Collection search - Alexander Hamilton and family fonds [textual record]

The report by Robert Laidlaw on the Hamilton papers, published in the REPORT of the Public Archives for 1910 (pages 91-94) no longer serves as a description for reference purposes.
The main body of Hamilton papers was acquired between 1953 and 1957. The 1837 Rebellion correspondence (volume 65) was presented in 1910 by the Misses Durand of Queenston, copies of letters (volume 67) were presented in 1927 by Augusta Hamilton, land grants in Blenheim Township were presented in 1963 by the Liberation Society of London, and a letter from Robert Gourlay was presented in 1988 by Harold Usher of St. Davids.

The papers are arranged in series by type of record, and then either chronologically or alphabetically by correspondent; many of the business papers are only roughly organized within the series. A distinction between family and business correspondence is difficult to make and some overlapping occurs between series.