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.
2From Alexander Hamilton to Israel Ludlow, [13 May 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 4th of November though a considerable time on the way has some time since been received and is the only one I find among my letters on the subject. I request that either Mr Martin or yourself would as speedily as may be come on to this place and bring with you the returns of survey and Maps, which you mention to be ready. Expenditures will then be adjusted. I am Sir Your...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Israel Ludlow, 20 November 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, November 20, 1790. Letter listed in “A list of 51 Papers Relative to Contract Between the United States and John C. Symmes.” Letter not found. ] Clarence E. Carter, ed., The Territorial Papers of the United States (Washington, 1934), II, 390. Ludlow was a New Jersey surveyor and land speculator. Symmes, who had served as a member of the Continental Congress in 1785 and 1786,...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Israel Ludlow, 20 November 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, November 20, 1790. Commissions and instructs Ludlow to make “the Surveys which still remain to be made towards a complete demarkation of the boundaries of the several Tracts of land which have been contracted for with the persons respectively denominated The Ohio Company, The Scioto Company, and the Miami Company.” Extract, RG 217, Miscellaneous Treasury Accounts,...
5To 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,...
6To 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).
7From Alexander Hamilton to Israel Ludlow, 25 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, November 25, 1792. The catalogue description of this letter reads as follows: “Ordering the Original Survey of Lands in Ohio. ‘The said tract shall extend from the mouth of the Miami to the mouth of the little Miami, and be bounded by the river Ohio on the South … that the President reserves to the U. S., such lands at and near Fort Washington.’ Arranges for military...
8To 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,...
9From Alexander Hamilton to Israel Ludlow, 17 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ July 17, 1793. Letter not found. ] This letter is listed as No. 31 on a “List of 51 Papers Relative to Contract Between the United States and John C. Symmes” ( Carter, Territorial Papers Clarence E. Carter, ed., The Territorial Papers of the United States (Washington, 1934– ). , II, 389–91). For information on the Symmes purchase, see H to William Rawle, January 6, 1793, note 2 .