From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 20 January 1790
To Benjamin Lincoln
Treasury Department, January 20, 1790. Instructs Lincoln to reimburse John Coffin Jones1 “for Oil supplied the Lighthouses” in Massachusetts.
LS, RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters and Papers re Lighthouses, Buoys, and Piers, 1789–1819, Vol. 3, National Archives.
1. Jones was a stockholder and director of the Massachusetts Bank, 1785–1786.