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To Alexander Hamilton from John De Barth Walbach, 19 March 1799

From John De Barth Walbach1

Wilmington [Delaware] March 19, 1799. “Ayant appris par les papiers publics, Que le Gouvernement Se preparoit a faire marcher des troupes, contre les insurgés, du Canton de Northampton;2 et le Régiment, au quel j’ai l’honneur d’appartenir, n’etant pas encore levé; je prend la liberté, Général, de vous addresser la presente, pour offrir mes Services comme volontaire, Si vous le juger apropos.…”3

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1Walbach, a native of Germany, had been commissioned a lieutenant in the light dragoons on January 8, 1799 (Executive Journal, I description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828), I. description ends , 298, 303).

2See James McHenry to H, March 13, 15, 1799.

3On the envelope H wrote: “The offer declined—desired to come to New York.”

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