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Theodosia Burr Alston (June 21, 1783 – January 2 or 3, 1813) was an American socialite and the daughter of the third U.S. Vice President, Aaron Burr, and Theodosia Bartow Prevost. Her husband, Joseph Alston, was governor of South Carolina during the War of 1812. She was lost at sea at age 29.
Mar 9, 2022 · He was staring at a portrait of the long vanished Theodosia Burr Alston, a portrait which may hold the key to her long-debated fate at sea.Today, if people know anything about Theodosia, it is...
Jan 22, 2019 · Theodosia Burr Alston, the beloved daughter of disgraced vice president Aaron Burr, left the port of Georgetown, South Carolina on the schooner Patriot in 1812 and was never seen again.
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Jul 4, 2022 · The daughter of third U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, Theodosia Burr Alston boarded the "Patriot" ship in 1812 to reunite with her father. But she never made it. Theories ranged from privateers sinking the ship to Burr's daughter being forced to walk the plank.
- SHE WAS CONSIDERED A PRODIGY. After reading A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft, Aaron Burr decided to raise his daughter with the best education.
- SHE MAY HAVE BEEN CLOSE TO EXPLORER MERIWETHER LEWIS. The relationship between Theodosia and Lewis has been the subject of tabloid level speculation for over a hundred years.
- HER HONEYMOON DESTINATION WAS THE START OF A TREND. On February 2, 1801, 17-year-old Theodosia married a wealthy southerner named Joseph Alston; shortly after, they went on their honeymoon to Niagara Falls.
- IF THINGS HAD GONE HER FATHER’S WAY, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN A QUEEN. In 1805, one year after the famous duel with Hamilton, Aaron Burr hatched a questionable plan: He was hoping to annex part of North America and declare himself the monarch.
Jan 30, 2024 · The actual fate of Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Aaron Burr and wife of South Carolina governor, Joseph Alston, will for the most part remain one of North Carolina’s iconic mysteries.
Apr 17, 2023 · That daughter, Theodosia Burr Alston, never actually appears in the musical, and she isn't mentioned when Burr laments what he envisions as his ignominious place in history — "I survived, but I paid for it" — after fatally shooting Hamilton in a July 1804 duel near the end of Act II. Contents. Theodosia Burr Disappears. Who Was Theodosia Burr?
