Memorandum from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [November 1791]

Memorandum from Oliver Wolcott, Junior1

[Philadelphia November, 1791]. Encloses extract of a letter, dated August 22, 1785, from Nathanael Greene to the President of Congress. Observes that “Baron Glaubeck was allowed pay as a Captain from March 9, 81. to August. 24 17822 & pd.… A sum far less than Genl. Green had advanced.”

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1. Wolcott prepared this memorandum for use in connection with H’s “Report on the Petition of Catharine Greene,” December 26, 1791.

2. See “An Act to allow the Baron de Glaubeck the pay of a Captain in the Army of the United States” (6 Stat. description begins A. J. Dallas, Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the United States and of Pennsylvania, Held at the Seat of the Federal Government. Vol. IV. Third Edition. Edited, With Notes and References to Later Decisions, by Frederick C. Brightly (New York, 1905). description ends 1 [September 29, 1789]). Baron Glaubeck had served as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Daniel Morgan during the American Revolution.

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Title: Memorandum from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [November 1791]
Author: Wolcott, Oliver, Jr.
Recipient: Hamilton, Alexander
Date: November 1791

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Cite as: “Memorandum from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [November 1791],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-09-02-0408. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 9, August 1791 – December 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, p. 549.]

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