41
A search of the National Archives has failed to discover these documents, and the librarians believe that they were destroyed in fires during the War of 1812.
42
Philadelphia City Archives, Records Group 130.1, Mayor' s Court Docket, July 1802-August 1808, page 250. Kindly supplied by Jefferson Moaks, archivist.
43
Surviving correspondence between Gov. McKean and President Jefferson makes no mention of this affair.
44
Archives of Pennsylvania, 9th Series, vol. III, p. 2153-4.