To Alexander Hamilton from Jacob Cuyler, 1 June 1795
From Jacob Cuyler1
Albany, June 1, 1795. Asks Hamilton to serve as attorney with Richard Harison in a “Suit depending to the Claim of certain lands in Hosack Patent.”2
ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
1. Cuyler was an Albany merchant.
2. Although H had served as Cuyler’s attorney in this case in 1788 and 1789 (Miscellaneous Chancery Papers, Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Albany, on deposit at Queens College, New York City), he evidently did not act as Cuyler’s counsel at this time, for Harison was Cuyler’s only attorney when the case of Jacob Cuyler and others v Daniel Brandt and others was decided in the New York Court of Chancery on May 9, 1797 (Miscellaneous Chancery Papers, Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Albany, on deposit at Queens College, New York City).