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Report of a Committee of the Trustees of Columbia College, 13 March 1788

Report of a
Committee of the Trustees of Columbia College

New York, March 13, 1788. On this date Hamilton and Morgan Lewis,1 members of a committee to whom was referred an “Application of Messrs. Van Zandt and Kettlelas,”2 reported that the two men had offered to pay in 1776 the full amount of principal and interest due on their bond to the college in continental currency and that the treasurer of the college had refused the payment.

D, signed by H and Morgan Lewis, Columbia University Libraries.

1. Lewis was a New York lawyer.

2. Winant (Wynant) Van Zandt and Peter Keteltas, prominent New York merchants.

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    Report of a Committee of the Trustees of Columbia College, 13 March 1788
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    “Report of a Committee of the Trustees of Columbia College, 13 March 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-04-02-0219. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 4, January 1787 – May 1788, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 590.]