1. Merchant Benjamin Nones (1757–1826) was born in France and immigrated to America as a youth. He fought in the American Revolution, rising to the rank of major, and after the war was active in civic and religious life in Philadelphia. He was a Republican, and his reply to a Federalist anti-Semitic attack on him in August 1800, which contains paragraphs beginning “I am a Jew,” “I am a Republican,” and “I am poor,” was published in the Philadelphia Aurora and has often been reprinted. Nones had fourteen children; it is not known to which of his sons he referred (Michael Feldberg, ed., Blessings of Freedom: Chapters in American Jewish History [Hoboken, N.J., 2002], 40–41; Boyd, Papers of Thomas Jefferson description begins Julian P. Boyd et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (41 vols. to date; Princeton, N.J., 1950–). description ends , 33:358 n.).

2. The enclosure has not been found, but for the memorial, see ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Foreign Relations, 2:740–41.