Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Walker, 3 February 1799

From Benjamin Walker1

Utica [New York] February 3, 1799. States: “Judge Cooper has written me that you are about setling the matter respecting his claim on the black river Land and he wishes me to give you my ideas on the business.…” Gives his version of this land dispute which involved Walker, Cooper, and others.

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. For background to this letter, see H to Walker, William Inman, and William Cooper, September 9, 1798; Cooper to H, November 26, 1798.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Walker, 3 February 1799
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    Walker, Benjamin
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    3 February 1799

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Walker, 3 February 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-22-02-0268. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 22, July 1798 – March 1799, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975, p. 454.]

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