Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 19 June 1799

From James McHenry

Philadelphia, June 19, 1799. “I received this morning your letter of the 17th instant. I have ordered two thousand dollars to be forwarded to the Paymaster of the 121 and an equal sum to the Paymaster of the 13th Regiment.…2 There has been also delivered to the Paymaster of the Tenth Regiment3 One thousand five hundred and forty four dollars and fifty cents.…”

LS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1Lieutenant James Smith, Jr., of the Twelfth Regiment of Infantry was appointed paymaster of the regiment on April 5, 1799 (Godfrey, “Provisional Army,” description begins Charles E. Godfrey, “Organization of the Provisional Army of the United States in the Anticipated War with France, 1798–1800,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography XXXVIII (1914: Reprinted, New York, 1965). Godfrey confuses the Provisional Army with the Additional Army. description ends 166).

2Lieutenant Trueman Mosley of the Thirteenth Regiment of Infantry was appointed paymaster of the regiment on April 10, 1799 (Godfrey, “Provisional Army,” description begins Charles E. Godfrey, “Organization of the Provisional Army of the United States in the Anticipated War with France, 1798–1800,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography XXXVIII (1914: Reprinted, New York, 1965). Godfrey confuses the Provisional Army with the Additional Army. description ends 169).

3Lieutenant John Sharp of the Tenth Regiment of Infantry was appointed regimental paymaster on April 26, 1799 (Godfrey, “Provisional Army,” description begins Charles E. Godfrey, “Organization of the Provisional Army of the United States in the Anticipated War with France, 1798–1800,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography XXXVIII (1914: Reprinted, New York, 1965). Godfrey confuses the Provisional Army with the Additional Army. description ends 157).

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