Theodosia Bartow Burr
(1746-1794)
BIRTH
November 1746
PLACE
Shrewsbury, New Jersey
NAME
Theodosia Bartow
DEATH
May 18, 1794
PLACE
New York City, New York
FAMILY
FATHER
Theodosius Bartow
(1712-1746)
BROTHER
Aaron Burr
(1756-1836)
HUSBAND
Jacques Marcus Prevost
(1736-1781)
CHILDREN
Theodosia Burr Alston
(1783-1813)
HUSBAND
Aaron Burr
(1756-1836)
HOMES
Richmond Hill Marker
NYC, New York, USA
POLITICAL VIEWS
WOMEN’S EDUCATION ADVOCATE
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Theodosia Bartow Prevost Burr (1746–1794) made her New Jersey home, the Hermitage, a gathering place for American officers while her first husband served in the British army. Washington briefly used it as headquarters in July 1778. After Jacques Marcus Prevost’s death, she married Aaron Burr there in 1782. Their correspondence reflects an intellectual partnership and concern for their daughter Theodosia’s education. She died before Burr became vice president.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Theodosia Prevost Burr’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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 Theodosia Prevost Burr 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. Theodosia Prevost Burr died on May 18, 1794 in New York City, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Theodosia Prevost Burr's death is attributed to a reported cancer illness. Theodosia Bartow Prevost Burr made her New Jersey home, the Hermitage, a gathering place for American officers while her first husband served in the British army. Washington briefly used it as headquarters in July 1778. Her illness was not a shock – she had been ill as long as they had known each other – but by 1792 she was in regular pain, with doctors' prescriptions doing little to help. Theodosia Prevost Burr died on May 18, 1794 in New York City, New York. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
MARKER
Richmond Hill Marker
161 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
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