Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 29 September 1792

To Benjamin Lincoln

Treasury Department, September 29, 1792. “I have duly received your letter of the 14th Instant, purporting a request from Mr Thomas …: however grateful it might be to me, to promote the plan undertaken by Mr Thomas, I cannot dispense with the law to do it.”

LS, RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury, 1789–1807, Vol. 4, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Boston, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 29 September 1792
    Author
    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Lincoln, Benjamin
    Date
    29 September 1792

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 29 September 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-12-02-0350. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 12, July 1792 – October 1792, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967, pp. 506–507.]

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