Pittsburgh is the Most Eligible Summer Post
Document 1799Hamtramck explains why he has selected Pittsburgh instead of Detroit to be his post during the summer months.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Hamtramck explains why he has selected Pittsburgh instead of Detroit to be his post during the summer months.
Date
07/17/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Detroit
Collection
Document number
1799071760100
Note
Marked "Duplicate."
Notable persons
Alexander Hamilton
John F. Hamtramck
Notable locations
Detroit [Territory Northwest of the River Ohio]
Fort Wayne
Notable items
not finding an opportunity of sailing immediately for Michilmacinac
uncertainty of returning in time to execute any command you might charge me with
after examining the state of this garrison [Detroit], to repair to Pittsburgh
its proximity to New York and the posts on the Lakes
facility of communicating with those on the Mississippi and others
renders that post [Pittsburgh] the most eligible for me to be stationary at during the summer