1. Letter not found. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, merchant James Sheafe was a former Loyalist who served as a Federalist congressman (1799–1801) and then as a U.S. senator until his resignation on 14 June 1802. He had several spoliation claims outstanding against France, one for the Apollo, seized on 21 Sept. 1798 and carried into Rivadeo (Spain), and another for the seizure and burning of the armed merchantman Pacific by the frigate Française on 7 Sept. 1800 (Lynn W. Turner, William Plumer of New Hampshire, 1759–1850 [Chapel Hill, N.C., 1962], pp. 71, 237; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Foreign Relations, 2:448–49; Senate Documents, 48th Cong., 1st sess., 7:148; Knox, Naval Documents, Quasi-War description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War between the United States and France (7 vols.; Washington, 1935–38). description ends , 6:325).

2. Article 4 of the Convention of 1800 listed the proofs of ownership required for restoration of captured property (Miller, Treaties description begins Hunter Miller, ed., Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America (8 vols.; Washington, 1930–48). description ends , 2:459–62).