Sold – Just One Week After Signing the Constitution at Independence Hall,

Hamilton was aide-de-camp and confidant to General George Washington during the Revolution, and led three battalions at the Siege of Yorktown. He was elected to the Continental Congress, but resigned to practice law and to found the Bank of New York. He served in the New York Legislature and was the only New Yorker who signed the U.S. Constitution, doing so on September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia. Hamilton then returned to New York and took a highly active part in the successful campaign for ratification there in 1788, which was a crucial step in its national ratification. He also recruited John Jay and James Madison to write a defense of the proposed Constitution, now known as the Federalist Papers, and made the largest contribution to that effort, writing 51 of 85 essays published.     

Hamilton’s wife was Elizabeth Schuyler, daughter of General Philip Schuyler, and thus he joined one of the most prominent political families in the state of New York. In the period prior to his accession as the first Secretary of the Treasury, he assisted the General with his legal and business affairs.   

Autograph Document Signed, September 26, 1787.

Received of Balthazer DeHaert twenty seven pounds on account for General Schuyler.

His signature has a large, fine paraph. DeHaert was scion of a noted New York mercantile family of Dutch descent.