of Wood aforesaid, in the Virginia district, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, in pursuance of such their traitorous intentions, and purposes aforesaid, he the said Aaron Burr with the said persons so as aforesaid traitorously assembled and armed and arrayed in manner aforesaid, most wickedly, maliciously and traitorously did ordain, prepare and levy war against the said United States, and further to fulfil and carry into effect the said traitorous compassings, imaginations and intentions of the said Aaron Burr against the said United States, and to carry on the war thus levied as aforesaid against the said United States, the said Aaron Burr with the multitude last mentioned at the island aforesaid, in the said County of Wood, within the Virginia district aforesaid and within the jurisdiction of this court, 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 said 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. “Witness in behalf of the United States. 1. Thomas Truxton 2. Stephen Decatur 3. Benjamin Stoddert 4. William Eaton 5. William Duane 6. Erick Bollman 7. Peter Taylor 8. Jacob Allbright 9. Charles Willie 10. John Graham 11. Saml. Swartout 12. Julien Dupeistre 13. Prevost 14. James Miller 15. Saml. Kouten 16. George Morgan 17. John Morgan 18. Thomas Morgan 19. Nicholas Perkins 20. Robert Spence 21. George Harris 22. Cyrus Jones 23. Thomas Peterkin 24. Elias Glover 25. Simeon Poole 26. Dudley Woodbridge 27. David C. Wallace 28. Edward W. Tupper 29. Edmund B. Dana 30. James Read 31. John G. Henderson 32. Alex. Henderson 34. Ambrose Smith 35. Hugh Phelps 36. Gen. Wilkinson 37. Dunbaugh 38. Charles Lindsay 39. John Manhatton 40. James Knox 41. William Love 42. David Fisk 43. Thomas Heartly 44. Stephen S. Welch 45. James Kenney 46. Samuel Moxley 47. Edw. P. Gaines 48. A. D. Smith.” _ENDORSED_: “United States vs. Aaron Burr. Indictment for Treason. A true Bill. John Randolph.”