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THE TRIAL OF AARON BURR
THE TRIAL
OF AARON BURR
BY
JOSEPH P. BRADY
Clerk of the United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Virginia
NEW YORK
THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1913
Copyright, 1913, by
The Neale Publishing Company
PREFACE
Among the records of the United StatesCourts at Richmond, Virginia, are the originalpapers in the case of the “United States versusAaron Burr, Indictment for Treason.” Thetawny fingers of time have dealt gently withthese papers, and although more than a centuryold they are still in a good state of preservation.
The story of the trial of Aaron Burr has oftenbeen written, and there is little new that canbe added; but these old manuscripts and officialdocuments, so historic in their character, shouldat least in some form survive the ravages oftime. It is with this thought in mind, and withthe hope that possibly some fact not alreadyrecorded in history might be disclosed by theoriginal papers, that this brief history is written.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Chief Justice Marshall | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Warrant for arrest of Burr | 20 |
| Affidavit of Burr for subpœna duces tecum for President Jefferson | 40 |
| Subpœna duces tecum for President Jefferson | 50 |
| Subpœna duces tecum for President Jefferson (continued) | 50 |
| Findings of the Grand and Petit Juries | 70 |
THE TRIAL OF AARONBURR
On the evening of the 26th of March, 1807,Aaron Burr, attended by a military guard ofnine men, under the command of Major NicholasP