1. JA did not read the presidential electors’ votes in the Senate until 13 Feb. 1793, for which see his 18 Feb. letter to Jeremy Belknap, and note 1, below. But by 19 Dec. 1792, JA felt the political winds were in his favor. As he wrote to AA: “I own I can See no Tryumph in obtaining more Votes than Mr Clinton: if the Services of J.A. can be compared to those of G. C. if the Sacrifices, if the Sufferings, if the Talents if the Experience, if the Knowledge of one can be brought down to a Comparison with the other, it is high time to quit Such a service” (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 9:351–352, 361, 510).

2. New York City merchants Herman Le Roy and William Bayard operated the firm of Le Roy & Bayard, which maintained a branch office in Philadelphia (Hamilton, Papers description begins The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Harold C. Syrett, Jacob E. Cooke, and others, New York, 1961–1987; 27 vols. description ends , 9:32).