To Alexander Hamilton from James Lloyd, 14 August 1793
From James Lloyd1
August 14, 1793. “… I have made application to his Excellency the President of the United States for the office of Surveyor of the Port of Baltimore. As the Office is connected with your Department I have thought that this intimation was a mark of respect which your Station as well as your personal character demanded of me.”
ALS, RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters, 1790–1799, National Archives.
1. Lloyd was a resident of Chestertown, Maryland, and a former justice of the peace in Kent County, Maryland.