Note 1279 — Chapter IX
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Blennerhassett Papers: Safford, 356-58; and see Adams: U.S. iii, 448, 464-65. Duane was known to have unbounded influence with Jefferson, who ascribed his election to the powerful support given him by the Aurora.
Government agents also tried to seduce Colonel de Pestre, another of Burr's friends, by insinuating "how handsomely the Col. might be provided for in the army, if his principles ... were not adverse to the administration." De Pestre's brother-in-law "had been turned out of his place as Clerk in the War Office, because he could not accuse the Col. of Burr-ism." (Blennerhassett Papers: Safford, 328-29.)