1To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 13 July 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] July 13, 1790 . Encloses “the Warrants for the Superintendants of the Lighthouses &c.” LS , RG 26, “Segregated” Lighthouse Records, National Archives; copy, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
2[Diary entry: 13 July 1790] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday 13th. Again sat for Mr. Trumbull from 9 until half past 10 Oclock. A good deal of Company at the Levee to day.
3Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 13 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
New York, 13 July 1790. Encloses warrants for the superintendents of lighthouses requested that day by the Treasury Department. LB , DLC:GW . Lear had probably obtained the president’s signatures only that day on the ten commissions that Hamilton intended to forward to the lighthouse superintendents appointed since March 1790, when Hamiltion had explained to them why receipt of their...
4From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 13 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 23d. of June, since which I have received yours of March 24th. to 31st. Your Letters are long on their Passage, as you will observe by the following Statement. Date of letters. When received. Time of Passage. December 2d. to January 26th. May 3d. 97 Days February 28th. June 10th. 102 “ March 24th. to 31st. July 2d. 93 “ Could we receive them quicker, their Contents...