[299] Mary C. Crawford, Romantic Days of the Early Republic, 219.
[300] Memoirs, March 3, 1830.
[301] Ibid., July 8, 1829.
[302] Adams’s Memoirs, Feb. 6, 1830.
[303] Van Buren probably gives the true story in his Autobiography, 343-44.
[304] Adams’s Memoirs.
[305] Later Vice-President and noted as slayer of Tecumseh.
[306] Letter from Branch, in Haywood’s Branch.
[307] First Forty Years, 311.
[308] The story of the resignation is told in detail in Van Buren’s Autobiography.