Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Effingham Lawrence, 1 March 1798

From Effingham Lawrence1

Flushing, New York, March 1, 1798. Seeks to retain Hamilton as his attorney in a case involving patent rights for a brickmaking machine.

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Lawrence, a veteran of the American Revolution, “commenced buisness in 1781 at No. 199 Pearl street, one door below Maiden lane, and retired from business in 1794 with an ample competency, purchasing … [an] elegant country residence … fronting the water, in the town of Flushing, to which place he removed the same year, and died in 1800” (Walter Barrett [pseud. for Joseph A. Scoville], The Old Merchants of New York City [New York, 1885], V, 98).

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Effingham Lawrence, 1 March 1798
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    Lawrence, Effingham
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    1 March 1798

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Effingham Lawrence, 1 March 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-21-02-0214. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 21, April 1797 – July 1798, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974, p. 361.]