1From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, [17 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
If I understood the President aright, in a conversation some days since, it was his pleasure that a Mr. William Alexander of Rowan County in the State of North Carolina should be nominated as Inspector in place of Mr. Dowel who declined & whose commission I delivered to the President. If he has not mentioned the thing to you, will you ask his orders concerning it? ’Tis of importance the place...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, [24 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The President is right. The person intended is Joseph McDowell the younger; and a more precise designation would be by adding, “ of Pleasant Garden. ” But I imagine it will be well to defer the matter ’till the general nomination of the Officers of Inspection is made to the Senate, & to include this case. Yrs. &c LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See H to Lear, February 17,...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 22 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] June 22, 1792 . Encloses “a letter from Mr. Alibone, which contains some explanations respecting the Well at Cape Henelopen.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. William Allibone was superintendent of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, public piers, and stakage for Cape Henlopen and Delaware. On May 25, 1792, Allibone wrote to Tench Coxe: “Agreeably to your...