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To Alexander Hamilton from John Burchan, [n.d.]

From John Burchan1

[Philadelphia, n.d.]2

John Burchan, the Young Gentleman recommended to Col. Hamilton by Thomas Lowrey,3 is to be found at Mr. Michael Roberts,4 No. 32. Hanover Square.

AL, Papers of Tench Coxe in the Coxe Family Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

1. On January 3, 1793, Burchan was listed as a clerk in the office of the register of the Treasury Department (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , XIII, 466).

2. This letter was presumably written at some date between September, 1789, and December, 1792.

3. Thomas Lowrey was marshal for the District of New Jersey from September 26, 1789, to January, 1802.

4. Roberts was a Philadelphia merchant.

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from John Burchan, [n.d.],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0003-0007. [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. 773.]