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Certificate of Clerkship for Joseph Strong, [20 January 1789]

Certificate of Clerkship for Joseph Strong

[New York, January 20, 1789]

I certify that Joseph Strong has served a clerkship of three years in my office in the business of an Attorney and that he is of good moral character.1

Alexander Hamilton

New York January 20th 1789

ADS, Pleadings, 1754–1837, S-486, Hall of Records, New York City.

1. Following his clerkship, Strong practiced law first in Cooperstown, New York, and then in Albany. See Strong to H, August 11, 1796 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , III, 303–04).

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    “Certificate of Clerkship for Joseph Strong, [20 January 1789],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0002-0141. [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. 478.]

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