Alexander Hamilton to the New York Committee of Correspondence, 12 April 1777

To the New York Committee of Correspondence

Morris Town [New Jersey] April 12th, 1777.

Gentlemen

His Excellency requests that you will transmit the enclosed letter to General Wayne,1 by the first safe opportunity.

I am, gentlemen, Yr. most humble serv.

A. HAMILTON

Honourable the Committee of Correspondence of the Convention of New-York.

Journals of the Provincial Congress of the State of New-York description begins Journals of the Provincial Congress, Provincial Convention, Committee of Safety and Council of Safety of the State of New-York. 1775–1776–1777 (Albany, 1842). description ends , II, 431.

1. George Washington to Anthony Wayne, April 12, 1777. A draft of this letter is in the George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

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Title: Alexander Hamilton to the New York Committee of Correspondence, 12 April 1777
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: New York Committee of Correspondence
Date: 12 April 1777

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Cite as: “Alexander Hamilton to the New York Committee of Correspondence, 12 April 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-01-02-0130. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 1, 1768–1778, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, p. 229.]

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