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HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, Secretary of the Treasury. Autograph letter signed ("AHamilton") as a New York delegate to the Continental Congress, to Colonel John Fitzgerald, Philadelphia, 10 June 1783. 1 page, folio, 325 x 200mm. (12 3/4 x 8 in.), evenly browned, small seal hole, a few stains. [With:] Autograph free frank ("Free A Hamilton") on address panel, on verso.
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HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, Secretary of the Treasury. Autograph letter signed ("AHamilton") as a New York delegate to the Continental Congress, to Colonel John Fitzgerald, Philadelphia, 10 June 1783. 1 page, folio, 325 x 200mm. (12 3/4 x 8 in.), evenly browned, small seal hole, a few stains. [With:] Autograph free frank ("Free A Hamilton") on address panel, on verso.
"NO DEFINITIVE TREATY YET... I WRITE IN CONGRESS"
Delagate Alexander Hamilton waits for the Treaty of Paris to arrive. "The enclosed letter is for Mr. Bowman who married Mrs. Cattle. I am told he is at Alexandria which makes me trouble you with the letter. Should he have left that place for South Carolina, I will thank you to forward it to him. No definitive treaty yet arrived nor any thing else of importance new. I write in Congress..." A cessation of hostilities had been proclaimed by the British in February and by Congress in April. The provisional peace treaty, negotiated in Paris, was ratified by Congress on April 15, but a long delay ensued before the signing of the final treaty in Paris on 3 September 1783.
"NO DEFINITIVE TREATY YET... I WRITE IN CONGRESS"
Delagate Alexander Hamilton waits for the Treaty of Paris to arrive. "The enclosed letter is for Mr. Bowman who married Mrs. Cattle. I am told he is at Alexandria which makes me trouble you with the letter. Should he have left that place for South Carolina, I will thank you to forward it to him. No definitive treaty yet arrived nor any thing else of importance new. I write in Congress..." A cessation of hostilities had been proclaimed by the British in February and by Congress in April. The provisional peace treaty, negotiated in Paris, was ratified by Congress on April 15, but a long delay ensued before the signing of the final treaty in Paris on 3 September 1783.
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