From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Yates, Junior, 12 June 1795

To Abraham Yates, Junior1

New York, June 12, 1795. Gives legal opinion on the “advantages of Anchorage and Wharfage in the Port & Harbour of Albany.”2

ALS, in extra-illustrated edition of Washington Irving’s Life of George Washington [New York, 1857], II, 2; copy, “Minutes of the Albany Common Council,” from the original in the New York State Library, Albany.

1. This letter is addressed to the mayor, recorder, and aldermen of Albany. Yates was at this time mayor of Albany.

2. An entry for June 12, 1795, in H’s Cash Book, 1795–1804, reads: “Corporation of Albany Dr for opinion concerning the bounds of a piece of land called the Pasture as connected with a right of Wharfage” (AD, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; also in Goebel, Law Practice description begins Julius Goebel, Jr., ed., The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary (New York and London, 1964– ) description ends , forthcoming volumes).

For additional information on H’s opinion, see the forthcoming Goebel, Law Practice description begins Julius Goebel, Jr., ed., The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary (New York and London, 1964– ) description ends , III.

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Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Yates, Junior, 12 June 1795
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Yates, Abraham, Jr.
Date: 12 June 1795

Reference

Cite as: “From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Yates, Junior, 12 June 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-18-02-0254. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 18, January 1795 – July 1795, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973, p. 373.]

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