Thomas Jefferson: “I inclose a report of the Secretary of War, stating the trading houses established in the Indian territories.”

$990 were paid to the order of Governor Williams on the same account.

His influence in negotiations for peace may be of value to the United States should arrangements of any sort affecting them be contemplated by other powers in the present extraordinary state of the world;

I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the year 1808.

I have thought that the friendly dispositions of such a power might be advantageously cherished by a mission which should manifest our willingness to meet his good will.