1To Alexander Hamilton from Israel Ludlow, 4 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ November 4, 1789. On May 13, 1790, Hamilton wrote to Ludlow : “Your letter of the 4th. of November … has some time since been received.” Letter not found. ] Ludlow was a New Jersey surveyor and land speculator. When he wrote this letter, he was in what is now the state of Ohio where he was serving as the chief surveyor for the Miami Purchase.
2To Alexander Hamilton from Israel Ludlow, 5 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The unexpected delays that have attended my executing the surveys of the Ohio and Miami Companies, together with your letters, which I have received from time to time, urging my speedy exertions to effect the business, induces me to explain to you the cause of the delay. In November, 1790, I was honored with your letter of instruction at this place. I proceeded immediately to Fort Harmar,...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Israel Ludlow, [6 May 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ May 6, 1792. Letter not found. ] This letter is listed as Item No. 23 in “List of Papers: Contract with John Cleves Symmes” ( Carter, Territorial Papers Clarence E. Carter, ed., The Territorial Papers of the United States (Washington, 1934– ). , II, 391–93).
4To Alexander Hamilton from Israel Ludlow, [10 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[ July 10, 1793. “The care of making the survey [of the Miami purchase], in conformity to the act of Congress of the twelfth of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, was on the twenty-fifth of November, ensuing, committed by the late Secretary of the Treasury, to Mr. Israel Ludlow, and this last, by a letter, dated the tenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three,...