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To Alexander Hamilton from John Adams, [3 September] 1798

From John Adams

Quincy [Massachusetts, September 3]1 1798

Sir

I have received the Letter you did me the Honor to write me on the 24. of August: but not till the first of September: otherwise it would have been answered sooner. Mr Phillip Church, your Nephew whom you recommend to be a Captain of Infantry I have had the Pleasure to See, both in New York and Philadelphia, and have been so well Satisfied with all I know of him as to be very willing to appoint him and shall write to the Secretary at War accordingly.

With great Esteem I have the Honor to be Sir your most obedient and humble servant

John Adams

General Hamilton
at New York

LS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; LC, Adams Family Papers, deposited in the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.

1. Adams incorrectly dated this letter “August 24.” The correct date appears on the letter book copy.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from John Adams, [3 September] 1798
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    Adams, John
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    3 September 1798

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from John Adams, [3 September] 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-22-02-0078. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 22, July 1798 – March 1799, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975, p. 172.]

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