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Blennerhassett Island
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Blennerhassett Island, in the Ohio River, near Parkersburg, W.Va. On it Harman Blennerhassett Blennerhassett, Harman (blĕn`ərhăs'ət), 1765–1831, Anglo-Irish pioneer in America, an associate of Aaron Burr .
..... Click the link for more information.  built a mansion and a laboratory for his study. The island was ransacked by the local militia when Aaron Burr Burr, Aaron, 1756–1836, American political leader, b. Newark, N.J., grad. College of New Jersey (now Princeton).

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A brilliant law student, Burr interrupted his study to serve in the American Revolution and proved himself a
..... Click the link for more information. 's schemes, with which Blennerhassett was connected, were declared traitorous by President Thomas Jefferson.

Bibliography

See N. F. Schneider, Blennerhassett Island and the Burr Conspiracy (1938).



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