Letter from George Washington to Henry Knox, March 2, 1797, in secretary's hand. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. The Papers of George Washington. Online in George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799.

Inaugural Address, March 4, 1797. Transcription from The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut.

Journal of the Senate, Volume 2, Appendix, March 4, 1797, (address pp. 398-401; entire session, pp. 397-401). Library of Congress. The Law Library of Congress. Online in A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873.

John Adams, President of the United States of America, 1797. Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-126308 (b&w film copy neg.).

A New Display of the United States, 1799. Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-1798 (b&w film copy neg.).