From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 8 April 1799
To James McHenry
New York, April 8, 1799. “The Commander in Chief having approved the idea of calling the Pay Master to the Seat of Government,1 I send you inclosed by his direction an order for him to repair to the seat of Government.…”2
“From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 8 April 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-23-02-0014. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 23, April 1799 – October 1799, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976, p. 19.]