Source: VIRGINIA DISTRICT:
In the Circuit Court of the United States of America in and for the fifth
circuit and Virginia district.
The grand inquest of the
United States of America, for the Virginia district, upon their oath, do
present, that AARON BURR, . . . on the tenth day of December, in the year of
Christ one thousand eight hundred and six, at a certain place called and known
by the name of Blennerhassett's island, in the county
of Wood, and district of Virginia aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of
this court, with force and arms, unlawfully, falsely, maliciously and
traitorously did compass, imagine and intend to raise and levy war,
insurrection and rebellion against the said United States, and in order to
fulfill and bring to effect the said traitorous compassings,
imaginations and intentions of him the said Aaron Burr, he, the said Aaron
Burr, afterwards, to wit, on the said tenth day of December, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and six aforesaid, at the said
island called Blennerhassett's island as aforesaid,
in the county of Wood aforesaid, in the district of Virginia aforesaid, and
within the jurisdiction of this court, with a great multitude of persons whose
names at present are unknown to the grand inquest aforesaid, to a great number,
to wit: To the number of thirty persons and upwards, armed and arrayed in a
warlike manner, that is to say, with guns, swords and dirks, and other warlike
weapons, as well offensive as defensive, being then and there unlawfully,
maliciously and traitorously assembled and gathered together, did falsely and
traitorously assemble and join themselves together against the said United
States, and then and there with force and arms did falsely and traitorously,
and in a warlike and hostile manner, array and dispose themselves against the
said United States.... did array themselves in a warlike manner, with guns and
other weapons, offensive and defensive, and did proceed from the said island down the river Ohio in the county aforesaid,
within the Virginia district and within the jurisdiction of this court, on the
... eleventh day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and six
aforesaid, with the wicked and traitorous intention to descend the said river
and the river Mississippi, and by force and arms traitorously to take
possession of a city commonly called New Orleans, in the territory of Orleans,
belonging to the United States, contrary to the duty of their said allegiance
and fidelity, against the constitution, peace and dignity of the said United
States, and against the form of the act of the Congress of the United States in
such case made and provided.
HAY, Attorney of the United States, for the Virginia district.