Nominations for Appointments as Cadets

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Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Description

"As by your favor of the 19th ultimo I am requested to select and nominate two persons whom I should prefer to be appointed cadets. I now do myself the honor of soliciting that appointment for Mr. Edward Le Britton Wilson whom I have named before and Mr. Joseph Stickney--a very genteel young man of the town of Worcester in the commonwealth--as the two whom I prefer."

Date

10/26/1799

Sent from

Oxford [Massachusetts]

Document number

1799102660100

Note

Cited in Hamilton to Rice, 11/11/1799.

Notable persons

Alexander Hamilton
Nathan Rice
Edward Le Britton Wilson
Joseph Stickney

Notable locations

Oxford, Massachusetts
Worcester, Massachusetts