Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Sharp Delany, 6 October 1789

From Sharp Delany1

Philadelphia, October 6, 1789.2 Discusses maintenance and improvement of facilities for aiding navigation in the port of Philadelphia. Recommends that William Allibone be appointed superintendent.3

LS, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “A,” Pennsylvania and Southern States, National Archives; LC, Bureau of Customs, Philadelphia.

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

2. The letter book copy is mistakenly dated October 8, 1789.

3. This recommendation was accepted, for Allibone was subsequently appointed superintendent of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, public piers, and stakage for Philadelphia, Cape Henlopen, and Delaware.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Sharp Delany, 6 October 1789
    Author
    Delany, Sharp
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    6 October 1789

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Sharp Delany, 6 October 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-05-02-0201. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 5, June 1788 – November 1789, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 424–425.]

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