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To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 15 April 1796

From Timothy Pickering

Department of State April 15. 1796.

The Secretary of State begs leave to inform the President of the United States, that the patent for Benjamin Tyler is destined to be carried to him by Mr Strong, who will leave town to-morrow morning by three o’clock.1 If the President should find time to attend to it before this evening, the Secretary will then have the honor to receive it at the President’s house.2

Timothy Pickering

ALS, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB, DNA: RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State.

1. “Mr Strong” probably was Caleb Strong, U.S. senator from Massachusetts, who began a leave of absence on 18 April (Journal of the Senate, description begins The Journal of the Senate including The Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate: George Washington Administration 1789–1797. Edited by Martin P. Claussen. 9 vols. Wilmington, Del., 1977. description ends 8:156). A notice in the Columbian Centinel (Boston) for 7 May 1796 reported his return to Philadelphia.

Benjamin Tyler (1733–1814) operated a number of different mills in Claremont, New Hampshire.

2. GW on this date signed Tyler’s patent (now numbered X109) for “a new and useful improvement, in the mode of cleaning Wheat, Rye, Buck-Wheat, and all other kinds of grain” (see also JPP, description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends 334).

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    “To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 15 April 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0041. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 20, 1 April–21 September 1796, ed. David R. Hoth and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 47.]

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