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From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 18 November 1791

To Benjamin Lincoln

Treasury Department
November 18 1791

Sir

Inclosed is an application which has been made to the President.

I request your opinion, as to the competency of the present allowance, or as to what would be a competent one, if you think the present deficient.1 When you communicate it, you will please to send back the representation now transmitted.

I am, with great consideration, Sir,   Your Obed Servant.

Alex Hamilton

Benjamin Lincoln Esqr
Boston.

LS, RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters and Papers re Lighthouses, Buoys, and Piers, 1789–1819, Vol. I, National Archives.

1. The “allowance” under consideration was that of the Portland lighthouse keeper. See Lincoln to H, December 1, 1791.

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 18 November 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-09-02-0368. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 9, August 1791 – December 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, p. 509.]

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