Alexander Hamilton Papers
Documents filtered by: Author="Hamilton, Alexander" AND Period="Confederation Period"
sorted by: editorial placement
Permanent link for this document:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-03-02-0567

From Alexander Hamilton to John Chaloner, [30 October 1786]

To John Chaloner

[New York, October 30, 1786]

Dr Sir

Inclosed I send you Mr. Church’s Power of Atty to me to receive his bank dividends1 &c. and a power from me to you to receive the last and the next.

I will be obliged to you to get the money & forward it by the first proper opportuni[t]y to this place.

Pray let me know how matters go on with the bank. What is intended? When is the next election of Directors? Can bank stock be sold at any rate & at what rate?

I remain Dr Sir   Yr Obed ser

A Hamilton

October 30. 1786

ALS, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

1. The dividends were from stock owned by John B. Church in the Bank of North America.

Index Entries

    You Are Looking At

    Source Project
    Hamilton Papers
    Title
    From Alexander Hamilton to John Chaloner, [30 October 1786]
    Author
    Hamilton, Alexander
    Recipient
    Chaloner, John
    Date
    30 October 1786

    Reference

    Cite as
    “From Alexander Hamilton to John Chaloner, [30 October 1786],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-03-02-0567. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 3, 1782–1786, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 692–693.]

    More between these correspondents