1. On 18 Aug., during the recess of Congress, GW had commissioned Thomas Marshall to be supervisor of the revenue for the District of Ohio and also inspector of the revenue for survey number 1 in that district. The enclosed communications from Marshall have not been identified.

2. Marshall may have discussed the early November efforts of the territorial government to arrest those who had assisted David Bradford in his escape down the Ohio River from Pennsylvania (see Winthrop Sargent to Justices of the Peace, 5 Nov., and Sargent to Edmund Randolph, 20 Nov., Carter, Territorial Papers description begins Clarence Edwin Carter et al., eds. The Territorial Papers of the United States. 27 vols. Washington, D.C., 1934–69. description ends , 3:427–29), or he may have reported unfavorably about prospects for enforcement of the excise law in the territory.