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Esther Edwards Burr (February 13, 1732 – April 7, 1758) kept a personal journal from October 1754, in which she recorded her perspective on current events and her daily activities.
Mar 16, 2022 · Raised by his erudite mother and four older sisters, Jonathan Edwards treated Esther very much as a pupil, as did her forward-thinking husband, Aaron Burr, Sr., whom she married in 1752 at the...
May 13, 2013 · She was the daughter of the famous theologian, Jonathan Edwards, and the wife of the second President of Princeton University, but Esther Edwards Burr is best known today as the mother of Aaron Burr, Jr., the third Vice President of the United States. What did she have to say about her famous son?
BURR, Esther Edwards. Born 1732, Northampton, Massachusetts; died April 1758, Princeton, New Jersey. Daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Pierrepont Edwards; married Aaron Burr, 1752. Esther Edwards Burr was the third of 11 children of Sarah Pierrepont and the prominent minister, Jonathan Edwards.
Jan 3, 2018 · Esther Edwards Burr was the third of eleven children born to Jonathan and Sarah Edwards. She was born on February 13, 1732, in Northampton, Mass. She lived through the Great Awakening as an eight- to ten-year-old, and it’s fascinating how that event formed and shaped her.
Lessons from Church History: Esther Edwards Burr. Jonathan Edwards, the great theologian of the First Great Awakening, is a well known name among Americans and Evangelicals. He was known for insisting that Christianity must include light in the mind and heat in the heart—his religion was a warm and experiential one.
On October 11, 1754, Esther Edwards Burr (1732-58), the third of Jonathan and Sarah Pierpont Edwards’s eleven children, writing in her diary, called her best friend Sarah Prince (1728-71): “the Sister of my heart.”
