon the laudanum & try the cold bath—that is abandon the laudanum by degrees giving it over night but not in the morning—& then leaving it off altogether. Let the water be put in the Kitchen over night & in the morning let the child be dipped in it head foremost wrapping up his head well & taking him again immediately out, put in flannel & rubbed dry with towels. Immediately upon his being. taken out let him have two tea spoons full of brandy mixed with just enough water to prevent its taking away his breath.
Observe well his lips. If a glow succeeds continue the bath. If a chill takes place forbear it. If a glow succeeds the quantity of brandy may be lessened after the first experiment.
Try the bark at the same time in tincture about mid day, but if this disagrees discontinue it.
When you exercise him, if he can bear it, give him eight or ten Miles at a time.
Shew this letter to your father & tell the Doctor of the advice I have given. But if the child be certainly worse do not easily be persuaded from the course I advise.
May heaven direct you & bless the means which shall be used. My love to all the family.
Yrs. ever Affect

A Hamilton
Mrs E Hamilton


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Howell, Junior, 12 August 1794
From: Howell, Joseph, Jr.
To: Hamilton, Alexander

War Department, Accountant’s Office, August 12, 1794. Requests the Treasury to provide five thousand dollars for various expenses of the War Department.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [12 August 1794]
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Washington, George

[Philadelphia, August 12, 1794]

The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President & sends him two letters which were received last night from Pittsburgh.
Would it not be adviseable to put the Garrison of Fort Franklin in the power of Major Butler, so that if he deems it advisable he may draw a part of it to his aid?
An attack from the Indians appears at present improbable, & an attack from the Insurgents probable enough.
The bearer of the letters waits orders to return. Will The President suggest anything?
August 12. 1794


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to the President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States, 13 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States

Treasury Department, August 13, 1794. “I have to request that you will be so obliging as to pay to Thomas Cumming, Attorney for Fanny Forsyth, the sum of Two thousand Dollars; being so much granted to the Widow and Children of Robert Forsyth, late Marshall for the District of Georgia, by an Act of Congress of the 7th. of June 1794.…”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 13 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Coxe, Tench

[Philadelphia] August 13, 1794. “Mr. Hamilton requests Mr. Coxe to send him the letter from Coll Neville with the inclosures to complete his statement.”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 13 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Ellery, William

[Philadelphia, August 13, 1794. On August 25, 1794, Ellery wrote to Hamilton and referred to “Your letter of the 13th. of this month.” Letter not found.]


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 13 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Olney, Jeremiah

Treasury Department, August 13, 1794. “As great inconveniences have arisen from your discontinuing to endorse the name of your Office on your letters of a public nature; as heretofore directed I have to request, that you will in future be more punctual in conforming to a regulation so necessary to the dispatch of business in my Department.”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to the Executors of the Estate of Otho H. Williams, 14 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Executors of the Estate of Otho H. Williams

[Philadelphia, August 14, 1794. On August 14, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Robert Purviance: “I have Judged it most adviseable to address a letter to … [Williams’s] executors.” Letter not found.]


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Jackson, 14 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Jackson, Henry

[Philadelphia] August 14, 1794. “A Warrant has this day issued in your favor on the Treasurer of the United States for five Thousand Dollars, which he has been directed to pay, by remitting to you a draught for a Similar amount on the Office of Discount and Deposit at Boston. This money being on account of the Frigate, intended to be built at Boston, you will receive the necessary information with respect to the application thereof from the Commissioner of the Revenue.” Letter not found.]


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Purviance, 14 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Purviance, Robert

Treasury DepartmentAugust 14th 1794
Sir,

As I am at a loss to determine into whose hands the monies, Bonds and other property belonging to the United States have fallen, in consequence of the death of General Williams your predecessor in Office, I have Judged it most adviseable to address a letter to his Executors on the subject and another to the Deputy Collector, both of which you will find inclosed.
I have therefore to request, that immediately upon the receipt of this, you will take the necessary measures for getting into your possession all the monies and other property of the United States as aforesaid—observing to give me the earliest information thereof.
I am with consideration   Sir   Your most Obedient Servant

Alexander Hamilton
Robert Purviance EsquireCollector Baltimore


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from William Rawle, 14 August 1794
From: Rawle, William
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Philadelphia, August 14, 1794. The endorsement on a letter that Hamilton wrote to Rawle on July 17, 1794, reads as follows: “recd Augt. 14. answd same day.” Letter not found.]


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 14 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Washington, George

Treasy. Dept. August 14. 1794.
Sir,

The Attorney for the District of Virginia has presented to the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, a claim against the United States for his services in attending at Norfolk by direction from the Secy. of State, in order to take depositions respecting a british vessel alledged to have been taken by a french privateer within the limits of the United States; which claim has been accordingly adjusted and the sum of sixty four dollars found due to the said Attorney.
As I know of no other fund out of which this money can be paid, and as it is highly probable that similar charges for preserving the neutrality of the United States, may be presented at the Treasury, I would beg leave to suggest to the President, whether they ought not to be discharged out of the fund of twenty thousand dollars appropriated the last session of Congress, to defray the contingent charges of Government. If the President should be of this opinion, he will be pleased to signify his approbation, as it relates to the Attorney for Virginia, upon the Comptroller’s certificate transmitted herewith.
I have also further to observe that Mr. Higginson, late Agent for the United States in the british West India Islands has in pursuance of his instructions from me, approved by The President, drawn upon the Treasurer of the United States, three bills, amounting to Three thousand nine hundred & fifty Dollars, on account of the expenses attending his mission. It will be necessary therefore, in order to honor these drafts, that the President should also authorize me to pay them out of the said fund of twenty thousand Dollars. This will be conformable with the course pursued in regard to the money advanced to him previous to his departure.
With the most perfect respect   I have the honor to be &c.

Alexander Hamilton


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [15 August 1794]
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Washington, George

[Philadelphia, August 15, 1794]

The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to The President—incloses him a letter which Mr. Coxe has just brought to him for his perusal.
It is conceived that a reply may be given to this Letter, by Mr Coxe, which being published with the letter, may do good. If the President sees no objection, the idea will be pursued.
Augt. 15, 1794.
It is said that papers have been received from England down to the 26. of June, which announce that the duke of york & general Clairfait have received a new & total defeat, their army cut to peices & the duke of york missing. This was in an attempt to relieve Ypres. It is added that in consequence the Emperor has offered to purchase peace by a relinquishment of all the Low Countries.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Isaac Craig, 16 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Craig, Isaac

[Philadelphia, August 16, 1794. John C. Hamilton states that on this date Hamilton wrote to Craig. Letter not found.]


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, 16 August 1794
From: Jay, John
To: Hamilton, Alexander

London 16 Augt. 1794
Dear Sir

I am happy to find by a New York paper, that the Result of the late Inquiry into your official Conduct is perfectly consistant with the Expectations of your Friends. It is there represented as being voluminous, and in a variety of Respects interesting. Be so good as to send me a copy. I wrote to you lately a confidential Letter, under Cover to the President. My Dispatches to Mr Randolph were under the same cover. I presumed that if the Vessel should be examined by some rude privateer, more Respect would be paid to a Letter directed to the President, than to others.
Nothing very important has since occurred. Things are in a Train that looks promising; but the Issue is of Course uncertain. The Resolutions from Kentucky and N. Carolina are here; and make disagreable Impressions. Incivilities as often produce Resentment as Injuries do.
Affairs in Europe wear a serious aspect. The french continue Succesful, and the English decided—it is thought the Dutch will resign to their Fate without very strenuous opposition. Geneva is undergoing another Revolution. News of Robertspiere’s ⟨vio⟩lent Death, has arrived, and gains Credit. If true, the ⟨impo⟩rtance of it to France or the Allies cannot yet be calculated. ⟨–⟩ Events have hitherto been more common than influencial.
Yours sincerely

John Jay
⟨– Hamil⟩ton


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 16 August 1794
From: Randolph, Edmund
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Philadelphia, Saturday afternoonAugust 16th 1794
Dear Sir,

I have just seen Mr. Fauchet. He says, that La Carmagnol was ordered by him to sail eight or ten days ago, and is probably gone; but that she came in hither, pursued by a vessel of war, now waiting for her at the mouth of the Delaware. I informed him, that his answer was desired in writing: He promised to send it to the Office this afternoon, and I have directed it to be sent to you. He will perhaps place the thing in such a point of view, as to require some consideration and perhaps modification. I wish therefore, that you would send the letter out, if after reading it you think that something must be immediately done.
Yours with respect and esteem

Edm: Randolph.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 16 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Washington, George

Treasy Departmt. Aug: 16. 1794.
Sir,

It appears probable that advantages will result from giving to the Citizens at large information on the subject of the disturbances which exist in the Western parts of Pennsylvania.
With this view, if no objection to the measure should occur to you, I would cause a publication to be made of the Report which I had the honor to address to you, dated the 5th. instant.
With the most perfect respect &c.

A Hamilton


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Hunt, 17 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Hunt, Abraham

Treasury DepartmentAug 17. 1794
Sir

In the event of a detachment of Militia assembling in New Jersey to march against the insurgents in the Western parts of Pensylvania it is my wish that it may be convenient to you to undertake to procure supplies for them of every kind transportation included until they get into Pensylvania, for which a Commission of 5 ⅌ Cent on the amount of expenditures would be allowed.
If it shall be agreeable to you to undertake, I request that you will without delay confer with the Governor, as to the places of rendezvous, in the first instance, and routes of the corps which may be called out, so as to digest beforehand the necessary ideas respecting the execution, when the final order shall go from hence, which if not prevented by a submission of the insurgents (of which there is too little probability) cannot I presume be long delayed.
You may take as a guide that the Militia of Pensylvania and Jersey are to be assembled at Carlisle.
The public has already contracts in New Jersey [at Elizabeth Town & New-Brunswick for supplying the Troops of the United States. The price of the ration at the first mentioned place is 12¼ Cents and at the last place fourteen Cents, including Medical aid.] You will judge whether it is its interest to avail itself of any supplies which may be wanted under these contracts or whether they can otherwise be obtained on better terms; for the contracts only fix the rates which shall be paid for any supplies that may be required.
It will be agreeable to me to hear from you without delay.
With much esteem   I am Sir   Your obedient ser

AH
Abraham Hunt EsqTrenton


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from John Davidson, 18 August 1794
From: Davidson, John
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Annapolis August 18, 1794
Sir

I have always with cheerfulness obeyed your Mandates, and to keep up a proper Republican System, I have in my turn to request that you will be pleased to obey mine; it goes to your providing Funds for the improvement of an high eligible Lot in our Presidents City convenient to his House, over which you may look as to position only, which I mean to convey to you in Fee, on Condition that you improve it to your own liking by the year 1800; for your choice of the Lot I will locate my property there, and if you approve not of my choice you may roam over the whole and perch where you please; my choice lays on the north edge of K Street No. 284 east or west of it the highest situations in the City. Hambugh heights excepted, upon the plan of that City published at Boston you will please to cast your Eye from South G Street to North N Street and from East 9 Street to West 15 Street, you will perceive the limits to which I must confine you: K Street divides the City North & South, and the first Circle on Vermont Avenue from the Presidents Square ranging with K Street Eastward are the highest and in my Opinion the most desireable Situations, but should you wish to be nearer the Presidents House on either side of New York Avenue you shall be accomodated by
Sir   Your most respectfull & very Obedient Servt.

John Davidson
Mr. Secretary Hamilton


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Stephen Moylan, 18 August 1794
From: Moylan, Stephen
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Philadelphia] August 18, 1794. “On the 5th of this month I received from the Secretary of War an order to pay Invalid Pensioners the Sum of 8752 dollars & 1 cent being for the amount of their annual pension up to the 4th day of Sepr. 1794 inclusively. You will please to issue a Warrant for that Sum.”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Purviance, 18 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Purviance, Robert

Treasury Department August 18th 1794
Sir,

I have to request that you will furnish me with a Statement of the circumstances relating to the Schooner Martha belonging to Messrs. Munnickhuysen & Sadler of Baltimore which sailed for Hispaniola during the Embargo and conditioned to return in Ballast.
It appears from a Letter of her Owners to me that she brought back some Molasses and Taffia, the latter of which was contained in Casks of less than Ninety Gallons.
I am with consideration   Sir   your most obedient Servant

A Hamilton
Robert Purviance EsquireCollector of Baltimore


Title: War Department Circular to the Governors of the States, 18 August 1794
From: War Department,Hamilton, Alexander
To: Governors of the States

Philadelphia August 18th 1794
Sir,

The Secretary at War being absent from the Seat of Government, I am directed by the President to write to you on the Subject of those French privateers, fitted out in our ports which you have been heretofore informed were to be denied asylum within the United States, except upon the condition of being dismantled of their military equipments.
The subsequent conduct of some of these Vessels is a matter of real embarrassment and dissatisfaction. By running from one port to another, they have in effect enjoyed the asylum, which it was intended to deny them, and have thereby placed the Government in the unpleasant situation not only of seeing itself trifled with but of being liable to the suspicion of connivance in an evasion of its positive assurances to Foreign powers.
It is inadmissible that such a state of things should continue. And therefore the President has come to a resolution to cause every such Vessel which since the promulgation of his instruction to refuse them asylum shall have been in a port of the United States so as to have had an opportunity to acquire a knowledge of that instruction and which shall hereafter be found in any Port or District of the United states to be deprived of her military equipments.

I have it in instruction from him to communicate this resolution to you and to request your effectual cooperation in carrying it into execution within the state of [Massachusetts].
While the reasons which have been assigned beget a solicitude in the President that the measure may be punctually and completely executed, there are weighty considerations which induce him to wish that it may be found practicable to accomplish it in each case without bloodshed. To this end it will be useful that any force which may be employed for the purpose should be such as will controul a disposition to resist.
With perfect respect,   I have the honor to be   Sir   Your most obedient and humble servant

Alexander Hamilton


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 18 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Washington, George

Philadelphia Aug: 18. 1794.

The Secretary of the Treasury submits to the President the draft of a letter on the subject of the proscribed privateers. Would it not be adviseable to communicate the matter to the French minister, & to request his cooperation in causing our ports to be no longer ⟨–⟩by those vessels?

The appointments of Collectors for the Districts of Hampton & Snow-Hill is become urgent, the present incumbents having reiterated their requests that they might be relieved. Names have been placed before the President by letter in the first place, & in the last verbally.
The enclosed papers will remind the President of the state of the business in each case. The Secretary wishes it may appear to him expedient to name Mr Jones for Hampton.
He has been able to obtain no light as to Mr Randolph’s suggestion respecting Mr Selby, but he imagines the present Collector would not recommend a person really obnoxious to his fellow Citizens. There are some other vacancies to be filled, which the Secretary will shortly have the honor of conferring with The President concerning.

A Hamilton


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 18 August 1794
From: Willink, Wilhem,Willink, Jan,Van Staphorst, Nicholaas,Van Staphorst, Jacob,Hubbard, Nicholas
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Quadruplicate   Or: pr. Sh. Adrianae. Fitzpatrick. Dupl. pr. Br. Union Leader to New York Tripl: pr. Br. Harriot Holland.
Amsterdam 18 August 1794.
Sir!

Conformable to our last respects of 1 Instant We have now the pleasure to transmit You inclosed Bill of Lading and Invoice of 89 Casks Salpetre, consigned to You by our order, by David Henry Rowohl of Hamburgh per the Bacchus bound to Philadelphia, Richard George Master, amounting to Holland Currency  f 42,579.14. 8 f 46,000. Insurance upon ditto, at

6 percent
f 2.760.—

Policy
3.12–

Our Commission ½ per Cent
230.—
2,993. 12.—

To debit of the United States in
Hd. Cy.
f 45,573. 6. 8

Which Salpetre We wish soon and safe to you in perfect good condition.
We are yet without, but hourly expect to receive intelligence of the remainder of your order for this article having been purchased and shipped at Copenhagen, in consequence of the positive and strong directions We gave to that effect.
We are respectfully   Sir!   Your most ob. hb. Servants

Wilhem & Jan Willink
N & J Van Staphorst & Hubbard
Alexd. Hamilton Esqr. Secretary of the Treasury


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 19 August 1794
From: Coxe, Tench
To: Hamilton, Alexander

T:D: R:O. August 19th. 1794

Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform the secy. of the Treasy. that he is only waiting for a return from the War Departmt. of the places and numbers, at, & for which, the Rations will be wanted. As a document which might have served the purpose, he applied at the Secy. of the Tresys. office, for a sight or a copy of the notification for supplies of the last year, which he understands cannot be found. As soon as either of the two papers shall be received, Mr. Coxe will proceed in the business.


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Bartholomew Dandridge, 19 August 1794
From: Dandridge, Bartholomew
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Philadelphia] August 19, 1794. “I am directed by the President to inform you, in reply to your letter of the 16. instant, that relying that the facts contained in the Report have been stated with due care, & from authentic sources, he perceives no objection to the publication of it as proposed.”


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 19 August 1794
From: Ellery, William
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Newport [Rhode Island] August 19, 1794. “Since my last have arrived here the Schooner St. George of Montego Bay … captured on the High Seas by the Frigate La Concorde; also the Brig Perserverance of St. John New Brunswick … bound last from Turks Island for Newyork and captured on the high Seas, by the Privateer Sans Pareille.… Inclosed are copies of the papers produced to me.… I wrote a letter to the Governor of this State … inclosing … a copy of that part of your instructs. which relates to Privateers originally fitted out in the United States, and prizes brought or sent in by such Privateers.… Jean Baptiste Bernard the Prize master of the Perseverance has been apprehended on a charge of having murdered a man in Charlestown last June … and he has been confined in Gaol.…”


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 19 August 1794
From: Ellery, William
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Newport [Rhode Island] August 19, 1794. “The Sloop Aurora Hersey Bradford of Bristol master arrived not long since at the Port of Bristol in this District from the Port of Boston without a Register, or Enrollment and License, but with a Certified manifest from the Custom house there. By said proceeding both the Vessel and her cargo became subject to seizure and forfeiture; and upon Notice being given to me of this transactn. by the Surveyor of the Port of Bristol I directed him to take the Vessel into his Custody until the District Attorney could be consulted in the Case.… The District Attorney has been applied to, and inclosed is a copy of his Advice.…”


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Howell, Junior, 19 August 1794
From: Howell, Joseph, Jr.
To: Hamilton, Alexander

War Department, Accountant’s Office, August 19, 1794. “… I have … in the absence of the Secretary of War to request you will be pleased to place in the hands of the Treasurer the sum of Thirty six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars for the pay and Subsistence of the Troops under the immediate command of General Wayne, the further sum of Two thousand five hundred dollars and 90 Cents for the Troops at Fort Pitt and its dependencies and also a further sum of Sixty Thousand dollars for the Kentucky Volunteers.…”


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Purviance, 19 August 1794
From: Purviance, Robert
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Baltimore, August 19, 1794. On August 22, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Purviance: “I am to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 19th Instant, with the inclosures therein mentioned.” Letter not found.]


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 19 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Washington, George

Treasy. Dept. Augt. 19. 1794
Sir,

A temporary absence from the seat of Government, & the extra avocations which have occupied me since my return have delayed my submitting to you the inclosed communication of the 15 of July from the Commissioner of the Revenue.
The arrangement proposed is the result of a previous consultation between the Commissioner of the Revenue & myself, and appears to me proper.
If adopted, it will remain to appoint the requisite officers to which the power of the President is competent. On this head I will have the honor of submitting personally the result of my reflections & enquiries.
I have the honor &c.

A Hamilton


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 20 August 1794
From: Coxe, Tench
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Treasury Department, Revenue Office, August 20, 1794. “The enclosed three counterfeit notes of the Bank of North America, with the affidavits accompanying them, were transmitted to this office by the Supervisor of Virginia. Col. Carrington wishes … that the amount of these notes … will be placed to his Credit by the United States.”


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 20 August 1794
From: Lincoln, Benjamin
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Boston August 20th 1794
Sir

Captain Magee returned here a few days since from a long voyage to the Northwest shores of America Canton &c. He has been absent about three years during which time he has sailed about fourteen thousand leagues. He left Boston in a new ship with two new suits of sails one of Boston manufactured cloth and one foreign. I asked him particular respecting the Boston duck and had for answer that none could be better. It is impossible for a man to express himself in strong terms in favour of any thing than he did in favour of this Cloth.
On the 17th of May last I addressed a line to you covering a complaint from Mr. Tisdale and others respecting the value we put on the goods they imported from France. What gave rise to the discontent was the estimate made in New york & Philadelphia on like goods imported at the same time. They as is represented put the value of a liver much lower that we did. Their first bonds have been paid; their second are now due. Your decision on the question will probably prevent an action being brought on them. What ever you shall say on the subject will I doubt not put an end to the business. This leads me to wish your early attention to this complaint.

Secy of the Treasury


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 20 August 1794
From: Olney, Jeremiah
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Providence, August 20, 1794. “The public Scale-beam, now in use at this Port, being in want of repairs, and too small for weighing Hemp and large hhds of Sugar … I ask your permission to procure another Beam … necessary for the convenience and dispatch of public business in this District.…”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 21 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Ellery, William

Treasury Department August 21st 1794
Sir,

I have directed the Treasurer of the United States to remit to you on account of the fortifications erecting at Newport the further Sum of Two thousand five hundred Dollars in bills to be drawn payable to yourself or order.
These draughts having blanks for the directions are to be filled up on yourself provided the funds in your hands are adequate to the purpose. If that however should not be the case, you will draw upon the Cashier of the Bank of Providence for the deficiency.
I shall Just add, that in the expenditure of this money, you will strictly conform to the instructions & regulations contained in my letter to you of the 3d of April 1794.
I am with consideration   Sir,   Your most obedient Servant

A Hamilton

As the remittance now made completes the whole sum allotted for the fortifying of Newport you must take care, that the expenditures including your Commission thereon does not exceed the amount of the remittances.

William Ellery Esquire
Collector of Newport
Rhode Island


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Sim Lee, 21 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Lee, Thomas Sim

Philadelphia August the 21st1974
Sir

I have the honor to acknowlege the Receipt of your letter to the Secretary at War of the 15 instant.
The President, to whom it has been communicated, considers the determination of the Council to furnish the detachment of Militia called for from your State with Musquets Bayonets and Cartouchboxes as a new proof of their zeal for the support of the Government and laws of the United States. It is understood that all other articles are to be provided and furnished by the United States.
With perfect respect & esteem   I have the honor to be   Sir   Your most Obedient & humble servant

Alexander Hamilton
His ExcellencyThomas E. Lee esqGovernor of Maryland


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Purviance, 21 August 1794
From: Purviance, Robert
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Baltimore, August 21, 1794. “I am to Acknowled[g]e the receipt of your favor of the 14 Instant, covering a Letter to the Exec[u]tors of General Williams and another to Mr. Richmond his late Deputy.… The backward state in which the late Collectors Books stand at this moment, leaves me at a loss to Judge when I shall be enabled to pass a receipt for the Bonds and other property of the United States.… I must Observe, that ever since Mr. Delozier left the Collectors office, the Accts have gradually fallen behind, occasioned from a want of Clerks and a proper person to conduct so important a trust.…”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 21 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Washington, George

Philada. Augt. 21. 1794.
Sir,

The Secretary of War contemplated the sending about this time two months pay to the troops & mounted volunteers under General Scott. A law directs that the payments to the troops may be so regulated as that there shall be at no time in arrears more than two months pay. The requisite Treasury arrangements are made & every thing is ready for making the contemplated remittance to the army. But a question (adverted to by the Secretary at War before he left this) presses—shall the sending of the money be hazarded, under the actual circumstances of the Western Counties of Pennsylvania? This question involves not only the possible evil of the loss of the money, but that of throwing a pecuniary aid into the hands of the Insurgents. It is true that the money will be almost wholly in Bank Post Notes in favor of the Pay Master Mr Swan, and requiring, to be negotiable, his indorsement. Yet if taken, and the parties are bold enough to put his name upon them, they may possibly give them circulation & turn them to account. On the other hand if no use is made of them, if they are not recovered, difficulties may arise with the Bank. They will have paid the Warrant in bank notes, obtained a credit for it, & their notes will be outstanding.
In this situation there is no doubt that the public interest recommends a suspension of the remittance. But delay will risk a non compliance with the law, the remittances heretofore only extending to the end of July. To take the one or other kind of responsibility on me in a case which respects another Department, without first consulting you, not appearing either prudent or required by the situation, I have concluded to trouble you with the subject & ask your direction or opinion.
With perfect respect   I have the honor to be &c.

Alexander Hamilton

P.S. If money is sent immediately it may suffice to confine it to one months pay for the troops. Can the idea of a circuitous route be embraced with advantage?


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 21 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Washington, George

[Philadelphia] Augt. 21. 1794

The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to The President. The letter written to the President on the 16. respecting the publication of the Report of the 5. was written at the Secry. of State’s Office, where Mr H. expected a copy of it had been taken previous to its delivery. But when Mr. H. sent to enquire for a copy in order to the publication of it, he found none had been taken—which, it being then too late to obtain a copy in time from the President, left him the dilemma, either of suffering the Report to go out without the letters, or to draft one as a substitute for that which had been sent. The latter appeared to him to be most likely to be agreeable to the President, & he drew one accordingly a copy of which appears in Dunlap’s paper of today, corresponding with the enclosed original, which the President will find perfectly the same in substance with the former.
Another circumstance may require explanation. The letters follow, instead of preceding the Report. This happened from the report having been immediately sent to promote dispatch, & the President’s answer not having been received ’till the day following, so that it went to the printer too late for insertion in the first instance without too great a derangement of his types.


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [21 August 1794]
From: Washington, George
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Germantown, Pennsylvania, August 21, 1794]
Sir,

To your note of this date (in behalf of the Department of War) asking my opinion or direction respecting the advisability of sending (under the existing circumstances of the western counties of Pennsylvania) two months pay to the army under the immediate orders of General Wayne, I answer, that under my present impressions the measure had better be delayed—at least until the Commissioners who were sent into those counties, make their report. It certainly would from all the information that has been received from that quarter be too hazardous to send a sum of money by the way of Pittsburgh, thro’ counties that are in open rebellion; & besides the circuitousness of the route through what is called the Wilderness, & the length of time required to send it by a messenger that way, there would be, in my opinion, no small risk in the attempt. But as I shall be in the City tomorrow, I will converse with you on this subject.

German town 21 Augt. 1794.
Go Washington.


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from William Bradford, 22 August 1794
From: Bradford, William
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Pittsburgh, August 22, 1794. On August 23, 1794, Bradford wrote to Hamilton: “Yesterday I wrote to you.” Letter not found.]


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Purviance, 22 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Purviance, Robert

Treasury Department August 22d 1794
Sir,

I am to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 19th Instant, with the inclosures therein mentioned, excepting the Copy of the letter from the Grand Jury to you.
I am pleased with your compliance with the request of the Grand Jury as to Stationing the Cutter and I shall be so with every other practicable co-operation on the part of the Custom House in a case, in which consideration of public policy and humanity so eminently coincide. But as it cannot be forseen how long the occasion for precautions of this sort may continue, and as the establishments connected with the Custom House, cannot durably be diverted from their destination, it will be right to observe to the proper persons, that your cooperation can only be for a moderate period of time and that if there is a probability that the necessity for such precautions may be prolonged, it will be requisite that a substitute should be thought of.
I am with consideration Sir.   Your most obedient Servant

A Hamilton
Robert Purviance EsquireCollector of Baltimore


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Purviance, 22 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Purviance, Robert

Treasury DepartmentAugust 22d. 1794
Sir

It has been represented to me that notwithstanding the Law prohibiting the exportation of arms and military stores from the United States that business goes on from the Port of Baltimore with nearly as little restraint as if there were no such law.
I cannot credit this information as it would imply so culpable a negligence in the Officers of the Customs—yet it comes to me with a degree of positiveness that I cannot disregard it, and am perplexed what to think.
I request to hear speedily & explicitly from you on this head, and I must urge that it is expected the Officers of the Customs will increase their vigilence to discover and prevent the practice, if it exists. Could it be possible to suppose that any officer of the United States would wink at such a breach of the Laws, from whatever motive, I should think it my duty to observe that the discovery of such a delinquency would be deemed and treated as inexcuseable.
With great consideration & Esteem   I am Sir   Your obedient Servt.

Alexander Hamilton

P.S. It has also been mentioned to me that there are Vessels equipping themselves in the Port as for Armed Vessels. What can this mean?

The Collector of Baltimore


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to William Rawle, 22 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Rawle, William

Treasury Department August 22d 1794
Sir

I am to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 14th Instant in reply to my letter to you of the 17th of July last on the subject of the bad quality of the Hats and Shoes furnished for the use of the Army for 1793.
As in the event of instituting suits against the Contractors, it will be adviseable to go upon sure grounds. I have thought it proper to inform you, that the Inspectors under whose inspection the cloathing was received, were persons appointed by the public. I shall submit it therefore to you to determine how far this circumstance could operate in exoneration of the Contractors.
I am with great consideration   Sir   Your most Obedient Servant

A Hamilton
William Rawle EsquireAttorney for the District of Pennsylvania


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from William Bradford, 23 August 1794
From: Bradford, William
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Pittsburgh, August 23. 1794
My dear Sir,

Yesterday I wrote to you pretty fully—to day I have little to add beyond what is contained in the official communication.
Whatever may be the declarations of a determination to submit, or exertions on the part of those whose indemnity depends upon a general acquiescence in the execution of the acts of Congress—there seems to be a necessity for some force being stationed here, to overawe the disaffected individuals & protect the officers in the execution of their duty. This idea was perfectly agreeable to most of the Committee of Conference; but they were apprehensive that any public declarations of it, might give rise to an idea that they were stipulating for their own protection. We therefore declared it in the letter which inclosed the articles. But it deserves consideration, whether such protecting force would not be more advantageously furnished by the States, at least untill Congress can make some permanent provision for it.
I am not sorry for the opportunity we have had of terrifying the Ohio-men by discovering a disposition to leave them out. They were individually the principal leaders of the opposition: & it is said have been the authors of some outrages on the Collector there. I hope the State of Virginia will take some measures with them that may tend to suppress this spirit. If we have a conference with them, the first preliminary of our recommendation shall be that they will not interfere in any future consultations respecting our propositions to the Pennsylvanians. We shall also take measures to secure the restoration of bonds taken from the Collector, by some of these people in Ohio County.
We have evidently gained much ground in the three last days & if we can but inspire the moderate men with firmness & decision I hope all will be well. The more I see of this country and of the tempers of the people the more sollicitous I am that any contest with them should be avoided unless there were troops who could be kept in the field longer and act with more energy than the militia.
I forgot to enclose in my letter of yesterday the handbill I mentioned, & send it to you now.
I regret the death of poor Higgonson—but am exceeding pleased with the prospects that Mr Jay seems to have. The opinion, that we are likely to be at peace with the British will aid us in our endeavors to restore order.
I am my dear Sir   very truly yours

W. Bradford

P.S. All the precipts served by the Marshall are safe in the hands of Major Craig. I shall take the first perfectly safe conveyance to send them down, or will take them with me.

W.B.


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from George Gale, 23 August 1794
From: Gale, George
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Baltimore, August 23, 1794. On August 27, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Gale: “I have received your letter of the 23d. instant.” Letter not found.]


Title: Tully No. I, [23 August 1794]
From: “Tully”,Hamilton, Alexander
To:

[Philadelphia, August 23, 1794]

For the American Daily Advertiser.
To the People of the United States.
Letter I.
It has from the first establishment of your present constitution been predicted, that every occasion of serious embarrassment which should occur in the affairs of the government—every misfortune which it should experience, whether produced from its own faults or mistakes, or from other causes, would be the signal of an attempt to overthrow it, or to lay the foundation of its overthrow, by defeating the exercise of constitutional and necessary authorities. The disturbances which have recently broken out in the western counties of Pennsylvania furnish an occasion of this sort. It remains to see whether the prediction which has been quoted, proceeded from an unfounded jealousy excited by partial differences of opinion, or was a just inference from causes inherent in the structure of our political institutions. Every virtuous man, every good citizen, and especially Every True Republican must fervently pray, that the issue may confound and not confirm so ill omened a prediction.
Your firm attachment to the government you have established cannot be doubted.
If a proof of this were wanting to animate the confidence of your public agents, it would be sufficient to remark, that as often as any attempt to counteract its measures appear, it is carefully prepared by strong professions of friendship to the government, and disavowals of any intention to injure it. This can only result from a conviction, that the government carries with it your affections; and that an attack upon it to be successful, must veil the stroke under appearances of good will.
It is therefore very important that You should clearly discern in the present instance, the shape in which a design of turning the existing insurrection to the prejudice of the government would naturally assume. Thus guarded, you will more readily discover and more easily shun the artful snare which may be laid to entangle your feelings and your judgment, and will be the less apt to be misled from the path by which alone you can give security and permanency to the blessings you enjoy, and can avoid the incalculable mischiefs incident to a subversion of the just and necessary authority of the laws.
The design alluded to, if it shall be entertained, would not appear in an open justification of the principles or conduct of the insurgents, or in a direct dissuasion from the support of the government. These methods would produce general indignation and defeat the object. It is too absurd and shocking a position to be directly maintained, that forcible resistance by a sixtieth part of the community to the representative will of the Whole, and its constitutional laws expressed by that will, and acquiesced in by the people at large, is justifiable or even excusable. It is a position too untenable and disgustful to be directly advocated—that the government ought not be supported in exertions to establish the authority of the laws against a resistance so incapable of justification or excuse.

The adversaries of good order in every country have too great a share of cunning, too exact a knowledge of the human heart, to pursue so unpromising a cause. Those among us would take upon the present occasion one far more artful, and consequently far more dangerous.
They would unite with good citizens, and perhaps be among the loudest in condemning the disorderly conduct of the insurgents. They would agree that it is utterly unjustifiable, contrary to the vital principle of republican government, and of the most dangerous tendency—But they would, at the same time, slily add, that excise laws are pernicious things, very hostile to liberty, (or perhaps they might more smoothly lament that the government had been imprudent enough to pass laws so contrary to the genius of a free people) and they would still more cautiously hint that it is enough for those who disapprove of such laws to submit to them—too much to expect their aid in enforcing them upon others. They would be apt to intimate further, that there is reason to believe that the Executive has been to blame, sometimes by too much forbearance, encouraging the hope that laws would not be enforced, at other times in provoking violence by severe and irritating measures; and they would generally remark, with an affectation of moderation and prudence, that the case is to be lamented, but difficult to be remedied; that a trial of force would be delicate and dangerous; that there is no forseeing how or where it would end; that it is perhaps better to temporize, and by mild means to allay the ferment and afterwards to remove the cause by repealing the exceptionable laws. They would probably also propose, by anticipation of and in concert with the views of the insurgents, plans of procrastination. They would say, if force must finally be resorted to let it not be till after Congress have been consulted, who, if they think fit to persist in continuing the laws, can make additional provisions for enforcing their execution. This too, they would argue, will afford an opportunity for the public sense to be better known, which (if ascertained to be in favor of the laws) will give the government a greater assurance of success in measures of coercion.
By these means, artfully calculated to divert Your attention from the true question to be decided, to combat by prejudices against a particular system, a just sense of the criminality and danger of violent resistance to the laws; to oppose the suggestion of misconduct on the part of government to the fact of misconduct on the part of the insurgents; to foster the spirit of indolence and procrastination natural to the human mind, as an obstacle to the vigor and exertion which so alarming an attack upon the fundamental principles of public and private security demands; to distract Your opinion on the course proper to be pursued, and consequently on the propriety of the measures which may be pursued. They would expect (I say) by these and similar means, equally insidious and pernicious, to abate Your just indignation at the daring affront which has been offered to Your authority and Your zeal for the maintenance and support of the laws to prevent a competent force, if force is finally called forth, from complying with the call—and thus to leave the government of the Union in the prostrate condition of seeing the laws trampled under foot by an unprincipled combination of a small portion of the community, habitually disobedient to laws, and itself destitute of the necessary aid for vindicating their authority.
Virtuous and enlightened citizens of a now happy country! ye could not be the dupes of artifices so detestable, of a scheme so fatal; ye cannot be insensible to the destructive consequences with which it would be pregnant; ye cannot but remember that the government is Your Own work—that those who administer it are but your temporary agents; that You are called upon not to support their power, But Your Own Power. And you will not fail to do what your rights, your best interests, your character as a people, your security as members of society conspire to demand of you.

Tully


Title: Minutes of a Meeting Concerning the Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania, [24 August 1794]
From: Hamilton, Alexander,Washington, George,Randolph, Edmund
To:

[Philadelphia, August 24, 1794]

At a Meeting at the Presidents House
City of Philadelphia Aug 24. 1794
Present
The President of The United States.
The Secretary of State
The Secretary of the Treasury.

The President proposed for the opinion and advice of The Secretary of State & the Secretary of the Treasury the following questions.
1   Shall orders issue for the immediate convening of the whole or any part of the Militia ordered to hold themselves in readiness to be called forth for suppressing the Insurrection in the Western parts of Pensylvania?
Answer
It appears adviseable to send immediate orders to the Governor of Virginia to assemble those of that State—recommending to him not to issue his public orders for the purpose ’till the first of September.
Question 2   Shall an additional number of Militia be called for?
Answer
It appears adviseable to call for a further number sufficient to complete the whole to fifteen thousand non Commissioned Officers and privates. That of these fifteen hundred be called for from Virginia and that in the call for the purpose it be suggested to the Governor as eligible to endeavour to obtain as many riflemen as may be practicable under Major General Morgan and as near the scene of action as they can be had. Five hundred to Maryland with a like intimation as to Riflemen and five hundred to New Jersey.
Question 3   What will be the proper places and time of rendezvous?
Answer
The place of general rendezvous to be—For New Jersey, Carlisle; for Pensylvania Carlisle & Chambersburgh. These to have reference to Bedford as an interior point. For Maryland; Williamsport and such other place more Westerly as the Governor of Maryland may deem adviseable for the more western Militia of that State. For Virginia; Winchester & the vicinity of Old Fort Pleasant with such other place as The Governor of Virginia may think eligible for the Militia of that State lying beyond the Alleghany. These places (except the one which shall be appointed by the Governor of Virginia for the Militia beyond the Alleghany) in Maryland & Virginia to have reference to Fort Cumberland as an ulterior point. The supplies to be directed towards the points of rendezvous and the Governors to be left at liberty to make duration for local convenience having regard to the places of supply. The time to be aimed at for reaching the ulterior points Bedford & Cumberland to be the first of October.
Question 4th   What communication shall be made to The Commissioners in answer to their letter of the 17th instant?
Answer
The Commissioners to be informed of what further has been done with regard to the Militia—and to be advised explicitly to remain in that Country till after the proposed Meeting of the 2d. of September and also to be advised to continue there as much longer as may in their opinion promise any public utility & be consistent with their personal safety not exceeding the last of September, as their stay beyond that day can not be supposed necessary for the beneficial purpose of their Meeting and can only be prolonged by a plea of delay on the part of the Insurgents—to instruct them to announce with frankness and explicitness the determination of the Executive Government to exert all the means with which it is invested to produce a compliance with the laws—to encourage the well-disposed to cooperate in their support under a full assurance of the decision & perseverance of the Government; acting under the Conviction that the question concerns the very being of Government of law and order—& to communicate the substance of the information received with regard to the disposition of the Citizens to cooperate effectually with the Government.


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 25 August 1794
From: Carrington, Edward
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Richmond Aug. 25. 1794
My dear Sir

You have upon sundry occasions done me the favor to request my opinions upon the public Sentiment in Virginia. Conceiving that there can never have been an occurrence giving you greater anxiety than the present Insurgency in the Western parts of Pensylvania, or upon which a knowledge of the public opinions and dispositions here could be more interesting, I anticipate your request, and proceed to give you that information in which I feel myself confident. Virginia will do her duty. The requisition of the President, and as many more as he shall find it necessary to make, will be complied with, with alacrity. It is a case which goes home to the people themselves; and they will act according to their own principles—it is not one of those cases in which they remain silent while Democratic societies, British debtors & other Factions presume to declare, in Resolutions & Toasts, opinions for them. The great Body of the People of Virginia are independant planters & Farmers, much attached to liberty, property, and domestic happiness, & busy themselves but little about public concerns, unless they feel that these blessings are brought into danger. Hence it is, that factious Men, for a time, succeed in giving a complection to the conduct of the country, very different from the real temper of the People; and this is a misfortune under which Virginia has been placed for several years. Virtuous Men have been cried down under a ding of Monarchy, Aristocracy, british influence, & French Republicanism, terms to which no rational significations have been applied, because they have seriously recollected that we had a Country & government of our own, and, in Congress & elswhere, voted to preserve and prosper them. These clamors have been set up & propagated with a degree of industry which none have, with equal zeal, opposed. Investigations for the truth have been beyond the reach of the Multitude, which has of course gone with the clamor. But the people of Virginia mean to be right when they can be in possession of the truth. The Insurgency is a case in which the truth cannot be veiled. The great Body of our Country know that the government they have chosen for themselves is a republican one, to be directed by a Majority; and when a Minority openly resists the Laws passed by a Majority, and thus counteracts the most essential principle of republicanism, the truth stands too fully exposed to be perverted. Pretended republicans are compelled to support the government, or to exhibit themselves in their true character of Anarchists. Taking the first turn they may not do us much good, but taking the latter, they lose their power of doing evil. These are my reflections on the subject, and the accounts received from the different parts of the State assure me that the real state of the opinions & conduct of the Country, are in concord with them.
I hope & trust that a radical extirpation will be effected in the instance. A patched up reconciliation will only leave the embers of sedition to be rekindled with greater violence at a future day. There must be a compleat conquest and serious examples of the leaders in the business.
I am with great regard   yr. Freind & st.

E. Carrington

Should you be of opinion that a publication without names, of this letter, or any part, will be of service, you have my consent thereto.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Isaac Craig, 25 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Craig, Isaac

War Department August 25th 1794
Sir,

Your letter of the 17th Instant to the Secretary at War has been received and duly attended to.
The suggestions respecting additional measures of defence have been considered, but the danger of the means falling into the hands of the insurgents, appears at present an objection.
It is hoped that every thing at Pittsburgh or which shall come there, not necessary for the Post itself, has been forwarded down the river & will continue to be so as long & as fast as it can be done with safety.
The friends of Government at Pittsburgh ought to rally their confidence and if necessary manifest it by Acts. They cannot surely doubt the power of the U. States to uphold the authority of the laws, and they may be assured that the necessity of doing it towards preserving the very existence of Government so directly attacked will dictate & produce a most rigorous and persevering effort; in which the known good sense and love of order of the quiet body of the people and all the information hitherto received of their sentiments & feelings with regard to the present emergency, authorise a full expectation of their hearty cooperation—with esteem
I am   Sir   Your Most Obedient Servant

Alexander Hamiltonfor the Secy at War
Isaac Craig EsquireD Q M G


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 25 August 1794
From: Ellery, William
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Newport [Rhode Island] August 25, 1794. “Your letter of the 13th. of this month expressing that great Inconveniences have arisen from my discontinuing to endorse the name of my office on my letters as heretofore directed surprized me very much. Whatever interruption, or omission of that kind has taken place must have been occasioned by a hurry of business, not an intention to forbear a compliance with your direction.…”


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Hodgdon, 25 August 1794
From: Hodgdon, Samuel
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Philadelphia, August 25, 1794. On August 25, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Hodgdon and referred to “your letter to me of this date.” Letter not found.]


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 25 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Hodgdon, Samuel

Treasury Department, August 25, 1794. “I have to request, that you will purchase for the use of the Quarter Masters Department, the horses with their necessary trappings, to be employed as Post Horses and to be stationed at the several places, mentioned in your letter to me of this date.”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 25 August 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Hodgdon, Samuel

War Department, August 25, 1794. “It is expected, that there will be shortly assembled at Williamsport in Maryland a body of 2850 Militia and at and near Winchester in Virginia a body of 4800 Militia. It is of the most urgent importance that you should forward without delay to those places respectively all sorts of Military Stores and tents and other Camp Equipage proportioned to the number to be assembled at each.… The articles ought to arrive at their destination by the 20th. of September at furthest.…”


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 25 August 1794
From: Olney, Jeremiah
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Custom House,Providence 25th. August 1794.
Sir.

I was much hurt by your Letter of the 13th. instant, until it occurred to me that it might, by mistake, have been misdirected; which I am persuaded must have been the case: For on every official Letter from this Office, addressed to “the Secretary of the Treasury,” since the receipt of your circular directions of the 10th. of May 1792 (excepting Two or Three in that Year, omitted thro forgetfulness) have been invariably endorsed the name of “my Office, and the Place where it is kept.”
As a Servant of the Public, it is my Intention to “conform to all the regulations” prescribed by my Superiors, with such promptitude, as not to merit the censure of want of “punctuality.” Among the great variety of Instructions from the Treasury, some one may slip my Memory; and I beg of you to believe Sir, that the omission of any will not be intentional.
I have the Honor to be,   Very respectfully, Sir,   Your Most Obedt. & Hume. Servant

Jereh. Olney Collr.
A. Hamilton Esquire,Secy. of the Treasury.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, [26 August 1794]
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Hodgdon, Samuel

[Philadelphia, August 26, 1794]

Mr. Hamilton requests Mr. Hodgsdon to have ready an express to go tomorrow Morning to cumberland County in this State.
Tuesday. Aug 26


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Purviance, 26 August 1794
From: Purviance, Robert
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Baltimore, August 26, 1794. Encloses “the report of Joseph Farland, Master of the Schooner Martha.”