The Strange Disappearance Of Theodosia Burr
Dear Theodosia, what to say to you?
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Most of us know the tragic clash between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, but few people know the immediate aftermath of the story. More interesting still, fewer people know his daughters’ story, which could warrant a musical all its own. The disappearance of Theodosia Burr remains one of the US’s earliest and most high-profile missing person cases and the theories surrounding it involve shipwrecks, pirates, the British and escaping a loveless marriage.
History of the Burr Family
To understand Theodosia, it helps to understand her father first. Aaron Burr was an incredible man in his own right. A revolutionary war hero who carried on an affair with a married woman 10 years his senior and would go on to marry her in 1782, shortly after her husband died. He is credited with turning the Tammany Society into a political machine that would go onto…
