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Theodosia Burr Alston was born to Aaron Burr and Theodosia Bartow Prevost in Albany, New York in 1783, a year after they married.Alston's mother was the widow of Jacques Marcus Prevost (1736-1781), a British Army officer who settled in New York City; she had five other children from that marriage and was nine years Burr's senior.
Theodosia Bartow Burr (November 1746 – May 18, 1794), previously known as Theodosia Bartow Prevost, was an American Patriot.Raised by a widowed mother, she married British Army officer Jacques Marcus Prevost at age 17.
Aaron Burr and his daughter Theodosia. Theodosia Burr Alston was born in 1783 and was named after her mother. She was the only child of Burr's marriage to Theodosia Bartow Prevost who survived to adulthood. A second daughter, Sally, lived to the age of three. [98]
Visitors to the house during the Revolution included James Monroe, William Paterson, the Marquis de Lafayette, Alexander Hamilton, Lord Stirling and Aaron Burr. In 1782, after her husband was killed during the War, Theodosia Prevost married Aaron Burr at The Hermitage. For a period of time they lived in a small house adjacent to The Hermitage. [7]
Thomas Bee's House, ca. 1730. A later owner was governor Joseph Alston and his wife Theodosia, daughter of Aaron Burr. The son of William Alston, he was born in All Saints' Waccamaw Parish in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Alston attended the College of New Jersey; but he left in 1796 without graduating.
Theodosia was the daughter of the third US Vice President, Aaron Burr. The 29-year-old was heading to New York to reunite with her father after the death of her 10-year-old son to malaria.
While Jacques was away fighting for the British in the West Indies, his wife Theodosia formed a relationship with an American colonel named Aaron Burr, who was ten years younger than her. In 1781, soon after learning of her husband's death, the newly widowed Theodosia got remarried to the young Burr, who adopted the Prevost family's five children.
Theodosia Ann Prevost (1801–1864) James Marcus Prevost (1803–1829) Stanhope Prevost (1804–1868) Frances Prevost Breckinridge (1806–1870) Aaron Columbus Burr: Sep 15 1808 – Jul 27 1882 Mary Coutant Burr Adopted son Father of: Elizabeth C. Burr; Eleanora F. Burr (May 30, 1831 – November 16, 1831)