[494] See infra, 192-96.
[495] See supra, chap. iii, 113.
[496] "Mr Burr had the sole power of making the arrangements ... for the trial." (Plumer to Sheafe, Jan. 9, 1805, Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.)
[497] Annals, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 100; Chase Trial, 2-5.
[498] Plumer to Norris, Nov. 7, 1804, Plumer, 329.
[499] See infra, chap. vi.
[500] See J. Q. Adams to his father, Jan. 5, 1805, Writings, J. Q. A.: Ford, iii, 104.
[501] Plumer, 274. "John S. Sherburne, Jonathan Steele, Michael McCleary and Richard Cutts Shannon were the principal witnesses against Pickering. Sherburne was appointed Judge [in Pickering's place]; Steele, District Attorney; McCleary, Marshal; and Shannon, Clerk of the Court.... Steele, expecting to have been Judge refused to accept his appointment, assigning as the reason his agency in the removal of Pickering."
[502] Plumer, 329-30; and see Adams: U.S. ii, 220.
[503] Nov. 26, 1804, Memoirs, J. Q. A.: Adams, i, 317-18; and Adams, U.S. ii, 220-22.