Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 22 September 1789

From Joseph Whipple1

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, September 22, 1789. Encloses report2 on customs duties. Promises to transmit quarterly statements of tonnage and impost duties.

Copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at Portsmouth, National Archives.

1. Whipple was collector of the state impost from 1785 to 1789, and United States collector of customs at Portsmouth from 1789 to 1798.

2. H had requested this report in “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” September 14, 1789.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 22 September 1789
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    Whipple, Joseph
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    22 September 1789

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 22 September 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-05-02-0167. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 5, June 1788 – November 1789, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 395.]

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