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On the recordFebruary 18, 1807
Also a letter from Cowles Mead, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, acting as governor, informing us that Aaron Burr had surrendered himself to the civil authority of that Territory.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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