1. In New Hampshire Gov. John Taylor Gilman delivered an address on 3 Dec., at the beginning of the state’s legislative session, expressing support for George Washington and John Jay and decrying those who would attack the Jay Treaty without having full knowledge of the agreement. He noted, “For my own part, I freely declare that my confidence in the President, the negociator, and the Senators (who it is said advised to the ratification of a treaty) is not in the least degree impaired, and I find myself more zealously engaged to support the government and administrators than heretofore, believing, as I do, that attempts are making to destroy it.” In a unanimous response, the N.H. house of representatives, with the senate concurring, replied in full support of Gilman’s statement, expressing “abhorrence for those disturbers of the public peace, who have endeavoured to render abortive measures so well calculated to advance the happiness of our country.” Gilman (1753–1828), of Exeter, N.H., was governor of the state from 1794 to 1805 (Journal of the Proceedings of the Hon. House of Representatives of the State of New-Hampshire, at Their Session Begun and Holden at Concord, December, 1795, Portsmouth, N.H., 1796, p. 9–13, 17–21, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, 1903–1959; 14 vols. description ends No. 47847; A Journal of the Proceedings of the Honorable Senate of the State of New-Hampshire, at a Session of the General Court, Holden at Concord, December, 1795, Portsmouth, N.H., 1796, p. 21, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, 1903–1959; 14 vols. description ends No. 47848; ANB description begins John A. Garraty, Mark C. Carnes, and Paul Betz, eds., American National Biography, New York, 1999–2002; 24 vols. plus supplement; rev. edn., www.anb.org. description ends ).

The Maryland legislature, while not commenting on the treaty directly, unanimously approved and published a statement of support for Washington on 25 Nov. 1795. The legislature, “convinced that the prosperity of every free government is promoted by the existence of rational confidence between the people and their trustees, and is injured by misplaced suspicion and ill founded jealousy, … observing, with deep concern, a series of efforts, by indirect insinuation or open invective, to detach from the first magistrate of the union the well earned confidence of his fellow-citizens, think it their duty to declare … their unabated reliance on the integrity, judgment and patriotism, of the president of the United States” (Votes and Proceedings of the House of Delegates of the State of Maryland, November Session, 1795, Annapolis, Md., 1796, p. 36–37, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, 1903–1959; 14 vols. description ends No. 30749; Votes and Proceedings of the Senate of the State of Maryland, November Session, 1795, Annapolis, Md., 1796, p. 13, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, 1903–1959; 14 vols. description ends No. 30750).

By a two-to-one margin the Va. House of Delegates on 20 Nov. voted a resolution approving their U.S. senators’ opposition to the treaty. The next day the house further endorsed a resolution, “That this House do entertain the highest sence of the integrity and patriotism of the President of the United States; and that while they approve the vote of the Senators of this state in the Congress of the United States, relative to the treaty with Great Britain, they in no wise mean to censure the motives which influenced him in his conduct thereupon” (Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Begun … the Tenth Day of November, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Five, Richmond, Va., 1795, p. 25–30, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, 1903–1959; 14 vols. description ends No. 31502).

2. Washington’s speech to Congress appeared in the Boston Federal Orrery, 17 December.