To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 3 May 1793
From Tobias Lear
[Philadelphia] May 3, 1793. Returns “the letters from our Bankers at Amsterdam which were laid before the President yesterday.” States “that the President approves of the appointment of Laban Goffigan to be Keeper of the Light House on Cape Henry.”1
ALS, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, “Segregated” Lighthouse Records, Cape Henry, National Archives.
1. See H to Washington, second and third letters of May 2, 1793. This letter was endorsed by H “For the Commissioner of The Revenue.”