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From George Washington to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 13 June 1796

To Oliver Wolcott, Jr.

Philadelphia 13th June 1796

Dear Sir,

Enclosed you have Bank Bills to the amount of Five hundred Dollars. From this fund I pray you to furnish Mr Frederick Kitt, my Household Steward with weekly sums as his occasions require—say from th[i]rty to 40 dollars according to circumstances. It will enable you also to pay the duties on two Pipes of Wine wch I understand is in the Ganges for and on my Acct. As this Wine is in dble cases—I had rather, as it will be to be removed again pay for the whole quantity, the inner Pipes originally contained, than have them uncased for the purpose of measuring the pres[en]t cont[en]ts.1 With sincere esteem & regard I am—always yrs

G. Washington

ADfS, MH: Jared Sparks Collection.

GW also wrote three notes to Wolcott on this date directing payments to Secretary of State Timothy Pickering. One was for $1,000 “to be applied by him in defraying the expenses attending the procuring copies of the proceedings of the british Vice admiralty courts in the cases of british spoliations committed on the commerce of the United States.” Another was for $5,000 “to be applied by him pursuant to the act of Congress, entitled ‘an act for the relief & protection of American seamen,’ to the payment of the compensation of the Agents therein mentioned for their services & the incidental expenses attending the performance of the duties imposed on them by that Act” (see also Pickering to GW, 10 June, and n.1 to that document). A third was for $1,000 “out of the sum appropriated to defray the Contingent charges of Government, to be applied by him to that use” (all LB, DLC:GW).

1For the shipment of two pipes of wine aboard the Ganges, see John Marsden Pintard to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 17 July 1795, and notes 1 and 2; see also GW to Wolcott, 24 June 1796 (second letter). The Philadelphia Gazette & Universal Daily Advertiser for 2 June reported the arrival of the Ganges on the previous evening “from Bengal, in 92 days.”

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