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Lighthouses - General Correspondence, 1800-1814 (

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Department of the Treasury. Customs Service. Collection District of Boston and Charlestown, Massachusetts. Office of the Collector of Customs. 7/31/1789-1913

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Lighthouses - General Correspondence, 1800-1814

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Scope and content: This file unit consists of general correspondence received by Benjamin Lincoln, Henry Dearborn, and Henry A.S. Dearborn in their capacity as Superintendents of Massachusetts Lighthouses. Included are letters and circulars related to authorizations for new lighthouses, and to the approval of expenses for repairs and supplies at existing facilities. Also included is a report on the state of repair of lighthouses under the Superintendent’s control. Correspondents include Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin, Revenue Commissioners William Miller and Samuel Smith, and contractor and lamp-maker Winslow Lewis. Of note is an 1810 letter from Lewis offering to sell his patent for “a new method of lighting lighthouses” to the United States for $10,000. This file unit also contains correspondence related to construction proposals for a lighthouse at Cape Lookout (North Carolina).

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1789 – 1819

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National Archives and Records Administration

	Native name	National Archives and Records Administration
	Parent institution	Federal Government of the United States
	Location	Washington, D.C. (headquarters), and many regional facilities and presidential libraries nationwide in the USA
	Coordinates	38° 53′ 34″ N, 77° 01′ 23″ W
	Established	19 June 1934
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	Authority file	: Q518155 VIAF: 132254586 ISNI: 0000000121603036 ULAN: 500263780 LCCN: n84176101 NLA: 35718998 WorldCat

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Record group: Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard (National Archives Identifier: 355)
Series: Letters Received Concerning Lighthouses (National Archives Identifier: 1994855)

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This file unit consists of general correspondence received by Benjamin Lincoln, Henry Dearborn, and Henry A.S. Dearborn in their capacity as Superintendents of Massachusetts Lighthouses. Included are letters and circulars related to authorizations for new lighthouses, and to the approval of expenses for repairs and supplies at existing facilities. Also included is a report on the state of repair of lighthouses under the Superintendent’s control. Correspondents include Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin, Revenue Commissioners William Miller and Samuel Smith, and contractor and lamp-maker Winslow Lewis. Of note is an 1810 letter from Lewis offering to sell his patent for “a new method of lighting lighthouses” to the United States for $10,000. This file unit also contains correspondence related to construction proposals for a lighthouse at Cape Lookout (North Carolina). (English)

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publisher: Digital Public Library of America

retrieved: 15 July 2023

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