To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Lincoln, 7 April 1804
From Benjamin Lincoln
Boston April 7th. 1804
Sir.—
Your esteemed favour of the 27h: ulto. has been received—Capt. Spear master of the Ship Fair American declined receiving any pecuniary consideration for freight of the packages which I received & forwarded to you; they were stored in the public store & reshipped by the public boat men so that the only expence was the duties the Amount of which is $20.34
I am sir with very great consideration and esteem your most obedient & humble servant
B Lincoln Coll.
RC (MHi); at foot of text: “President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 23 Apr. and so recorded in SJL with notation “20.34.”
the only expence: on 25 Apr. TJ recorded in his financial memoranda a remittance of $20.34 to Lincoln for the duties on wine which arrived in Boston on 2 Aug. 1803 (New-England Palladium, 5 Aug. 1803; , 2:1125).