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Letter from William Duer to Alexander HamiltonEntry/Object ID
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Letter from William Duer to Alexander HamiltonSubject
Contagion at Prison, Alexander Hamilton obtained permission for William Duer to reside with his family during the outbreak, permission, contagion, reside with family, sickness, yellow fever, certified copy of engagement, secretary of the treasury, healthSubject Person/Organization
William Duer (1743-1799), Alexander HamiltonSubject Place
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New YorkCollection
Duer Manuscript CollectionTranscription
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New york. 13th. Jany. 1799.
Dear Sir _
As I Owe to your kind Interposition the Permission / I have obtained from the Secretary of the Treasury to reside / with my Family in the Liberties ’till remanded, so I trust / with Confidence that your friendly Exertions will not be / wanting to insure to me a Continuance of this Priviledge._ / Colo. Giles the Marshall has within these few days Expresst / a Doubt to one of my Fellow Prisoners, that this Permission / can only be construed to be in Force during the Sickness; and / under this Impression (though I have had Evidence of his / friendly Disposition to me, and my Family) he may Esteem it / his Duty to interfere in this Business _ I Enclose you a / Certified Copy of the Engagement which has been transmitted / to the Secretary of the Treasury _ And as no Orders for remanding / me have been transmitted I conceive myself Entitled to / the Priviledge of Liberties in the Suit of the United States._ You will oblige me Extremely, in seeing Colo. Giles /
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in order to remove from his Mind the Misapprehension he / Entertains in this Business _ I am now on the Point of / Emerging from this Abyss of Misery; let me Conjure you / to Use your Influence, and kind Offices to prevent my being / replunged into it._ The State of my Health for these / two or three months, has become truly Alarming_ I labor / under a Malady which requires a greater Degree of / Attention than I can obtain, in this Place, and which is daily / Encreasing from the Anxiety of [inserted: my] Mind _ To this are added / Family Considerations of the most Urgent Nature, which render / my Return to my Family Essential to their Preservation from / Misery, and Ruin _ Lady Kitty will do herself the Pleasure / of delivering to you in Person this Letter_ I am Dear Sir with Sentiments / of Esteem, Your Obet. Humble servt. W Duer Major Genl. Hamilton
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