1. Henry Remsen Jr. (1762–1843), of New York City, had acted as the undersecretary for foreign affairs since 1784 and became chief clerk of the State Department five years later. In 1792 he joined the New York branch of the Bank of the United States as a teller, eventually rising to serve as president from 1808 to 1826 (Walter Barrett, The Old Merchants of New York City, 5 vols., N.Y., 1885, 5:69–70, 75; Jay, Selected Papers description begins The Selected Papers of John Jay, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll and others, Charlottesville, Va., 2010– . description ends , 3:619; Jefferson, Papers description begins The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, James P. McClure, and others, Princeton, N.J., 1950– . description ends , 17:358; Millard F. Roberts, A Narrative History of Remsen, New York, Syracuse, N.Y., 1914, p. 235).

2. Congress last met on 27 Oct. 1787 but accomplished little as the states began to debate ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and it did not reconvene until 21 Jan. 1788. A copy of Congress’ Journals for the period from 6 Nov. 1786 to 30 Oct. 1787 are in JA’s library at MB (JCC description begins Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford, Gaillard Hunt, John C. Fitzpatrick, Roscoe R. Hill, and others, Washington, D.C., 1904–1937; 34 vols. description ends , 32:vii, 34:v; Catalogue of JA’s Library description begins Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston, Boston, 1917. description ends ).