Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, [8 February 1791]

To John Cochran1

[Treasury Department, February 8, 1791. The description of this letter in the dealer’s catalogue reads: “Concerning ‘the Payment of Pensions to Invalids for the space of one year.… The allowance for your trouble will be two per cent on what you pay.’”2 Letter not found.]

The Collector: A Magazine for Autograph and Historical Collectors, LXXXI, (1968), 806, Item B242.

1. Cochran was commissioner of loans for New York from 1790 to 1795.

2. This quotation also appears in H to Jedediah Huntington, January 30, 1790 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , VI, 232–33). See also H to Nathaniel Appleton, February 8, 1791 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , VIII, 13–14).

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    From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, [8 February 1791]
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Cochran, John
    Date
    8 February 1791

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, [8 February 1791],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0002-0278. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, 1 May 1802 – 23 October 1804, Additional Documents 1774–1799, Addenda and Errata, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, p. 604.]

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