Tr (DNA: RG 46, Senate Records, 1st Cong., 3rd sess.); 1 p.; extract; at head of text: “Extract from a letter of Governor Blount to the secretary of State—dated 26th. November 1790.” Recorded in SJL as received 23 Dec. 1790 from the “Southern territy.”

On 17 Feb. 1791 Daniel Smith wrote TJ from “William Cobb’s” in the Southwest Territory accepting his commission as territorial secretary “forwarded from your Office,” and reporting that he had taken the requisite oaths and would soon send a copy of the governor’s executive acts (RC in DNA: RG 59, SWT; at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esquire Secretary of State”; endorsed by TJ as received 11 Mch. 1791 and so recorded in SJL; printed in Terr. Papers, iv, 46). John McNairy wrote TJ from the Southwest Territory on 7 Mch. 1791 accepting his commission as territorial judge and reporting that he had begun to discharge his duties but that Peery, reportedly also appointed a judge, “is not come forward, nor have we any information from him” (RC in DNA: RG 59, SWT; at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esquire”; printed in Terr. Papers, description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934–, 28 vols. description ends iv, 49; see Vol. 17: 293n). On 1 Sep. 1792 Smith wrote a brief note to TJ from Knoxville transmitting “another report of the acts of Governor Blount in his executive department” (RC in DNA: RG 59, SWT, at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson Esquire Secretary of State,” endorsed by TJ as received 4 Dec. 1792 and so recorded in SJL; Tr in DNA: RG 76, Yazoo Land Claims; printed in Terr. Papers, description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934–, 28 vols. description ends iv, 167). The enclosure was the Journal of the Executive Proceedings of Governor Blount of the Southwest Territory, 1 Mch.-29 July 1792, Tr in DNA: RG 59, SWT, in Smith’s hand, endorsed by George Taylor, Jr.; Tr in DNA: RG 76, Yazoo Land Claims; printed in Terr. Papers, description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934–, 28 vols. description ends iv, 447–51).