The Vindication: prior to this date, the agents of the New England Mississippi Land Company had published two pamphlets regarding their Yazoo claims. These pamphlets differed only in that one included the text of Perez Morton and Gideon Granger’s memorial to Congress (A Vindication of the Rights of the New England Mississippi Land Company, by the Agents of Said Company [Washington, D.C., 1804]; Memorial of the Agents of the New England Mississippi Land Company to Congress, with A Vindication of Their Title at Law Annexed [Washington, D.C., 1804]; JHR description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1826, 9 vols. description ends , 5:28; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1832-61, 38 vols. description ends , Public Lands, 1:191-2).

V. Y. Co.: the Virginia Yazoo Company had petitioned Congress for financial relief in December 1803 (Memorial, &c. of the Virginia Yazoo Company, to the Congress of the United States [Washington, D.C., 1803]; JHR description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1826, 9 vols. description ends , 4:504; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1832-61, 38 vols. description ends , Public Lands, 1:157-63).