1. Letter not found.

2. This resolution reads as follows: “Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be directed, and our Representatives be requested to obtain statements of the principles on which the accounts of this state with the United States, have been made out and reported on by the Commissioners for settling the same; and that particularly they procure to be made out, a statement of our several credits allowed and admitted on said settlement; and

“Resolved further, That they use their utmost endeavours to prevent any acquiescence, by law or otherwise, in the report of said Commissioners, until the General Assembly of this state shall be further advised as to said contracts.” (Journal of the House of Commons. North-Carolina. At a General Assembly begun and held at Fayetteville, on the second Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighteenth: It being the first Session of this Assembly [Halifax: Printed by Hodge and Wills, 1794], 63.)

3. The book for estimates and statements for 1794 of the register of the Treasury gives a “Digest of the Boxes containing the Individual State claims passed by the late board of Commissioners against the United states.” The material from North Carolina consists of six boxes of vouchers for state payments for services and supplies during the American Revolution. The contents are described as “a general jumble” and “an innumerable variety of individual settlements.” Most of the papers refer to ledger descriptions, but the ledgers were not deposited with the other documents (D, RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1794, Vol. “136-T,” National Archives).

4. On June 29, 1793, the commissioners for settling state accounts reached a final settlement of the state debts. Although North Carolina had anticipated a creditor status, she was declared one of the six debtor states, with a balance owed to the United States of five hunded thousand dollars.

5. Several requests were made in 1794 for records of the commissioners or for explanations of the means by which these settlements had been decided. On March 18, 1794, the Senate defeated a motion that “a committee be appointed to examine into and report on the practicability of obtaining statements of the principles on which the accounts of the individual States with the United States have been settled, and a statement of the several credits allowed in the said settlement” (Annals of Congress description begins The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature (Washington, 1834–1849). description ends , IV, 70–71). On April 8, 1794, the House defeated an identical resolution (Annals of Congress description begins The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature (Washington, 1834–1849). description ends , IV, 563).

On May 19, 1794, the House of Representatives proposed as a joint resolution of Congress “That the President of the United States be requested to cause such of the Executives of the several States as may apply for the same, to be furnished with a copy of the book marked A, deposited in the Treasury Department by the Commissioners who settled the accounts between the United States and the individual States” (Annals of Congress description begins The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature (Washington, 1834–1849). description ends , IV, 708–09). A “Digest of the Boxes containing the Individual State claims passed by the late board of Commissioners against the United states” notes “… a large book of accounts of the several states as exhibited on the Treasury books for the general board of commissioners—Journal A containing entries from the Journals of Congress—Minutes of the committee of claims, and vouchers produced by [Michael] Hillegas and [George] Clymer Treasurers” (D, RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1794, Vol. “136-T,” National Archives). The Senate defeated this resolution on May 22, 1794 (Annals of Congress description begins The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature (Washington, 1834–1849). description ends , IV, 105).