Aaron Burr, Letter to Colonel Nicholson, 1795. Courtesy of P. F. Madigan. Aaron Burr, Receipt to L. Le Guen, 1795. Courtesy of J. C. Tomlinson. Aaron Burr, Letter to Pierrepont Edwards, 1796. Courtesy of the late G. D. Smith. Aaron Burr, Certificate concerning Alexander Hamilton, 1797. Aaron Burr, Mortgage to Sir John Temple, 1797. Courtesy of the New York Historical Society. Aaron Burr, 9 letters to L. Le Guen, 1799, 1800, 1802, 1805, 1817. Courtesy of J. C. Tomlinson. Aaron Burr, 2 letters to Charles Biddle, 1800. Courtesy of the Anderson Galleries. Aaron Burr, 5 letters to John Vanderlyn, 1805, 1810, 1814, 1815, 1816. From the Robert Gossman Manuscript, q. v. Aaron Burr, 2 letters to John Vanderlyn, 1811. Courtesy of the Anderson Galleries. Aaron Burr, Letter to Aaron Burr Alston, 1809. Courtesy of the Princeton University Library. Aaron Burr, 2 letters to G. W. Lathrop, 1814, 1815. Courtesy of the New York Historical Society. Aaron Burr, Letter to T. L. Ogden, 1817. Courtesy of J. C. Tomlinson. Aaron Burr, Letter to Miss Eden, 1823. Courtesy of C. E. Hutchinson. Aaron Burr, Letter to T. H. Flandreau, 1824. Courtesy of F. L. Pleadwell. Eliza Bowen Burr [Madame Jumel] vs. Aaron Burr, Divorce Records, New York Court of Chancery, 1836. Esther Edwards Burr, Letter to Lucy Edwards, 1754. Courtesy of the Princeton University Library. Esther Edwards Burr, Diary, 1753-1757. Courtesy of the Yale University Library. Theodosia Prevost Burr, Letter to Sally Burr Reeve, 1782. Courtesy of the New Jersey Historical Society. Theodosia Prevost Burr, Letter to Tapping Reeve, 1783. Courtesy of the Yale University Library. Theodosia Prevost Burr, Letter to Tapping Reeve, 179-. DeWitt Clinton, Letter to Ward and Gould, 1803. Courtesy of Columbia University. Thomas Cooper, Letter to Stephen Van Rensselaer, 1804. William Dunlap, Manuscript Journal. Courtesy of the New York Historical Society. Jonathan Edwards, 2 letters to Rev. Aaron Burr, 1753, 1756. Courtesy of the Princeton University Library. France, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Archives, 1810. Courtesy of Professor I. J. Cox. Constant Freeman, signed statement in relation to Judge Workman and the Mexican Association, New Orleans, December 30, 1806. Courtesy of the New York Historical Society. Mrs. S. Gill, Letter to Timothy Edwards, 1765. Courtesy of the Princeton University Library. Robert Gossman, Manuscript Life of John Vanderlyn. Courtesy of the New York Historical Society. Gideon Granger, Letter to De Witt Clinton, 1804. Courtesy of Columbia University. Louis Le Guen, Letter to Aaron Burr, 1817. Courtesy of J. C. Tomlinson. Mrs. L. Le Guen, 2 letters to T. L. Ogden, 1823, 1824. Courtesy of J. C. Tomlinson. Alexander Hamilton, 2 letters to Stephen Van Rensselaer, 1798. Courtesy of the Anderson Galleries. Alexander Hamilton, Letter to Charles Carroll, 1800. Courtesy of J. H. Manning. Alexander Hamilton, Letter to Aaron Burr, 1803. Courtesy of the Anderson Galleries. Alexander Hamilton, Letter to Robert Harper, 1804. Andrew Jackson, Letter to James Landers, 18-. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to DeWitt Clinton, 1804. Courtesy of Columbia University. Matthias Ogden, Manuscript Journal, 1775. Courtesy of the Washington Association of New Jersey. T. L. Ogden, Letter to L. Le Guen, 1805. Courtesy of J. C. Tomlinson. T. L. Ogden, Letter to Aaron Burr, 1817. Tapping Reeve, Letter to Aaron Burr, 1773. Courtesy of the Princeton University Library. J. E. Stillwell, Manuscript Genealogy of the Stillwell Family. Tammany Society, Records, 1789. Courtesy of the Tammany Society. Anne De Visme, Deed to Aaron Burr, 1786. Courtesy of the New York Historical Society. CHAPTER I EXCELLENT DIVINES I IN September, 1753, the Reverend Jonathan Edwards, pastor of the Church in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, wrote to his son-in-law, the Reverend Aaron Burr, pastor of the Church in Newark, New Jersey, to inform him "that a meeting of the Church of Stockbridge unanimously voted that whereas Mrs. Esther Burr, formerly Edwards, a member of this Church, has in divine Providence been removed from hence to dwell at Newark, she is recommended to your stated Communion as a member in full standing in this Church, by Recommendation from the Church of Northampton, and having so remained without offence during her continuance here." She was one of eleven children of the Reverend Jonathan Edwards-son of the Reverend Timothy Edwards of Windsor, Connecticut-and of his wife, Sarah Pierrepont of New Haven, a daughter of the Reverend James Pierrepont, professor of Moral Philosophy at Yale College of which he had been one of the founders. The Pierreponts were of noble family in Nottinghamshire, and when the Lord of Holme |