1From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Meredith, 13 September 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Permit me to congratulate you on your appointment as Treasurer of the United States, and to assure you of the pleasure I feel in anticipating your co-operation with me in a station, in which a character like yours is so truly valuable. I need not observe to you how important it is, that you should be on the ground as speedily as possible. The call for your presence you will be sensible, is...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Meredith, 28 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I received your letter of the 21st Instant and delayed answering it untill it could be determined whether there would be occasion for your presence here. It being intended that the purchases to be made at New York under “the Act providing for the Reduction of the public Debt” shall be effected by the Treasurer of the United States, and it being deemed proper to commence the operation on the...
3Enclosure: William Seton to Samuel Meredith, 28 December 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreably to what I had the honor to write you last night, I this day laid before the President & Directors, your Letter of the 23d. And they desire me to inform you, That on the 9th of this Month, having heard from public report that the Bank of North America had offered to give immediate Credit to the United States for such drafts as might be lodged there for Sale, The Board anxious to do...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Meredith, 6 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 6, 1793. “The Secretary of the Treasury, by letter of the 6th of December 1793, directed the Treasurer to draw, and deposit in the Bank of the United States, for sale, bills upon several persons; among those, upon the Collector of Norfolk, for a sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be comprised in various draughts.” Letter not found. ] D , RG 233, Papers of the Select...