1From Alexander Hamilton to John Beale Bordley, 23 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, March 23, 1791. “The President having been pleased to appoint you one of the Commissioners to receive subscriptions to the Bank of the United States, you will find in this in-closure his commission.…” LS , Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore. Bordley, a lawyer and landholder on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, moved to Philadelphia in 1791. See H to Tobias Lear, March 23,...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 23 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I find it necessary to request of you the Commissions of the several gentlemen, whom the President was pleased to appoint as Commissioners to receive subscriptions to the Bank of the United States. The persons appointed are Thomas Willing } of Pennsylvania David Rittenhouse Saml. Howell John Beale Bordley of Maryland and Lambert Cadwalader of New Jersey. You will oblige me by procuring the...