1. Harrison could not have received the delegates’ letter of 5 July (q.v.), which almost certainly would have been written four days earlier, if Congress had remained in Philadelphia.

2. Harrison’s comments reflect his reading of the delegates’ letter of 24 June (q.v.), and also, no doubt, of the Virginia Gazette of 12 July. That issue includes a copy of Elias Boudinot’s proclamation of 24 June 1783. For the Bank of North America, located in Philadelphia, see Papers of Madison description begins William T. Hutchinson, William M. E. Rachal, et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison (7 vols. to date; Chicago, 1962——). description ends , III, 173; 175, n. 16; VI, 495, n. 7.

3. Instructions to Delegates, 28 June, hdn., n. 2; Harrison to Delegates, 4 July, 1783, and n. 5. Residents of Williamsburg and of the countryside, within five miles of the town, at a meeting, with George Wythe, chairman, resolved unanimously that, although Congress had not made its extent of required control clear, they were “willing to submit to any such jurisdiction as may be compatible with their political welfare, and worthy of generous minds either to demand or yield” (NA: PCC, No. 46, fols. 89–92). Upon receiving a copy of these proceedings from the Virginia delegation on 23 July, Congress referred them to a committee which had been appointed five days earlier “to report what jurisdiction may be necessary for Congress in the place where they shall fix their permanent residence.” This committee by 23 July was composed of James Duane (N.Y.), chairman, James Wilson, Jacob Read, James McHenry, JM, and, beginning 3 September, Samuel Huntington, and Richard Peters (NA: PCC, No. 186, fol. 112; JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). description ends , XXIV, 444, n. 1; XXV, 537). See also JM to Randolph, 28 July; Motion in re Permanent Site, 22 Sept. 1783, n. 1.

4. JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). description ends , XXV, 603–4, 647–60; JM to Randolph, 13 Oct. 1783.

5. The “two Depositions” have not been found. The acknowledgment of them by the Virginia delegates on 26 July states that the alleged “illbehavior” had been by a “Cap’n Camm.” In February 1781 Captain Arnaud Le Gardeur de Tilly, commanding a squadron comprising two frigates and the sixty-four gun “L’Eveille,” on which the Marquis H. Le Camus was a junior officer, captured in Chesapeake Bay several enemy vessels, including the privateer brig “Lord Cornwallis” (Baron Ludovic de Contenson, La Société des Cincinnati de France et la Guerre d’Amérique, 1778–1783 [Paris, 1934], p. 211; Papers of Madison description begins William T. Hutchinson, William M. E. Rachal, et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison (7 vols. to date; Chicago, 1962——). description ends , II, 315; 316, n. 7; III, 4, n. 6; 42, n. 2; Wharton, Revol. Dipl. Corr description begins Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States (6 vols.; Washington, 1889). description ends ., IV, 271; Edwin Martin Stone, Our French Allies … in the Great War of the American Revolution [Providence, R.I., 1884], p. 354). After acquiescing to a request to leave his prizes at Yorktown, Tilly and his ships rejoined the French fleet based at Newport, R.I. Governor Thomas Nelson, Jr., of Virginia appears to have loaned the French prizes, among them the “Lord Cornwallis,” at least “four Guns 4 pounders and 100 Boulets” (cannon balls), belonging to the state, to enable them more effectively to co-operate with Virginia’s ships in defending Chesapeake Bay and the neighboring rivers against British privateers and other enemy warcraft (Boyd, Papers of Jefferson description begins Julian P. Boyd et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (18 vols. to date; Princeton, N.J., 1950——). description ends , IV, 659, 678; V, 306 n.).

On 4 April 1781 Washington wrote to Nelson, informing him that Ensign Le Camus, the bearer of the letter, had been ordered by the commander of the French fleet at Newport to proceed to Virginia and take charge of “an armed Vessel in York River.” Probably reaching Virginia later that month, at about the time of Lafayette’s arrival with his division of continental troops, Le Camus reported to the marquis and then assumed his command of the “Lord Cornwallis” at or near West Point on the York River (Fitzpatrick, Writings of Washington description begins John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington, from the Original Sources, 1745–1799 (39 vols.; Washington, 1931–44). description ends , XXI, 415; Louis Gottschalk, Lafayette and the Close of the American Revolution, pp. 219, 290, 296). Besides this vessel, Le Camus was commander of several other small ships before the close of the campaign in October 1781 (Fitzpatrick, Writings of Washington description begins John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington, from the Original Sources, 1745–1799 (39 vols.; Washington, 1931–44). description ends , XXIII, 215, 225). See also Delegates to Harrison, 26 July 1783.

6. The Hessian Major Carl Leopold Baurmeister, who returned to New York City on 16 July 1783 following a mission to Philadelphia, ascribed Washington’s declining prestige to his subserviency to the unpopular Congress. Baurmeister also understood that the faction devoted to the political fortunes of former President Joseph Reed of Pennsylvania was “active” in spreading discontent with Washington throughout the state (Bernard A. Uhlendorf, trans. and ed., Revolution in America: Confidential Letters and Journals, 1776–1784, of Adjutant General Major Baurmeister of the Hessian Forces [New Brunswick, N.J., 1957], p. 576). See also Papers of Madison description begins William T. Hutchinson, William M. E. Rachal, et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison (7 vols. to date; Chicago, 1962——). description ends , VI, 266; 269, n. 18; 286; Randolph to JM, 28 June, n. 7; Delegates to Harrison, 26 July 1783.

7. Delegates to Harrison, 26 July; 1 Aug. See also Pendleton to JM, 4 May, n. 6; Va. Gazette description begins Virginia Gazette, or, the American Advertiser (Richmond, James Hayes, 1781–86). description ends , 12 July 1783.