1To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Freeman, [9 January 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
Having left the public works at Loftus’s-Heights previous to the return of General Wilkinson to that country, and not having had the pleasure of meeting him here, on my arrival; I trust Sir, you will excuse the liberty I take in trespassing on your time for a moment. It is I presume known to you, that at the earnest solicitation of General Wilkinson I plan’d and superintended a work at...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Freeman, 28 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] February 28, 1800 . “I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th Ult. in answer to mine respecting the Public works at Loftus’s Heights on the river Mississippi.… You requested me to give you an account of the plan and state in which the work was at the time of my departure from thence. Conceiving that I could not better convey to you an idea of the...