1. See Jefferson to GW, 18 May (first letter); see also JPP, description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends 143.

2. For William Short’s letter to Jefferson, in which he discussed European politics and American relations with Algiers, see Jefferson Papers, description begins Julian P. Boyd et al., eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 41 vols. to date. Princeton, N.J., 1950–. description ends 25:321–31.

3. Jefferson had received this correspondence, which concerned the Creek Indians, in a letter of 12 May from Spanish consuls José Ignacio de Viar and José de Jaudenes (ibid., 26:14–17). Included were letters from John Forrester, an agent of Panton, Leslie & Co., to Juan Nepomuceno de Quesada y Barnuevo, governor of East Florida, of 18 Feb., 13, 19, 28 Mar., 8, 20 April, letters from Quesada to Forrester of 16, 22 Mar., and a declaration from James Dearment to Quesada of 18 April 1793. The Dearment declaration is printed in Caughey, McGillivray of the Creeks, description begins John Walton Caughey. McGillivray of the Creeks. Norman, Okla., 1938. description ends 357.

4. Jefferson had received a copy of the 1 June 1784 Treaty of Pensacola between Spain and the Creek Indians and a copy of the 14 May 1792 Treaty of Natchez between Spain and the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, which were enclosed, respectively, in letters from Viar and Jaudenes of 7, 12 May (Jefferson Papers, 25:677–78, 26:9–10). The treaties are printed in ASP, Foreign Relations, description begins Walter Lowrie et al., eds. American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 38 vols. Washington, D.C., Gales and Seaton, 1832–61. description ends 1:278–80.

5. For Jefferson’s letter to Ternant, see Jefferson to GW, 16 May, and note 1.

6. The text of this translation of Edmond Genet’s letter of credence as French minister to the United States, issued by the Provisional Executive Council of France on 30 Dec. 1792 and presented to GW on 18 May 1793, is printed in Jefferson Papers, description begins Julian P. Boyd et al., eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 41 vols. to date. Princeton, N.J., 1950–. description ends 26:48–49. For the translation of Ternant’s recall letter, see Provisional Executive Council of France to GW, 30 Dec. 1792.

7. See Rodolph Vall-Travers to GW, 15–29 Mar. 1793.