1To James Madison from Charles Thomson, 15 September 1786 (Madison Papers)
, XXVIII, 361 n.; XXXI, 642). JM was one of nine arbiters selected on 13 Sept. 1785, but only two men actually became involved—Alexander Contee Hanson and Robert Goldsborough, Jr. Indeed, the two states finally settled the dispute in April 1787 without further federal intervention. JM may have made the four pages of notes from Alexander Hewatt’s