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To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 20 June 1792

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Treasury Department, Revenue Office, June 20, 1792. Transmits “for the purpose of submission to the President a contract entered into between the Superintendent of the Delaware light House, piers &c. and Thomas Davis and Thomas Connaroe junior,1 for the replacing of one of the piers which formed the harbour near Mud Island, which pier was carried away by the Ice at the Breaking up of the River Delaware in the last Spring.”2 Reports on reasons for high cost of repairing pier.

LC, RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives.

1. A copy of this contract may be found in RG 26, Lighthouse Deeds and Contracts, National Archives.

2. See William Allibone to H, March 13, 16, 1792.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 20 June 1792
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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 20 June 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-11-02-0440. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 11, February 1792 – June 1792, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966, p. 531.]

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