1. Most probably James Hunter, Jr. (1746–1788), a Fredericksburg merchant with whom the Madisons had many business dealings (R. Walter Coakley, “The Two James Hunters of Fredericksburg, Patriots among the Virginia Scotch Merchants,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, LVI [1948], 3–21).

2. The Assembly of Virginia established a loan office in Williamsburg in June 1777. Any citizen might lend $200 or more through this office to the Continental Congress and receive in return a loan certificate bearing 6 per cent annual interest and maturing after three years (Journal of the House of Delegates description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Begun and Held At the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. Beginning in 1780, the portion after the semicolon reads, Begun and Held in the Town of Richmond. In the County of Henrico. The Journal for each session has its own title page and is individually paginated. The edition used, unless otherwise noted, is the one in which the journals for 1777–1781 are brought together in one volume, with each journal published in Richmond in 1827 or 1828, and often called the “Thomas W. White reprint.” description ends , May 1777, p. 112; Hening, Statutes description begins William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (13 vols.; Richmond and Philadelphia, 1819–23). description ends , IX, 283–85). By an act of 6 December 1779, the loan certificates, which were to mature on 1 March 1780, were made acceptable in payment for such public lands of Virginia as were for sale (Journal of the House of Delegates description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Begun and Held At the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. Beginning in 1780, the portion after the semicolon reads, Begun and Held in the Town of Richmond. In the County of Henrico. The Journal for each session has its own title page and is individually paginated. The edition used, unless otherwise noted, is the one in which the journals for 1777–1781 are brought together in one volume, with each journal published in Richmond in 1827 or 1828, and often called the “Thomas W. White reprint.” description ends , October 1779, p. 80; Hening, Statutes description begins William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (13 vols.; Richmond and Philadelphia, 1819–23). description ends , X, 148).

3. Isaac Zane, Jr.

4. The Virginia Assembly adjourned on 26 June 1779. William Moore, a member of the House of Delegates, was evidently returning to his home in Orange County.