Alexander Hamilton Papers

Contract with Thomas Marshall, 17 August 1791

Contract with Thomas Marshall1

[Philadelphia, August 17, 1791. The minutes of the proceedings of the directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures for December 9, 1791, read: “The Governor laid before the Board a Letter from Collo Alexander Hamilton,2 enclosing an Agreement entered into by the said Colo Hamilton in behalf of the Society… and Thomas Marshal dated 17th. August 1791.” Contract not found.]

“Minutes of the S.U.M.,” description begins MS minutes of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, City of Paterson, New Jersey, Plant Management Commission, Successors to the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. description ends 3.

1. Marshall was appointed superintendent of the proposed cotton mill to be erected by the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.

2. H to the Directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, December 7, 1791.

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    Contract with Thomas Marshall, 17 August 1791
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    Marshall, Thomas
    Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures
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    17 August 1791

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    “Contract with Thomas Marshall, 17 August 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-09-02-0054. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 9, August 1791 – December 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, pp. 73–74.]