Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 13 December 1794

From Tench Coxe

Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 13, 1794. “It is necessary that a keeper of the Lighted Beacon near Sherburn in Nantucket be appointed. Tristam Coffin is mentioned as a person the collector1 has engaged, from whence may be inferred that he approves of the said Coffin as a qualified person.…”

LC, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters, Vol. I, National Archives.

1. Stephen Hussey had been appointed collector of customs at Nantucket and Sherburne, Massachusetts, on August 3, 1789 (Executive Journal, I description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828),I. description ends , 13).

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 13 December 1794
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    Coxe, Tench
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    13 December 1794

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 13 December 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-17-02-0429. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 17, August 1794 – December 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 443.]

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