Letter from Dearborn to Hassler, March 2, 1807, acknowledging acceptance of job at West Point.


War Department

March 2nd 1807

Sir,

Your letter of the 12th ult. accepting of the temporary appointment of Mathematical Teacher in the Military Academy at West point [sic], has been duly received. And the Paymaster of the Army has been directed to remit you at Phild $175 --- being a quarters advance of compensation, commencing on the date of your letter of acceptance.

I am respectively, Sir,

Your Ob:Servt

H. Dearborn


This letter, which was sent to Hassler in Philadelphia, is bound into the back of the copy of his Elements of Analytic Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical (1826) which is in the West Point Library. From it we learn that his salary was $700 per year and that he accepted the position on February 12, 1807. However, AAR, p. 18, indicate the date as 14 February 1807, the same date that Barron resigned. I need to find out when Hassler arrived at West Point.


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