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From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, [22 February 1783]

To Samuel Hodgdon1

[Philadelphia, February 22, 1783]

Sir

The bearer Abby Mot2 is a soldiers widow in great distress who wants to go to her friends in the Jerseys but has not the means. If you could find her a place in some public waggon going that way, you would do an act of charity. I am Sir Yr. Obed ser.

A Hamilton

Philadelphia
Feby. 22. 17833

Mr. Hodgdon
Assistant Qr. Mr.

ALS, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, New York.

1. Hodgdon was commissary general of military stores.

2. In 1789 H paid Abby Mott’s funeral expenses. See “Receipt from John Murray,” August 15, 1789.

3. This date could possibly read February 22, 1782.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, [22 February 1783]
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    Hodgdon, Samuel
    Date
    22 February 1783

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, [22 February 1783],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-03-02-0165. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 3, 1782–1786, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 265.]

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