Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 4 February 1790

To Jeremiah Olney1

Treasury Department, February 4, 1790. Announces that Olney has been selected by the President to pay “pensions to Invalids for the Space of one year.”2

LS, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.

1. On June 14, 1790, the Senate confirmed Olney’s appointment as collector of customs at Providence.

2. This letter, except for the sums specified as owed to the “invalids,” is the same as the one that H wrote to Jedediah Huntington on January 30, 1790.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 4 February 1790
    Author
    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Olney, Jeremiah
    Date
    4 February 1790

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 4 February 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0129. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 246.]

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