From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Van Vechten, 22 October 1795
To Abraham Van Vechten1
New York, October 22, 1795. “In a letter by the last Post2 I mentioned that I should take the liberty to send you the papers for levying a fine3 Leonard Ganseevort against Gerrit Boon.4 They are now herewith sent….”
AL, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
1. Van Vechten was an Albany lawyer.
2. Letter not found.
3. See Sections I, III, and V of “An Act concerning Fines and Recoveries of Lands and Tenements” (New York Laws, 10th Sess., Ch. XLIII [February 26, 1787]).