[960] Nearly all the men had been told that they were to settle the Washita lands; and this was true, as far as it went. (See testimony of Stephen S. Welch, Samuel Moxley, Chandler Lindsley, John Mulhollan, Hugh Allen, and others, Annals, 10th Cong. 1st Sess. 463 et seq.)
[961] The boats were very comfortable. They were roofed and had compartments for cooking, eating, and sleeping. They were much like the modern house boat.
[962] Bissel to Jackson, Jan. 5, 1807, Annals, 9th Cong. 2d Sess. 1017-18.
[963] Murrell to Jackson, Jan. 8, 1807, Annals, 9th Cong. 2d Sess. 1017.
[964] Mead to the Secretary of War, Jan. 13, 1807, ib. 1018.
[965] Burr had picked up forty men on his voyage down the Mississippi.
[966] Mead to the War Department, Jan. 19, 1807, Annals, 9th Cong. 2d Sess. 1019.
[967] McCaleb, 233-36. For the discussion over this resolution see Debate in the House of Representatives of the Territory of Orleans, on a Memorial to Congress, respecting the illegal conduct of General Wilkinson. Both sides of the question were fully represented. See also Cox, 194, 200, 206-08.
[968] Return of the Mississippi Grand Jury, Feb. 3, reported in the Orleans Gazette, Feb. 20, 1807, as quoted in McCaleb, 272-73.
[969] Annals, 10th Cong. 1st Sess. 528-29, 536, 658-61.