1. GW wrote to Treasury Secretary Oliver Wolcott, Jr., on this date: “Pay to the Secretary of State out of the Fund appropriated to defray the Contingent charges of Government Fifteen hundred Dollars; to be paid to an Agent about to be sent to the West Indies to procure documents respecting british Captures, on account of his compensation & other expenses attending the said mission” (LB, DLC:GW).

The agent was John Gardiner, Jr., possibly the Philadelphia merchant (Randolph to Hammond, 15 March, DNA: RG 59, Domestic Letters; ASP description begins Walter Lowrie et al., eds. American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 38 vols. Washington, D.C., Gales and Seaton, 1832–61. description ends , Foreign Relations, 2:161).