From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Walker, 30 July 1792
To Benjamin Walker
Philadelphia July 30. 1792
Dear Walker
This will be delivered to you by Mr. Pearce.1 A Vessel has gone round to New York with the Machinery &c. prepared for the Society;2 the freight will be to be paid and the passages of some workmen Eight or ten, who were with him & who will be immediately necessary in the further construction of Machines &c. Their passage money also will be to be paid. The freight by agreement is 6d. per foot square—the passage money a dollar ⅌ head. Inclosed is a bill of Lading.
Yrs
A Hamilton
Benjamin Walker Esq
ALS, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
1. William Pearce, an employee of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. See “Account with John Nixon,” July 23, 1792.
2. These payments were to be made by Walker under a resolution of July 6, 1792, of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. This resolution reads as follows: “Resolved, That such temporary Sheds as may be necessary be immediately erected and the Machinery and other property of the Society be transported to the Seat of the Factory, and that for effecting the said purpose a sum not exceeding one Thousand Dollars be appropriated” ( 48). Walker endorsed this letter as follows: “Fred Bird Acco & Rect. 69.33 Manug Society.”