1. Not found. JQA arrived in Philadelphia on 9 July to meet with George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Randolph as preparation for his mission to the Netherlands. Following in his father’s footsteps, JQA was instructed to maintain the Dutch-American loans. He was also to report any changes in Dutch foreign policy toward revolutionary France. JQA spent ten days reading six volumes of JA’s dispatches from Europe, compiled by John Jay (vol. 19:125; AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 10:208, 211, 222, 224; Bemis, JQA description begins Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams, New York, 1949–1956; 2 vols. Vol. 1: John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy; Vol. 2: John Quincy Adams and the Union. description ends , 1:50).

2. This “great crisis” erupted into the final confrontation of the Whiskey Rebellion, a powerful uprising of western Pennsylvania citizens who protested the 3 March 1791 tax on distilled spirits by assaulting excise collectors, burning their homes, and clashing with local militia. On 8 May 1792 Congress passed another excise tax. Opposition to the new tax blossomed on the frontier, where farmers grew corn and rye, which were used to make whiskey that was sold commercially. In western Pennsylvania, the antagonism grew fierce. Fruitlessly, Washington called for enforcement of the legislation and recommended protection for the excise collectors. The violence escalated on 16 July 1794, when armed men attacked John Neville, the regional supervisor for collection of the federal excise in western Pennsylvania, and then burned his estate. At least three people were killed. On 7 Aug., Washington called out the militia to suppress the rebellion. For the insurgency’s conclusion and consequences, see the Senate’s [22 Nov.] address to Washington, and note 2, below (vol. 20:xxxii; AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 10:xii–xiii, 187, 222, 224, 486; U.S. Statutes at Large description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, 1789– , Boston and Washington, D.C., 1845– . description ends , 1:267–71; Washington, Papers, Presidential Series description begins The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series, ed. W. W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, Jack D. Warren, Mark A. Mastromarino, Robert F. Haggard, Christine S. Patrick, John C. Pinheiro, David R. Hoth, Jennifer Stertzer and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1987– . description ends , 15:275–277).