1From George Washington to Thomas Pinckney or William Allen Deas, 5 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
Whether the dispatches enclosed with this note, fall first into the hands of Mr Pinckney, or Mr Deas; it is requested they may be forwarded safely, without running the Gentlemen to whom they are addressed to the expence of Postage. ALS , ScHi . The enclosures evidently included GW’s letters of 20 Feb. to John Sinclair, William Strickland, and the Earl of Buchan, as GW’s letters to Pinckney of...