From Alexander Hamilton to Ebenezer Stevens, 16 March 1799
To Ebenezer Stevens1
New York, March 16, 1799. “You have been requested to provide a competent person to attend in quality of Quarter Master, the detachment of Troops which is to proceed from Fort Jay on Monday next.…”2
LS, New-York Historical Society, New York City; ADf, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
1. For background to this letter, see James McHenry to H, March 15, 1799; H to William R. Boote, March 16, 1799; H to Adam Hoops, March 16, 1799.
2. Stevens endorsed this letter: “Ansd 16.” Letter not found.