Benjamin Lincoln to Alexander Hamilton, 26 December 1789

From Benjamin Lincoln

Boston, December 26, 1789. “… your Circular letter of the 18th. just came to hand and I am happy to inform you that I have anticipated your orders and early adopted that line of conduct which I thought would secure that punctuality in the payment of bonds.… I have the pleasure now to inform you that we have not … had any person a delinquent for a moment.…”

ADf, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury and Others, 1789–1818, Vol. 11, National Archives.

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Title: Benjamin Lincoln to Alexander Hamilton, 26 December 1789
Author: Lincoln, Benjamin
Recipient: Hamilton, Alexander
Date: 26 December 1789

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Cite as: “Benjamin Lincoln to Alexander Hamilton, 26 December 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0048. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 36.]

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