[1008] Jenkinson: Aaron Burr, 282-83.
[1009] Jefferson to "Bollman," Jan. 25, 1807, Davis, ii, 388.
[1010] Bollmann's narrative, Davis, ii, 389.
[1011] McCaleb, 331.
[1012] Jefferson to the United States District Attorney for Virginia, May 20, 1807, Works: Ford, x, 394-401.
Bollmann, in open court, scornfully declined to accept the pardon. (See infra, 452.)
[1013] Wilkinson was then en route by sea to testify against Burr before the grand jury.
[1014] Mordecai: Richmond in By-Gone Days, 68.
[1015] According to a story, told more than a century after the incident occurred, Marshall did not know, when he accepted Wickham's invitation, that Burr was to be a guest, but heard of that fact before the dinner. His wife, thereupon, advised him not to go, but, out of regard for Wickham, he attended. (Thayer: John Marshall, 80-81.)
This tale is almost certainly a myth. Professor Thayer, to whom it was told by an unnamed descendant of Marshall, indicates plainly that he had little faith in it.