Thomas Law (1759-1834) was in the service of the East India Company from 1773 to 1791, his most important position being district collector for Bihar, and was the author of at least two pamphlets about the governance of Bengal. In the United States he became an investor in the Federal District, and in 1796 he married Martha Washington’s granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis (the marriage ended in divorce in 1811). He later wrote pamphlets advocating a single national currency.