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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

Sample from RG 26 Entry 17C
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Entry 17C (NC-31): Letters Recd. from the Superintendent of Lights, 1803 - 1852

Box 1 Alexandria, VA 1829 - 1849; Baltimore, MD 1838 - 1849
Box 2 Boston, MA 1841 - 1849; Cleveland, OH 1841 - 1842
Box 3 Edgartown, MA 1842 - 1849; Washington, NC 1846 - 1849; Michilimackinac, MI 1845 - 1848; Detroit, MI 1845 - 1849; New Bedford, MA 1842 - 1849
Box 4 New London, CT 1839 - 1849; Newport, RI 1832 - 1849
Box 5 Ogdensburgh, NY 1834 - 1849; Oswego, NY 1838 - 1849; Portsmouth, NH 1834 - 1848; New York, NY 1840 -1845
Box 6 Sag Harbor, NY 1812 - 1848; Presque Isle, PA 1810 - 1849; Tuckertown, NJ 1829 - 1846, 1849 - 1850; Great Egg Harbor 1831 - 1849
Box 7 St. Augustine, FL 1835 - 1849; St. Johns River, 1832 - 1837; Key West, FL 1833 - 1836; St. Marys, GA 1849; Savannah, GA 1845 - 1849; Wilmington, DE 1845 - 1853; Wilmington, NC 1848 - 1849
Box 8 Alexandria, VA 1823 - 1852; Apalachicola, FL 1831 - 1852; Baltimore, MD 1819 - 1824
Box 9 Baltimore, MD 1825 - 1852
Box 10 Beaufort, NC; Boston, MA 1816
Box 11 Boston, MA 1817-29
Box 12 Boston, MA 1834-1848
Box 13 Buffalo, NY 1849 - 1852; Burlington, VT 1826 -1829, 1849 - 1852; Charleston, SC 1819 - 1852; Chicago, IL 1839 -1842
Box 14 Cleveland, OH 1834 - 1838, 1849 - 1852; Darien, GA 1814 - 39 (includes Brunswick)
Box 15 Darien, GA 1840 - 1844, 1849 - 1852; Detroit, MI 1820 - 1838; 1843 - 1845
Box 16 Edenton, NC 1792 - 1821, 1829 -1838; Edgartown, MA 1833 - 1836; Detroit, MI 1845 - 1852
Box 17 Edgartown, MA 1838 - 1842, 1849 - 1852; Elizabeth City, NC 1830 - 1832, 1845 - 1849; Fort Niagara, NY 1823 - 1826, 1850 - 1852; Franklin, LA 1831 - 1839, 1841
Box 18 Galveston, TX; Georgetown, SC; Jacksonville, FL 1838 - 52
Box 19 Key West, FL 1825 - 1852
Box 20 St. Marks, FL; Michigan City, IN 1836 -1838; Michilimackinac, MI 1828 - 1852
Box 21 Mobile, AL 1838 - 1852
Box 22 New Haven, CT; New London, CT
Box 23 New Orleans, LA 1812 - 1845
Box 24 New Orleans, LA; Newport, RI
Box 25 Newport, RI 1827 - 1831, 1836 - 1840, 1849 - 52; New York, NY, 1811 - 1829
Box 26 New York, 1829 - 1838
Box 27 New York, 1839 -1840; Norfolk, VA 1814 - 1830
Box 28 Norfolk, VA 1830 - 1850
Box 29 Norfolk, VA 1849 - 1852; Ocracoke, NC 1822 - 1832, 1851; Pensacola, FL 1827 - 1852
Box 30 Perth Amboy, NJ; Philadelphia, PA 1825 - 1824; Point Isabel, TX 1851 - 1852; Plymouth, NC 1839 - 1852; Portland, ME 1820 - 1824
Box 31: Portland, ME 1849 - 52; Portsmouth, NH 1812 -1833, 1838, 1852; Rochester, NY 1851 - 1852; Sacketts Harbor, NY 1849 - 1851; Sag Harbor, NY 1840 - 1851; St. Augustine, FL 1823 - 1830
Box 32: St Augustine & St. Marks, FL
Box 33 St. Mary's, GA; Sandusky, OH; Savannah, GA
Box 34 Savannah, GA; Teche, LA; Swanton, VT; Tappahanock, VA; Tuckerton, NC; Washington, NC
Box 35 Washington, NC 1849 - 1852; Wilmington, DE 1803 - 1828; Wilmington, NC 1803 - 1817, 1837 - 1842, 1852

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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