Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Gamble, 4 April 1800

From Robert Gamble1

Richmond, April 4, 1800. Requests that Hamilton grant to his son, “John G. Gamble—a Youth at Princeton College—just entering his 20th year … the favor of introductory letters to Gentlemen Who may reside on the route” to Boston. States that his son “had the honor of being in Genl. Marshalls family during his Embassy to France.”2

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Gamble, a veteran of the American Revolution, was a Richmond merchant.

2. See Elbridge Gerry to Ann Thompson Gerry, April 16, 1798 (Russell W. Knight, ed., Elbridge Gerry’s Letterbook: Paris 1797–1798 [Salem, Massachusetts, 1966], 36).

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Gamble, 4 April 1800
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    Gamble, Robert
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    4 April 1800

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Gamble, 4 April 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-24-02-0313. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 24, November 1799 – June 1800, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976, p. 389.]