1. Lucet (Lucett, Lucette) was the head of Lucet and Company, a countinghouse in New York City.

2. For the Staats Patent, see David E. E. Mix, ed., Catalogue: Maps and Surveys, in the Office of the Secretary of State, State Engineer and Surveyor, and Comptroller, and the New York State Library (Albany, 1859), 145.

This letter concerns the case of James Jackson, ex. dem. William Donaldson v Eugene Lucet, which involved a boundary dispute and actions in ejectment in Orange County, New York. H made an entry in his Cash Book, 1795–1804, under the date of August 6, 1797, which reads: “received of Lucette 50” (AD, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). In H’s Law Register, 1795–1804, the following entry appears:

“James Jackson Ex Dem. William Donaldson		Eject. Lands in Orange County
v
Rufus Stanley Eugene Lucet		Counsel for Defendants

The Same   vs Eugene Lucett

for Deft cause noticed for Circuit to be held the 2d Tuesday of Sept in Orange County 1801”

(D, partially in H’s handwriting, New York Law Institute, New York City). The case was settled in February, 1805, when the New York Supreme Court found for the defendants. For a discussion of this case, see Goebel, Law Practice description begins Julius Goebel, Jr., ed., The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary (New York and London, 1964–). description ends , forthcoming volumes.

In the Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress, are three enclosures in Lucet’s handwriting to the letter printed above, which are entitled: “statement relative to the suit of Wm Donaldson vs. E. Lucet tending to eject him from the possession of his property on Puplopes [Poplopen] Kill;” “Small Sketch of the shores of staats Patent;” and “Extract of the Patent granted to Dr. Saml Staats in 1712” together with “Extract of Rd. Bradley’s patent of Bear Hill in 1743.”