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About Esther Burr
Esther Edwards
- BIRTH 13 Feb 1732 Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA *DEATH 7 Apr 1758 Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
- BURIAL Bridge Street Cemetery Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA MEMORIAL ID 22277344
Biography
Esther Edwards Burr (February 13, 1732 – April 7, 1758) was the mother of 3rd U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, Jr. and the wife of Princeton University President Aaron Burr, Sr. whom she married in 1752, one year after she moved to Stockbridge in western Massachusetts.[1] From October 1754 she kept a journal recording her perspective on current events and her daily activities.[2] Esther Burr's journal is considered an important source in studies of American history and literature for its insight into a woman's daily life in the late colonial period of the United States, although it was not until 1984 that her journal was published in its entirety to the public.[3]
Esther Burr's daughter, Sarah, married Tapping Reeve, previously Aaron jr. and Sarah's School Tutor and the founder of America's first law school Litchfield Law School. Esther Burr's son, Aaron, was the third vice president of the United States (1801–05), who shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804. Esther kept to a plain style, proudly asserting that she was a "busy housewife."
Esther Edwards' line traces back to many notable New England families, including: Grace Winthrop, sister of Governor John Winthrop, a founder of Massachusetts; James Pierpont, a founder of Yale University; Thomas Hooker, a founder of the Connecticut Colony. Esther's father, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, was the leader of the Calvanist revival known as the "Great Awakening" in colonial Massachusetts. Rev. Edwards's most famous sermon was "Sinners at the Hands of An Angry God."
Daughter of famous American Preacher Jonathan Edwards, mother of Vice President Aaron Burr
References
- http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/burr_aaron_sr.html Archived 2019-07-20 at the Wayback Machine (accessed Dec. 21, 2009)
- Karlsen, Carol; Crumpacker, Laurie, eds. (1984). The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780300029000.
- http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2008/11/esther-edwards-burr-1754.html (accessed Jan. 26, 2016)
- https://g3min.org/jonathan-edwards-was-fired-lessons-for-the-church/
- Historia Obscura https://www.historiaobscura.com/the-journal-of-esther-edwards-burr/
- Historia Obscura https://www.historiaobscura.com/the-journal-of-esther-edwards-burr/
- Samuel H. Wandell, Aaron Burr, Part 1 (Paperback) (Kessinger Publishing, LLC (May 20, 2003) original 1925)
- Historia Obscura https://www.historiaobscura.com/the-journal-of-esther-edwards-burr/
- Rankin, Jeremiah (1901). Esther Burr's Journal. Washington: Howard University Print.
- Dietrich, Rayshelle (December 2008). Everyday Epistles: The Journal-letter Writing of American Women, 1754-1836 (Ph.D.). Texas Christian University. p. 44.
- Karlsen, Carol; Crumpacker, Laurie, eds. (1984). The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300029000.
- "Princeton, April 12". The New-Hampshire Gazette. No. 83. May 5, 1758. p. 3.
- Davis, Kenneth (2011). A Nation Rising: Untold Tales from America's Hidden History. Harper Collins. p. 22. ISBN 978-0061118210.
- Leverenz, David; Leverenz, Professor David (1980). The Language of Puritan Feeling: An Exploration in Literature, Psychology, and Social History. ISBN 9780813508825.
- Norton, Mary Beth (2011-05-16). Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0801461378.
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Esther Burr's Timeline
| 1732 |
February 13, 1732
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Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
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| 1754 |
May 3, 1754
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Newark, Essex County, New Jersey
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| 1756 |
February 6, 1756
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Newark, Essex County, New Jersey
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| 1758 |
April 4, 1758
Age 26
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Princeton, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States
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April 7, 1758
Age 26
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Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, British Colonial America
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April 7, 1758
Age 26
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Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
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