1. Bogert was a New York City lawyer.

2. H made the following entry in his Law Register, 1795–1804:

“Columbian Insur:		Of Counsel with Bogert
Company
Adsm
J Vandenheuvel
Retainer 100”

(D, partially in H’s handwriting, New York Law Institute, New York City). The case of John C. Vandenheuvel v Columbian Insurance Company concerned an insurance policy on a vessel and cargo owned by Vandenheuvel which sank in a storm off the Spanish coast.

This letter is printed in Goebel, Law Practice description begins Julius Goebel, Jr., and Joseph H. Smith, eds., The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary (New York and London, 1964– ). description ends , II, 777–78.