Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Elmer, 6 August 1790

From Jonathan Elmer1

New York, August 6, 1790. Recommends appointment of John Conway2 as the captain of a revenue cutter.3

Copy, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Elmer, surrogate of Cumberland County, New Jersey, had been a member of the United States Senate from 1789 to 1791.

2. Conway was a former sheriff in Middlesex County, New Jersey.

3. Similar letters of recommendation of Conway were sent to H on August 16, 1790, by Lambert Cadwalader and Thomas Sinnickson, William Paterson, and James Schureman. All are copies, and all are located in the George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Elmer, 6 August 1790
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    Elmer, Jonathan
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    6 August 1790

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Elmer, 6 August 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0431. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 546.]