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Expenses Related to the Indians
05/20/1799 Extract of LetterMcHenry instructs Governor Sargent on how to account for expenses related to gifts and supplies to the neighboring Indians. Accordingly, all bills, receipts, and vouchers should be submitted to the …
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Expenses of removing offices to Trenton
08/23/1799 Letter SignedRequests the sum of money that will be necessary to cover the expenses of removing the accountant's office to Trenton due to fever in Philadelphia.
Miscellaneous Records of the Office of Indian Trade Relating to Accounts, 1796-1825. (RG75)
Expenses of Joseph Williams
07/05/1799 Letter SignedMcHenry authorizes the allowance of all reasonable expenses incurred by Joseph Williams, paymaster of the armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, or on journeys relative to the business of the armory.
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)
Expenses of James Willson
05/18/1799 Autograph Letter SignedJames Willson, a Cadet in the First Regiment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, has been ordered by Major Lewis Tousard to convey dispatches from Rhode island to the Secretary of War. …
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)
Expenses
06/28/1799 Autograph Letter SignedDoesn't know cost of transporting W. King's baggage, but authorized a, "reasonable sum". Enclosed bill of articles forwarded to C. Lyman. Clothing order to be assembled and sent shortly.
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Expense Report of John McClallen
07/15/1799 Autograph Document SignedMcClallen's expense report enclosed in McClallen to Hamilton, 7/19/1799.
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Expedition in regard to supplies becomes more and more urgent.
06/16/1799 Autograph Draft DocumentStates: "...the recruiting service...is...now in a course of execution in all the states from Massachusetts inclusively to Virginia inclusively. Thus, the necessity of expedition in regard to the …
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Expedient of Hiring an Assistant Secretary
10/14/1799 Autograph Draft LetterHamilton explains how he has saved money for the public by hiring an assistant secretary instead of an aide-de-camp but still lacks a quarters servant.
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Expectation of Promotion by Succession
09/27/1799 Autograph Draft DocumentHamilton explains his conception of the appropriate manner in which vacancies in the officer corps are to be filled. Generally, vacancies are to be filled by succession and not by the insertion of new …
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Execution of Hunt or Perkins may as yet be respited.
07/25/1799 Letter SignedMcHenry discusses the impending execution of Sergeant Richard Hunt and allows for the possibility that the execution may as yet be overruled.
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Excessive Expenses
08/19/1799 Autograph Letter SignedAdvice on excessive spending and guarding against unnecessary use of public monies.
James McHenry Papers.
Examination of accounts and vouchers of Quartermaster John Coffin, Fort Niagara
10/22/1799 Author's Letterbook CopyExamination of accounts and vouchers of Quartermaster John Coffin, Fort Niagara New York.
Report Books of the Accountant of the War Department, Apr 14, 1795-Dec 31, 1817. (RG217)- No image
Evils which Attend the Delay of Money
10/24/1799 Autograph LetterThe description of this letter in the dealer's catalogue reads: "Refers to the 'the evils which attend the delay of money--Among the rest the keeping of the troops out of winter quarters to suffer the …
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Evil Tendency of Correspondence with Inferior Officers
07/31/1799 Autograph Letter Signed"You will see my dear friend in the case of Captain Frye the evil tendency of correspondence by the head of the War Department [McHenry] with inferior officers when there is a superior. For a thousand …
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Everything Important Regarding the Sherando Works
03/05/1799 Autograph Letter SignedBrindley must go to Wilmington soon so he wants Hodgdon to commit to writing everything he wishes to communicate respecting the Sherando Works and forward them with a small bank note to meet his …
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)
Every State Should Provide a Regiment, Etc.
01/23/1799 Autograph Letter SignedGunn encloses a copy of the military bill reported to the Senate and asks Hamilton for amendments. He believes that every state should provide one regiment to the [Eventual] Army and that the endless …
Alexander Hamilton Papers
Estimation of Tools and Utensils On Hand
12/31/1799 DocumentEstimation of all tools and utensils on hand at the Armory in Springfield as returned by the Superintendent per his return, December 31st 1799.
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)
Estimation of the Value of Gun Barrels
12/31/1799 DocumentEstimation of the value of gun barrels burst in proving, scrap iron, old files and turned into the public store since December 31st 1798.
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)
Estimation of the Springfield Armory Supplies
12/31/1799 Document, type undeterminedEstimation of the value of all stock on hand at the Armory in Springfield, as recorded by Superintendent of the same armory. Articles include iron, steel, charcoal, socks, musket barrels, ramrods, …
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)- No image
Estimates of Construction Costs at Loftus's Heights
11/08/1799 Letter SignedMcHenry informs Hamilton of General Wilkinson's estimates of the costs of the Water Battery, Barracks, and Magazines which have been undertaken at Loftus's Heights.
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Estimate of the Expenses of the War Department
10/02/1799 Autograph Letter SignedAs he prepares his estimate of the expenses of the War Department for the ensuing year, Lewis requires the following from Hodgdon: an estimate of Hodgdon's salary as Superintendent of Military Stores; …
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)- No image
Estimate of the Expenses in Repairing the Public Buildings at Carlisle
08/24/1799 Copy of documentEstimate of the expenses both as to materials and workmanship in repairing the public puildings at Carlisle, August 24, 1799
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Estimate of Pay Due Troops of Tennessee.
01/23/1799 Document SignedChart showing the estimates of pay, listed by Company, due the regular troops in the State of Tennesee from August 1, 1798 to December 31, 1798.
Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)
Estimate of monies to be placed in the hands of Lieutenant James Richmond, 2nd Regiment, paymaster at Vermont
10/16/1799 Document SignedReceipt of $2211.20 to be placed in the hands of Lieutenant James Richmond, 2nd Regiment, acting paymaster to the recruiting rendezvous at Vermont.
Muster Rolls of Regular Army Organization, 1784-1912. (RG94)
Estimate of expenditures at New London, Virginia
11/01/1799 Document SignedEstimate of expenditures on account of United States at New London in Virginia to James Callaway for rent of sundry houses for military stores and as a clerk's office.
Receipts for Moneys Advanced (Advances), 1793-1855. (RG217)
