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INTERROGATORIES

1. DO you know Aaron Burr, late of state of New York, and how long have you
known him? Have you been well or intimately acquainted wit him, and when did you ac-
quaintance commence?

2. Have you at any and at what time, had any conversation with the said Aaron Burr, or
any of his associates, or any person or persons who acknowledged themselves such on the
subject of any and what expedition or enterprize, which they had prepared or were about to
prepare, or set foot on within territory or jurisdiction of the United States, or without
the limits of the same? If yea; relate all the said conversation fully, particularly, and at
large.

3. Was it a military expedition or enterprize? And if it were; what were the osten-
sible object of the same? What number of men associated and combined for the purpose
of accomplishing those objects ? What were the names of all or any of them? In what
manner were they associated and combined? Were any and what number of men, and
what were the names of all or any of them, enlisted in the service of the said Aaron Burr,
and his associates, and by whom were they enlisted? Did they or any of them, receive any
bounty money, cloathing, arms, ammunition provisions, equipments or pay ? At what
place or places were they enlisted, and when and were they to rendezvous ? In what
manner were they to reach the place of rendezvous ? Were they to move forward under
various pretexts and different pretences in small bodies, or trifling numbers ? Were they
to assume the characters of common travellers on the road, or were they to march like sol-
diers, on their way to the destined point, place or places of rendezvous ?

4. According to the best of your knowledge, information and belief, what were the real
objects of the said Aaron Burr and his associates ? Was the said military expedition in-
tended against the dominions or provinces of any foreign prince or state, with whom the
United States are at peace ? And as the means of accomplishing such unlawful objects, did
they intend to revolutionize the territories of Louisiana, Mississippi or New Orleans, to put
down the existing governments in all or either of them, to seize the shipping and plunder
the banks at New Orleans, to seize on any arms, ammunition or warlike stores and provi-
sions wherever they were to be found in the said territories or either of them, for the pur-
pose of equipping themselves for the conquest of the Floridas or of Mexico ? Were they to
assemble on any, and what day, and at what place, to the amount of five hundred men or
more, and was the said Aaron Burr rapidly to descend the Mississippi, with the first five
hundred so assembled, as far as the town of Natches; to usurp the powers of the govern-
ment of the Mississippi territory, and to proceed from thence to seize on Baton Rouge, and
afterwards to revolutionize the territory or city of Orleans, and proceed to the conquest
of Mexico ?

5. Or was not their object to separate the western states and territories of the United
States, from the Atlantic states, to establish by force of arms an independent government, of
which the said Aaron Burr was to be the Monarch or Emperor, and the capital of which was
to be fixed at New Orleans ? Or did they extend their views so far, as ultimately to contem-
plate a complete and total revolution by force, throughout the United States, so as to reduce
them to subjection, under the government of the said Aaron Burr, and his associates ?
Have you heard at any, and at what time, the said Aaron Burr say, that with five hundred men
he either could or would send the President of the United States to Monticello, or assassin-