Knox's warrant to Wadsworth to pay [dollar sign] 3000 to Captain Joseph Wilcox paymaster to the quota of troops raised by the state of Connecticut agreeably to the resolve of Congress of the 20th of October 1786...being the amount of an order of the board of Treasury on William Imlay Esqr. receiver of continental taxes for the state of Connecticut... The troops were raised to quell Shays's Rebellion. Noted as written at the War Office.

Expresses his unhappiness over not yet receiving the warrants he needs to pay the balance for rations at Springfield, Massachusetts. These warrants were likely related to raising troops to quell Shays' Rebellion. Wadsworth writes, the troops may perhaps disband for want of food. Mentions more instances of insurgency in the state, including an incident in which Sergeant Hill and eleven recruits were beaten by some men that spoke favorably of Shays. They were sent to prison but all escaped except Sergeant Hill and two recruits. Free handwritten on address leaf with no signature.

This volume brings Jefferson back to the U.S. from France, to become the first American Secretary of State, and marks the beginning of Jefferson's work in the Cabinet with Alexander Hamilton.