Lot
2535 
Sailing Embargo of March 1794. Treasury Department circular addressed to the Collector (of taxes) at Bath, Massachusetts and signed by Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of the Treasury 1790 - 1795) announcing an embargo on the sailing of all vessels bound for "foreign port or places, for the term of thirty days"; some faint toning, Very Fine. Estimate $2,000 - 3,000.
At the time of the circular a rebellion was occurring to the payment of Federal import and export taxes imposed by Hamilton. Hamilton himself, who had been Washington?s ADC during the Revolutionary War, led a force to the Pennsylvania ports to put down the rebellion.
Hamilton tried to gain nomination for the Presidency against Thomas Jefferson but failed. In the course of this campaign he made an enemy of the opposition contender, Aaron Burr. This culminated on the 11th July 1804 in a duel between the two in which Hamilton was mortally wounded.
Realized: $4,250