To Alexander Hamilton from Isaac Parker, [31 August 1797]
From Isaac Parker1
[Castine, District of Maine, August 31, 1797]
Honble Alexander Hamilton Esqr.
Please to deliver Doctor Oliver Mann or his order two notes of Hand lodged with you by John Lowell Jr. Esq for collection, signed by Edward & Elias Parker for $750 each—in which notes my name is mentioned.2
Isaac Parker
Castine 31. August 1797.
ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
1. For background to this letter, see John Lowell, Jr., to H, December 19, 1795; H to Oliver Mann and Parker, June 28, 1797.
2. The following receipt in Mann’s handwriting is at the bottom of this letter: “Recd the abovementioned notes of Col Hamilton.
September 27th 1797
Oliver Mann.”