From Alexander Hamilton to Israel Ludlow, 20 November 1790
To Israel Ludlow1
Treasury Department, November 20, 1790. Commissions and instructs Ludlow to make “the Surveys which still remain to be made towards a complete demarkation of the boundaries of the several Tracts of land which have been contracted for with the persons respectively denominated The Ohio Company, The Scioto Company, and the Miami Company.”
Extract, RG 217, Miscellaneous Treasury Accounts, 1790–1894, Account No. 2472, National Archives.
1. This letter, which had not been found when , VII, was published, is printed in full in Arthur St. Clair to H, May 25, 1791, note 2 ( , VIII, 362).
Ludlow was a New Jersey surveyor and land speculator. He also acted as an agent for William Duer on the frontier. See Arthur St. Clair to H, July 21, 1791 ( , VIII, 563).
See also “Report on Appropriations of Money for Certain Purposes,” January 6, 1791 ( , VII, 416–18); Ludlow to H, May 5, 1792 ( , XI, 361–64).