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[Elegy on the Death of the Honorable Samuel Hardy, Esq.], [20 October 1785]

[Elegy on the Death of the Honorable
Samuel Hardy, Esq.]1

[New York, October 20, 1785]

The New-York Journal, or Weekly Register, October 20, 1785.

1. For a discussion of H’s possible authorship of this poem, see Burnett, Letters description begins Edmund C. Burnett, ed., Letters of Members of the Continental Congress (Washington, 1921–1938). description ends , VIII, 239. According to a correspondent of Burnett, tradition ascribes the poem to H. There is no other evidence that he wrote it.

Samuel Hardy was a former member of Congress from Virginia.

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    “[Elegy on the Death of the Honorable Samuel Hardy, Esq.], [20 October 1785],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-03-02-0460. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 3, 1782–1786, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 624.]