Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 22 November 1792

From Jeremiah Olney

Providence, November 22, 1792. Introduces “the bearer, Mr. Geo. Benson,1 of the first mercantile House in this Town, under the firm of Brown, Benson & Ives.”

ADfS, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.

1. Benson had been elected a director of the Providence Bank on October 1, 1792, to replace Nicholas Brown who had resigned ([Philadelphia] Gazette of the United States, October 17, 1792).

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 22 November 1792
    Author
    Olney, Jeremiah
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    22 November 1792

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 22 November 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-13-02-0085. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 13, November 1792 – February 1793, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967, p. 215.]

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