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The Boston Light

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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Two letters from an interesting old letter book of Henry Lloyd, a Boston merchant, bring to mind the importance played by the Boston Light in the early history of lighthouse service in America. The Boston Light, built in 1716, was the first lighthouse built on this continent. The responsibility for its erection and maintenance was assumed by the General Court of the Province; The following letter written by Henry Lloyd to Mr. Hugh Hall Wentworth, who possibly lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, gives the original cost of the structure, and, further, points out that it served as a model for other lighthouses along the coast:

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Business History Review , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , May 1933 , pp. 5 - 10
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1933

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