The Business of Paying the Troops
Document 1799Swan discusses his proposals for improving the process of paying the troops. The appointment of deputy paymasters to the various regions would help immensely as would the addition of regimental paymasters.
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Type
Autograph Signed Draft
Description
Swan discusses his proposals for improving the process of paying the troops. The appointment of deputy paymasters to the various regions would help immensely as would the addition of regimental paymasters.
Date
09/19/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Trenton
Collection
Document number
1799091960200
Note
Cited in Hamilton to Swan, 09/23/1799 and Hamilton to Swan, 10/30/1799.
Notable persons
Alexander Hamilton
Caleb Swan, Paymaster General
Secretary of War [McHenry]
General Pinckney is now at Rhode Island
Colonel Edward Carrington
the deputy appointed for the northwestern frontier cannont extend his payments below Massac
a deputy for the Mississippi district to reside at Natchez is indispensable
General Wilkinson
Notable locations
Trenton
western country
Cincinnati
Notable items
the law vests me with the right of selecting deputies
I shall not hesitate for a moment in appointing the officer you may please to nominate for that duty
business of paying the troops has been in a lanquid state
a deputy to reside in Virginia will be found necessary and useful
at present there is no regimental paymaster to either the first or second regiments of artillerists and engineers
if paymasters were appointed to those regiments it would facilitate payment
propriety of consulting the Commanding Genral [Washington] as to the selection of deputies