Alexander Hamilton Papers

Tax Assessment, 1789

Tax Assessment1

New York, 1789. Hamilton’s house at 58 Wall Street was assessed at £1,200 and his personal property at £750.2

Tax Assessment Record for New York City (Manhattan), Municipal Reference Library, New York City.

1. For background to this document, see “Conveyance from James Barclay and Others,” September 17, 1785 (printed in this volume).

2. New York currency.

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    “Tax Assessment, 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0002-0165. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, 1 May 1802 – 23 October 1804, Additional Documents 1774–1799, Addenda and Errata, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, p. 502.]