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On the recordJanuary 21, 1807
By this time it was known that many boats were under preparation, stores of provisions collecting, and an unusual number of suspicious characters in motion on the Ohio and its waters.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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Message to Congress on the Burr Conspiracy

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