Samuel Harrison Smith to Alexander J. Dallas, 13 February 1816
Samuel Harrison Smith to Alexander J. Dallas
Treasury Department, Revenue Office,
February 13. 1816.
Sir,
Abner Lowell, Keeper of the Plumb-Island Light House, having died, Lewis Lowell appears, from the enclosed letter,1 to be properly qualified as his successor. I am, very respectfully,
Sam Smith
Commissioner of the Revenue
RC (DNA: RG 26, Light House Service Correspondence). In a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith. On verso is Dallas’s docket: “Respectfully submitted to The President. A. J. Dallas, 16 Feb. 1816.” and JM’s note: “The appt. of Lewis Lowel is approved J.M.”
1. Enclosure not found.