Aaron Burr - do we have this in Geni ?

Started by Erica Howton on Saturday, August 24, 2019
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8/24/2019 at 12:56 PM

Aaron Burr, who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, had a secret ...
9 hours ago · According to her findings, Aaron Burr fathered two children, John Pierre and a girl, Louisa Charlotte, with a woman of color named Mary Emmons, who hailed from Kolkata, India, and worked as a servant in the Burrs' home for several years. ...

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/08/24/aaron-burr-villa...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB112847391696860205

“Much of what the Aaron Burr Association now knows of Mr. Burr's mixed-race family was collected and written down by Mabel Burr Cornish, the great granddaughter of John Pierre Burr. After Mrs. Cornish died in 1955, her notes were given to Mrs. Allen, her niece. Mrs. Allen displays a thick scrapbook of documents and handwritten remembrances in her retirement suite. "We are proud of the fact [Burr] was an upstanding citizen and not a dirty politician," she said. She opened the book to a picture of John Pierre Burr that, she says, hung in his Philadelphia barber shop. It shows a handsome, grave man with a distinctive narrow nose that resembles Aaron Burr's and Mrs. Allen's.

The history collected by Mrs. Cornish and Mrs. Allen suggests that Aaron Burr had two children with Mary Emmons, who was a servant but not a slave in Burr's household in Philadelphia while he was married to Theodosia. Mary Emmons was born in Calcutta and lived in Haiti before coming to the U.S. The couple had a daughter, Louisa Charlotte, in 1788. They had a son, John Pierre, in 1792.”

9/11/2020 at 12:55 PM

My great great grandfather William H Gaines his 2nd cousin Edmund P Gaines my 3rd cousin arrested him for treason.

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