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(BURR WILKINSON CONSPIRACY.) Report of the Committee, Appointed to Inquire into the Conduct of Brigadier Gen. J. Wilkinson.
(BURR WILKINSON CONSPIRACY.) Report of the Committee, Appointed to Inquire into the Conduct of Brigadier Gen. J. Wilkinson. 5 folding tables. 217 pages. 8vo, disbound; foxing and browning; uncut. Washington: Roger C. Weightman, 1810
- Notes: a burr wilkinson conspiracy rarity. "Report of the congressional inquiry in relation to Wilkinson''s having received money from Spain and having been an accomplice with Burr in a plot to dismember the Union. It is an important document of the conspiracy, containing the secret letters and correspondence of Carondelet, Wilkinson, Power, Philip Nolan, Portell and others; the reports of various members of the intrigue on the state of the Western Country and people; reports of observation, negotiation and travel through the Mississippi Valley from New Orleans to Detroit; with depositions of the informants, etc."--Eberstadt 134:89; Streeter Sale 1699; Tompkins 80. We could find no copy appearing at auction since the Streeter Sale.
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