Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Ezra L’Hommedieu, [9 April 1799]

From Ezra L’Hommedieu1

[April 9, 1799. “… I consent that you receive the four thousand Dollars which have been deposited on account of this note without prejudice to your recourse against me as Indorser.”2 Letter not found.]

The Collector: A Magazine for Autograph and Historical Collectors, LXXII, No. 6 (1959), 128, Item i 299.

1. L’Hommedieu represented New York in the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1782 and in 1788. He was a member of the New York Assembly from Suffolk County from 1777 to 1783, clerk of Suffolk County from 1784 to 1810, and a member of the state Senate from 1784 to 1792 and from 1794 to 1809.

For background to this letter, see H to L’Hommedieu, April 4, 1799 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , XXIII, 8–10).

2. Text taken from extract in dealer’s catalogue.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Ezra L’Hommedieu, [9 April 1799]
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    L’Hommedieu, Ezra
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    9 April 1799

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Ezra L’Hommedieu, [9 April 1799],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0002-0472. [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, pp. 766–767.]

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