Alexander Hamilton Papers
Documents filtered by: Period="Confederation Period" AND Project="Hamilton Papers"
sorted by: editorial placement
Permanent link for this document:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-03-02-0453

To Alexander Hamilton from Walter Livingston, 3 September 1785

From Walter Livingston1

New York, September 3, 1785. “… the House of De Lande and Fynje of Amsterdam have stopt Payment with a Considerable Sum in their hands belonging to the United States. I shall be glad of Your Opinion as Counsel what legal measures I can pursue for securing any Property belonging to that House, which may be in the Hands of Persons in this State.”

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Livingston was a member of the Board of Treasury.

Index Entries

    You Are Looking At

    Source Project
    Hamilton Papers
    Title
    To Alexander Hamilton from Walter Livingston, 3 September 1785
    Author
    Livingston, Walter
    Recipient
    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    3 September 1785

    Reference

    Cite as
    “To Alexander Hamilton from Walter Livingston, 3 September 1785,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-03-02-0453. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 3, 1782–1786, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 622.]

    More between these correspondents