Letter

Alexander Hamilton to City of New York in Common Council, March 21, 1787

New York, March 21, 1787. Hamilton and several other residents of Wall Street on this date petitioned the New York City Common Council to raise “the Pavements of the said Street in the middle thereof, so as to throw the Water on each side of the Street.”

Sources
Founders Online u2014 Papers of Alexander Hamilton View original source ↗