1Account with Robert Harpur, [20 September 1774] (Hamilton Papers)
1774 Mr. Alexr. Hamilton at £ 3 . . 4 ⅌ Quar. Dr. Con Cr. £ s. d Sepr. 20 entered with me this day, to Study Mathems. 1783. By Cash recd. from him, now Col. Hamilton, as a present at the close of the War } 5 Guins. = 9—6—8 D , from the original in The New York State Library, Albany. This entry is from the account book of Harpur, who was a professor of mathematics at King’s College. In order...