To Alexander Hamilton from Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 16 March [1793]
From Jean Baptiste de Ternant1
[Philadelphia] du 16 mars [1793]
Le Ministre soussigné prie le secretaire de la trèsorèrie de faire avancer à Conyngham Nesbit et Compe.2 cinq mille piastres de plus à compte des cent mille payables au lr. avril prochain.
T.
LC,
, Supplement Vol. 20.1. For background to this letter, see Tobias Lear to H, February 8, 1793; “Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on Furnishing Three Million Livres Agreeably to the Request of the French Minister,” February 25, 1793; H to Ternant, February 26, 1793; Ternant to H, February 26, 1793.
2. The Philadelphia merchant and shipping firm of David H. Conyngham and John M. Nesbitt.