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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.
#18 Theodosia Burr-Alston. 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 ...
Theodosia Burr Alston: 29 Coast of South Carolina, U.S. The daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, and sometimes called the most educated American woman of her day, sailed from Georgetown, South Carolina, aboard the Patriot, which was never seen again. [63] c. October 1814 Johnston Blakeley: 32–33 Atlantic Ocean
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. Burr and Theodosia had another five children together, but only their daughter Theodosia Burr Alston survived to adulthood, and was later lost at sea.
In May 1833, a poem regarding a visit to the Grave of the Female Stranger was composed for the Alexandria Gazette and published almost a year later, in March 1834. This was at first submitted under the initials S.D. and was later found to be the work of poet Susan Rigby Dallam Morgan of Baltimore, Maryland, when her husband, the Rev. Lyttleton Morgan, published his wife's poems posthumously. [1]
His three biographies, Mary's World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston (1999); Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy (2002) and Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison (2004) brought him national recognition. In 2008, "Strength and Honor" was chosen to be translated into the Braille language for the blind ...
My Theodosia is a novel written by the American author Anya Seton which was first published in 1941. It is a fictional interpretation of the life of Theodosia Burr Alston, set against a historical background of Aaron Burr's Vice Presidency of the United States, and his subsequent years.
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]