From Alexander Hamilton to ——— Wooster, [n.p., 22 August]
To ——— Wooster1
[n.p., August 22]
Mr. Hamiltons compliments to Mr Wooster. General Stewart2 has been under some misapprehension respecting Mr. Hs desire to see Mr. Wooster.
AL, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
1. H wrote on the outside of this letter “Capt Wooster.” Thomas Wooster of Connecticut was a captain in Webb’s Additional Continental Regiment from February, 1777, to April, 1779. He was an applicant for Federal office in 1789 ( , XXX, 327–28), and on August 21, 1798, H listed a Thomas Wooster from New York who “wished to serve his country once more” ( , XXII, 95).
2. Walter Stewart, a veteran of the American Revolution who was brevetted a brigadier general at the end of the war, was a Philadelphia merchant and from December 10, 1793, to January, 1796, surveyor for the District of Philadelphia and inspector of the revenue for the port of Philadelphia.