1. When H wrote this letter, he and his wife were living at De Peyster’s Point, where they had moved in mid-April, 1781, after H had left his position as aide-de-camp to George Washington. See H to Philip Schuyler, February 18, 1781 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , II, 563–68); H to Jeremiah Wadsworth, April 16, 1781 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , II, 593). H lived at De Peyster’s Point until late May, when he moved to Schuyler’s house in Albany. During this period, he returned at least once to Washington’s headquarters at New Windsor, New York, to assist Washington. See Washington to Comte de Rochambeau, April 30, 1781 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , II, 636).

2. Alexander Scammell.