Alexander Hamilton Papers

Expenses for Trip from Haverstraw, New York, to Black Point, New Jersey, [28 July 1778]

Expenses for Trip from
Haverstraw, New York, to Black Point, New Jersey1

[White Plains, New York, July 28, 1778]

Dollars
Received from Capt Caleb Gibbs of the public money
   in his hands 137 Dollars 137 
Paid the expences of travelling for myself
five pilots, horses & servants from Head Quarters,
to Black Point, so far as vouchers were kept, which
   are herewith £19.4.9  48 
Ballance 89 
due from A Hamilton to be charged to his private account

A Hamilton

Head Quarters July 28. 1778

ADS, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

1. On July 18, Washington had sent H to Black Point, New Jersey, to show D’Estaing a proposal for an attack on Rhode Island.

Enclosures to this letter, which are not printed, consist of bills paid by H en route.

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    Expenses for Trip from Haverstraw, New York, to Black Point, New Jersey, [28 July 1778]
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    28 July 1778

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    “Expenses for Trip from Haverstraw, New York, to Black Point, New Jersey, [28 July 1778],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-01-02-0519. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 1, 1768–1778, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, p. 530.]