1From 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...
2From 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,...
3From 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,...
4From 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...
5From 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 .