From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 22 January 1794

To Otho H. Williams

Treasury Department.
January 22nd 1794

Sir

I have before me your letter of the 30th of November last1 containing a requisition from Captn Porter2 for certain repairs to be done to the Revenue Cutter Active.

The public service requiring that the vessel should be kept in repair, I request that you will have done what shall be found necessary. If the Judgment of the Captain cannot be confided in, you will call in the aid of a trusty and discreet ship carpenter.

Circumstances have suspended an attention to the situation of the master of the Cutter. This affair will now be taken up without further delay.3

I am with great consideration Sir your obedt servant

A Hamilton

Otho H. Williams Esquire
Collector Baltimore

LS, Columbia University Libraries.

1. Letter not found.

2. David Porter was master of the Active, the Maryland revenue cutter.

3. See H to Williams, Robert Purviance, and George Gale, January 23, 1794.

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Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 22 January 1794
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Williams, Otho H.
Date: 22 January 1794

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Cite as: “From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 22 January 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-15-02-0492. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 15, June 1793 – January 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969, pp. 657–658.]

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