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Alexander Hamilton Papers
A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress
Manuscript Division, Library of CongressWashington, D.C.
Collection SummaryTitle: Alexander Hamilton PapersSpan Dates: 1708-1917Bulk Dates: (bulk 1777-1804)ID No.: MSS24612Creator: Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804Extent: 12,000 items ; 44 containers plus 3 oversize ; 22.4 linear feet ; 34 microfilm reelsLanguage: Collection material in EnglishLocation: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Summary: Delegate from New York to the United States Continental Congress, United States secretary of the treasury,United States army officer, statesman, and lawyer. Correspondence, speeches and writings, legal and financial papers,printed matter, and other papers relating to Hamilton's personal life and public career, especially his service as an aide toGeorge Washington during the Revolutionary War, his participation in the United States Continental Congress and theConstitutional Convention, his service as United States secretary of the treasury, his New York law practice, and his serviceas inspector general of the army.
Selected Search TermsThe following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They aregrouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
PeopleAdams, John, 1735-1826--Correspondence.Church family.Church, Angelica Schuyler, 1756-1815--Correspondence.Clay, Henry, 1777-1852--Correspondence.Hamilton family.Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804.Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler, 1757-1854--Correspondence.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.L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754-1825--Correspondence.Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Correspondence.Lee, Henry, 1756-1818--Correspondence.McHenry, James, 1753-1816--Correspondence.McLane 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 family.Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804--Correspondence.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, -1809--Correspondence.Tousard, Louis de, 1749-1817--Correspondence.
OrganizationsFirst Church in Albany. First Church in Albany records. 1780.Mint of the United States.New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature.Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.United States. Army. Office of the Inspector General.United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)United States. Continental Army.United States. Continental Congress.United States. Department of the Treasury.
SubjectsFinance, Public--United States.Manufacturing industries--United States.National banks (United States)Practice of law--New York (State)--New York.
PlacesFrance--Foreign relations--United States.Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States.New York (State)--Politics and government--1775-1865.United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.United States--Foreign relations--France.United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain.United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.
OccupationsArmy officers.Cabinet officers.Delegates, U.S. Continental Congress--New York (State)Lawyers.Public officials.Statesmen.
Administrative InformationProvenance
The papers of Alexander Hamilton, attorney, secretary of the treasury, and inspector general of the army, were acquired bythe Library in several installments between 1904 and 2017. The largest and initial acquisition was transferred from the StateDepartment by executive order in 1904. In 1916 Hamilton's legal papers were purchased and a collection of his personalpapers was received as the gift of Allan McLane Hamilton. A supplementary group of legal papers and letters wastransferred from the Treasury Department in 1917. In 1942 a deposit made in 1930 by Alexander Hamilton (a descendant)and Pierpont M. Hamilton was converted into a gift, and another deposit made in 1939 by Mrs. John C. Bartholf waspurchased in 1958. Smaller acquisitions have been added periodically to the papers by purchase or gift.
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Processing History
The papers of Alexander Hamilton were arranged and described in 1981. This finding aid was revised in 1998 and in 2017to reflect material added to the collection.
Copyright Status
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Alexander Hamilton is governed by the Copyright Law of the UnitedStates (Title 17, U.S.C.).
Access and Restrictions
The papers of Alexander Hamilton are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Roomprior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Microfilm
A microfilm edition of part of these papers is available on thirty-four reels. This edition, made in 1981, replaces a forty-sixreel edition created in 1965. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase orinterlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition asavailable.
Online Content
The papers of Alexander Hamilton are available on the Library of Congress Web site at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000059.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, AlexanderHamilton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Biographical NoteDate Eventcirca 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 Disputebetween 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
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 YorkChosen delegate from New York to the Continental CongressAdmitted to practice of law as attorney and counselor before the New York Supreme Court of
Judicature
1783 Resigned from Continental Congress in JulyOpened law office, New York, N.Y.
1784 Organizer, Bank of New York
1786 Chosen delegate to Annapolis, Md., ConventionElected, 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 NoteThe papers of Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) cover the years 1708 to 1917, with the bulk of material dating from 1777 to1804. The collection is arranged in nine series: General Correspondence, Speeches and Writings, Legal Papers, FinancialPapers, Family Papers, Miscellany, 1998 Addition, 2017 Addition, and Oversize.
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The General Correspondence and Speeches and Writings series encompass all phases of Hamilton's public career andinclude several letterbook copies of letters either composed by Hamilton or in his handwriting from the time of his boyhoodemployment with Nicholas Cruger in St. Croix. Hamilton's public service began with his appointment as aide-de-camp toGeorge Washington during the Revolutionary War, and numerous letters representative of the scope of his militaryresponsibilities are found in the papers. In the period following Hamilton's resignation from active military duty, thecorrespondence and writings express his ideas concerning the form and functions of government, culminating in hisparticipation in the Constitutional Convention and in his efforts to secure the acceptance of the new Constitution by NewYork's ratifying convention. However, only a fragment of one of the "Continentalist" articles and none of his Federalistessays are included in the papers.
As secretary of the treasury, Hamilton's immediate task was to establish a sound financial structure for the new governmentand to devise a plan for the payment of foreign, domestic, and state debts. The Speeches and Writings series contains draftsof four major economic reports submitted by Hamilton to Congress on public credit, the creation of a national bank, theestablishment of a mint, and the development of a manufacturing industry. Several documents assembled in the preparationof these reports and papers relating to the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures are located in the GeneralCorrespondence and Miscellany series. Samples of lace created by women in the Massachusetts town of Ipswich from1789-1790 are included in the General Correspondence series. They serve as one of the examples of Americanmanufacturing that Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton gathered as he prepared his 1791 “Report on Manufactures.” Inthe area of foreign affairs, the relationship of the United States with France and commercial ties with Great Britain werematters of vital concern to the country. Hamilton's view of these issues is related in his correspondence, especially withGeorge 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 thepresident and cabinet members on policy matters and drafted several of Washington's addresses to Congress, including theFarewell Address. The growing threat of war with France prompted Hamilton to write a series of articles in 1797 and 1798presenting his analysis of the political situation which led the government to consider the status of its army. By a statutepassed on 16 July 1798, Congress authorized the raising of twelve additional regiments. John Adams named Washington ascommander-in-chief, and Hamilton was appointed inspector general. In this office, Hamilton had most of the responsibilityfor recruiting and organizing the army. Correspondence and papers between July 1798 and July 1800 constituteapproximately half of the documents in the collection. Although many of the papers show Hamilton's involvement in theroutine operations of the army, his correspondence, much of it with James McHenry, detail the problems inherent inrecruiting and organizing regiments, supply logistics, and conditions at the forts, particularly in the western regions of thecountry. 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 canbe 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, disputespertaining to colonial land patents and western lands, questions of public law and procedure, some constitutional issues, andconflict of laws. Some of the landmark cases included in his papers are Rutgers v. Waddington, People v. Croswell, Hyltonv. United States, and cases forming the LeGuen v. Gouverneur and Kemble litigation.
The Financial Papers 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 engineer William Pearce between September 1791 and July 1792 on behalf ofthe Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures to provide machinery for manufacturing cotton.
The Family Papers series includes letters and other correspondence and documents involving members of the family otherthan 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, CatherineCochran, and to her son, Philip Hamilton. Through the marriage of Philip Hamilton to Rebecca McLane, several McLanefamily letters were incorporated into the papers. Most of the nonfamily correspondence of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamiltonrelates to the management of her properties and to arrangements for the publication of Hamilton's papers. Scattered lettersaddressed to Alexander Hamilton (the grandson), James A. Hamilton, John Church Hamilton, and to members of theMcLane family are also included in the family papers.
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The 1998 Addition includes a letter from Nicholas Everton to Hamilton concerning legal matters and a circular regardingthe Revenue Cutter Service. It also contains photocopied material including letters by Hamilton, miscellaneous images, anda page from a church register recording his marriage.
The 2017 Addition includes family correspondence and a fragment of a will written by Hamilton in 1795. Many of theletters are from Philip Schuyler to his daughter, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, and her husband Alexander Hamilton.Hamilton’s career and his close relations with the Schuyler family are documented by these letters. Schuyler’s lettersconcern the health and activities of his wife, his children and their families, including his sons-in-law Stephen VanRensselaer III and Alexander Hamilton. Schuyler’s own health is a frequent topic as well as the recurring yellow feverepidemics to which the Hamiltons were exposed in Philadelphia and New York. Other topics include Schuyler’s role as amajor New York landholder, politics, elections, and the Federalist party in New York and nationally. They also show theSchuyler family’s concerned attention to the wars of this period between Britain and Revolutionary France, and the HaitianRevolution. A July 20, 1804, letter from Philip Schuyler to his daughter Elizabeth Hamilton expresses sympathy for therecent death of Hamilton in a duel. Two letters from Philip Schuyler are addressed to “Miss Schuyler” who is likely hisyoungest daughter Catherine. This addition also has a letter from Charles Pierre L’Enfant to Hamilton concerningL’Enfant’s renovation of City Hall in New York into Federal Hall and a letter from Angelica Schuyler Church to herbrother Rensselaer Schuyler about the death of their nephew, Alexander and Elizabeth Hamilton's son, Philip Hamilton in aduel. Additional Schuyler material is in Family Papers series.
The Oversize series contains correspondence, reports, annotated drafts of the Constitution, writings, deeds, agreements,contracts, financial papers, certificates, printed matter, and samples of the Ipswich lace. These items were microfilmed intheir original location before removal to this series.
Among the many correspondents in the papers are John Adams, Henry Clay, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, John FrancisHamtramck, 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, TheodoreSedgwick (1746-1813), William Seton, William Stephens Smith, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron vonSteuben, Caleb Swan, Louis de Tousard, Robert Troup, Jeremiah Wadsworth, George Washington, James Wilkinson, andOliver Wolcott (1760-1833).
Between 1961 and 1987, Columbia University Press published a twenty-seven-volume edition of the Papers of AlexanderHamilton, edited by Harold C. Syrett. Between 1964 and 1981, Columbia University Law School published a five-volume-edition of Hamilton's legal papers, with Julius Goebel as editor. These two editions have been used as definitive sources inthe verification of names and in the dating and identification of manuscripts in the Hamilton Papers at the Library ofCongress.
Organization of the PapersThe collection is arranged in nine series:
• General Correspondence, 1734-1804• Speeches and Writings File, 1778-1804• Legal File, 1708-1804• Financial Papers, 1782-1804• Family Papers, 1737-1917• Miscellany, 1711-1820• 1998 Addition, 1780-1820• 2017 Addition, 1790-1804• Oversize, 1775-1805
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Description of SeriesContainer SeriesBOX 1-23REEL 1-21
General Correspondence, 1734-1804
Letters received; draft, recipient copies, and transcripts of letters sent; and attachments.Arranged chronologically.
BOX 23-26REEL 20-23
Speeches and Writings File, 1778-1804
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 26-35REEL 23-29
Legal File, 1708-1804
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 36REEL 29
Financial Papers, 1782-1804
Two volumes of account books and miscellaneous receipts and accounts.Arranged by type of material.
BOX 37-38REEL 29-31
Family Papers, 1737-1917
Correspondence, financial papers, notes, and poetry.Arranged chronologically.
BOX 38-44REEL 31-34
Miscellany, 1711-1820
Certificates, clippings, essays, memoirs, military papers, notes on the collection, schoolexercises, reports, printed matter, and photocopies.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
BOX 44not filmed
1998 Addition, 1780-1820
Letter from Nicholas Everton to Hamilton concerning legal matters and a Treasury Departmentcircular. Also photocopied material including letters by Hamilton, miscellaneous images,and a page from a church register recording his marriage.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 44not filmed
2017 Addition, 1790-1804
Correspondence and a fragment of a will of Hamilton.Correspondence arranged alphabetically by name of person and chronologically therein.
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BOX OV 1-OV 3 Oversize, 1775-1805Oversize material consisting of correspondence, reports, annotated drafts of the Constitution,
writings, deeds, agreements, contracts, financial papers, certificates, lace samples, andprinted matter filmed in their original location before removal to this series.
Arranged according to the container from which the items were removed.
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Container List
Container Contents
BOX 1-23REEL 1-21
General Correspondence, 1734-1804
Letters received; draft, recipient copies, and transcripts of letters sent; and attachments.Arranged chronologically.
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 23REEL 20
1778, Dec. 24 , "Narrative of an Affair of Honor between General [Charles] Lee and Colonel[John] Laurens"Digital content available
[1782, Apr. 18] , "The Continentalist, No. V," incompleteDigital content available
1783[18 June] , "Report on a Military Peace Establishment"
Digital content availableJuly , defense of Congress
Digital content available[July] , unsubmitted resolution calling for a convention to amend the Articles of
ConfederationDigital content available
[1784, Feb. 23-Mar. 15] , constitution and outline of a charter for the Bank of New YorkDigital content available
[1786, Dec.] , "Notes on the History of North and South America"Digital content available
BOX 23REEL 21
1787
New York Assembly[Feb. 9] , An Act for Raising certain Yearly Taxes within this State, outline and three
draftsDigital content available
[Mar. 14] , An Act Acknowledging the Independence of Vermont, draftDigital content available
[May 19] , "List of Names From Whence To Take A Minister for France"Digital content available
[Aug.] , note on the funding systemDigital content available
[Dec.] , "Measures in the War Department Which It May Be Expedient To Adopt"Digital content available
"The Cause of France"Digital content available
"The French Revolution"Digital content available
1795[Jan. 1] , draft of a proclamation by George Washington, with copy
Digital content available[circa Jan. 16] , notes for the "Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit"
Digital content available[July 9-11] , "Remarks on the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation lately made
between the United States and Great Britain"Digital content available
[1795, July 25-1796, Jan. 9] , "The Defence, Nos. II-XXXVIII," by CamillusNos. 2-22, [ 1795 July 25-Nov. 5-11]
Digital content availableNos. 23-38, [1795 Nov. 14-1796, Jan. 9]
Digital content available[July 27-Aug. 19], "Philo Camillus, Nos. 1, 3-4"
Digital content available[July] , "The Defence of the Funding System," with notes
Digital content available[July] , "Horatius, No. II"
Digital content available[Aug.] , notes on objections to the British treaty
Digital content available[Nov. 11] , "Explanation"
Digital content available[Nov. 28- Dec. 7] , draft of George Washington's seventh annual address to Congress
Digital content available[1795-1796]
"American Jacobins"Digital content available
"Relations With France"Digital content available
BOX 26REEL 22
1796
[Mar. 29] , draft of George Washington's reply to the resolution introduced into the House ofRepresentatives by Edward Livingston on 2 Mar. 1796Digital content available
[Apr. 22] , "To the Citizens Who Shall be Convened This Day in the Fields in the City ofNew York"Digital content available
[May] , design for a seal for the United StatesDigital content available
[July 30] , draft of George Washington's Farewell Address, with facsimile, and "Abstract ofPoints To Form an Address"Digital content available
[Sept.-Dec.] , "The War in Europe"Digital content available
[Nov. 10] , draft of George Washington's eighth annual address to CongressDigital content available
1797[Jan. 27-Mar. 27] , "The Warning," by Americus
Digital content available[Aug. 25] , draft of the "Reynolds Pamphlet"
Digital content available1798
[Apr.] , "A French Faction"Digital content available
[Apr. 16-19] , "The Stand, Nos. V-VI"Digital content available
[May 22] , "For The Time Piece"Digital content available
[June 13] , "The Detector"Digital content available
[July 5-15] , "Plan for a Legion," with copyDigital content available
[Dec. 1799-Mar. 1800] , "Plan of the Formation of a Regiment for Exercise or Battle"Digital content available
[Dec. 1799-Mar. 1800] , "Formation and Disposition of a Regiment of Infantry"Digital content available
[1799] , "Elements of the Tactics of the Infantry"Digital content available
BOX 26REEL 23
1800
[Mar.] , An Act for Better Organizing the Corps of Artillerists and EngineersDigital content available
[Mar. 9] , An Act for Establishing an Academy for Instruction Relative to the Military andNaval Service of the United StatesDigital content available
[Oct. 24] , "Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Characterof John Adams, Esq., President of the United States," incompleteDigital content available
"Rules for Philip Hamilton"Digital content available
[1804, Feb. 10] , speech at a meeting of Federalists in Albany, N.Y.Digital content available
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 26REEL 23
Alexander v. Byron
Digital content availableAnderson v. Thompson
Digital content availableApthorp, Ward
Digital content availableArden v. Johnson
Digital content availableArmstrong v. Destourelles
Digital content availableArmstrong v. Domerque
Digital content availableArnold v. Pearsall
Digital content availableArnoldie v. Price and Haywood
Digital content availableAshfield, Richard, estate of
Digital content availableAspinwall, John, estate of
Digital content availableAtwood v. Metcalf
Digital content availableAudibert v. Pillett
Digital content availableAyscough, Richard, estate of
Digital content availableBache v. Livingston
Digital content availableBacon v. Morris and Wadsworth
Digital content availableBacon and Stroud v. Tinker
Digital content availableBank of New York v. Eden
Digital content availableBank of the United States v. McGregor
Papers relating to manufacturingDigital content available
Papers relating to trade and commercial treaties between United States and Great BritainDigital content available
Papers used in preparation of a report on the establishment of the mintDigital content available
PoemsDigital content available
Randolph, Edmund, copy of resolutions submitted to the Constitutional Convention, 1787Digital content available
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice deEssay on Fauchet's dispatch, with copy
Digital content availablePaper on public credit, with copy and translation
Digital content availableTranscripts of Hamilton's correspondence with Aaron Burr and an account of the duel by
William P. Van NessDigital content available
Unidentified writingsDigital content available
United States appropriations and abstract of customs duty bonds for 1794, 1789-1798Digital content available
United States Constitution, printed drafts with annotations by Hugh WilliamsonDigital content available
Printed matterAlmanac, 1725
Digital content availableBank of North America
Digital content availableBarton, William, "Remarks on the State of American Manufactures and Commerce,"
American Museum, 1790, JuneDigital content available
Extract from Proceedings of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati, 1786, July 4-Aug.12Digital content available
Jay, JohnAn Address to the People of the State of New York on the Subject of the Constitution
Digital content availableReport on Eastern Boundary Line
Digital content availableBOX 42REEL 33
Paine, Thomas, Letter to the Late General George Washington When President of the UnitedStatesDigital content available
Statements of the Receipts and Expenditures of Public Monies During the Administration ofthe Finances by Robert Morris, 1790, Aug. 30Digital content available
Digital content availableIndex to Hamilton manuscripts, vols. 31-37
Digital content availableLists of papers in the former McLane-Hamilton series
Digital content availableBOX 43REEL 34
Miscellany
Digital content availableNotes and card index to legal papers
Digital content availableRough memoranda for an index, chiefly of papers not printed
Digital content availableBOX 44not filmed
Photocopies of letters to and from Hamilton, 1789-1820
BOX 44not filmed
1998 Addition, 1780-1820
Letter from Nicholas Everton to Hamilton concerning legal matters and a Treasury Departmentcircular. Also photocopied material including letters by Hamilton, miscellaneous images,and a page from a church register recording his marriage.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 44 Photocopy page from marriage register recording Alexander Hamilton's marriage to ElizabethSchuyler, First Reform Church, Albany, N.Y., 1780 (Transferred from the MiscellaneousManuscripts Collection)Digital content available
Everton, Nicholas to Alexander to Hamilton re legal matters, 1799Digital content available
Photostatic copies of letters by Hamilton and miscellaneous images, 1789-1820Digital content available
Circular by Hamilton concerning the operating procedure of the Revenue Cutter Service, 1791,Nov. 17Digital content available
BOX 44not filmed
2017 Addition, 1790-1804
Correspondence and a fragment of a will of Hamilton.Correspondence arranged alphabetically by name of person and chronologically therein.
BOX 44 Church, Angelica Schuyler, to Rensselaer Schuyler regarding death of Philip Hamilton, 1801Digital content available
L’Enfant, Charles Pierre, to Alexander Hamilton, 1801Digital content available
Schuyler, Philip, to Alexander Hamilton, 1793-1803Digital content available
Schuyler, Philip, to Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, 1790-1799Digital content available
Schuyler, Philip, to Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, 1800-1804Digital content available
Schuyler, Philip, to "Miss Schuyler", 1800Digital content available
Fragment of will of Alexander Hamilton, 1795Digital content available
BOX OV 1-OV 3 Oversize, 1775-1805Oversize material consisting of correspondence, reports, annotated drafts of the Constitution,
writings, deeds, agreements, contracts, financial papers, certificates, lace samples, andprinted 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, andprinted matter filmed in their original locations before removal to this series.