In the fall of 1799, the firm Charles Alder & Company shipped two pipes of wine and two boxes of citron to GW. The wine and citron were shipped from Madeira aboard the ship Lavinia, which arrived at the port of Philadelphia on 13 Nov. 1799 (see New-York Price-Current, 16 Nov. 1799).  On the back of a note drawn by Charles Alder & Co. on Tobias Lear for £84, GW certified on 14 Nov. that it had been “Presented and accepted” (GW to Clement Biddle, 13 Nov. 1799, and n.1 to that document).  For Charles Alder's letter to GW, announcing the shipment, see GW to Elias Boudinot, 22 June 1799, and n.2 to that document.