Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Paul Bascom, 8 February 1787

From Paul Bascom1

Turks-Island,2 February 8, 1787. “I wrote you in July last3 … respecting the Business of Mrs. Place’s Children, with the Estates of Paul & Stephen Richards at New-York.”

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Presumably Paul Bascom of Bermuda who had been a searcher of the customs there.

2. Turks-Island is located in the British West Indies.

3. Letter not found.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Paul Bascom, 8 February 1787
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    Bascom, Paul
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    8 February 1787

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Paul Bascom, 8 February 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-04-02-0018. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 4, January 1787 – May 1788, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 38.]