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To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Fitch, 13 October 1789

From Jonathan Fitch1

New Haven [Connecticut] October 13, 1789. Encloses a letter2 describing the navigational aids in the port of New Haven.

ALS, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “C,” Connecticut and New York, National Archives.

1. This letter is in reply to “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” October 1, 1789.

Fitch was collector of the customs at New Haven.

2. Elias Shipman to Fitch, October 12, 1789, ALS, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “C,” Connecticut and New York, National Archives. Shipman was a New Haven merchant.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Fitch, 13 October 1789
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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Fitch, 13 October 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-05-02-0228. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 5, June 1788 – November 1789, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 441.]

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