2. Or maybe not. There are no eyewitness accounts of this famous incident other than Jefferson’s—two versions of which came to light many years after the fact. Hamilton and Madison left no mention of any such deal, and the linkage of assumption and residence is at least open to question: for many members of Congress, as indeed for Hamilton himself, the really tough issue was whether to fund at 6 percent or 4 percent, not where the capital would be. Everybody, on the other hand, knew that some kind of understanding had resolved the crisis—if not the one described by Jefferson—and that getting the capital out of New York was somehow a part of it.