Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Matthews, 20 January 1795

From Thomas Matthews

[Norfolk, Virginia, January 20, 1795. On February 16, 1795, Edmund Randolph wrote to Oliver Wolcott, Jr.: “Let me beg the favor of you to take some immediate and definitive arrangements respecting the pilot-boat, upon which your Predecessor wrote to General Matthews on the 5th. Ultimo, and General Matthews replied to him on the 20th. of the same month.”1 Letter not found.]2

1. LC, RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 8, December 6, 1794–October 12, 1795, National Archives.

2. For background to this letter, see the second letter which Randolph wrote to H on January 3, 1795, and H to Randolph, January 5, 1795.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Matthews, 20 January 1795
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    Matthews, Thomas
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    20 January 1795

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Matthews, 20 January 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-18-02-0065. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 18, January 1795 – July 1795, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973, pp. 157–158.]

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