1. Besides electing Randolph for the succeeding term, the Virginia General Assembly also named him to fill out the unexpired term of Benjamin Harrison, who had declined to serve (Journal of the House of Delegates description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of Virginia, March 1781 Session in Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, XVII, No. 1 (January 1928). description ends , May 1781, pp. 18–19). Randolph took his seat in Congress on 16 July 1781 and quickly became an influential member of that body (JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). description ends , XX, 750).

2. Blair never attended Congress. His resignation of the appointment was laid before the House of Delegates on 19 November 1781. On the 30th of that month the General Assembly by joint ballot chose Thomas Jefferson in Blair’s stead. On 19 December Jefferson declined the appointment. Ten days later the General Assembly elected Arthur Lee, then a member of the House of Delegates from Prince William County. Lee entered Congress on 19 February 1782 (Journal of the House of Delegates description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of Virginia, March 1781 Session in Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, XVII, No. 1 (January 1928). description ends , October 1781, pp. 8, 23, 49, 62–63; JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). description ends , XXII, 77–78).

3. Archibald Cary (1721–1787) of Ampthill, Chesterfield County, a planter, manufacturer, and mill operator, had been active in Virginia government since 1748, as a burgess, a member of the colonial committee of correspondence, a member of all the Revolutionary conventions, and also as the speaker of the state Senate, an office which, with the exception of one session when he was ill, he filled from 1776 until his death (Robert K. Brock, Archibald Cary of Ampthill, Wheelhorse of the Revolution [Richmond, Va., 1937], pp. 7, 12, 72, 101, 134).

4. The Virginia delegation presented these credentials to Congress on 5 November 1781 (JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). description ends , XXI, 1103–4).