Reports Of The Trials Of Colonel Aaron Burr Late Vice President Of The United States For Treason And

by Aaron Burr

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First edition

Philadelphia, PA : Hopkins and Earle, 1808. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: 8 , 596; 4 , 539 pp. With the half-title to volume two half-title wanting in volume one . At this trial Burr was acquitted of the charges of treason arising from revelations of a conspiracy involving the western states passed to President Jefferson by General James Wilkinson who had been involved; Burr 1756-1836 , Jefferson's vice-president, 1801-1805, had been dropped from the 1804

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