Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Newton, Junior, 27 June 1790

From Thomas Newton, Junior1

Norfolk [Virginia] June 27, 1790. “Your favor of the 17th I received.…”2 Agrees to select the site for the Cape Henry lighthouse. Proposes that a small lighthouse be constructed at “old Point Comfort.”

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

1. For the background to this letter, see H to Randolph, June 19, 1790.

2. Letter not found.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Newton, Junior, 27 June 1790
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    Newton, Thomas, Jr.
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    27 June 1790

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Newton, Junior, 27 June 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0367. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 474.]

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