“Whereupon, it is ordered, that the Marshal of this district, do cause
the front room of the house now occupied by Luther Martin, Esq., which
room has been and is used as a dining room, to be prepared for the
reception and safe-keeping of Colonel Aaron Burr, by securing the
shutters to the windows of the said room by bars, and the door by a
strong bar or pad-lock. And that he employ a guard of seven men to
be placed on the floor of the adjoining unfinished house, and on the
same story with the before described front room, and also, at the door
opening into the said front room; and upon the Marshal’s reporting to
the court that the said room has been so fitted up, and the guard
employed, that then the said Marshal be directed, and he is hereby
directed, to remove to the said room, the body of the said Aaron Burr
from the public gaol, there to be by him safely kept.”
This building now known as Blair’s Drug Store, still stands at the
corner of Ninth and Broad Streets, in the City of Richmond, Virginia.
The grand jury had on the day previous brought in indictments for
treason against Ex-Senator Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey, Ex-Senator
John Smith of Ohio, Comfort Tyler and Israel Smith of New York;
and Davis Floyd of the territory of Indiana. This completed their
inquiries, and after an appropriate address by the Chief Justice
in which he complimented them upon the great patience and cheerful
attention with which they had performed the arduous and laborious
duties in which they had been so long engaged, discharged them from
further attendance on the court.
After some discussion as to procedure, the clerk of the court read the
indictment against Burr, for treason against the United States, which
with the endorsements thereon (exclusive of the verdict of the trial
jury), is as follows:
“VIRGINIA DISTRICT:
“IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN AND FOR
THE FIFTH CIRCUIT AND VIRGINIA DISTRICT:
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