1. Silas Hodges (1741–1804), formerly a doctor, worked as an agent to detect conspiracies against Connecticut and the United States. Massachusetts, and probably New Hampshire, authorities had employed him for the same purpose (see Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut, description begins Louis F. Middlebrook. History of Maritime Connecticut during the American Revolution, 1775–1783. 2 vols. Salem, Mass., 1925. description ends 1:208–11). Connecticut governor Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., wrote New York governor George Clinton in a letter of 5 Aug. that Hodges was “faithful, and well qualified” (Hastings and Holden, Clinton Papers, description begins Hugh Hastings and J. A. Holden, eds. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777–1795, 1801–1804. 10 vols. 1899–1914. Reprint. New York, 1973. description ends 5:184). After the war, Hodges moved to Clarendon, Vt., and became a merchant.

2. The enclosure, presumably a letter from Trumbull to GW, has not been found.