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To Alexander Hamilton from John Daves, 20 May 1794

From John Daves1

New Bern [North Carolina] May 20, 1794. “Agreeable to your letter dated April 3rd.2 I have appointed John Wallace Agent for Imploying workmen supplying materials &c for the fortifications to be erected at Ocacoke.…3

Copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at New Bern, National Archives.

1. Daves was collector of customs at New Bern.

2. “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of Customs,” April 3-June 4, 1794.

3. For background to arrangements for the fortification of ports and harbors, see Henry Knox to H, March 29, 1794.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from John Daves, 20 May 1794
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    “To Alexander Hamilton from John Daves, 20 May 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-16-02-0366. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 16, February 1794 – July 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 425.]

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