1To Alexander Hamilton from David Ross, 16 November 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
...as an aide-de-camp to Major General Charles Lee and as a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia. After the war he studied law at Fredericksburg, was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, and represented Virginia in the Continental Congress. In the mid-seventeen-eighties he moved to Maryland and was a delegate from that state to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, where...