HAMILTON, Alexander. Autograph letter signed ("Alex. Hamilton") to William Ellery, Treasury Department, 22 April 1794. 1 page, 4to, framed with a color engraving of Hamilton . HAMILTON WRITES TO A DECLARATION SIGNER. In his final year as Treasury Secretary, Hamilton writes to Declaration of Independence signer, William Ellery (1727-1820) who, in 1794, was collector of the Port of Newport, Rhode Island. "The Schooner Boyne whereof Thomas Greene is Master ought to have been permitted to proceed to her Port of Destination, New York. An instruction to the Military officer to release her in order that she may proceed will go by this Post from the War Department. Should any accident delay it You will communicate this letter to him as evidence of the President's intention in order that no further detention may ensue." Hamilton had been an effective spokesman for "the President's intention" throughout his tenure as Secretary, and perhaps never more so than in his final two years in office. These saw the bruising battles over American neutrality towards the French war with Britain, John Jay's controversial treaty with Britain in 1794, and the "Whiskey Rebellion" in western Pennsylvania, where Hamilton urged Washington to muster some 15,000 troops and make a decisive show of force in the region. Ellery stayed at his post at Newport until 1820. A strict enforcer of the ban against slave importation, Ellery's anti-slavery scruples often disrupted the mercenary plans of the ports traders.
HAMILTON, Alexander. Autograph letter signed ("Alex. Hamilton") to William Ellery, Treasury Department, 22 April 1794. 1 page, 4to, framed with a color engraving of Hamilton . HAMILTON WRITES TO A DECLARATION SIGNER. In his final year as Treasury Secretary, Hamilton writes to Declaration of Independence signer, William Ellery (1727-1820) who, in 1794, was collector of the Port of Newport, Rhode Island. "The Schooner Boyne whereof Thomas Greene is Master ought to have been permitted to proceed to her Port of Destination, New York. An instruction to the Military officer to release her in order that she may proceed will go by this Post from the War Department. Should any accident delay it You will communicate this letter to him as evidence of the President's intention in order that no further detention may ensue." Hamilton had been an effective spokesman for "the President's intention" throughout his tenure as Secretary, and perhaps never more so than in his final two years in office. These saw the bruising battles over American neutrality towards the French war with Britain, John Jay's controversial treaty with Britain in 1794, and the "Whiskey Rebellion" in western Pennsylvania, where Hamilton urged Washington to muster some 15,000 troops and make a decisive show of force in the region. Ellery stayed at his post at Newport until 1820. A strict enforcer of the ban against slave importation, Ellery's anti-slavery scruples often disrupted the mercenary plans of the ports traders.
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