William C. Jenckes (jenks), Charles ludlow, and Oliver Hazard perry had all returned from the Mediterranean in the frigate Adams. On 21 Nov., following the ship’s arrival at Washington, Smith ordered the Adams dismantled and its crew paid off “without delay” (NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939-44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801-1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , 2:101, 436; 3:96, 233; Register, 28, 32, 42, 67-8).

the midshipman: possibly William H. Thom, a midshipman from the frigate Chesapeake. On 8 Nov., Smith granted Thom permission to make a voyage to Europe. He sailed on the schooner Citizen, the private vessel chartered to carry the ratified Louisiana treaty to France and gun carriages to Morocco (Smith to Thom, 8 Nov., DNA: RG 45, LSO; NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939-44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801-1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , 3:401, 452, 460, 464; Register, 55). On 26 Nov., TJ received an undated letter from John Strode, which has not been found but is recorded in SJL with notation “Hedgeman Thom.”