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To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Forrest, John Nicholson, and Others, Public Creditors, 6 May 1791

From Thomas Forrest, John Nicholson, and Others,
Public Creditors1

[Philadelphia, May 6, 1791. In a letter dated May 27, 1791, and addressed to “Thomas Forrest, John Nicholson and others, Public Creditors,” Hamilton wrote: “I have received your letter of the sixth instant.” Letter not found.]

1. Forrest was “a purchaser of certificates and paper money” (Clement Biddle, The Philadelphia Directory [Philadelphia, 1791], 42). Nicholson was comptroller general of Pennsylvania.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Forrest, John Nicholson, and Others, Public Creditors, 6 May 1791
    Authors
    Forrest, Thomas
    Nicholson, John
    Recipient
    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    6 May 1791

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Forrest, John Nicholson, and Others, Public Creditors, 6 May 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-08-02-0283. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 8, February 1791 – July 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, p. 327.]