Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 2 April 1791

From Nathaniel Appleton

Boston, April 2, 1791. “… I have now to inform you that I began yesterday morning to pay Interest on the Public Debt agreeably to the Act of Congress making provision for the same.1 I have compleated the Dividend book in which are Stated 863 Stockholders. The Duplicate Receipts are also prepared agreeably to the Instructions.…”2

LC, RG 53, Massachusetts State Loan Office, Letter Book, 1785–1791, Vol. “259–M,” National Archives.

1. “An Act making provision for the (payment of the) Debt of the United States” (1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 138–44 [August 4, 1790]).

2. See H to Appleton, March 18, 1791.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 2 April 1791
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    Appleton, Nathaniel
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    2 April 1791

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 2 April 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-08-02-0178. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 8, February 1791 – July 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, p. 239.]

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