Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Keais, 29 August 1791

From Nathan Keais1

Washington [North Carolina] August 29, 1791. “Inclosed is a Copy of John Braggs & Stephen Tinkers Bond, taken in Consequence of a Contract for Staking out the Channel of news River2 leading to New Bern. I have also Contracted with John Payne for Staking out the Channel leading to Edenton for Fifty dollars.…”

ALS, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “A,” Pennsylvania and Southern States, National Archives.

1. Keais was collector of customs at Washington, North Carolina.

2. Neuse River.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Keais, 29 August 1791
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    Keais, Nathan
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    29 August 1791

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Keais, 29 August 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-09-02-0101. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 9, August 1791 – December 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, pp. 121–122.]

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