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Alexander Hamilton
A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Audrey Walker
Revised by Margaret McAleer
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
1997
Contact information: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress
Manuscript Division, 2003
Collection Summary
Title: Papers of Alexander Hamilton
Span Dates: 1708-1903 (bulk 1777-1804)
ID No.: MSS24612
Creator: Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
Size: 12,000 items; 44 containers plus 3 oversize;
22.4 linear feet; 34 microfilm reels
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, legal
and financial papers, printed matter, and other papers,
chiefly from 1777 to 1804. Includes material relating
to Alexander Hamilton's personal life and public career,
especially his service as an aide to George Washington
during the Revolutionary War, his participation in the
United States Continental Congress and the Constitutional
Convention, his service as United States secretary of
the treasury, his New York law practice, and his service
as inspector general of the army.
Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description
of this collection in the Library's online catalog.
They are grouped by name of person or organization,
by subject or location, and by occupation and listed
alphabetically therein.
Names:
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
Adams, John, 1735-1826 --Correspondence
Church, Angelica Schuyler, 1756-1815--Correspondence
Church family
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852--Correspondence
Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler, 1757-1854--Correspondence
Hamilton family
Hamtramck, John Francis, 1756-1803--Correspondence
Heth, William, 1735-1808--Correspondence
Jay, John, 1745-1829--Correspondence
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Correspondence
King, Rufus, 1755-1827--Correspondence
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier,
marquis de, 1757-1834--Correspondence
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818--Correspondence
L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754-1825--Correspondence
McHenry, James, 1753-1816--Correspondence
McLean family
Monroe, James, 1758-1831--Correspondence
Morris, Robert, 1734-1806--Correspondence
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829--Correspondence
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 1746-1825--Correspondence
Rice, Nathan, 1754-1829--Correspondence
Rivardi, John J. U. (John Jacob Ulrich)--Correspondence
Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804--Correspondence
Schuyler family
Sedgwick, Theodore, 1746-1813--Correspondence
Seton, William, 1746-1798--Correspondence
Smith, William Stephens, 1755-1816--Correspondence
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin,
Baron von, 1730-1794--Correspondence
Swan, Caleb, d. 1809--Correspondence
Tousard, Louis de, 1749-1817--Correspondence
Troup, Robert, 1757-1832--Correspondence
Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804--Correspondence
Washington, George, 1732-1799--Correspondence
Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825--Correspondence
Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833--Correspondence
Mint of the United States
New York (State). Supreme Court
United States. Army. Office of the Inspector General
United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)
United States. Continental Congress
United States. Dept. of the Treasury
Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures
First Church of Albany. Records of the First Church
of Albany (1780)
Subjects:
Finance, Public--United States
Manufacturing industries--United States
National banks (United States)
Practice of law--New York (State)--New York
France--Foreign relations--United States
Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States
United States--Economic conditions--To 1865
United States--Foreign relations--France
United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Occupations:
Army officers
Cabinet officers
Delegates, U.S. Continental Congress--New York (State)
Lawyers
Public officials
Statesmen
Administrative Information
Provenance: The papers of Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804),
attorney, secretary of the treasury, and inspector general
of the army, were acquired by the Library in several
installments between 1904 and 1997. The largest and
initial acquisition was transferred from the State Department
by executive order in 1904. In 1916 Hamilton's legal
papers were purchased and a collection of his personal
papers was received as the gift of Allan McLane Hamilton.
A supplementary group of legal papers and letters was
transferred from the Treasury Department in 1917. In
1942 a deposit made in 1930 by Alexander Hamilton and
Pierpont M. Hamilton was converted into a gift, and
another deposit made in 1939 by Mrs. John C. Bartholf
was purchased in 1958. Smaller acquisitions have been
added periodically to the papers by purchase or gift.
Processing History: The papers of Alexander Hamilton
were arranged and described in 1981. This register was
revised in 1997.
Copyright Status: The status of copyright in the unpublished
writings of Alexander Hamilton is governed by the Copyright
Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
Microfilm: A microfilm edition of part of these papers
is available on thirty-four reels. This edition, made
in 1981, replaces a forty-six reel edition created in
1965. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript
Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary
loan.
Preferred Citation: Researchers wishing to cite this
collection should include the following information:
Container number, Alexander Hamilton Papers, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Biographical Note
1757, Jan. 11
Born, Charlestown, Nevis, Leeward Islands, British West
Indies
1766-1768
Clerk, trading firm of Beekman and Cruger, St. Croix
1769
Clerk, business of Nicholas Cruger, St. Croix
1772
Immigrated to Boston, Mass.
1772-1773
Attended Francis Barber's academy, Elizabethtown, N.J.
1773
Entered King's College (later Columbia University),
New York, N.Y.
1774
Published A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress
from the Calumnies of Their Enemies (New York: James
Rivington. 35 pp.)
1775
Published The Farmer Refuted: or A more impartial and
comprehensive View of the Dispute between Great-Britain
and the Colonies (New York: James Rivington. 78 pp.)
1776
Appointed captain in command of a provincial company
of artillery
1777
Appointed aide-de-camp to George Washington with rank
of lieutenant colonel
1780
Married Elizabeth Schuyler
1781
Resigned as aide-de-camp to George Washington (April
30)
Given command of New York and Connecticut light infantry
battalion and ordered to Virginia (July)
Retired from active military duty (November)
1782
Appointed receiver of continental taxes for New York
Chosen delegate from New York to the Continental Congress
Admitted to practice of law as attorney and counselor
before the New York Supreme Court of Judicature
1783
Resigned from Continental Congress in July
Opened law office, New York, N.Y.
1784
Organizer, Bank of New York
1786
Chosen delegate to Annapolis, Md., Convention
Elected, New York state assembly
1787
Named delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Began series of Federalist essays
1788
Elected delegate to the New York ratifying convention
1789
Appointed secretary of the treasury
1790-1791
Prepared four major economic reports for Congress
1791
Elected member, American Philosophical Society
1795
Resigned from office of secretary of the treasury (January
31)
Defended carriage tax case before United States Supreme
Court
1795-1796
Wrote series of articles under the pseudonyms Philo
Camillus and Camillus
1798
Appointed inspector general of the army with rank of
major general
1800
Resigned as inspector general
1801
Founder, New York Evening Post
1804, July 12
Died, New York, N.Y., following duel with Aaron Burr
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Alexander Hamilton cover the years 1708
to 1903, with the bulk of material dating from 1777
to 1804. The collection is arranged in eight series:
General Correspondence, Speeches and Writings, Legal
Papers, Financial Papers, Family Papers, Miscellany,
1998 Addition, and Oversize.
The General Correspondence and Speeches and Writings
series encompass all phases of Hamilton's public career
and include several letterbook copies of letters either
composed by Hamilton or in his handwriting from the
time of his employment with Nicholas Cruger in St. Croix.
Hamilton's public service began with his appointment
as aide-de-camp to George Washington during the Revolutionary
War, and numerous letters representative of the scope
of his military responsibilities are found in the papers.
In the period following Hamilton's resignation from
active military duty, the correspondence and writings
underscore his ideas concerning the form and functions
of government, culminating in his participation in the
Constitutional Convention and in his efforts to secure
the acceptance of the new Constitution by New York's
ratifying convention. However, only a fragment of one
of the "Continentalist" articles and none of his Federalist
essays are included in the papers.
As secretary of the treasury, Hamilton's immediate task
was to establish a sound financial structure for the
new government and to devise a plan for the payment
of foreign, domestic, and state debts. The Speeches
and Writings series contains drafts of four major economic
reports submitted by Hamilton to Congress on public
credit, the creation of a national bank, the establishment
of a mint, and the development of a manufacturing industry.
Several documents assembled in the preparation of these
reports and papers relating to the Society for Establishing
Useful Manufactures are located in the General Correspondence
and Miscellany series. In the area of foreign affairs,
the relationship of the United States with France and
commercial ties with Great Britain were matters of vital
concern to the country. Hamilton's view of these issues
is related in his correspondence, especially with George
Washington, and in the series of newspaper articles
published under such pseudonyms as Pacificus, No Jacobin,
Philo Camillus, and Camillus.
Hamilton pursued his interest in public affairs after
he resigned from the Treasury Department. He continued
to advise the president and cabinet members on policy
matters and drafted several of Washington's addresses
to Congress, including the Farewell Address. The growing
threat of war with France prompted Hamilton to write
a series of articles in 1797 and 1798 presenting his
analysis of the political situation which led the government
to consider the status of its army. By a statute passed
on 16 July 1798, Congress authorized the raising of
twelve additional regiments. John Adams named Washington
as commander-in-chief, and Hamilton was appointed inspector
general. In this office, Hamilton had most of the responsibility
for recruiting and organizing the army. Correspondence
and papers between July 1798 and July 1800 constitute
approximately half of the documents in the collection.
Although many of the papers show Hamilton's involvement
in the routine operations of the army, his correspondence,
much of it with James McHenry, detail the problems inherent
in recruiting and organizing regiments, supply logistics,
and conditions at the forts, particularly in the western
regions of the country. Copies of training manuals prepared
under Hamilton's direction are in the military papers
in the Miscellany series, and those drafted by him are
in the Speeches and Writings series.
Hamilton began his career as an attorney in 1782, and
his legal papers reflect the varied range of his practice.
His cases can be generally grouped into several broad
categories: those growing out of the Revolutionary War
involving trespass, confiscation, and citation acts,
commercial transactions, maritime insurance claims,
admiralty jurisdiction, disputes pertaining to colonial
land patents and western lands, questions of public
law and procedure, some constitutional issues, and conflict
of laws. Some of the landmark cases included in his
papers are Rutgers v. Waddington, People v. Croswell,
Hylton v. United States, and cases forming the LeGuen
v. Gouverneur and Kemble litigation.
The Financial Papers, which form the smallest segment
of the collection, consist of two volumes of accounts
relating to his law practice and a folder of miscellaneous
receipts. Some of the receipts are for money given to
William Pearce between September 1791 and July 1792
on behalf of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.
The Family Papers series includes letters and other
correspondence and documents involving members of the
family other than Hamilton. The series contains letters
from Angelica Church and Philip John Schuyler to Elizabeth
Schuyler Hamilton; from Philip John Schuyler to his
grandson, Philip Hamilton; and from Elizabeth Schuyler
Hamilton to her sister, Catherine Cochran, and to her
son, Philip Hamilton. Through the marriage of Philip
Hamilton to Rebecca McLane, several McLane family letters
were incorporated into the papers. Most of the nonfamily
correspondence of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton relates
to the management of her properties and to arrangements
for the publication of Hamilton's papers. Scattered
letters addressed to Alexander Hamilton (the grandson),
James A. Hamilton, John Church Hamilton, and to members
of the McLane family are also included in the family
papers.
The Oversize series contains correspondence, reports,
annotated drafts of the Constitution, writings, deeds,
agreements, contracts, financial papers, certificates,
and printed matter. These items were microfilmed in
their original location before removal to this series.
Among the many correspondents in the papers are John
Adams, Henry Clay, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, John
Francis Hamtramck, William Heth, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson,
Rufus King, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier,
Marquis de Lafayette, Henry Lee (1756-1818), Pierre
Charles L'Enfant, James McHenry, James Monroe, Robert
Morris, Timothy Pickering, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,
Nathan Rice, John Jacob Ulrich Rivardi, Philip John
Schuyler, Theodore Sedgwick (1746-1813), William Seton,
William Stephens Smith, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard
Augustin, Baron von Steuben, Caleb Swan, Louis de Tousard,
Robert Troup, Jeremiah Wadsworth, George Washington,
James Wilkinson, and Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833). A letter
from Nicholas Everton to Hamilton in 1799 concerning
legal matters was added to the papers in 1998.
In 1961 Columbia University Press began publication
of an edition of the Papers of Alexander Hamilton, edited
by Harold C. Syrett. Similarly, Columbia University
Law School began publication of Hamilton's legal papers
in 1964, with Julius Goebel as editor. These two editions
have been used as definitive sources in the verification
of names and in the dating and identification of manuscripts
in the Hamilton Papers at the Library of Congress.
Organization of the Papers
The collection is arranged in eight series:
General Correspondence, 1734-1804, n.d.
Speeches and Writings File, 1778-1804, n.d.
Legal File, 1708-1804, n.d.
Financial Papers, 1782-1804, n.d.
Family Papers, 1737-1903, n.d.
Miscellany, 1711-1820, n.d.
1998 Addition, 1780-1799
Oversize, 1775-1805, n.d.
Container List
Box 1-23
Reel 1-21
General Correspondence, 1734-1804, n.d.
Letters received; draft, recipient copies, and transcripts
of letters sent; and attachments.
Arranged chronologically.
Box 1
Reel 1
11 July 1734-21 Dec. 1781
(6 folders)
Box 2
Reel 1-2
8 Jan. 1782-28 Dec. 1786
(7 folders)
Box 3
Reel 2-3
8 Feb. 1787-31 Dec. 1790
(6 folders)
Box 4
Reel 3-4
3 Jan. 1791-27 Mar. 1792
(6 folders)
Box 5
Reel 4-5
4 Apr. 1792-27 June 1793
(6 folders)
Box 6
Reel 5-6
2 July 1793-26 Feb. 1795*
*A letter dated 1 May 1794 may be found on reel 4 following
the date 8 Sept. 1792
(7 folders)
Box 7
Reel 6-7
9 Mar. 1795-31 Dec. 1796
(7 folders)
Box 8
Reel 7-8
1 Jan. 1797-30 Aug. 1798
(7 folders)
Box 9
Reel 8-9
1 Sept. 1798-28 Feb. 1799
(7 folders)
Box 10
Reel 9
1 Mar.-18 Apr. 1799
(6 folders)
Box 11
Reel 10
19 Apr.-27 May 1799
(6 folders)
Box 12
Reel 11
28 May-7 July 1799
(7 folders)
Box 13
Reel 12
8 July-14 Aug. 1799
(6 folders)
Box 14
Reel 12-13
15 Aug.-14 Sept. 1799
(6 folders)
Box 15
Reel 13-14
15 Sept.-5 Oct. 1799
(6 folders)
Box 16
Reel 14-15
6-31 Oct. 1799
(6 folders)
Box 17
Reel 15-16
1 Nov.-5 Dec. 1799
(7 folders)
Box 18
Reel 16-17
6 Dec. 1799-19 Jan. 1800
(7 folders)
Box 19
Reel 17
20 Jan.-10 Mar. 1800
(6 folders)
Box 20
Reel 18
11 Mar.-14 Apr. 1800
(7 folders)
Box 21
Reel 18-19
15 Apr.-18 May 1800
(6 folders)
Box 22
Reel 19-20
19 May 1800-24 Mar. 1801
(7 folders)
Box 23
Reel 20-21
17 Apr. 1801-10 July 1804, n.d.
(5 folders)
Box 23-26
Reel 21-23
Speeches and Writings File, 1778-1804, n.d.
Drafts and copies of speeches, articles, notes, reports,
and miscellaneous writings.
Arranged chronologically. Poems and undated and miscellaneous
writings are located at the end of the series.
Box 23
Reel 20-21
1778, 24 Dec., "Narrative of an Affair of Honor between
General [Charles] Lee and Colonel [John] Laurens"
[1782, 18 Apr.], "The Continentalist, No. V," incomplete
1783
[18 June], "Report on a Military Peace Establishment"
July, defense of Congress
[July], unsubmitted resolution calling for a convention
to amend the Articles of Confederation
[1784, 23 Feb.-15 Mar.], constitution and outline of
a charter for the Bank of New York
[1786, Dec.], "Notes on the History of North and South
America"
1787
New York Assembly
[9 Feb. ], An Act for Raising certain Yearly Taxes within
this State, outline and three drafts
[14 Mar.]
An Act Acknowledging the Independence of Vermont, draft
Remarks on an Act Acknowledging the Independence of
Vermont
Constitutional Convention
[1-26 June], notes taken in the convention
[18 June]
"Plan of Government"
"Notes for Speech in the Convention proposing a Plan
of Government"
[17 Sept.], draft of a constitution, facsimile copies
[17-30 Sept.], "Conjectures about the New Constitution"
1788
[Jan.-Feb.], An Act to Incorporate the Freeholders and
Inhabitants of the Town of Marbletown
New York ratifying convention
[20, 24 June], notes on debates
[27 June], notes on a speech by Melancton Smith
[12, 17 July], notes for speeches
[1789, 4 July], "Eulogium on the late Major-General
[Nathanael] Greene"
1790
[9 Jan.]
An Act Imposing Certain Inland Duties on Foreign Wines
"Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public
Credit"
[5 Aug.], "Report on Additional Sums Necessary for the
Support of the Government"
[1 Dec.], "Notes of Objects for Consideration of the
President"
Box 24
Reel 21
[13 Dec.]
"First Report on the Further Provision Necessary for
Establishing Public Credit," first and second drafts
(2 folders)
"Second Report on the Further Provision Necessary for
Establishing Public Credit (Report on a National Bank)"
[Dec.], An Act to Incorporate the Bank of the United
States
1791
[28 Jan.], "Report on the Establishment of a Mint,"
with second drafts and notes
(3 folders)
[23 Feb.], "Report on the Constitutionality of a National
Bank," draft and two copies
[Aug.], Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures
prospectus
[5 Dec.], "Report on the Subject of Manufactures," first,
second, third, and fourth drafts and outline
(4 folders)
1792
[23 Jan.], "Report on Public Debt and Loans," first
and second drafts and an abstract
[1-4 Mar.], notes on Thomas Jefferson's "Report of Instructions
for the Commissioners to Spain"
[May-Aug.], "The Vindication"
[4, 11, Aug.], "An American, Nos. I-II"
[19 Aug.], "Anti-Defamer"
[11 Sept.], "Civis to Mercator"
[15-31 Oct.], draft of George Washington's fourth annual
address to Congress
[30 Oct.-17 Nov.], "A Plain Honest Man"
[1792-1793], "View of the Commercial Regulations of
France and Great Britain in Reference to the United
States"
[1792-1795], "The Defence, No. I"
1793
"Idea Concerning a Lottery"
"On James Blanchard," includes document dated 8 Jan.
1793 used as part of the evidence
[13-15 Mar.], "Observer"
[Apr.], statement on remarks by John F. Mercer
[14-16 May], "On the Reception of Edmond Charles Genet
in Philadelphia"
[15 May], "Opinion respecting prizes taken by privateers
fitted out at Charleston"
[May], "Defense of the President's Neutrality Proclamation"
[29 June-27 July], "Pacificus, Nos. I-VII"
Box 25
Reel 22
[8 July], case of the Little Sarah (brigantine), outline
and reasons, with Thomas Jefferson's opinion attached
[18 July], draft of questions submitted to the justices
of the Supreme Court
[29-30 July], proposed rules concerning the arming and
equipping of vessels by belligerents in the ports of
the United States
[31 July-8 Aug.], "No Jacobin, Nos. I-III"
[2-16 Aug.], notes for a letter to Gouverneur Morris
[3 Aug.], opinion on fitting out of privateers in the
ports of the United States
[5 Aug.], "Philo Pacificus"
[Nov.], draft for George Washington's fifth annual message
to Congress, incomplete
List of French distressed persons
"On the Rise of a War Party," incomplete
1794
[6-13 Jan.], proposed presidential message to Congress
concerning revocation of Edmond Charles Genet's diplomatic
status
[31 Jan.-7 Feb.], "Americus, Nos. I-II"
[Mar.-May], draft of a proposed message from George
Washington to Congress
[23 Apr.], points to be considered in the instructions
to John Jay
[Apr.-May], suggestions for a commercial treaty
[19 May], "List of Names From Whence To Take A Minister
for France"
[Aug.], note on the funding system
[Dec.], "Measures in the War Department Which It May
Be Expedient To Adopt"
"The Cause of France"
"The French Revolution"
1795
[1 Jan.], draft of a proclamation by George Washington,
with copy
[ca. 16 Jan.], notes for the "Report on a Plan for the
Further Support of Public Credit"
[9-11 July], "Remarks on the Treaty of Amity, Commerce,
and Navigation lately made between the United States
and Great Britain"
[25 July-9 Jan. 1796], "The Defence, Nos. II-XXXVIII,"
by Camillus
(2 folders)
[July], "The Defence of the Funding System," with notes
[July], "Horatius, No. II"
[Aug.], notes on objections to the British treaty
[11 Nov.], "Explanation"
[28 Nov.-7 Dec.], draft of George Washington's seventh
annual address to Congress
[1795-1796]
"American Jacobins"
"Relations With France"
Box 26
Reel 22-23
1796
[29 Mar.], draft of George Washington's reply to the
resolution introduced into the House of Representatives
by Edward Livingston on 2 Mar. 1796
[22 Apr.], "To the Citizens Who Shall be Convened This
Day in the Fields in the City of New York"
[May], design for a seal for the United States
[30 July], draft of George Washington's Farewell Address,
with facsimile, and "Abstract of Points To Form an Address"
[Sept.-Dec.], "The War in Europe"
[10 Nov.], draft of George Washington's eighth annual
address to Congress
1797
[27 Jan.-27 Mar.], "The Warning," by Americus
[25 Aug.], draft of the "Reynolds Pamphlet"
1798
[Apr.], "A French Faction"
[16-19 Apr.], "The Stand, Nos. V-VI"
[22 May], "For The Time Piece"
[13 June], "The Detector"
[5-15 July], "Plan for a Legion," with copy
[Dec. 1799-Mar. 1800]
"Plan of the Formation of a Regiment for Exercise or
Battle"
"Formation and Disposition of a Regiment of Infantry"
[1799], "Elements of the Tactics of the Infantry"
1800
[Mar.], An Act for Better Organizing the Corps of Artillerists
and Engineers
[9 Mar.], An Act for Establishing an Academy for Instruction
Relative to the Military and Naval Service of the United
States
[24 Oct.], "Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning
the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq.,
President of the United States," incomplete
"Rules for Philip Hamilton"
[10 Feb. 1804], speech at a meeting of Federalists in
Albany, N.Y.
Miscellaneous
Poems
Undated
Box 26-35
Reel 22-29
Legal File, 1708-1804, n.d.
Agreements, affidavits, briefs, client financial papers,
contracts, memoranda, and notes.
Arranged in two parts. The first grouping is organized
alphabetically by name of case or client. The second
part is arranged by type of material and chronologically
within.
Box 26
Reel 22-23
Alexander v. Byron
Anderson v. Thompson
Apthorp, Ward
Arden v. Johnson
Armstrong v. Destourelles
Armstrong v. Domerque
Arnold v. Pearsall
Arnoldie v. Price and Haywood
Ashfield, Richard, estate of
Aspinwall, John, estate of
Atwood v. Metcalf
Audibert v. Pillett
Ayscough, Richard, estate of
Bache v. Livingston
Bacon v. Morris and Wadsworth
Bacon and Stroud v. Tinker
Bank of New York v. Eden
Bank of the United States v. McGregor
Barcklay v. Wickham
Barnwell v. Church
Bartholomew v. Causaban
Baxter and Hunt v. Palmer
Bayard v. Cruger
Bayley v. Bazing
Bedient v. Church
Beebee and Barlow v. Bank of New York
Beeker v. Eden
Beekman v. Hunt
Beekman v. Low
Beekman v. Stuyvesant and Billings
Beekman, Beekman, and Gould v. Paulding
Box 27
Reel 23-24
Beekman, Henry and Gertrude, estate of
Belknap v. Van Cortlandt
Benson v. Robinson
Bibbey v. Bayard
Bibbey v. Lawrence
Bibbey v. Wickham
Birdsall v. Hewlett
Birdsall v. Valentine
Blagge v. New York Insurance Co.
Blair v. Guion
Blair v. Vanderlocht
Bleecker and March v. Jay and Rivington
Bloodgood v. Launey
Bloodgood v. Sing
Bogart v. Livingston
Bogert v. Kingsley
Boyd v. Riley and Wetmore
Brantingham v. Inman and Grimm
Brasher (or Brazier) v. Knox
Brasher v. Kortright
Brooks v. Geary
Brott v. Gracie For additional material see Container
29, Graham v. Low
Brown v. Cummings
Brown v. Thomas
Brown v. Brown
Brush v. New York
Brush v. Stratton
Bryson v. Duryee
Bryson v. Goodrich
Bryson v. McGechran
Bryson v. New York Life Insurance Co.
Buchey v. Magnac and Magnac
Buisson v. United States
Burnet v. Van Horne
Byvanck v. Chadwell
Campbell v. Binden
Campbell v. Mordecai
Carpenter v. Mott and Mott and Carpenter v. Quimby
Casenave v. Stoughton
Cazeau v. Price and Haywood
Cheesemen v. Laurence
Cherry v. Byrne
Cherry v. Gouverneur
Childs v. Sands
Church v. Minturn and Champlin
Church v. Penfield and Van Rensselaer
Church v. United Insurance Co.
Clason v. Blair
Clifton Park
Cochran v. Beverly Robinson estate
Cochran v. Heard
Codwise v. Leary
Coit v. Morse and Coit v. Bull
Columbia College, New York, N.Y., Frederick Rhinelander's
lease of college lots
Cooper v. Inman
Cork, William
Cornwell (or Cornell) v. Hendricksen
Cornwell (or Cornell) v. Shaw
Cowper v. Livingston
Craigie v. Bronson, Pomeroy, and Fowler
Creson v. Causaban
Box 28
Reel 24
Crevecoeur v. Steuben
Cruger v. Low
Cruger v. Ward, Ward, and Ward
Cruger v. Low
Cruger v. Kortright
Currie v. Brown
Danneman v. Wetmore
Deane v. Nicoll
DeCastra v. Causaban
Dennis v. Prentice
Derue [?] v. Van Cortlandt and Bayard
Deschant v. LeBruen
Devoue v. Hunt
Dewindt v. Vanderlocht
Dickinson, Beletie
Dickinson v. Luddington and Wilcocks
Dod v. Bell
Doe v. Roe
Doughty, Isaac, estate of
Drake v. Quimby
Duboys v. Debrosses
DuCalvet v. Price and Haywood
Duer v. McCrea
Duff v. Laurance and Van Zandt
Dunlap and Van Nostrant v. Anderson
Durie v. Stuyvesant and Billings
Duryee v. Pemart
Episcopal Church v. [?]
Fairchild v. Shivers and Rhodericks and Robinson v.
Shivers and Rhodericks
Fardon v. Holst
Field v. Beamun
Finlay and Gregory v. Price and Haywood
Flagg v. Thompson, Thompson, and Cruger
Foltz and Lorenzo v. Banks
Fonda v. Jenkins
Forrester v. Quackenboss
Fottrell v. Sutton
Franklin v. Weir
Franklin v. Slingerlandt
Franks v. Mercer and Mercer
Fraunces v. Gifford
Fretwell, Peter
Frisbie v. Crane
Gansevoort v. Boon
Gardiner v. Grenell
Gardiner and Wilson v. Hart and McDonald
Gardiner v. Sebor
Garrick and Westphal v. Elting
Garrick and Westphal v. Lindley
Garrineau v. Oakley
Gelston, Hurlbut, and Caulkins v. Parsons
Genter, John and Elizabeth, estates of
Georgia lands
Gerhart v. Apple
Gernon v. Church
Gilbert and Farquharson v. Hallett
Gilchrist v. Skinner
Girard v. Armstrong and Barnwall
Goadsby and Co. v. Brebner and Brown
Goadsby and Co. v. Moses and Co.
Goix v. United Insurance Co.
Goldthwaite v. Payne
Box 29
Reel 24-25
Gomez v. Bowne and Rickman
Gomez v. Lopez
Gomez v. Maule
Gomez and Rivera v. Gouverneur
Goold and Goold v. Scott
Gouverneur v. LeGuen
Gouverneur v. Cooper
Graham v. Low and Brott v. Gracie
Graham v. Merritt and Merritt
Grant v. Bissett
Grozart v. Service and Service
Hagaman v. Young
Hallett v. Houston and Skidmore
Hallett and Bowne v. Jenks
Hamilton v. Duryee
Hardy v. Seton
Hargrave v. Cochran
Harris, George
Harris, Richard, estate of
Hart v. L'Epine
Hart v. Rogers
Hart and McDonald v. Gardner and Wilson
Hartt v. Wickes
Hatfield v. Van Cortlandt
Hawkins v. Brenan
Hawkins v. Smith
Hayton v. Allen
Hazard v. Van Cortlandt
Heath v. Ludlow
Henderson v. Butler
Henderson, Morton, and Pollock v. Brown
Hendricksen v. Cornwell
Heydecker v. Gilbert, Johnson, and King
Box 30
Reel 25-26
Hickman v. Moses and Co.
Hodgson v. Bakewell
Hogg, Gilbert, estate of
Homan v. Carter
Hopkins v. Kemble
Hopkins v. Valentine and Coles
Howard v. Deane
Howell v. Desbrosses
Hurst v. DePeyster
Hylton, Daniel L.
Ingraham, Nathaniel G.
Ivers v. Stanton
Jackson v. Jackson
Jackson v. Van Rensselaer and Cully
Jackson ex dem. Burns v. Stiles and Ten Eyck
Jackson ex dem. Carpenter v. Moott (or Moot)
Jackson ex dem. Delaney v. Stiles and Delavan
Jackson ex dem. Ditman v. Stiles and Hotland
Jackson ex dem. Hargrave v. Cockran
Jackson ex dem. Haviland v. Haviland
Jackson ex dem. Hoghland v. Stiles and Hamilton
Jackson ex dem. Jay and Van Cortlandt v. Stiles and
Rhinlander
Jackson ex dem. Leonard v. Post
Jackson ex dem. Livingston v. Hoffman
Jackson ex dem. Livingston v. Moore
Jackson ex dem. Ludlow v. Guernsey and Jones
Jackson ex dem. Lydig v. Turmont and tenant
Jackson ex dem. Mersereau v. Cornwall
Jackson ex dem. Mersereau v. Stiles and Cornwall
Jackson ex dem. Penfield and Van Rensselaer v. Fonda
Jackson ex dem. Prior and Knapp v. Voorhees and Brown
Jackson ex dem. Servis v. Stiles and Boon
Jackson ex dem. Trustees of Kingston v. Trumbous [?]
Jackson ex dem. Van den Bergh v. Breese
Jackson ex dem. Voght v. Ruffe
Jackson ex dem. Woodhull v. Rumsey
Jacobs and Jacobs v. Dunkley
Jay v. Barclay
Jay v. Rivington and Rivington
Jewell v. Stockholm
Jones v. Murray
Jordan v. Price and Haywood
Jordo v. Causaban
Kane v. Bank of New York
Kendrick v. Delafield
Keteltas v. Van Horne
Ketland v. Backhouse
Kiesselbach v. Falkenham and Wilmerding
King and King v. Thomas
King v. Cuyler
Kingston v. Wynkoop
Knox v. Moore and Moore
Koch v. Guion, Guion, and Carthy
Box 31
Reel 26
Lansing v. Cortelyou
Laport v. Henry
Latham, James
Latting, Hain, and Birdsall v. Guest
Lawler v. Keaquick
Lawrence v. Cannon
Lawrence v. Palmer
Lawrence and Whitney v. Van Horne and Clarkson
Leavenworth v. Bowne
Leavenworth v. Dale
Leavenworth v. Delafield
LeConte v. LeConte
Lee and Lee v. Hart
Lefferts and Suydam v. Hammond
LeGuen, Louis
LeGuen v. Gouverneur
L'Hommedieu v. Hewlett
Lemoyne v. Price and Haywood
Lenox v. Juhel and Delonquemare
Leonard, Catharine
LeRoy and Bayard v. Shaw
LeRoy, Bayard, and Boon v. Servis
Lewis v. Burr
Lewis v. Cotton
Livingston v. Cooper
Livingston v. Godfrey
Livingston v. Hicks
Livingston v. Jamieson
Livingston v. Luddington
Livingston v. Rice and Cuniffe
Livingston v. Rogers
Livingston v. Simond
Livingston v. Van Cortlandt
Lloyd v. Sneathen
Lloyd and Lloyd v. Douglass
Lloyd and Lloyd v. Hewlet
Lloyd and Lloyd v. Williams
Lopez, Sarah, estate of
Low v. Graham
Lowrey v. Coen and Warner
Ludlow, Codwise, and Codwise v. Rhinelander and Ludlow,
Codwise, and Codwise v. Constable and Constable
Ludlow v. Guernsey
Lundley v. Morris
Lyon v. Wells
Macaulay v. Ludlow
MacDavitt v. Barry and Barry
MacKintosh v. Willet
Marshall v. McMichael
Mason v. Griffiths
Maxwell v. Anthony, Christie, and Turell
Maxwell v. Franklin
Maxwell v. Swartwout and Griffin
McEvers v. Falkenham
McEwen v. Baker and Smith
McMinn v. Carpenter
Meeks v. Van Alstine
Miller v. LaMont
Miller v. Oudenaarde and Oudenaarde
Mitchell v. Woodward
Montarand v. L'Epine
Moore v. Hazen
Moore v. Manhattan Bank
Morrell v. Lawrence
Morris, Robert
Morris v. White
Morton v. Croghan
Box 32
Reel 26-27
Morton v. White
Morton and Morton v. Seton
Mosby v. Mumford and Leeds
Moses and Co.
Mott and Carpenter v. Quimby See Container 27, Carpenter
v. Mott
Mouchon v. Allard
Mount v. Bloomfield
Munn v. Riley and Wetmore
Murray v. Christie
Murray v. Nicoll
Murray v. Alsop and Pomeroy
Murray, Murray, and Sansom v. Arden
Murray, Murray and Sansom v. Schermerhorn
Murray, Murray and Sansom v. Trinas
Murray, Williams, and Griswold v. Fair American (brigantine)
Murray Sansom and Co.
Nathan v. Matlack
Neilson v. Berry and Mehelme
Neilson v. Blight
New York City v. Scott
Nichols case
Nicoll v. Anderson
Nicoll v. Woodhull and Hall
Nicoll and Thompson v. Columbian Insurance Co.
Nupiard v. Causaban
Oliver v. Hazen
Palmer, Benjamin, estate of
Parage v. Dale
Parker and Mann v. Parker and Parker
Peak v. Causaban
Pearsall v. Arnold
Pearsall v. Jarvis
Pell v. Cunningham and Cunningham
Pell v. Webbers
Pelton v. Ward
Pemberton v. Tier
Pendleton v. LeConte
People v. Croswell
People of the State of New York v. Byron
People of the State of New York v. Hoffman
People of the State of New York v. Leonard
Perry v. Price and Haywood
Person v. Campbell
Peters v. Gilbert
Pettit v. Causaban
Pettit v. Falkenham and Wilmerding
Pierson v. Morris
Quackenboss v. Ogilvie
Randall v. Hoffman and Van Allen
Ray v. Abeel, Lott, and Lutterloh
Remington v. Hunt
Renard v. Causaban
Reneau v. Causaban
Reqnaw v. Post
Rhodericks and Robinson v. Shivers and Rhodericks See
Container 28, Fairchild v. Shivers
Ricketts v. Darley
Ricketts and Ricketts v. Livingston and Bancker
Rikeman, James
Rivington v. Dunlap
Robertson v. Cornack
Roff v. Moffit and Willet
Rogers and Rogers v. Cruger
Ross v. Rose and Rose v. Ross
Rourseem v. Causaban
Rowlett v. Stiles
Box 33
Reel 27-28
Runion v. Bryant
Runion v. Smith and Smith
Rushmore v. Van Wyck
Russell v. Murphy
Rutgers v. Waddington
Saltus v. Hart and L'Epine
Sanches and Abrahams v. Ingraham
Sands v. Phelps and Edwards
Sands and Sands v. Thomas
Sansom v. Murray
Sarly v. Macauley and Macauley
Saunders v. Robins
Schenck v. Van Dorsten
Schuyler v. Ten Eyck
Schuyler v. Yates
Schuyler creditors v. Schuyler
Schuyler, Philip
Scott v. Campbell
Scribner v. Hickok
Seagrave and Constable v. Blair and Blair
Seaman v. Bedell, Poillon, and Bedell
Segara v. Montaudevert
Seguin v. Magnac and Magnac
Seton, Maitland, and Seton v. Low
Shannon v. Gamble
Shaw v. Stevenson
Shepherd v. Goadsby
Shoemaker v. McCormick
Sleight and Sleight v. Rhinelander
Smith v. Campbell
Smith v. Ferris
Smith v. Gerritsen
Smith v. Lazar
Smith v. Murray and Mumford
Smith v. Wickes
Smith and Smith v. Newberry and Jackson ex dem. Smith
and Smith v. Newberry and Jackson ex dem. Smith and
Smith v. Hoff
Smith, Richard
Smyth v. Atayataghronghts
Soderstrom, R.
Solomon v. Harris
Solomon v. Platt
Somarindike and Van Cortlandt v. Bogert
Somarindike and Van Cortlandt v. Smith
Springsteen v. Furman
Steinback v. Rhinelander
Steinmetz and Bell v. Curry
Steuben v. Casting
Stevens v. Mifflin
Stevenson v. Fraunces
Storey v. Cole
Stuyvesant v. Hebbard and Hebbard
Stuyvesant and Billings v. McKnight
Sullivan, Millan, and Williams v. Columbian Insurance
Co.
Swartwout v. Cooper
Sweet v. Allen
Swift v. Reed
Box 34
Reel 28
Taylor v. Nicoll
Terrason and Terrason v. Diligent (sloop)
Thompson v. Franks
Thompson v. Price and Haywood
Thompson v. Walton, Walton, and Walton
Thorne v. Heartt
Thurman v. Knox
Thurman, Thurman, and Roosevelt v. Frost
Tiebout v. Wardell and Co.
Titus and Titus v. Youngs and Youngs
Todd v. Falkenham and Wilmerding
Tompkins and Bingham v. Panton
Townsend, Joshua and Noah
Townsend (Mrs.)
Townsend v. Carman and Carman
Tredwell v. Gilbert
Tremain and Stout v. Foster and Carmer
Tucker v. Thompson
Turell v. Woodhull
Turner v. Young
Tyrrel v. Jones
Union Turnpike Corp. v. Jenkins
United States v. Barque Favorite
United States v. Constable
United States v. Duane
United States v. White, Shaw, and Titus
Van Cortlandt v. Jones
Van Cortlandt v. Judson
Van Cortlandt v. Olmstead
Van Cortlandt v. Belknap and Smith
Van DeWater v. Steward, Seely, and Doty
Van Hoesen v. Van Rensselaer
Van Horne v. Gale and Miller v. Gale
Van Ranst, Sears, and Kortright v. Crukshank and Crukshank
Van Rensselaer land patents
Van Zandt v. Brinckerhoff
Van Zandt v. Pearsall
Vaughan and Spooner v. Rhinelander
Verplanck v. Duncan
Voss and Graves v. United Insurance Co.
Waldron, Waldron, and Waldron v. Van Bremer and Van
Bremer
Wardrop v. Macaulay
Waters v. Stewart
Watson v. Walton and Walton
Wawayanda v. Cheesecocks
Webb v. Nathan
Webro v. Causaban
Wilcox v. Phelps
Wilkes, Dickenson and Co. v. Langworthy
Wilkie v. Roosevelt
Willcock v. Ward, Ward, and Ward
Willetts v. Latoratt
Williams and Van Wyck v. DeHart
Willing and Willing v. Kortright
Wilson and Hirons v. Baldwin
Wilson and Hirons v. Van Allen
Wiltse v. Packwood
Woolsey v. Wardell
Wright v. Hewlett
Wright and Roe v. Wright
Yates assignee and Pollock v. Yates
Zabriskie v. Van Buskirk
Box 35
Reel 28-29
Other legal papers
Affidavits, summons, and writs, 1775-1795
Agenda of cases
Agreements and arbitrations, 1784-1799
Financial papers of clients
Accounts, 1774-1800
Assignments, bonds, deeds, promissory notes, and releases,
1750-1800
Fragments
Legal receipts and acknowledgments, 1785-1804
Memoranda and lists of cases, 1782-1800
Miscellaneous documents re
Revolutionary War rents, 1778-1784
Land grants and patents, 1714-1786
Unidentified cases involving maritime insurance, admiralty
jurisdiction, and charter ships, 1777-1801
Opinions by Hamilton
For Alexander Macomb respecting acts of British courts
in districts comprising western posts
On bankruptcy law
On contract for carrying mail by stagecoaches
Regarding Jarvis-Greene deed, 20 Jan. 1797
Powers of attorney, 1783-1790
Statements of cases, opinions, and legal questions under
consideration for litigation, 1781-1800
Unidentified briefs by Hamilton
Wills and legacies, 1732-1794
Box 36
Reel 29
Financial Papers, 1782-1804, n.d.
Two volumes of account books and miscellaneous receipts
and accounts.
Arranged by type of material.
Box 36
Reel 29
Cash books, 1782-1804
(2 vols.)
Miscellany, 1784-1803, n.d.
Box 37-38
Reel 29-31
Family Papers, 1737-1903, n.d.
Correspondence, financial papers, notes, and poetry.
Arranged chronologically.
Box 37
Reel 29-30
1737-1839
(15 folders)
Box 38
Reel 30-31
1840-1903
(5 folders)
Undated
Hamilton, Elizabeth
Hamilton, Rebecca McLane
Other family members
Miscellany
Box 38-44
Reel 31-34
Miscellany, 1711-1820, n.d.
Certificates, clippings, essays, memoirs, military papers,
notes on the collection, school exercises, reports,
printed matter, and photocopies.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
Box 38
Reel 30-31
Certificates
Hamilton, Alexander
Others
Clippings
Description of Kerelaw House, Stevenson, Scotland
Extracts from treaties with Spain relating to Louisiana
and West Florida
Final report re settlement of accounts between the United
States and individual states, 29 June 1793
Hamilton, Alexander
Estate
Last will and testament
School exercises
The Iliad of Homer, 1772-1773
Notes on Genesis and Revelations, 1773
Journal of trip to meet with Cayuga and other Indian
tribes, 6-25 July 1795
King, Rufus
Essay on the position of the United States in reference
to the French treaties, n.d.
Notes on Thomas Jefferson's letter of 15 Aug. 1785 to
Charles Gravier Vergennes
Legislative acts, committee reports, and resolutions,
1762-1798, n.d.
L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, memorial presented to the
Society of the Cincinnati, n.d.
Marriage agreement between Alexander Hamilton (grandfather)
and Elizabeth Pollock (grandmother), with typescript
and annotated copy, 15 June 1711
Memoirs relating to Hamilton
Memorials, petitions, and job applications, 1747-1793
Box 39
Reel 31-32
Military papers
By period
American Revolution, 1775-1783
General file
New York Artillery Company pay book, includes notes
by Hamilton on a variety of subjects, Aug. 1776-May
1777
Early national, 1787-1800
Appointments and promotions
Artillerists and engineers
Certificates and depositions
Court martial and imprisonment orders
General orders
Infantry regiments
(2 folders)
Manuals
Artillerists and engineers
(2 folders)
Box 40
Reel 32
(1 folder)
Cavalry
(2 folders)
Miscellany
Organizational plans and notes
Returns, miscellaneous and nonregimental
Rules and regulations
Supply contracts, orders, and price schedules
Tousard, Louis de
Memorandum re formation of a school of artillerists
and engineers
"Report on the Fortifications of the Eastern Seaboard"
Uniforms
Miscellany
Box 41
Reel 32-33
New York state
Schuyler, Philip, draft of law on harbor fortifications
for New York, N.Y.
Legislative acts and committee reports
Harrison, Richard, notes on the debates in the ratifying
convention, June-July 1788
Papers relating to New York state revenue, 1780-1782
Papers assembled in preparation of financial reports
Papers pertaining to United States relations with France
Papers relating to manufacturing
Papers relating to trade and commercial treaties between
United States and Great Britain
Papers used in preparation of a report on the establishment
of the mint
Poems
Randolph, Edmund, copy of resolutions submitted to the
Constitutional Convention, 1787
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de
Essay on Fauchet's dispatch, with copy
Paper on public credit, with copy and translation
Transcripts of Hamilton's correspondence with Aaron
Burr and an account of the duel by William P. Van Ness
Unidentified writings
United States appropriations and abstract of customs
duty bonds for 1794, 1789-1798
United States Constitution, printed drafts with annotations
by Hugh Williamson
Printed matter
Almanac, 1725
Bank of North America
Barton, William, "Remarks on the State of American Manufactures
and Commerce," American Museum, June 1790
Extract from Proceedings of the New York State Society
of the Cincinnati, 4 July-12 Aug. 1786
Jay, John
An Address to the People of the State of New York on
the Subject of the Constitution
Report on Eastern Boundary Line
Box 42
Reel 33-34
Paine, Thomas, Letter to the Late General George Washington
When President of the United States
Statements of the Receipts and Expenditures of Public
Monies During the Administration of the Finances by
Robert Morris, 30 Aug. 1790
Notes on the Hamilton papers
Calendar of papers, 1749-1799
(3 folders)
Index to Hamilton manuscripts, vols. 31-37
Lists of papers in the former McLane-Hamilton series
Box 43
Reel 34
Miscellany
Notes and card index to legal papers
Rough memoranda for an index, chiefly of papers not
printed
Box 44
Photocopies of letters to and from Hamilton, 1789-1820
Box 44
(not filmed)
1998 Addition, 1780-1799
Letter from Nicholas Everton to Hamilton concerning
legal matters and photocopy of page from a church register
recording Hamilton's marriage to Elizabeth Schuyler.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
Box 44
First Reform Church, Albany, N.Y., photocopy of page
from marriage register recording Hamilton's marriage
to Elizabeth Schuyler, 1780 (Transferred from the Miscellaneous
Manuscripts Collection)
Letter from Nicholas Everton to Hamilton re legal matters,
1799
Box OV 1-OV 3
Oversize, 1775-1805, n.d.
Oversize material consisting of correspondence, reports,
annotated drafts of the Constitution, writings, deeds,
agreements, contracts, financial papers, certificates,
lace samples, and printed matter filmed in their original
location before removal to this series.
Arranged according to the container from which the items
were removed.
Box OV 1-OV 3
Oversize items consisting of correspondence, reports,
annotated drafts of the Constitution, writings, deeds,
agreements, contracts, financial papers, certificates,
lace samples, and printed matter filmed in their original
locations before removal to this series.
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