From Alexander Hamilton to Timothy Pickering, 2 January 1795
To Timothy Pickering1
Treasury Department, January 2, 1795. This letter is essentially the same as that which Hamilton wrote to Edmund Randolph on the same date.2
Copy, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
1. On January 2, 1795, Pickering succeeded Henry Knox as Secretary of War ( , 168–69).
2. For the differences between the two letters, see the footnotes in H to Randolph, January 2, 1795.