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From Alexander Hamilton to Peter Van Schaack, [October 1787]

To Peter Van Schaack1

[New York, October, 1787. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found.]

1. ALS, sold by Robert K. Black, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, 1949, Catalogue 13, Item 182.

Van Schaack was banished to England in 1778 because of his Loyalist sympathies. The New York legislature restored his citizenship in 1784, and he returned to New York in 1785.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Peter Van Schaack, [October 1787]
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Van Schaack, Peter
    Date
    October 1787

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Peter Van Schaack, [October 1787],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0002-0130. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, 1 May 1802 – 23 October 1804, Additional Documents 1774–1799, Addenda and Errata, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, p. 472.]