Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to John Beale Bordley, 23 March 1791

To John Beale Bordley1

Treasury Department, March 23, 1791. “The President having been pleased to appoint you one of the Commissioners2 to receive subscriptions to the Bank of the United States, you will find in this in-closure his commission.…”

LS, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore.

1. Bordley, a lawyer and landholder on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, moved to Philadelphia in 1791.

2. See H to Tobias Lear, March 23, 1791.

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    Hamilton Papers
    Title
    From Alexander Hamilton to John Beale Bordley, 23 March 1791
    Author
    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Bordley, John Beale
    Date
    23 March 1791

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to John Beale Bordley, 23 March 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-08-02-0144. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 8, February 1791 – July 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, p. 210.]

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