Request for Loan
Document 1789Immediate loan for Indian Commissioners to negotiate treaties.
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War Office August 26, 1789
Gentlemen/
I have the honor to transmit you a copy of a letter which I this day received from the President of the United States.
In order to provide the Commissioners who are to negociate the Indian Treaties with the necessary means to effect the objects of their mission, I have to request of the President and Directors of the Bank of New York an immediate loan of ten thousand dollars, and further sums from time to time if the same may [strikethrough: be] found necessary, to execute this business, not exceeding in the whole the sum of twenty thousand dollars.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Immediate loan for Indian Commissioners to negotiate treaties.
Date
08/26/1789
Author
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War Office
Repository
Collection
Document number
1789082600001
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1
Notable persons
Henry Knox
directors
President, Directors, & Company of Bank of New York
Indian Commissioners
agents
Indians
Secretary of War
Notable locations
War Office
New York
Notable items
customary interests
copy of a letter
President of the United States
commissioners who are to negotiate the Indian Treaties
objects of their mission
Directors of the Bank of New York
loan of ten thousand dollars
business
sum of twenty thousand dollars
loans
bank
warrants specified
loan