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Volume and Box List for Record Group 26, Entry 17 (NC-31): Correspondence Relating to Early Lighthouses, 1785 -1853

Entry 17A (NC-31): Letters Recd. by the Treasury Dept.

Volume 1 Pennsylvania & Southern States, 1789 -1795
Volume 2 Pennsylvania & Southern States, 1796 - 1803
Volume 3 Pennsylvania & Southern States, 1798 - 1804
Volume 4 New Hampshire & Massachusetts, 1789 - 1797
Volume 5 Connecticut & New York, 1789 -1803
Volume 6 New Hampshire & Massachusetts, 1789 - 1804
Volume 7 Connecticut & New York, 1804 -1812

Entry 17C (NC-31): Letters Recd. from the Superintendent of Lights, 1803 - 1852

Box 1 Alexandria, 1829 - 1849; Baltimore, 1838 - 1849

Box 10 Beaufort, N.C.; Boston, MA, 1816
Box 11 Boston, MA, 1817-29
Box 12 Boston, MA, 1834-1848

Box 24 New Orleans, LA; Newport, RI
Box 25: Newport RI, New York, NY

Box 31: Portland, ME; Portsmouth, NH; Rochester, NY; Sacketts Harbor, NY; Sag Harbor, NY; St. Augustine, FL
Box 32: St Augustine & St. Marks, FL

Entry 17E (NC-31): Letters Recd. from Winslow Lewis

Box 1 Letters from Supt. of Lights, Boston, Philip Greeley, 1849-51
Letters from Winslow Lewis, 1810 - 1825
Includes proposals, oil contracts, reports of lighthouses, sale of patent, fitting up light stations, and building towers
Box 2 Letters from Winslow Lewis, 1826 - 1851

Entry 17F (NC-31): Miscl. Letters Recd. (Alphabetical) 1801 - 1852

Box 1 A - D 1813 - 1853
Box 2 E - H 1806 - 1853
Box 3 I - N 1800 - 1853
Box 4 O - S 1816 - 1852
Box 5 S - Z 1807 - 1853

Entry 17G (NC-31): Miscl. Letters Recd. (Chronological) 1784 - 1853

Box 1 1784 - 1799
Box 2 1800 - 1814

Box 3 1815 - 1820
Box 4 1821 - 1825
Box 5 1826 - 1827
Box 6 1830 - 1839
Box 7 1840 - 1849
Box 8 1850 - 1852
Box 9 1853 - 1910

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