1. JM Notes, 4 June 1783, and n. 4. Complying with “positive instructions,” Elias Boudinot, president of Congress, wrote on 3 June to the governors of New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, Maryland, and Georgia, urging them to send delegates so that at least the required minimum of nine states would be able to vote effectively on issues making “the present conjuncture of affairs” of “great importance” (Burnett, Letters description begins Edmund C. Burnett, ed., Letters of Members of the Continental Congress (8 vols.; Washington, 1921–36). description ends , VII, 178). This plea, which Boudinot repeated on 3 and 22 July, did not bring an adequate representation until 7 August 1783 (ibid., VII, 210, 231; JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). description ends , XXIV, 493).

2. Abraham Clark referred to resolutions of the New Jersey General Assembly dated 16 June 1778 and 29 December 1780–3 January 1781, claiming for the state a proportionate share of the western lands and opposing the provisos included in the offer of Virginia to cede lands north and west of the Ohio River to Congress (JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). description ends , XI, 649–50; NA: PCC, No. 69, fols. 565–71). 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, 291. Clark’s colleagues from New Jersey in Congress were Boudinot and Silas Condict.

3. For the “Report,” see JM Notes, 4 June, n. 2; 5 June, n. 1; 6 June 1783, and n. 1. Clark’s “Constituents,” the “legislative council and general assembly of New Jersey,” adopted a “representation and remonstrance” on 14 June, reaffirming their earlier resolutions on the subject and urging Congress to “press” Virginia “to make a more liberal surrender of that territory of which they claim so boundless a proportion.” This document was laid before Congress on 20 June (JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). description ends , XXIV, 407–9). See also JM Notes, 10 June 1783.