From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 7 August 1794
To Benjamin Lincoln
Treasury Department, August 7, 1794. “A warrant has issued this day in your favor … for Eight Thousand, Eight hundred and forty nine dollars and twenty five Cents … for Spermiceti Oil for the use of the Light Houses in the United States.…”1
LS, RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters and Papers re Lighthouses, Buoys, and Piers, 1789–1819, Vol. 3, National Archives.
1. See Tench Coxe to H, July 9, August 5, 1794.