From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 18 November 1791
To Tobias Lear
[Philadelphia] November 18, 1791. “The President has directed that a commission be made out for Mr Morris,1 now second mate—as first Mate of the N Y Cutter.…”
LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
“From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 18 November 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-09-02-0367. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 9, August 1791 – December 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, p. 509.]
