From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 25 August 1794
To Samuel Hodgdon
Treasury Department, August 25, 1794. “I have to request, that you will purchase for the use of the Quarter Masters Department, the horses with their necessary trappings, to be employed as Post Horses and to be stationed at the several places, mentioned in your letter to me of this date.”1
LS. Mr. Pierce Gaines, Fairfield, Connecticut.
1. Letter not found.