Alexander Hamilton Papers

Meletiah Jordan to Alexander Hamilton, 28 February 1795

From Meletiah Jordan1

Frenchman’s Bay [District of Maine] February 28, 1795. Replies to Hamilton’s letter of January 26, 1795.2

Copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Gloucester, Machias, and Frenchman’s Bay, National Archives.

1. This letter is incorrectly addressed to H as Secretary of the Treasury. He had resigned that position on January 21, 1795, and was succeeded by Oliver Wolcott, Jr. See H to George Washington, January 31, 1795;Washington to H, February 2, 1795, note 1.

2. Letter not found.

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    Meletiah Jordan to Alexander Hamilton, 28 February 1795
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    Jordan, Meletiah
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    28 February 1795

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    “Meletiah Jordan to Alexander Hamilton, 28 February 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-18-02-0179. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 18, January 1795 – July 1795, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973, p. 287.]

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