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On the recordFebruary 9, 1807
I communicate, for the information of Congress, a letter from Cowles Mead, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, to the Secretary of War, by which it will be seen that Mr. Burr had reached that neighborhood on the 13th of January
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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