===== Thomas Fitzpatrick =====

//Manuscript heading: Colonel Fitzpatrick//

Thomas Fitzpatrick a local militia officer in the Mississippi Territory circa 1807. According to records from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Colonel Thomas Fitzpatrick was based in [[greenville_claiborne_ms|"Green Ville]]"[sup]1[sup] and acted under the authority of the territorial governor.

He was the official who confronted Aaron Burr following Burr’s  escape from arrest in early 1807.

In a letter dated January 15, 1807, Fitzpatrick reported attempting to negotiate Burr’s  surrender ‚along with Burr’s  request to be tried within the territory‚ until the approach of [[ferdinand_leigh_claiborne|Colonel F.L. Claiborne’s]]  force prompted him to renew the attempt at arrest, recognizing the danger posed by Burr’s  party.

Figure 1 Fitzpatrick letter concerning Burr’s  capture

1 "[[greenville_claiborne_ms|Green Ville" or Greenville]] is not the current [[greenville_washington_ms|Greenville, MS]]. This now abandoned town

was located to the south near [[natchez_adams_ms|Natchez]], was the county seat for [[jeffersonms|Jefferson County]] from 1803 to 1825

//Source: Trip Through The Piney Woods, PDF p. 42.//