Esther Edwards Burr (1732-1758)
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02568
- Given Name
- Esther
- Family Name
- Burr
- Alternate Name
- Edwards
- Birth Date
- February 13, 1732
- Death Date
- April 7, 1758
- Sex
- Female
- Biographical Description
- Esther Edwards Burr was the daughter of the famous Calvinist theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). In 1752, she married the Rev. Aaron Burr Sr, the second president of Princeton University (then called the College of New Jersey). She lived with Aaron Burr at the President's House on campus in the 1750s. The Burrs had three enslaved Black people in their household as of 1757, the year that Esther's husband died. She died less than a year later, in 1758, at the age of 26.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Organization
-
Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- Family (wife of affiliate)
- Enslaver of
- Caesar
- Spouse of
-
Aaron Burr Sr. (1716-1757)
- References
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Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22277344 - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
