From George Washington to Thomas Pinckney or William Allen Deas, 5 March 1796
To Thomas Pinckney or William Allen Deas
Philadelphia 5th Mar. 1796
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.1
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1. 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 that date and of this date were carried by the same ship.