From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Nourse, 18 March 1795
To Joseph Nourse1
Albany March 18th 1795.
Dear Sir
You will oblige me by sending me as soon as may be (first obtaining the consent of Mr Wolcott)2 a statement of the respective amounts of the several Items, of the Domestic Debt as they originally stood distributed among the several states.3 You once made out such a paper for me.
Yours with regard
A Hamilton.
J. Nourse Esqr.
LC, RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1795, Vol. “137-T,” National Archives.
1. Nourse was register of the Treasury Department.
2. For the appointment of Oliver Wolcott, Jr., as Secretary of the Treasury, see George Washington to H, February 2, 1795, note 1.
3. H presumably intended to use this material in the preparation of his “Defence of the Funding System,” July, 1795.