Alexander Hamilton
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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/DocumentReport 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/DocumentSecretary 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/DocumentRegarding 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/DocumentPay 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/DocumentOlney 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 SignedRequests information on when Samuel Armstrong - Paymaster to the 8th Massachusetts Regiment - received the monies upon which a balance remains due from him.
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Request to be informed when Samuel Armstrong, Paymaster to Eighth Massachusetts Regiment received monies
03/08/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/DocumentHamilton 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/DocumentHamilton 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/DocumentReport 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/DocumentIndicates 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/DocumentDiscussed 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/DocumentHamilton 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/DocumentHamilton 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/DocumentHamilton 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/DocumentEncloses 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 SignedNotification 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/DocumentSecond 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/DocumentProvision 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 SignedHamilton specifies the amounts and conditions under which pensions to invalids should be paiid.
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Payment of interest to foreign officers
09/29/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/DocumentHamilton 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 documentCited in Anspach to Hamilton, 01/24/1791.
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Impending War Between Britain and France
10/17/1790 Autograph Letter SignedHamilton speculates on the evidence of impending war between Britain and France.
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Funds to discharge arrears due Virginia line in hands of pay master general
09/28/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/DocumentFunds 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 SignedEncloses a petition of a captain in Col. Jackson's regiment, requesting the Paymaster General's opinion on the matter.
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Court of Spain accedes to right of navigation on Mississippi
09/21/1790 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/DocumentThrough 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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