1. Jonathan Dayton (1760–1824) of Elizabethtown, N.J., was a prominent Federalist and member of Congress. Dayton held the rank of captain during the American Revolution, serving as the paymaster for the Third New Jersey Regiment, a unit commanded by his father Col. Elias Dayton (1737–1807). The anecdote about “B.L.” probably refers to Brockholst Livingston who served alongside Dayton in the Northern Department of the Continental Army in 1776–77. Brockholst was a staff officer for Gen. Philip Schuyler who headed the Northern Department, and Dayton’s regiment belonged to Schuyler’s command. PJA description begins Robert J. Taylor, Gregg L. Lint, et al., eds., Papers of John Adams (18 vols. to date; Cambridge, Mass., 1977–) description ends , 4: 487nn1–2; PGW: RWS description begins Dorothy Twohig et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series (25 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1985–) description ends , 4: 392n1.

2. Both Col. Silas Pepoon, a store owner in Stockbridge, Mass., and Anna Dix Bingham, a tavern keeper of the same town, were the defendants in a circuit court case that JJ heard in Massachusetts in May 1792. Thomas Jenkins, a merchant of Hudson, New York, was the plaintiff in the case. The defendants had filed a writ of error appealing the case after the circuit court had found in favor of Jenkins. The party was no doubt proceeding to Philadelphia to have their case tried before the U.S. Supreme Court during the August 1792 session. For Kingsley v. Jenkins, see the editorial note “The Supreme Court: Procedures and Cases,” above.

3. Probably Theophilus Phillips (c. 1762–95) of Maidenhead. For more on Careless and Shakespeare, see Centinel of Freedom, 26 Apr. 1797.

4. Philemon Dickinson (1739–1809) of Trenton, the brother of John Dickinson, was a major general and commander-in-chief of the New Jersey militia, and at this time a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.

5. Possibly Lt. Col. Joab Houghton (1725–98) of Hopewell Township, N.J., who was a senior officer of the First Hunterdon County Militia Regiment at the Battle of Monmouth. The editors wish to thank Larry Kidder for providing this information.

6. The Fox Chase Tavern was located in northeast Philadelphia. Aurora General Advertiser (Philadelphia), 20 Feb. 1806.

7. Probably Mary Gibbons (Gibbon) of Philadelphia. A city directory lists “Gibbons Mrs. Gentlewoman” as living on Spruce Street between Second and Third Streets. JJ also lodged at Gibbons’s boarding house in 1793–94. Francis White, The Philadelphia Directory (Philadelphia, 1785), 29; Aurora General Advertiser (Philadelphia), 16 Apr. 1799; AH to JJ, 18 Dec. 1792, and RK to JJ, 15[–16] Dec. 1793, both below.

Appearing in the endpapers of the diary are the following notations of the death dates for JJ’s mother Maria Van Cortlandt Jay, his father Peter Jay, and his sister Anna Maricka (Nancy) Jay, and the mileage between destinations on his journeys.

M.J. —17 ap. 1777

P.J. —17 ap. 1782

A.M.J—4 sept. 1791

From my Farm to Hartford
To Salem—7—Lockwoods—	8
To Danbury—Whiting—Clarke—whites	9
To New Milford—Clarkes—	17
To Camps at Washington—	10
To Lichfield—Buels—	10
To Harrington—Catlings—	7
To Farmington—Wadsworth—	14
To Hartford—	10
[total]	85
From newport to Bennington:
To Providence—	31