From Alexander Hamilton to the President, Directors, and Company of the Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts, 25 January 1790
To the President, Directors, and Company of the
Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of
Manufactures and the Useful Arts1
Treasury Department, January 25, 1790. Requests information concerning manufacturing in Pennsylvania.
Copy, Papers of Tench Coxe in the Coxe Family Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
1. The society to which this letter was addressed was founded in August, 1787. It was an actual manufacturing company as well as a society, and it produced textiles until its building was destroyed by fire in March, 1790.
This letter, which was one of many which H wrote in an effort to obtain material for his “Report on the Subject of Manufactures,” December 5, 1791, is identical to H to Benjamin Lincoln, January 25, 1790 ( , VI, 207–08).
For a list of letters H received concerning manufacturing in the United States, see “Report on the Subject of Manufactures,” December 5, 1791, note 26 (
, X, 10).