[970] Deposition of George Peter, Sept. 10, 1807, Am. State Papers, Misc. i, 566; and see Quarterly Pub. Hist. and Phil. Soc. of Ohio, ix, Nos. 1 and 2, 35-38; McCaleb, 274-75; Cox, 200-08.
[971] McCaleb, 277.
[972] Ib.
[973] In that part of the Territory which is now the State of Alabama.
[974] Perkins had read and studied the description of Burr in one of the Proclamations which the Governor of Mississippi had issued. A large reward for the capture of Burr was also offered, and on this the mind of Perkins was now fastened.
[975] Pickett: History of Alabama, 218-31.
[976] Yet, five months afterward, Jefferson actually wrote Captain Gaines: "That the arrest of Colo. B. was military has been disproved; but had it been so, every honest man & good citizen is bound, by any means in his power, to arrest the author of projects so daring & dangerous." (Jefferson to Gaines, July 23, 1807, Works: Ford, x, 473.)
[977] Pickett, 224-25.
[978] For the account of Burr's arrest and transfer from Alabama to Richmond, see Pickett, 218-31. Parton adopts Pickett's narrative, adding only one or two incidents; see Parton: Burr, 444-52.
[979] Randolph to Nicholson, March 25, 1807, Adams: Randolph, 220.