To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 8 April 1794

From Tench Coxe

Treasury Department, Revenue Office, April 8, 1794. “I have the honor to request of you a warrant for nine hundred Dollars intended to make a payment to the undertaker of the Iron work of the two Lighthouse Lanterns at Bald Head & Savannah.”1

LC, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters, Vol. I, National Archives.

1. The “undertaker” was Samuel Wheeler of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (D, RG 26, Lighthouse Deeds and Contracts, National Archives). See H to George Washington, April 25, 1793; Tobias Lear to H, April 27, 1793; Coxe to H, January 1, 1794.

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Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 8 April 1794
Author: Coxe, Tench
Recipient: Hamilton, Alexander
Date: 8 April 1794

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Cite as: “To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 8 April 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-16-02-0191. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 16, February 1794 – July 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 246.]

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