From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of New York, 16 August 1791

To the President and Directors of the Bank of New York1

Ty Dept. 16 Aug. 1791

Genn.

You will please to cause to be paid to Willm. Seton Esqr such sums not exceeding in the whole One Hundred & fifty Thousand Dollars as he may require to be applied by him towards purchases of the Public Debt at the request of the Trustees of the Sinking Fund.2 The advances you shall make, when known, will be covered in the requisite forms.

Yours &c

A Hamilton

Copy, in the handwriting of William Seton, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Gulian Verplanck was elected president of the Bank of New York on May 11, 1791.

2. See H to Seton, August 15, 1791, and “Meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund,” August 15, 1791.

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Title: From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of New York, 16 August 1791
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: President and Directors of the Bank of New York
Date: 16 August 1791

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Cite as: “From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of New York, 16 August 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-09-02-0051. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 9, August 1791 – December 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, p. 71.]

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