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| name = Theodosia Burr Alston | image = Theodosia Burr NY Hist Soc 1931 55 oval transp.png | caption = Portrait by John Vanderlyn, {{circa|1815–1820}} | birth_name=Theodosia Burr | birth_date = {{birth date|1783|6|21}} | birth_place = Albany, New York, U.S. | disappeared_date = January 2 or 3, 1813 (aged 29) | disappeared_place = Off the coast of Georgetown, South Carolina | spouse = Joseph Alston | children = 1 | parents = {{ubl |Aaron Burr |Theodosia Bartow Prevost }} | signature = Appletons' Burr Aaron - Theodosia signature.jpg }} Theodosia Burr Alston (June 21, 1783 – approximately January 2 or 3, 1813) was the daughter of 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. Early lifeTheodosia Burr Alston was born to Aaron Burr and Theodosia Bartow (Prevost) Burr in Albany, New York in 1783, a year after they married. Alston's mother was the widow of Jacques Marcus Prevost (1736-1781), a British Army officer who settled in New York City; she had five other children from that marriage and was nine years Burr's senior.[1] Alston was raised mostly in New York City. Her education was closely supervised by her father, who stressed mental discipline. In addition to the more conventional subjects such as French (the French textbook by Martel, Martel's Elements, published by Van Alen in New York in 1796, is dedicated to Theodosia), music, and dancing, the young "Theo" began to study arithmetic, Latin, Greek, and English composition. She applied herself to English in the form of letters to her father, which were responded to promptly, with the inclusion of detailed criticism. Their correspondence numbered thousands of letters.[1] Theodosia Bartow Burr died when her daughter was eleven years old. After this event, her father closely supervised his daughter's social education, including training in an appreciation of the arts. By the age of fourteen, Alston began to serve as hostess at Richmond Hill, Burr's stately home in what is now Greenwich Village. Once, when Burr was away in 1797, his daughter presided over a dinner for Joseph Brant, Chief of the Six Nations. On this occasion, she invited physicians David Hosack and Samuel Bard, and Bishop Benjamin Moore, among other notables. Marriage to Joseph AlstonIn 1801, Theodosia married Joseph Alston, a wealthy landowner from South Carolina who would become the 44th governor of that state. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls, the first recorded couple to do so.[3] It has been conjectured that there was more than romance involved in this union. Burr agonized intensely and daily about money matters, particularly as to how he would hold on to the Richmond Hill estate. It is thought that his daughter's tie to a member of the Southern gentry might relieve him of some of his financial burdens. The marriage to Alston meant that Theo would become prominent. Her letters to her father indicated that she had formed an affectionate alliance with her husband. The couple's son, Aaron Burr Alston, was born in 1802.[4] Following the baby's birth, Alston's health became fragile. She made trips to Saratoga Springs, and Ballston Spa, New York, in an effort to restore her health. She also visited her father and accompanied him to Ohio in the summer of 1806, along with her son. There, Aaron met with an Irishman, Harman Blennerhassett, who had an island estate in the Ohio River in what is now West Virginia. The two men made plans to form a western empire, which was later joined by General James Wilkinson. Burr and Wilkinson were rumored to be plotting to separate Louisiana and parts of what are now the western states from the United States; the veracity of this claim, with Burr becoming a "king-like" figure of the separated lands, was never proven. Trial and expatriation of Aaron BurrIn the spring of 1807, Burr was arrested for treason. During his trial in Richmond, Virginia, Alston was with him, providing comfort and support. Burr was acquitted of the charges against him but left for Europe, where he remained for a period of four years. While her father remained in exile, Alston acted as his agent in the U.S., raising money which she sent to him, and transmitting messages. Alston wrote letters to Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin and to Dolley Madison in an effort to secure a smooth return for her father. Alston's son succumbed to malaria and died on June 30, 1812, at age ten. The resulting anguish affected her health, to the point of preventing her from traveling to New York upon her father's return from Europe in July 1812. Unable to join him, she had to wait until December before she could make the journey. Disappearance at seaSeveral months after the War of 1812 broke out, Alston's husband was sworn in as governor of South Carolina on December 10. As head of the state militia, he could not accompany her on the trip north. Burr sent Timothy Green, an old friend, to accompany her instead. Green possessed some medical knowledge. On December 31, 1812, Alston sailed aboard the schooner Patriot from Georgetown, South Carolina.[5]{{rp|265}} The Patriot was a famously fast sailer, which had originally been built as a pilot boat, and had served as a privateer during the war, when it was commissioned by the U.S. government to prey on English shipping. It had been refitted in December in Georgetown, its guns dismounted and hidden below decks. Its name was painted over and any indication of recent activity was entirely erased. The schooner's captain, William Overstocks, desired to make a rapid run to New York with his cargo; it is likely that the ship was laden with the proceeds from its privateering raids. The Patriot and all those on board were never heard from again. Rumor and folkloreImmediately following the Patriot{{'}}s disappearance, rumors arose. The most enduring were that the Patriot had been captured by a pirate, that something had occurred near Cape Hatteras, notorious for wreckers who lured ships into danger. Aaron Burr refused to credit any of the rumors of his daughter's possible capture, believing that she had died in a shipwreck. But the rumors persisted long after his death, and after around 1850, more substantial "explanations" of the mystery surfaced, usually alleging to be from the deathbed confessions of sailors and executed criminals.
The Nag's Head Portrait
Historical analysisA less romantic analysis of the known facts has led some scholars to conclude that the Patriot was probably wrecked by a storm off Cape Hatteras. Logbooks from the blockading British fleet report a severe storm which began off the Carolina coast in the afternoon of January 2, 1813, and continued into the next day. James L. Michie, an archaeologist from South Carolina who studied the course of the storm, concluded that the Patriot was likely just north of Cape Hatteras when the storm was at its fiercest. "If the ship managed to escape this battering, which continued until midnight," Michie said, "it then faced near hurricane-force winds in the early hours of Sunday. Given this knowledge, the Patriot probably sank between 6:00 PM Saturday [January 2] and 8:00 AM Sunday [January 3]."[5]{{rp|272–274}} Portraits
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Notes1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{cite book |title=Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy |last=Côté |first=Richard N. |publisher=Corinthian Books |year=2002 |isbn=9781929175444 |asin=B005E1JOFW }} [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]2. ^1 {{cite web |title=Theodosia |first=David K. |last=Fesler |website=People Legends |url=http://www.theoutlaws.com/people3.htm |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205010733/http://www.theoutlaws.com/people3.htm |archivedate=February 5, 2012 |df= }} 3. ^1 {{cite book |chapter=Kitty Hawk |title=The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged |first=Robert |last=Frost |editor-first=Edward Connery |editor-last=Lathem |publisher=Macmillan |year=2002 |isbn=9780805069860 |pages=428–442 at 432 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?vid=KtComZirYE4C&pg=PA432&q=Theodosia%20Burr#v=onepage&q=Theodosia%20Burr |via=Google Books }} 4. ^1 {{cite web |title=Theodosia Burr (Mrs. Joseph Alston) |publisher=Gibbes Museum of Art |id=1984.002 |series=Miniature |url=http://gibbesmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/5A273327-71C6-4CFE-BF35-695434141077 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321160306/http://gibbesmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/5A273327-71C6-4CFE-BF35-695434141077 |archivedate=March 21, 2017 |df= }} 5. ^1 {{cite web |title=Theodosia Burr (Mrs. Joseph Alston) |year=1811 |publisher=Gibbes Museum of Art |id=1963.026 |series=Miniature |url=http://gibbesmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/30A174B5-E71E-4DED-A95B-254314305190 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321155404/http://gibbesmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/30A174B5-E71E-4DED-A95B-254314305190 |archivedate=March 21, 2017 |df= }} 6. ^1 {{cite web |last1=MacLean |first1=Maggie |title=Theodosia Burr Alston |website=History of American Women |url=http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/11/theodosia-burr-alston.html |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810154501/http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/11/theodosia-burr-alston.html |archivedate=August 10, 2016 |df= }} 7. ^1 {{cite web |title=Theodosia Bartow Burr Alston |first=Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de |last=Saint-Mémin |date=1796 |series=National Portrait Gallery |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |id=NPG.74.39.16.1 |url=http://npgportraits.si.edu/eMuseumNPG/code/emuseum.asp?rawsearch=ObjectID/,/is/,/33945/,/false/,/false&newprofile=CAP&newstyle=single |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321163204/http://npgportraits.si.edu/eMuseumNPG/code/emuseum.asp?rawsearch=ObjectID%2F%2C%2Fis%2F%2C%2F33945%2F%2C%2Ffalse%2F%2C%2Ffalse&newprofile=CAP&newstyle=single |archivedate=March 21, 2017 |df= }} 8. ^1 {{cite web |last=Pickens |first=Andrea |date=October 2016 |website=The Word Wenches |title=Hidden in History... |type=blog |url=http://wordwenches.typepad.com/word_wenches/2016/10/hidden-in-history-.html |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129221056/http://wordwenches.typepad.com/word_wenches/2016/10/hidden-in-history-.html |archivedate=November 29, 2016 |df= }} 9. ^1 {{cite web |first=Don |last=Shelton |url=http://american-miniatures.blogspot.com/2006/04/jarvis-john-wesley-portrait-of.html |title=Jarvis, John Wesley - Portrait of Theodosia Burr Alston |website=1 American Miniature Portraits |date=April 2006 |type=blog |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921120256/http://american-miniatures.blogspot.com/2006/04/jarvis-john-wesley-portrait-of.html |archivedate=September 21, 2016 |deadurl=yes |df= }} 10. ^1 {{cite book |first=David |last=Stick |title=Graveyard of the Atlantic: Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast |page=7 |publisher=Univ. of North Carolina Press |year=1989 |isbn=9780807842614 |url=https://books.google.com/books?vid=jjZXyzPrhpgC&pg=PA7&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage |via=Google Books }} 11. ^1 2 {{cite journal |last=Tharp |first=Mel |url=http://www.antiquetrader.com/articles/feature-stories/portrait_of_nags_head |title=Portrait of Nag's Head |journal=Antique Trader Magazine |date=September 24, 2008 }} 12. ^1 2 {{cite book |first=Dale L. |last=Walker |title=The Calamity Papers: Western Myths and Cold Cases |publisher=Macmillan |year=2006 |isbn=9780765308320 |pages=75–76 |url=https://books.google.com/books?vid=pRzFO-enflIC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=Frank+Burdick#v=onepage&q=Frank%20Burdick |via=Google Books }} 13. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/about/library_history.html |title=Library History |website=Lewis Walpole Library |publisher=Yale University }} 14. ^1 2 {{cite book |editor1-last=Commire |editor1-first=Anne |title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia (Vol. 3) |date=2002 |publisher=Yorkin Publications |location=Detroit |pages=232–233 |chapter=Burr, Theodosia (1783–1813) }} 15. ^1 {{cite web |last=Stuart |first=Gilbert |title=Theodosia Burr (Mrs. Joseph Alston) (1783-1812) |authorlink=Gilbert Stuart |publisher=Yale University Art Gallery |series=American Paintings and Sculpture |location=New Haven, CT |id=1947.433 |url=http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/48965 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809171716/http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/48965 |archivedate=August 9, 2016 |df= }} 16. ^1 {{cite AV media |last=Zavitz |first=Sherman (City of Niagara Falls Official Historian) |title=Niagara Falls Moment |station=CJRN |publisher=CJRN 710 Radio |date=June 26, 2008 }} }} References
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