Nantucket lighthouse records, 1817-1822.

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Nantucket lighthouse records, 1817-1822.

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ALS (1822 Sept. 21) addressed to Pres. James Monroe recommending the appointment of Capt. Henry Barnard as keeper of the Cudahunk (Cuttyhunk), Mass., lighthouse, signed by Walter Folger, Jr., Gideon Gardner, and other Nantucket, Mass., citizens; ALS (1822) to William H. Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury, on behalf of Holden Slocum for the position of lighthouse keeper on Cuttyhunk, signed by Thomas J. Swain, William Rotch, Jr., and other residents of Nantucket and New Bedford, Mass.; ALS (1817) to H.A.S. Dearborn, superintendent of lighthouses in Massachusetts, from George Bunker, Jr., keeper of Nantucket Lighthouse (Great Point) asking Dearborn to write to the Secretary of the Treasury on his behalf regarding the raising of his salary to $400; and ALS (1817) from Amos Binney, praising Bunker's character, his loyalty to the government, and requesting a salary raise to $500 per year.

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