Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 21

From Thomas Welsh

To Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton to John Adams, 2 April 1794 Hamilton, Alexander Adams, John
From Alexander Hamilton
Philadelphia April 2d. 1794.

[. . . .] the Vice President—sends him a memoir which is the work of a Mr. La Rocque a French Gentleman who is said to be charged with exploring the ground for extensive speculations in our vacant lands &c and which the Author is desirous of having placed under 271 the eye of the Senate— How this can be done the Vice President can best judge or whether at all.1

RC and enclosure (DNA:RG 46, Records of the U.S. Senate); docketed: “Legis: 1st: Sess: 3d: Cong: / Communication / to the Vice President / from the Secy of the / Treasury relative to a / work of Mr. La Rocque / April 2d: / 1794.” Some loss of text due to a torn manuscript.

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Hamilton enclosed André Jean La Rocque’s unpublished essay “Mémoire sur la situation politique des Etats Unis, relativement à leur dette publique et leur agriculture.”