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Oliver Wolcott letter (RLC.Ms.548)

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Scope & content

This collection consists of one letter dated December 7, 1795 from Oliver Wolcott, as Secretary of the Treasury, to William Ellery (1727-1820), the collector of the port of Newport, Rhode Island, from 1790-1820. This letter concerns the funding for a fort in Newport.