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To Alexander Hamilton from Gaspard Joseph Amand Ducher, 26 October 1787

From Gaspard Joseph Amand Ducher1

Wilmington, 26. 8bre. 1787
Caroline du Nord

Monsieur

je suis arrivé ici apres bien des fatigues et des dangers; je me Repose et j’en ai grand Besoin.

Rappelles vous, je vous prie, que vous m’aves promis Deux pièces Relatives à La nouvelle constitution; je les attends avec Le plus grand empressement et je vous scaurai gré de me faire passer tous les pamphlets qui seront imprimés sur ce sujet.

mes Respects je vous prie à Madame hamilton.

jai l’honneur d’etre avec un Respectueux attachement   Monsieur Votre tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteur

Ducher

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1Ducher had come to America from France in 1784. In a letter to George Washington of September 14, 1784, Lafayette had written that Ducher “came with a good sum of monney which he intended to settle with in America—But the greatest part, having been lost in a shipwrek he still more stands in need of advice and patronage” (Gottschalk, The Letters of Lafayette to Washington, 285). Ducher was later appointed to the French consular service in the United States and in 1787 was stationed at Wilmington, North Carolina.

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