From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 12 November 1791
To Benjamin Lincoln
Treasury Department
November 12 1791
Sir
I have received your letter of the 4th Ultimo, inclosing a duplicate receipt, No 345, of the Bank of Massachusetts for a payment of twenty five thousand Dollars, made by you into that Bank.
With regard to the boatmen, I fully approve of your idea, upon the strength of what you suggest, that the service will not suffer by dismissing three of them during the winter season.
I am, Sir, with great consideration, Your Most Obed Servt
Benjamin Lincoln, Esqr.
Collector, Boston.
L[S], RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury, 1789–1807, Vol. 4, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Boston, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives.