Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Wadsworth, 15 August 1794

From Jeremiah Wadsworth1

Hartford, August 15, 1794. “I have taken a mortgage of Col Timothy Seymour as I proposed2 dated this day for the better security of his debt due Wadsworth & Church3 of a good tract of Land in this Town of One & twenty acres more or less fully sufficient I believe to keep our debt which is … £800 0 0 Lawfull Money.”

ALS, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.

1. Wadsworth, a resident of Hartford, was a member of the House of Representatives from Connecticut from 1789 to 1795.

2. See Wadsworth to H, April 25, 1794; H to Wadsworth, June 4, 1794.

3. John B. Church had been Wadsworth’s partner during the American Revolution and was married to Angelica Schuyler, H’s sister-in-law. H managed Church’s business affairs in the United States.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Wadsworth, 15 August 1794
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    Wadsworth, Jeremiah
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    15 August 1794

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Wadsworth, 15 August 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-17-02-0059. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 17, August 1794 – December 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 95.]

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