From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 8 July 1792
To George Washington
Treasury Department, July 8, 1792. Submits “the in-closed Contract between the Superintendant of the Delaware Lighthouse1 &c. and Benjamin Rice, for the making of two mooring chains for the use of the Beacon boats on the River Delaware.”
LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
1. William Allibone was superintendent of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers for Philadelphia, Cape Henlopen, and Delaware.