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HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, Secretary of Treasury. Autograph letter signed ("Alex: Hamilton") to Robert Bayard, New York, 6 March 1784. 2 pages, folio, 318 x 200mm. (12 x 8 in.), integral blank. Fine.
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HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, Secretary of Treasury. Autograph letter signed ("Alex: Hamilton") to Robert Bayard, New York, 6 March 1784. 2 pages, folio, 318 x 200mm. (12 x 8 in.), integral blank. Fine.
A FEDERALIST TRIES TO PREVENT A SEIZURE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY.
A long letter in which attorney Alexander Hamilton seeks to protect property belonging to a client from seizure to the state: "Mrs. Naomi Dunbar widow of Daniel Dunbar has retained me as Council in a suit which she expects will shortly be brought in behalf of the State for a house and lot in this city sold by you to her husband. I am apprehensive the probability is greatly on the side of a decision in favour of the State; and I think her best chance is to cover her claim by a conveyance from W. Cockraft or his representatives on the principle that you were incapable... in your circumstances of acquiring real property in the State at the time of your purchase from W. Cockraft and that therefor nothing passed from him to you. This ground though perhaps not a very solid one will I expect turn out the best upon which we can maintain our possession against the State..."
A FEDERALIST TRIES TO PREVENT A SEIZURE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY.
A long letter in which attorney Alexander Hamilton seeks to protect property belonging to a client from seizure to the state: "Mrs. Naomi Dunbar widow of Daniel Dunbar has retained me as Council in a suit which she expects will shortly be brought in behalf of the State for a house and lot in this city sold by you to her husband. I am apprehensive the probability is greatly on the side of a decision in favour of the State; and I think her best chance is to cover her claim by a conveyance from W. Cockraft or his representatives on the principle that you were incapable... in your circumstances of acquiring real property in the State at the time of your purchase from W. Cockraft and that therefor nothing passed from him to you. This ground though perhaps not a very solid one will I expect turn out the best upon which we can maintain our possession against the State..."