![]() ![]() He was in the British army, but of French Swiss descent. She married Jacques Marcus Prevost and bore him five children. Theodosia grew up in an educated, intellectually stimulating household and she spoke and read French as well as English. ![]() Following the death of her father, Theodosius Bartow, in a carriage accident, her mother Anne Stillwell married Philip De Visme and had several children by him, half-siblings of Theodosia. The facts prior to Theodosia Bartow Prevost’s association with Aaron Burr are known only in their starkness. But she was deeply loved and chosen by Aaron Burr as his bride, despite being ten years his senior and already afflicted with cancer. Known for her intelligence, wit and good character, Theodosia Bartow Burr was not said to be particularly beautiful. Named after her father, she bequeathed her given name, which she got from a father she never met, to a daughter that she left an orphan at the age of eleven. She was the posthumous only child of Theodosius Bartow and Anne Stillwell Bartow. ![]()
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