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To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 19 March 1790

From Benjamin Lincoln

Boston, March 19, 1790. “I have written to the several keepers of the light-houses in this State, excepting the keeper of the light house at Plymouth, informing them that the President of the United States has been pleased to continue them in their present appointments.… Mrs. Thomas the widow the late General Thomas, not Warren has been considered as the keeper of the light house at Plymouth.…”1

ALS, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “B,” New Hampshire and Massachusetts, National Archives; LC, RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letter Book, 1790–1797, National Archives; copy, Letters to the Collector at Boston, National Archives; copy, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives.

1. See H to Lincoln, March 10, 1790.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 19 March 1790
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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 19 March 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0197. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 307–308.]

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