Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to William R. Putnam, [19 September 1803]

To William R. Putnam

[New York, September 19, 1803]

Dr. Sir

I have to thank you for your letter of the 1st of August1 stating the amount of taxes on my lands2 payable the present year being Dollars 21 & 97 Cents.

Inclosed you will find thirty Dollars to enable you to pay them.3

You will oblige me by a line informing me of the Receipt of this letter.

With great esteem & regard   Yr Obed ser

A Hamilton

Wm. R Putnam Esq

ALS, Dawes Memorial Library, Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio.

1. Letter not found.

2. See H to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., October 3, 1802.

3. An entry in H’s Cash Book, 1795–1804, in his account of receipts and expenditures under the date of September 19, 1803, reads: “(Lands Tax) 30” (AD, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).

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    From Alexander Hamilton to William R. Putnam, [19 September 1803]
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Putnam, William R.
    Date
    19 September 1803

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to William R. Putnam, [19 September 1803],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0001-0115. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, 1 May 1802 – 23 October 1804, Additional Documents 1774–1799, Addenda and Errata, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, pp. 149–150.]

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