Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 28 February 1791

Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton

28th Feby 1791

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The President has commanded me to transmit the enclosed to you from Mr Thatcher and request that you will give it the consideration it may merit—The President also requests that you will take occasion to converse with some others of the gentlemen from Massachusetts on this subject—and to mention it likewise to some from New Hampshire.1 I have the honor to be very respectfully & sincerely Your Most Obedt Servant

Tobias Lear

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1. The enclosed letter from George Thatcher, a member of the House of Representatives from the District of Maine, has not been identified.

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 28 February 1791
Author: Lear, Tobias
Recipient: Hamilton, Alexander
Date: 28 February 1791

Reference

Cite as: “Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 28 February 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-07-02-0263. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 7, 1 December 1790 – 21 March 1791, ed. Jack D. Warren, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 467.]

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