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To Alexander Hamilton from Nicholas Cruger, 3 October 1789

From Nicholas Cruger1

[New York] October 3, 1789. “Most sincerely do I Congratulate you on your Late appointment. I had Promis’d Mr. Harrison2 my Law business when ever you Declin’d it. I must therefore begg you will send me … [various] Papers [in your possession] which I mean to Put into his hands.…”

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Cruger was a member of a prominent merchant family of New York City and St. Croix. H had been a clerk in the Cruger business firm on St. Croix before coming to New York City in 1772.

2. Richard Harison.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Nicholas Cruger, 3 October 1789
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    Cruger, Nicholas
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    3 October 1789

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Nicholas Cruger, 3 October 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-05-02-0194. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 5, June 1788 – November 1789, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 421.]

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