1To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Newton, Junior, 7 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Norfolk [ Virginia ] August 7, 1790. Forwards the plan of the Cape Henry lighthouse site. Assumes that Hamilton has received Virginia’s act of cession. ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “A,” Pennsylvania and Southern States, National Archives.
2To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Newton, Junior, 8 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Norfolk [ Virginia ] July 8, 1791. “A long absence from home has been the cause of your letter of the 8th Ulto not being answered sooner. The business shall be attended to as you requested.… The business has not been in the least retarded, Mr McComb is ingaged in getting up the stone formerly lodged there, for the same purpose, to make the foundation with.…” ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters...
3To George Washington from Thomas Newton, 3 June 1794 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Thomas Newton, Jr., 3 June 1794. On 11 June, GW "Put into the hands of the Secry. of State a letter from Thos. Newton Junr. dated Norfolk June 3d. 1794. on the subject of the application of a sum raised by subscription in that place for the relief of Amr. Captives in Algiers" ( JPP Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797 ....