Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-10-07

Tor all that went. i MS af1ant asked what
other object they had besides settling the
Washita land. The said Floyd answered,
that there was new road TO be cut great
distance * several houses to be built which
would be a very profitable undertaking.
iNopositive bargain was made between the
said Floyd and this afiant. On the 10th of
! December, 1906, this affiant moved down
the river from the Falls Of the Ohio in the
Indiana Territory, with the said Davis
Floyd, with two boats and one batteau,
which the said Floyd had built there. On
the same dav lust as they were about TO
start, they were joined bv Herman Blen-
nerhasset, Comfort Tyler and Iirael Smith,
with four Batteaux and number OF men
| the exact number he cannot state, nor does
| he know the number that started with the
said FLOYD but when the boa.s Joined Col.
| Aaron Burr at the mouth of Cumberland,
| (Which was of Saturday night, either on
| Christmas night or the first Saturday after
Christmas,) he understood that the whole
number of men, including those of the said
Aaron Burr, we're one hundred and three.
After the boats had left the Falls of the o.
hio three or four days, he discovered for
the first time, on board one of SAID Floyd's
| boats chest and box, the former OF which
}it afterwards appeared contained muskets
and bayonets, a few fusees and blunder-
! buses and EiStolS the latter, rifles. n
day or two afterwards the said Floyd en-
CURED of the men if they did not want each
! of them a gun 10 take care OF; that he had
| some there which he was afraid wouic get
rusty. The chest and box were then o.
fpcned and all the arms taken ont and clea-
ned. and some of them occasionally used
by the men in hunting as they went down
the river. There were, as near as he can
Judge, between twenty FIVE and thirty mus
ket, with bayonets, two or three iusees,
three or fpur blnnderbusses, ten pair of
pistols, andsabout eight or ten rifles. Srue
Short time after the boats had joined Col.
Burr and before they had got into the Mis-
s;ssippi river, While this afkGnt WIS lying
Eek On his truck, he heard the said Floyd
t.ll several Of lhe men that iGev were go
ing 70 take Baton Bcagc and Mexico THIS
affiant asked how they were going 10 do IL
with so few men. 1he SAID Floyd answer
ed thar large party OF nicD-"gere to join
US at Natchez and general Wilkinson and
his army were 20 join us at the mouth o.
5 Red River NJthns Of Importance occur
) red till the boats got downto Bayou ere.
, 4 day or two before their arrival there
Colonel Burr took boat and four or five
, men and went on a4head, as this afdant IN
/, derstood, to do some business, which he eX'
: Cected to do before the boats got down
{ Floyd's boat, in which he went himself, 8
e i in which this atfiant was, arrived there o
v q Sunday morning. and the other boats no
: till the evening. On our arrival Colone
G Burr was standing on the b;rlk of the rive
: about mile above the town some shor
{ time after the men from our koat went OF
| shore, this afiant saw Colonel Burr and ;
d certain Robert A. New, (who had the cbarg
s of Floy DIS boat in his absence, he havini
!, then gone on to NatcheZ) taking toSethe
d for some time. The said New then cam
u on board our boat and called all the me-
Il into il, and said he understood they wer
y all going to be stopped, and enqnired tther
D whether they would stand by Colonel Bur
is and go on or quit Most oft nsen were 10
going on but two or three we're Tor quiz
10 ting. In the course of thatcday this affair
O mentioned TO the Said New that he M:
ut trusted they were going upon some uhlaw
< ful scheme. He assured him that they wcr
D. not that nothing was going to take plac
>; but what was la wiui and countenanced b
g. the government After dark the boats wei
h removed over TO the other side of the =
Is yer This afiiant enqulred the reason
on their being removed, and was answered
y the said New that there was party OF me
Ir coming to take them, and 1t was best u
be them TO make their escape. The boats Ia
nd seven or elRllt GAYS vt mat )litCf anu
he moved about six miles lower down. Whl
y the boats were lying there, they were sea
A ched By several military officers, by Il
$ permission of Colonel Burr but the mig
rs before they were searched, all the mnskG
ad and pistols except few pair belonging
re individuals were taken out the rifles we
rot left. This affiant never knew what BEGAN
70 lof the muskets and pistols some CT ihe m
said they were sunk in the river, 0the
THAT they were hjdin the woods.-OCe mig
m, while the boats were laying 1T the place
nd young man came aud said there were TIM
or four hundred men crossing above us
re, many below us, and that we should ali
l. taken A guard was posted az some q
IN ltance from the cncampmcnt Oh that mgi
The lbut what their orders were this aihant d'
Wis mot know, as he was not one of the nunD
to After our removal from this place, Color
ish Burr went % the town of Washington
i'm standVhis trial, but it not coming on ne
hat turned, lie remained with the party G
the night. then went again TO take his trial a
en- did not return till il was over. lie rem
ter ned with the boats one day told the "
re- that he had stood his trial and was acqt
me ted but that they were going to take
he again, and sc was going 10 nee from
rec preston. lie said that what property th
the was, the men might sell and make the m
ned they could of and If there was not enol
i'm 20 sutisfy them, they might 50 to the
anv shita land. and take M what land they W