[959] Cabot to King, March 10, 1799; King, ii, 551.
[960] Cabot to King, Feb. 16, 1799; ib., 543.
[961] Ames to Pickering, March 12, 1799; Works: Ames, i, 253.
[962] Ames to Pickering, Oct. 19, 1799; ib., 257.
[963] Uriah Tracy to McHenry, Sept. 2, 1799; Steiner, 417.
[964] Ames to Pickering, Nov. 5, 1799; Works: Ames, i, 260-61.
[965] Ames to Pickering, March 12, 1799; Works: Ames, i, 254.
[966] "Men of principal influence in the Federal party ... began to entertain serious doubts about his [Adams's] fitness for the station, yet ... they thought it better to indulge their hopes than to listen to their fears, [and] ... determined to support Mr. Adams for the Chief Magistracy." ("Public Conduct, etc., John Adams"; Hamilton: Works: Lodge, vii, 318.)
[967] Ames to Dwight, Feb. 27, 1799; Works: Ames, i, 252.
[968] Ames to Pickering, Nov. 5, 1799; ib., 260.