Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, [16 April 1781]

To Jeremiah Wadsworth

[New Windsor, New York, April 16, 1781]

Dr Sir,

As I intend in a day or two to take lodgings for Mrs. Hamilton, I take the liberty to request you will do me the favour to procure and send me by the earliest opportunity a pound of good green tea & a dozen knives and forks such as you purchased for Mrs. Jacob Cuyler1 at Albany, for which I will thankfully send you the cost by the first conveyance.

I am Dr. Sir truly   Yr. friend & servant

A Hamilton

The expresses may take charge of them.

Hd. Qrs. April 16th.

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Jacob Cuyler was an Albany merchant and a business associate of Philip Schuyler. From 1777 to 1782, he was deputy commissary general of purchases.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, [16 April 1781]
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Wadsworth, Jeremiah
    Date
    16 April 1781

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, [16 April 1781],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-1145. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 2, 1779–1781, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, p. 593.]

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