To Alexander Hamilton from Colonel Timothy Pickering, 20 April 1781
From Colonel Timothy Pickering
Newburgh [New York] April 20, 1781. Doubts that, as quarter-master general, he possesses authority to appoint Colonel Jabez Champlin barrack master for French army in America.
ALS, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress; LC, RG 93, Letters of Col. T. Pickering, National Archives; copy, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.