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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.
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.
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]
After Theodosia married Burr in 1782 (following her husband's death), Emmons entered the Burr household in New York. [6] Emmons's first child with Burr was Louisa Charlotte Burr, born in 1788. In 1792, Emmons gave birth to her second child with Burr, John Pierre Burr, at sea while she was travelling back to the United States after a visit to ...
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]
A politician more than a patriot, Theodosia Bartow Prevost, worked during the Revolution to protect her family despite her thick British ties.
They had five children together, including Augustine James Frederick Prevost (1765–1842) and John Bartow Prevost (1766–1825). 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 ...
Aaron Burr: Democratic-Republican: New York: March 3, 1791: March 2, 1797: 6+ ? Later became vice-president. Burr was born into a slaveholding family. He became a slaveholder himself upon his marriage to Theodosia Bartow Prevost, who held slaves from her prior marriage to Jacques Marcus Prevost, and bought a servant named Carlos