When Salomon died in 1785 at age forty-five, he had no will, but left receipts at the Register’s Officer in Philadelphia for various loans and state and treasury certificates totaling $353,744 to the U.S. government. Unfortunately many of the records concerning Salomon were destroyed when the British burned Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812.45 In 1850, however, the U.S. Senate issued a report that said: “Haym Salomon gave great assistance to the government by loans of money, and advancing liberally of his means to sustain the men engaged in the struggle for independence at a time when
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Foregoing 5 or so pages synopsis of Haym Salomon - fascinating financier of the American Revolution.
