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From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 19 December 1794

To George Washington

Treasury Department, December 19, 1794. Sends “a letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue of the 13 instant,1 on the subject of the Keeper of the Lighthouse … near Sherburn in Nantucket.” States that “it is advisable to appoint the person therein mentioned.”2

LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Tench Coxe to H, December 13, 1794.

2. On December 23, 1794, Coxe wrote to Stephen Hussey, collector of customs at Nantucket and Sherburne, Massachusetts: “… The President of the United States, has been pleased to approve of Mr. Tristram Coffin, as Keeper of the lighted Beacon near Sherburn in Nantucket” (LC, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters, Vol. I, National Archives).

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    From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 19 December 1794
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    “From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 19 December 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-17-02-0442. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 17, August 1794 – December 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 449.]

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