To Thomas Jefferson from Charles McLaughlin, 10 March 1802
From Charles McLaughlin
George Town March 10th. 1802.
Sir,
I received by the Baltimore Stage a Couple of Fresh1 Cod Fish, which my Brother writes me were alive at 4 O.Clock this morning—and as I find Fish of every kind to be Scarce here at this time, I take the liberty to send One by the bearer hereof, which you will please to Accept from
Sir, your Obt. Servt.
Chs. Mclaughlin
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 10 Mch. and so recorded in SJL.
Charles McLaughlin (d. 1807) owned the Union Tavern in Georgetown and shared a contract with William Evans to carry mail between Baltimore and Washington. In December 1801, and for several years thereafter, TJ paid McLaughlin for a subscription to the Georgetown dancing assembly, held at the Union Tavern (Washington Federalist, 17 Mch. 1802; , 2:1011n, 1059, 1088, 1153; Vol. 33:415n).
, 50 [1952], 19, 23, 37;BROTHER: probably Andrew McLaughlin, a Baltimore stage driver, whose “mail stage office” address was next door to Evans’s inn (The New Baltimore Directory, and Annual Register, for 1800 and 1801 [Baltimore, 1801], 39, 67; Stafford, Baltimore Directory, for 1802, 73; Vol. 33:39n).
1. MS: “Frish.”