Point Lookout Lighthouse, Scotland, MD

Justification for keepers term of office. Click on the specific document ID to see the original document.

Document ID	Document Type	Date	Description
PR-06-AD	Payroll Register	~1847	May 22, 1849 listed in payroll register as date of appointment. A name is listed under May 18, 1849, but the name is crossed through with the word "cancelled" to the left of the entry.
NA-18-1057	Handwritten Letter	05/23/1849	Letter presumed to be with text above, dated May 23, 1849, showing appointment of William P. Baxter Point Look out LH vice Wm Wood removed(?)
NA-18-1058	Handwritten Letter	06/28/1849	No names mentioned, but refers to a letter from the "new" keeper at Point Lookout requesting oil and glasses (tubes).
NA-E17-6	Handwritten Letter	06/18/1849	Letter requesting oil and reflecting glasses, about to run out.
NA-E17-9	Handwritten Letter	12/10/1851	Letter stating that if new lamps aren't sent or repaired soon..."We shall soon be without a light". The date appears to be 1837, but another letter, delivering this letter to Customs House in Baltimore clearly says 1851.
PR-03-WB	Payroll Register	1849-1855	May 22, 1849 listed as date of appointment; Salary $350.