To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Smith, 31 May 1789
From Robert Smith1
Baltimore, May 31, 1789. Acknowledges receipt of a letter from Hamilton2 enclosing “a Bond from Mrs. Hammond of Baltimore to Thomas & Richard Lee3 of Leeds bearing date the 20th. Sepr. 1788.”
ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
1. Smith was practicing law in Baltimore at the time this letter was written. In 1801, he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by Thomas Jefferson.
2. Letter not found.