Samuel Harrison Smith to Alexander J. Dallas, 21 September 1816 (Abstract)
Samuel Harrison Smith to Alexander J. Dallas, 21 September 1816 (Abstract)
§ Samuel Harrison Smith to Alexander J. Dallas. 21 September 1816, Treasury Department, Revenue Office. “John Ingersoll having declined accepting the appointment of Keeper of Baker’s Island Light House, Joseph Perkins has been recommended for the office, who appears, from the enclosed, properly qualified.”
RC (DNA: RG 26, Light House Service Correspondence). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith. Submitted to JM by Dallas on 23 Sept.; bears JM’s note: “The appt. of Jos: Perkins approved. J.M.”