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From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Lee, 3 September 1794

To Henry Lee1

War Department, September 3, 1794. “As it will be highly necessary that the Militia called out by order of the President, agreeably to the Secretary of War’s letter of the 7. of August last, should be mustered and inspected at their respective rendezvous, I have to request the favor of your Excellency to appoint some suitable character in your State to perform that service.…”

LS, Archives Division, Virginia State Library, Richmond.

1. For background to this letter, see H to Abraham Hunt, August 17, 1794, note 2; “Minutes of a Meeting Concerning the Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania,” August 24, 1794; H to Henry Lee, second letter of August 25, 1794.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Lee, 3 September 1794
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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Lee, 3 September 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-17-02-0148. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 17, August 1794 – December 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 191.]

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