From Alexander Hamilton to Egbert Benson, [1785–1787]
To Egbert Benson1
[1785–1787.] Recounts the facts in the case of Mary Franklin, Executor of Henry Franklin v Teunis Slingerlands.2
LS, from a photostat in the New York State Library, Albany.
1. Benson, a New York lawyer, was a member of the first New York State Assembly in 1777, a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1781 to 1784, and attorney general of New York from 1777 to 1787. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1789 to 1793.
2. For information on this case, see , I, 230–31. See also H’s “Cash Book,” March 1, 1782–1791 ( , III, 33).