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To Alexander Hamilton from John Daves, 29 April 1794

From John Daves

New Bern [North Carolina] April 29, 1794. “I have received your letter dated 3rd Instant, containing instructions.…1 As yet I have not been able to get a judicious able man, to undertake owing to the small sum they will be entitled to.… I have received from the Treasurer of the United States a draft on me for One thousand dollars, which shall be disposed of agreeable to your instructions.”

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

1. See “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” April 3–June 4, 1794.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from John Daves, 29 April 1794
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    29 April 1794

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from John Daves, 29 April 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-16-02-0284. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 16, February 1794 – July 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 353.]

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