Eliza Jumel
BIRTH
Apr 7, 1775
Providence, Rhode Island
DEATH
July 16, 1865
Manhattan, New York
FAMILY
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Jumel, Eliza
(1775-1865)
Eliza Jumel (1775-1865) was a social hostess and the spouse of Aaron Burr. Aaron Burr was a public official and military officer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Eliza Jumel to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Born in Providence, Rhode Island and later dying in Manhattan, New York, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. Including Eliza Jumel in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
Aaron Burr
(1756-1836)
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DIED:
Manhattan, New York
Jul 16, 1865
Eliza Jumel was born on Apr 7, 1775 in Providence, Rhode Island. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Eliza Jumel with work or public activity as a hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Eliza Jumel died on Jul 16, 1865 in Manhattan, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.