Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Andrew Dunscomb, 16 July 1794

From Andrew Dunscomb1

Richmond, July 16, 1794. “I must rely on your goodness for a pardon in again writing you on the subject of my Petitions to Congress,2 and urge my situation as a cause of anxiety for a decision.… I cannot but repeat a request, that if any appointment for which I am calculated should offer, either here or elsewhere—that you would give me your assistance, if proper.…”

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1See Dunscomb to H, January 26, April 7, 1794.

2This petition was finally rejected by the House of Representatives on February 9, 1797 (Journal of the House description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Washington, 1826), I, II. description ends , II, 687).

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