Note 840 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
Annals, 10th Cong. 1st sess. 424-28 and see McCaleb, 77.
Professor McCaleb evidently doubts the disinterestedness of Morgan and his sons. He shows that they had been in questionable land transactions and, at this moment, were asking Congress to grant them a doubtful land claim. (See McCaleb, footnote to 77.)