1To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
On examining the subsisting contracts, between the United States, and the Government of France, and the Farmers General and a comparison thereof with the foreign accounts and documents transmitted to the Treasury the following facts appear. That previous to the Treaty of February 1778, the sum of Three millions of Livres had been advanced by the government of France, to the agents of the...