10. AD, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

11. Powers, a resident of Westmoreland County, was a delegate to the meeting between the insurgents and the commissioners of the United States and Pennsylvania on August 21–23, 1794. See William Bradford to H, August 23, 1794, note 3.

12. James Kerr of Washington County was granted bail on January 13, 1795.

13. H is referring to Captain Robert Porter, an officer during the American Revolution, who refused to sign the amnesty. On May 18, 1795, he was acquitted in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Pennsylvania District (Wharton, State Trials description begins Francis Wharton, State Trials of the United States During the Administrations of Washington and Adams (Philadelphia, 1849). description ends , 174–75, and Brackenridge, Insurrection description begins Henry M. Brackenridge, History of the Western Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania, Commonly Called the Whiskey Insurrection, 1794 (Pittsburgh, 1859). description ends , 331). Porter kept an account of the Whiskey Insurrection, which is published in part in Brackenridge, Insurrection description begins Henry M. Brackenridge, History of the Western Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania, Commonly Called the Whiskey Insurrection, 1794 (Pittsburgh, 1859). description ends , 328–32.

14. John Flanagan had been a delegate from Cline’s district to a meeting of Washington County insurgents on August 23, 1791. For the resolutions of the meeting, see H to Washington, August 5, 1794, note 6.

15. John Gaston, a client of Hugh H. Brackenridge, had received the following note from “Tom the Tinker”: “You will please to have this [notice] printed in the Pittsburgh paper, this week, or you may abide by the consequence” (Brackenridge, Incidents description begins Hugh H. Brackenridge, Incidents of the Insurrection in the Western Parts of Pennsylvania, in the Year 1794 (Philadelphia, 1795). description ends , II, 9). Gaston took the notice to John Scull, printer of The Pittsburgh Gazette, and the item appeared in the issue of September 13, 1794. For “Tom the Tinker,” see H to Washington, November 17, 1794.

16. Husy was a resident of Washington County.

17. McGill was a resident of Cannonsburg, Washington County.

18. Martin was a resident of Washington County.

19. Nathaniel Martin came from Washington County.

20. H is probably referring to Thomas McComb, one of the insurgents who attacked Robert Johnson in September, 1791. See H to Washington, August 5, 1794, note 18.

21. Robinson had been a delegate to a Pittsburgh meeting of the insurgents on August 21–22, 1792. See H to Tench Coxe, September 1, 1792, note 5.

22. Johnson was a resident of Westmoreland County.