1. For this report, see Commissioners for Settling Accounts Between the United States and the Individual States to GW, 29 June 1793. GW sent this report to Jefferson on 15 July, with a request that copies be made for submission to Congress when it convened later this year (JPP description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends , 198). Jefferson then passed the report to George Taylor, Jr. (d. 1835), chief clerk at the Department of State. Earlier on this date, Tobias Lear wrote Jefferson, in a letter not found, asking for the report’s return (Taylor to Lear, 19 Aug. 1793). GW apparently wanted Jefferson to return the original report so that it could be sent to the Treasury Department, where it would be filed in compliance with “an implication” of “An Act to provide more effectually for the settlement of the Accounts between the United States and the individual States” of 5 Aug. 1790 (ibid., 219; 1 Stat description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends ., 178–79; see also Edmund Randolph to GW, 13 Aug. 1793).

2. The previous Saturday was 10 August. Jacob Blackwell was a clerk in the Department of State (ASP, Miscellaneous, description begins Walter Lowrie et al., eds. American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 38 vols. Washington, D.C., Gales and Seaton, 1832–61. description ends 1:57).

3. The report was located on 19 Aug., and Taylor enclosed it with his letter to Lear of that date. See also Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 19 Aug. 1793.