1To Alexander Hamilton from John Halsted, 31 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Having seen your plan, for the formation of a Manufacturing Company, and the reasons you have assigned for establishing it in this State, with the Idea, that the plan is too extensive to be carried into full effect in one place to the best advantage to adventurers, induces me to request you to propose to the subscribers, this place, or its Vicinity, for one of the places of Manufactory, and...