Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Wadsworth, [24 April 1791]

From Jeremiah Wadsworth1

[Hartford, April 24, 1791. In a letter to Wadsworth in April, 1791,2 Hamilton referred to “your letter of the 24th of April 1791.” Letter not found.]

1. After the American Revolution, Wadsworth continued his mercantile pursuits in Hartford, Connecticut. He was elected to Congress in 1787 and 1788, and he was also a member of the state Ratifying Convention in 1788. He was a founder of the Bank of North America in Philadelphia, a director of the Bank of the United States, president of the Bank of New York, and a promoter of the Hartford Woolen Manufactory, established in 1788.

2. Printed in this volume.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Wadsworth, [24 April 1791]
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    Wadsworth, Jeremiah
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    24 April 1791

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Wadsworth, [24 April 1791],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0002-0284. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, 1 May 1802 – 23 October 1804, Additional Documents 1774–1799, Addenda and Errata, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, p. 607.]

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