Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 3 June 1793

From George Washington

United States 3d. June 1793.

Pay to the Director of the Mint,1 or his order, five thousand Dollars for the purposes of that Establishment.

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5,000 Ds.

LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

1. On June 3, 1793, David Rittenhouse, the director of the Mint, transmitted his accounts to Thomas Jefferson and wrote: “I was unwilling to ask a further Sum of money on account of the Mint until the Treasurer had obtained a Settlement of his Accounts at the Comptrollers office, which is now done to the 1st. of April last. This has obliged me to advance considerably for the Expenditures of the Mint, and I must request you to apply to the President for his Warrant for 5000 Dollars, in favour of the Mint” (ALS, RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters, 1790–1799, National Archives). Jefferson sent Rittenhouse’s letter to Washington on June 3, 1793 (AL, RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters, 1790–1799, National Archives).

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    To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 3 June 1793
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    “To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 3 June 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-14-02-0349. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 14, February 1793 – June 1793, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969, p. 514.]

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