1. Not found.

2. JQA wrote to Shaw on 5 Dec. (MWA: Adams Family Letters), requesting that he pay a $38 assessment on each of JQA’s six shares in the Neponset River Bridge Corporation. He instructed Shaw to draw upon rent due on 1 Jan. 1804 from Tilly Whitcomb, who was leasing for $200 per quarter a house in Half-Court Square that JQA purchased on 6 Nov. 1802. The Neponset River Bridge Corporation was established by the Mass. General Court on 11 March 1802 to construct and maintain a toll bridge on a new highway from Quincy to Boston. JQA was a founding shareholder, purchasing five shares initially, adding two more on 10 Sept. 1803, then selling one a week later. He retained the remaining six shares for more than four decades, a lucrative investment that yielded shareholders a combined profit of $145,272 by 1841. JQA also referred to his longer held investment in the Middlesex Canal, recording on the day he wrote this letter that he received from Shaw a receipt for the payment of the 88th assessment on the shares (vols. 13:51, 248, 545–546; 14:175–176; M/JQA/12, APM Reel 209; D/JQA/24, APM Reel 27; D/JQA/45, 8 July 1845, APM Reel 48; Pattee, Old Braintree description begins William S. Pattee, A History of Old Braintree and Quincy, with a Sketch of Randolph and Holbrook, Quincy, 1878. description ends , p. 71).

3. Jacob Wagner (1772–1825) was chief clerk of the U.S. State Department from 1794 to 1807 and assisted both JA and JQA with administrative matters (Marshall, Papers description begins The Papers of John Marshall, ed. Herbert A. Johnson, Charles F. Hobson, and others, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1974–2006; 12 vols. description ends , 4:30; Doc. Hist. Supreme Court description begins The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789–1800, ed. Maeva Marcus, James R. Perry, and others, New York, 1985–2007; 8 vols. description ends , 1:167; Wagner to JA, 12 July 1800; to JQA, 11 Sept. 1801, both Adams Papers).

4. Attorney John Ward Gurley (1778–1808), Yale 1799, of Lebanon, Conn., leased JQA’s Court Street house in Boston early in 1803. JQA recorded in September that Gurley had “forfeited the lease, by a breach of its agreements,” and had announced his intention to remove to New Orleans. Gurley was residing in New Orleans by 1804, and Thomas Jefferson appointed him land office register for the Eastern District of Orleans Territory in March 1805. Boston lawyer Richard Sullivan (1779–1861), Harvard 1798, of Groton, Mass., was the son of Massachusetts attorney general James Sullivan (Albert E. Gurley, The History and Genealogy of the Gurley Family, Hartford, Conn., 1897, p. 70–71; M/JQA/12, APM Reel 209; Boston Directory, 1803 description begins Boston Directory [title varies], issued annually with varying imprints. description ends , Shaw-Shoemaker description begins Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819, New York, 1958–1966; 22 vols.; supplemental edn., Early American Imprints, www.readex.com. description ends 3862; D/JQA/24, 20 April, 21 Sept., APM Reel 27; Madison, Papers, Secretary of State Series description begins The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series, ed. Robert J. Brugger, Mary A. Hackett, David B. Mattern, and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1986– . description ends , 9:123, 125; Thomas C. Amory, Memoir of Hon. Richard Sullivan, Cambridge, 1885, p. 3, 7, 8; Harvard Quinquennial Cat. description begins Harvard University, Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates, 1636–1930, Cambridge, 1930. description ends ).