Alexander Hamilton Papers

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 PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , VII, was published, is printed in full in Arthur St. Clair to H, May 25, 1791, note 2 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , 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 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , VIII, 563).

See also “Report on Appropriations of Money for Certain Purposes,” January 6, 1791 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , VII, 416–18); Ludlow to H, May 5, 1792 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , XI, 361–64).

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Israel Ludlow, 20 November 1790
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Israel Ludlow, 20 November 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0002-0247. [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. 581.]

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