Alexander Hamilton Papers
Documents filtered by: Correspondent="Rice, Nathan" AND Correspondent="Hamilton, Alexander"
sorted by: date (ascending)
Permanent link for this document:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-23-02-0353

From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 22 August 1799

To Nathan Rice

New York August 22 1799

Sir

I have just received a letter from the Secretary of war1 in which he informs me that the resignation of Lieutenant Samuel W. Church2 of your regiment is accepted. You will please to signify the same to Lieutenant Church, and inform me when he actually receives the notice.

With great consideration   I am &c. &c.

Df, in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. James McHenry to H, August 21, 1799 (listed in the appendix to this volume).

2. Church was appointed an ensign in the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry on March 3, 1799 (Executive Journal, I description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828), I. description ends , 323), and on the same day, in accordance with Section 2 of “An Act for the better organizing of the Troops of the United States; and for other purposes” (1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, I (Boston, 1845); II (Boston, 1850). description ends 749–55 [March 3, 1799]), he became a second lieutenant (Heitman, United States Army description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (Washington, 1903). description ends , I, 301).

Index Entries

    You Are Looking At

    Source Project
    Hamilton Papers
    Title
    From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 22 August 1799
    Author
    Hamilton, Alexander
    Recipient
    Rice, Nathan
    Date
    22 August 1799

    Reference

    Cite as
    “From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 22 August 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-23-02-0353. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 23, April 1799 – October 1799, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976, pp. 342–343.]

    More between these correspondents