1From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 25 January 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, January 25, 1790. “I am favored with your letter of 9th. instant, transmitting the Accounts of the Lighthouse under your Superintendance. As the regulations for this establishment have not yet been determined on by the President I cannot at present do any thing with respect to your compensation on this Account.…” LS , The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
2From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 25 January 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
As it has become my duty to prepare a plan for the consideration of Congress, respecting the encouragement of Manufactures it is of course my wish to ⟨secure in⟩formation, which can be had on the Subject. I shall therefore be obliged to you, for such ⟨– – particular⟩s, as may assist me in forming a right judgement of the means, which may be proper to be pursued. The several kinds of...
3From Alexander Hamilton to the President, Directors, and Company of the Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of … (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, January 25, 1790. Requests information concerning manufacturing in Pennsylvania. Copy, Papers of Tench Coxe in the Coxe Family Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The society to which this letter was addressed was founded in August, 1787. It was an actual manufacturing company as well as a society, and it produced textiles until its building was...