From Alexander Hamilton to ———, 1 October 1800
To ———1
New York Oct 1. 1800
Dr. Sir
I send you my account against this State.2 As I am building3 I want mony much. You will therefore oblige me by receiving & forwarding it without delay. I authorise you to give a receipt in full.
You will observe that the causes have been decided in our favour.
Wit great regard I am Dr. Sir Your Obed ser
A Hamilton
ALS, Columbia University Libraries.
1. This letter was apparently addressed to John V. Henry, comptroller of the state of New York from March, 1800, to August, 1801.
The letter concerns the payment to H for his services for New York State as an attorney in the controversy over the Connecticut Gore. H had represented New York before the United States Circuit Court, District of Connecticut, at Hartford in September, 1800, when the Court dismissed the cases. See Robert Troup to Rufus King, October 1, 1800 (
, III, 315). For a discussion of the Connecticut Gore controversy, see , I, 657–84.2. ADS, sold by Merwin Sales Company, May 13, 1912, Lot No. 367. The description in the dealer’s catalogue reads: “Bill for services in NY and Conn Boundary Cases.”
3. This is a reference to H’s country house, the Grange. See the introductory note to Philip Schuyler to H, July 17, 1800.