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- GLC#
- GLC02381
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 7, 1799
- Author/Creator
- Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
- Title
- to Joseph Pitcairn
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket Height: 25.2 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Written by Pickering as Secretary of State to Pitcairn as American Consul in Hamburg. Based on previous information from Pitcairn, Pickering says dispatches sealed in false bottoms of tubs owned by three mulattoes, one white man, and one white woman have been seized. Pickering forwarded the information to South Carolina Governor Edward Rutledge, who had the dispatches seized from the ship Minerva in Charleston. They are being examined by General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Encloses a report and two copies of Elbridge Gerry's correspondence, which are not included.
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