Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Howe, 8 December 1785

From Robert Howe1

December 8, 1785. “Mr. & Mrs. Wilson … are in very embarassed Circumstances. As I know you have the direction of Baron Polnitz’s2 House now Empty, if you could acommodate them with a few Rooms thro’ the winter it would be of espestial service to them.”

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Howe, who had been a major general during the Revolutionary War, resigned in 1783 and returned to his plantation in North Carolina.

2. Friedrich, Baron von Poellnitz, operated an experimental farm outside New York City. H managed both his business and personal affairs.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Howe, 8 December 1785
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    Howe, Robert
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    8 December 1785

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Howe, 8 December 1785,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-03-02-0478. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 3, 1782–1786, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 638.]