Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-04-17
Aaron BuFr---His Whereabouts af:
ter the Duel with Hamilton.

ter the Duel with Hamilton.
The Hartford Courant publishes the
following interesting extracts from the
! advance sheets Ofan account of the life
| ofJau4u5 ', .liiasns, the old negro jani'
! tor of Trinity College:
/ Prof. Jim was the slave Of Colonel
Robart, a retired Revolutionary officer
living in Yonkers,..N. \. Aarod Burr
was frequent visitor of Col. Robart's
/ house, and a room was always ready
fer him, as he might stop at any time
on his way from Albany to New York
and back az =. The establishment
of Burr seems to h.. made a strong
impression on Prof. Jim's mind, and
he describes, with admiring tones, the
enormous carriage drawn by six horses
and the retinue Of Outriders and foot
men which always accompanied him.
Burr himself Jim describes as short,
rough, and ugly man, who swcre and
cursed constantly, but who in ladies'
society was very polite and exquisite.
At the time of the duel between Burr
and Hamilton, Jim was at work in the
fields at mail time, and his mother was
sent on horseback for the batch OF pa
pers which was due. She gave the
letters, on her return, to her master,
and he had scarcely read the first one
he had opened when, all hurry and
excitement, he shouted, "Get a room
ready quick, for that little devil is
comingr' When afterward he had
learned that Hamilton had been killed
in the duel, the excitement only in
creased.
4 moments depression here to the
statements of history will be servicea-
bic in ascertaining how far Professor
Jim remembers the circumstances of
this occasion.
On Wednesday morning, the 11th Of
July, 1904, Burr and Hamilton met on
the heights of Weehawken, and the
duel was fought; on Thursday, the
18th. Gen. Hamilton died, and on Sat
urday, the 18th, he was inferred with
military honors.
Burr writes to Joseph Alliston, Esq,
from New York, July 10: General
Hamilton died yesterday. 1 propose
leaving town for few days, and med
itate also journey for some weeks,
but whittier is not resolved. Perhaps
to Statesburgh. You will hear from
me in about eight days" The next
letter with any date is from Philadel-
phia, July 30.
Parton, in his life of Aaron Burr,
says that Immediately after the duel
Burr went to his home in New York
(Richmond HilD and for eleven days
staid at or near that place, writing I'M
der cover Of his friends in Philadel-
phIa to his daughter and 10 his sOn-in-
law.
Jim'S statement, as will be seen, be-
comes an important one in the history
of Burr's life, inasmuch IS The missing
link in the broken chain Of circum-
stances connected with the history
from just before the duel till some
months after is here supplied. The
interest attached to the events in the
life Of our aged janitor increases when
we find ourselves able TO verify his
statements with the accepted state
ment of historians.
Now Jim says: Burr went first to his
own home in New York, near the old
State Prison, on West Broadway
The next day, between and / in the
as we were putting up "a
new yard fence, there appeared great
cloud Of dust away down the road
Some one said that it was some one |
riding, for the day was so quiet it |
could not be the wind. By and by a !
man came up and gave note to mas
ter, that said he was coming. Pretty |
he came up himself in his four horse |
coach. His head was bowed down, |
md he didn't say a word; but then,
MS head was always bowed down. He |
,dug5t right hold Of my masters hand
md they went into the house, and we
iidn't see him again till the next
evening. The day that Hamilton was
juried was bad day for him, and he
iidn't eat any dinner nor go out for
lis walk along the river, out he walk
ID to and fro along the corridor up
tairs, with his hands behind him.
We could hear the funeral guns sound.
ng up from New York. Burr kept
lis servant in the room with him
hight and day, and he had case of
pistols and a sword in his room with
lin. He stayed with my master some
ime, and practiced good deal at tar
Jet shooting down by the river bank,
nd, L myself, have seen a white birch
rec where he had shot twelve balls
nto space no larger than my hand.
Domestic Bliss--LOve in a Cot
ntage, &c,
Ten o'clock.-The wife digging po-
atoes; two children crying, and two
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