To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 22 December 1792
From Tobias Lear1
[Philadelphia] December 22, 1792. “… T. Lear has the honor to inform the Secretary of the Treasury that the President has appointed Lemuel Cornick to be keeper of the Light House on Cape Henry in Virginia.”
ALS, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, “Segregated” Lighthouse Records, National Archives; LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
1. See Tench Coxe to H, November 28, December 8, 1792; Lear to H, October 13, 1792; H to Lear, October 18, 1792.