1From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Howell, Junior, [3 March 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
If you have any monies in your hands for which there is not an immediate call, I request you to pay to the Honorable Jeremiah Wadsworth five hundred Dollars on account of the apprehension of certain persons engaged in counterfieting the securities of the United States; for which you will please to take his Receipt expressing the object. The reason of this mode of doing the business is that...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Howell, Junior, 22 April 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed you will receive a petition of John Wyley late a Captain in Colonel Jacksons Regiment in the Army of the United States. You will be pleased to inform me how far the circumstances stated by the Petitioner are ascertainable at the Pay Office, and what has been the mode of payment in the like cases. I am, Sir, Your Obedt. servant LS , RG 93, Miscellaneous Records, National Archives. On...