Subscription to the Ohio Company for Education and Worship in the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, March 1788

Subscription to the Ohio Company for Education
and Worship in the Territory Northwest of
the River Ohio

[New York] March, 1788. Subscribes ten pounds to the Ohio Company for “the Education of Youth, and the Promotion of Public Worship, among the first Settlers.”1

DS, Princeton University Library.

1. The other subscribers were Richard C. Platt, William Edgar, Alexander Macomb, William Constable, and William Duer, all New York City merchants.

H owned five and one-half shares in the Ohio Company. See Benjamin Tallmadge to H, June 20, 1795, note 2 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , XVIII, 383–84); Rufus Putnam to H, November 19, 1796 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , XX, 401–02); H to William R. Putnam, July, 1800 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , XXV, 48–49), December 6, 1802, September 19, 1803 (printed in this volume); William R. Putnam to H, January 17, 1803 (printed in this volume); H to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., October 3, 1802 (printed in this volume).

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Title: Subscription to the Ohio Company for Education and Worship in the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, March 1788
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Ohio Company for Education and Worship in the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio
Date: March 1787

Reference

Cite as: “Subscription to the Ohio Company for Education and Worship in the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, March 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0002-0132. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, 1 May 1802 – 23 October 1804, Additional Documents 1774–1799, Addenda and Errata, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, p. 473.]