1Orders to John Cochran, 20 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
you are to proceed from hence to New Town, to morrow & there inquire into the state of the smallpox & use every possible Means in your Power to prevent that Disease from spreading in the Army & among the Inhabitants, which may otherwise prove fatal to the service; To that End you are to take such Houses, as will be convenient in the most retired parts of the Country & best calculated to answer...
2From George Washington to John Cochran, 16 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have asked Mrs Cockran & Mrs Livingston to dine with me to morrow; but ought I not to apprize them of their fare? As I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned—I will. It is needless to premise that my table is large enough to hold the ladies—of this they had occular proof yesterday—To say how it is usually covered is rather more essential, & this, shall be the purport of...
3George Washington to John Cochran, 12 February 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
New Windsor [ New York ] February 12, 1781 . Orders Cochran to collect all hospital stores that were purchased for public use. LS , in writing of H, George Washington Photostats, Library of Congress.
4From George Washington to John Cochran, 12 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
You will call upon all persons having hospital stores in their possession purchased for public use, and they are hereby required to deliver them to your order. I am Sir Yr most humble servt LS , in Alexander Hamilton’s writing, MdAN . For issues that arose in the execution of this order, see GW to Moses Hazen or the Officer Commanding His Regiment, 25 Feb. , and n.1.
5From Edward Hand to John Cochran, 30 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
His Excellency apprehensive that many of the men returned Sick Absent and in the service of the Hospitals are not now in being or cannot be particularly accounted for, has desired me to request you would furnish him as soon as possible with accurate returns from all the Hospitals under your direction on this side Susquehannah River. specifying the men’s names the Corps they belong to and time...
6From George Washington to John Cochran, 18 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
It appears to me that Keeping up an Hospital at Boston is a very needless expence to the Public —the only pretext that could be offered for it was the Corps of Invalids being there, that Corps being now removed and no Continental Troops remaining or likely to be there I see nothing to prevent the Hospitals being broke up immediately and I desire you to take measures accordingly. DLC : Papers...
7From George Washington to John Cochran, 10 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
A supply of Medicines and Hospital Stores will be wanted to serve a Corps of 500 Men for Ten Months. It is my desire you will have as accurate an Estimate formed, as the nature of the case will admit, and that you will have the most efficacious measures immediately adopted for providing, arranging and packing up, in the best possible Order, all Articles included in it. As the preservation of...
8From George Washington to John Cochran, 11 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
It was not ’till Yesterday that I received your favor of the 25th of June—I now acknowledge the receipt of it, and thank you very sincerely, for the kind Expressions of Benevolence & regard which you are pleased to extend to me, And to assure you, that I shall retain a cheerfull remembrance of your past Services, and wish you every felicity in your future Life. I take pleasure in sending you...
9From George Washington to John Cochran, 4 November 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Troops in Pennsylvania and to the Southward of it (except the Garrison of Fort Pitt) being all discharged by a Proclamation of this day; it appears to me no longer necessary to keep in service so many Officers of the Hospital Department as are included in the within Copy of a Subsistance Roll for this Month lately transmitted to me. I am now to desire you, to transmit to me as soon as...
10From George Washington to John Cochran, 31 August 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 9th by Captn Packard, accompanying the Hounds sent by the Marqs de la Fayette to your care for me, came safely a few days ago. For the trouble you have had with the latter, I offer you my thanks; and if any expences have been incurred previous to their re-embarkation at New York, I will pay them on the first notice. I persuade myself you are too well convinced, my dear...
11From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 10 December 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
The instructions given to you originally in regard to the transmission of certificates are rightly construed by you in your letter of the 1st. instant. The certificates of the Register of the Treasury and all others of which you have no checks or registers are to be sent hither for examination: And moreover, in all other cases wherein you actually find reason to entertain doubts of the...
12From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, [8 February 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, February 8, 1791. The description of this letter in the dealer’s catalogue reads: “Concerning ‘the Payment of Pensions to Invalids for the space of one year.… The allowance for your trouble will be two per cent on what you pay.’” Letter not found. ] The Collector: A Magazine for Autograph and Historical Collectors , LXXXI, (1968), 806, Item B242. Cochran was commissioner...
13From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 28 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Yours of the 24th is just come to hand. I have directed the Treasurer to transmit by tomorrow’s post a draft in your favour on the Bank of New York for Twenty six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; which according to your statement will enable you to pay the ensuing quarters interest. I am content with the plan you intend to pursue with the Bank; though my idea was that the business might...
14From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 15 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am of opinion that the law under which you act does not justify the Commissioners in the payment of interest on any new loan certificate issued for the certificates of any state, which certificates were issued by that state in exchange for those of the federal debt, until the whole of the identical state certificates, so issued, have been exchanged or redeemed, or the continental...
15From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 10 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, October 10, 1791. On October 10, 1791, Hamilton wrote to William Seton that he was sending a letter to the commissioner of loans for New York State. Letter not found. ]
16From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 8 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, April 8, 1793. “Enclosed is a List of certificates of transfers issued by the commissioner of Georgia in which the time from which they bear interest has been altered, from the 1st of January to the 1st of April 1792.… I have thought proper to give You this information in order to remove any scruple which might arise on account of the alteration.” LS , The American Swedish...
17From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, [25 May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 25, 1793. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] ALS , sold by S. G. Hubbard Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 15, 1864, Item 239. Cochran was commissioner of loans for New York.
18From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 13 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 13, 1793. “I have directed the Treasurer of the United States, to furnish you with a draught on the Office of Discount & Deposit at New-York, for Seven Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty five Dollars; for the purpose of enabling you … to discharge a half years pension which will become due to the Invalids of the United States on the 5th of the ensuing month.” LS ,...
19From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 15 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, November 15, 1793. Requests “amount of the last quarters dividend paid by the office of Discount & Deposit, in order that a warrant may issue to cover the same.” LS , Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
20From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 24 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, March 24, 1794. “I have directed the Treasurer of the United States to remit to you a draught on the Office of Discount & Deposit at New-York for Ninety Thousand dollars, to enable you to discharge the Interest, which will become due the 31st. Instant on the several species of stock standing on your books.” LS , Mr. Sol Feinstone, Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. Cochran...
21From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 25 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, June 25, 1794. “A Warrant has this day issued on the Treasurer in your favor for Drs 90,834 ²⁹⁄₁₀₀ for the purpose of enabling you to discharge the Interest which will become due the 30th. Instant on the several species of stock standing on your Books.…” LS , Portsmouth Athenaeum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Cochran was commissioner of loans for New York.
22From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 24 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, September 24, 1794. “I have directed the Treasurer … to remit to you, a draught for Ninety Thousand Dollars on account of the Interest payable … on the several species of stocks standing on your books.” Letter not found. ] LS , sold at Swann Galleries, March 8, 1945, Lot 18. Cochran was commissioner of loans for New York. Extract taken from dealer’s catalogue. On September...