Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from William Allibone, 28 September 1791

From William Allibone1

Philadelphia, September 28, 1791. Encloses estimates for “the Present quarter” and for “one year comencing the 15th of August.” Reports that the navigational aids in the Delaware River “are now in good order.”

ALS, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “A,” Pennsylvania and Southern States, National Archives.

1. Allibone was superintendent of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, public piers, and stakage for Philadelphia, Cape Henlopen, and Delaware River and Bay.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from William Allibone, 28 September 1791
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    Allibone, William
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    28 September 1791

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from William Allibone, 28 September 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-09-02-0200. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 9, August 1791 – December 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, p. 244.]

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