From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 23 January 1792

To Benjamin Lincoln

Treasury Department, January 23, 1792. “The President of the United States having determined to add to the allowance of the keeper of the light house at Portland head the sum of twenty dollars per annum, you will be pleased to make the same known to him.…”1

Copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Boston, National Archives.

1. See Tobias Lear to H, January 18, 1792.

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Source Project: Hamilton Papers
Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 23 January 1792
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Lincoln, Benjamin
Date: 23 January 1792

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Cite as: “From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 23 January 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-10-02-0121. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 10, December 1791 – January 1792, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966, pp. 530–531.]

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