[5] [See [Appendix, note C].]
[6] See Girardin's History of Virginia, Appendix No. 12. note.
[7] [See [Appendix, note D].]
[8] [Here, in the original manuscript, commence the "two preceding sheets" referred to by Mr. Jefferson, [page 26], as containing "notes" taken by him "whilst these things were going on." They are easily distinguished from the body of the MS. in which they were inserted by him, being of a paper very different in size, quality and color, from that in which the latter is written.]
[9] July 9.
[10] [In this publication, the parts struck out are printed in Italics and inclosed in brackets.]
[11] [See [Appendix, note B].]
[12] [The above note of the author is on a slip of paper, pasted in at the end of the Declaration. Here is also sewed into the MS. a slip of newspaper containing, under the head "Declaration of Independence," a letter from Thomas M'Kean, to Messrs. William M'Corkle & Son, dated "Philadelphia, June 16, 1817." This letter is to be found in the Port Folio, Sept. 1817, p. 249.]
[13] [Here terminate the author's notes of the "earlier debates on the confederation," and recommences the MS. begun by him in 1821.]
[14] [See [Appendix, note A].]