From Alexander Hamilton to John B. Graves, 9 June 1803
To John B. Graves1
New York, June 9, 1803. Gives his opinion concerning Graves’s legal questions and states: “Having myself lands in the vicinity of those of Mr. Scriba,2 I have occasionally received some information concerning the latter.… Some of my lands are now selling to settlers at the rate of three Dollars per acre.”3
ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
1. This letter was written in reply to Graves to H, May 31, 1803.
2. See Jacob Mark and Company to John B. Church, H, and John Laurance, May 30, 1797, note 2; “Mortgage by Laurance, Church, and H to Robert Gilchrist,” August 21, 1802, note 1.
3. For the sale of H’s lands, see H to John V. Henry, March 20, 1803.