Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 8 July 1799

From James McHenry1

War Department, July 8, 1799. Discusses Major John J. U. Rivardi’s account of conditions at Fort Niagara. Refers to McHenry’s letter of July 2, 1799, concerning former quartermasters.2 States that Rivardi disbursed extra pay for extra work and points out that such payments should not be given “for procuring supplies or performing work in the ordinary line of a soldiers duty.…” Encloses quotations from a British work on military finance3 that present new ideas for “establishing a scale of extra allowance for extra service….” Promises to attend to Enoch Humphrey’s application for an appointment as a cadet.4 Notes that measures are in progress for establishing a military academy.5

LS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. This letter was written in reply to H to McHenry, June 25–July 2, 1799.

2. See McHenry’s second letter to H of this date.

3. John Williamson, A Treatise on Military Finance; containing the Pay, Subsistence, Deductions, and Arrears of the Forces on the British and Irish Establishments … With an enquiry into the method of Cloathing and Recruiting the Army etc. (London: T. Egerton, 1782).

4. See Rivardi to H, April 3, May 30, 1799.

5. See Charles C. Pinckney to H, January 17, 1799; H to Pinckney, March 7, 1799; H to Louis Le Bègue Du Portail, July 23, 1798; Du Portail to H, December 9, 1798; H to McHenry, December 26, 1798, note 2; McHenry to H, December 28, 1798, note 4.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 8 July 1799
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    McHenry, James
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    8 July 1799

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 8 July 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-23-02-0259. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 23, April 1799 – October 1799, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976, p. 247.]

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