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To Alexander Hamilton from William Bingham, [5 October 1791]

From William Bingham

[Philadelphia, October 5, 1791]

Dr sir,

I herewith return you the Subscription Book of the Manufacturing society,1 & must apologize (from hurry of Business) for having detained it So long.

I approve exceedingly of the Plan, both as indicative of public Spirit, & as affording a well grounded hope of private Emolument. I will therefore give it every support in my power, & influenced by these Considerations, do Subscribe 5000 Dollars.2

I am with regard & Consideration   Yours Sincerely

Wm Bingham

Philada.
Octr 5th 1791

Honble Col Hamilton

ALS, letterpress copy, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

1. The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.

2. This sum bought fifty shares of stock in the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from William Bingham, [5 October 1791]
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    Bingham, William
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    5 October 1791

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from William Bingham, [5 October 1791],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-09-02-0235. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 9, August 1791 – December 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, pp. 285–286.]

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