From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 26 September 1799

To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

N. York Sept. 26th. 1799

My dear Sir

I have heard of your arrival at Rhode Island.1 On the 2 I wrote you a long letter transmitting all the Instructions which respect the recruiting service &c. Did you receive that letter? Is there any one who would act upon it in your absence? I wish you could make a visit to Trenton convenient. More Organisation is indispensable. Several things of material concern are to be arranged. I shall go there with General Wilkinson as soon as he arrives from Boston whither he lately went.3 Your cooperation would be important. If you come with this view it must be speedy.

affectly. yrs. &c

Df, in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. See Caleb Swan to H, September 17, 1799, note 2; James McHenry to H, September 20, 1799.

2. Space left blank in MS. H is referring to H to Pinckney, August 13, 1799.

3. See H to George Washington, September 23, 1799, note 1.

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Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 26 September 1799
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth
Date: 26 September 1799

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Cite as: “From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 26 September 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-23-02-0435. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 23, April 1799 – October 1799, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976, pp. 473–474.]

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