Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, [22 February 1783]
To Samuel Hodgdon1
[Philadelphia, February 22, 1783]
Sir
The bearer Abby Mot2 is a soldiers widow in great distress who wants to go to her friends in the Jerseys but has not the means. If you could find her a place in some public waggon going that way, you would do an act of charity. I am Sir Yr. Obed ser.
ALS, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, New York.
1. Hodgdon was commissary general of military stores.
2. In 1789 H paid Abby Mott’s funeral expenses. See “Receipt from John Murray,” August 15, 1789.
3. This date could possibly read February 22, 1782.