Alexander Hamilton - Papers of the War Department

Report on the Estimate of the Expenditure for the Civil List and the War Department to the End of the Present Year

09/19/1789 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Report on the Estimate of the Expenditure for the Civil List and the War Department to the End of the Present Year includes Department of Treasury, War Department, Department of State, Accounts …

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Report on a Particular Statement of the Warrants Issued by the Late Superintendent of Finance, and by the Board of Treasury

09/25/1789 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Secretary of Treasury, submits settlement, together with anticipation on taxes made by late superintendent of Finance on which a balance appears due $93,463 29/90. It has not yet been paid due to the …

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Regarding supply of garrisons at West Point and Springfield

12/08/1789 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Regarding Gorham's proposal that he and Oliver Phelps supply the garrisons at West Point New York and Springfield Massachusetts: the supply has been undertaken by the former contractor Melancton Smith …

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Payment to Samuel Meredith for Loan to Secretary of War

09/13/1789 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Pay to Samuel Meredith, Treasurer of United States, $20,000, a loan to Secretary of War in pursuance of appropriation made by Act of Congress 20 August 1789.

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Selection as collector to pay pensions to invalids at Providence Rhode Island

02/04/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Olney has been selected by the President to pay pensions to invalids for the space of one year.

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Requests information on Massachusetts Paymaster

03/08/1790 Autograph Letter Signed

Requests information on when Samuel Armstrong - Paymaster to the 8th Massachusetts Regiment - received the monies upon which a balance remains due from him.

Miscellaneous Numbered Records (Manuscript File) 1775-1790's. (RG93) (M859)

Request to be informed when Samuel Armstrong, Paymaster to Eighth Massachusetts Regiment received monies

03/08/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Hamilton asks that Howell inform him when Samuel Armstrong, Paymaster to Eighth Massachusetts Regiment received monies upon which a balance remains due from him.

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Report on the Petition of William Finnie

04/10/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Hamilton addresses the petition of William Finnie, Deputy Quarter Master General in the Southern Department during the Revolutionary War, requesting reimbursement of money expended by him in the …

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Report on the Memorial of the Officers of the South Carolina Regiments

03/18/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Report on the Memorial of the Officers of the South Carolina Regiments. A memorial of the late officers of the South Carolina line on Continental Establishment was presented to the House and read, …

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Report on Foreign Affairs Regarding French, Spainish, and Dutch

10/17/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Indicates that France will support Spain. Reports that Lord Howe has been given orders to fight if there is a chance. Rumor that Sir Guy Carleton has returned to Quebec.

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Report on Additional Sums Necessary for the Support of the Government, presented to the House of Representatives.

08/05/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Discussed claims for money and accounts from the Quartermaster's Department on the method of payment. Requested sums include payment of civil and military establishment; judicial department; …

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Regarding the resolutions of Congress: payments to officer and soldier claimants

05/28/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Hamilton voices objections of a serious and weighty nature to the resolutions of the two houses of Congress concerning certain arrears of pay due to the officers and soldiers of the lines of Virginia …

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Regarding French colony on the Scioto

05/19/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Hamilton discusses the establishment of a French colony on the Scioto, headed by John Joseph de Barth. This is within the limits of the Manasseh Cutler and Winthrop Sargent purchase. Hamilton …

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Proposed appointment as clerk in Treasury Department

12/02/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Hamilton asks that Anspach collect documents, of receiving the claims, and of stating them from time to time in returns that shall comprehend a number of them to the Auditor of the Treasury. Proposes …

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Petition of Captain John Wyley

04/22/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Encloses a petition from Captain John Wyley late of Colonel Jackson's Regiment. Asks how far the petitioner's circumstances are at the Pay Office and the mode of payment in most like cases.

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Payments to North Carolina's Army Invalids

02/02/1790 Autograph Letter Signed

Notification that the President has named Haywood as the official to make payments due to the Army invalids of North Carolina

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Payment to invalids

05/13/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Second moiety of one year's pension will be available to the invalids on 5 June 1790. Sum to be paid to Pennsylvania estimated at $8253.

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Payment of Pensions to Invalids

01/30/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Provision made for payment of pensions to invalids for one year. Explains in detail how much is to be paid, when, and how much is to be earned by Huntington for his trouble. The Secretary of War will …

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Payment of Pensions to Invalids

01/30/1790 Letter Signed

Hamilton specifies the amounts and conditions under which pensions to invalids should be paiid.

Robert Goodloe Harper

Payment of interest to foreign officers

09/29/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Hamilton examined into the state of the provision for payment of interest to foreign officers and reports that he cannot comply with L'Enfant's wish. Funds have been appropriated for payment of that …

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Letter Citation

12/20/1790 Cited letter or document

Cited in Anspach to Hamilton, 01/24/1791.

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Impending War Between Britain and France

10/17/1790 Autograph Letter Signed

Hamilton speculates on the evidence of impending war between Britain and France.

Alexander Hamilton Papers

Funds to discharge arrears due Virginia line in hands of pay master general

09/28/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Funds to discharge arrears due Virginia line in hands of pay master general, with instructions to remit to John Hopkins, esquire, Commissioner of Loans for Virginia.

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Enclosed Petition

04/22/1790 Autograph Letter Signed

Encloses a petition of a captain in Col. Jackson's regiment, requesting the Paymaster General's opinion on the matter.

Miscellaneous Numbered Records (Manuscript File) 1775-1790's. (RG93) (M859)

Court of Spain accedes to right of navigation on Mississippi

09/21/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Through Dr. Craigie and Mr. Daniel Parker, Hamilton reports that Mr. De Miranda has conversed with the Marquis Del Campo, Spanish Minister to Great Britain, that the Court of Spain has acceded to the …

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