The trick to load a system note is to create a search that returns a single result.
//get one system note record
var ss = search.create({
type: search.Type.SYSTEM_NOTE,
columns: ['date', 'recordtype', 'record', 'field', 'oldvalue', 'newvalue'],
filters: [['role', 'is', '3']] //administrator
}).run().getRange(0,1);