1To John Adams from Benjamin Dewitt, 20 March 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, agreable to a rule of the Society for the promotion of Agriculture Arts & Manufactures, that at a late meeting you was Unanimously elected An Honorary Member thereof—We knew Not how to retrieve the loss of our late illustrious Member The Venerable Husbandman of Mount Vernon, except by placing in his stead the One of Braintree—Our President is directed to...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin DeWitt, [25 February 1801] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, that at A meeting of the Society for the promotion of Agriculture Arts & Manufactures Held in the Senate Chamber on the 11th Feby 1801 You was duly elected a Member thereof. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. DeWitt, a graduate of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1797, practiced medicine in Albany. After George Clinton became governor of New...