The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-21
HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL FRIDAY

ly lost daughter of Aaron Burr, He put himself in communication with sey-
 eral historical societies on the matter,
 but his theory found little weight, in
 spite of a family likeness being admit | ted.
 As the clergyman upon whose author | ty this story is given, was returning from Q recent visit to Mrs. Poole, while
 driving from that lady's house to Eliza beth City to take the cars home, he
 met young man, whom he knew to
 be very bashful and much afraid of
 the gentler sex, driving a strange wo- man in 8 buggy toward Mrs Poole's
 residence. Tn a letter to Mrs. Poole
 shortly afterward he good-naturedly re- ferred to the incident and to the young fellows evident embarrassment.
 This brought from Mrs. Poole another
 chapter in the story of the beautiful picture. The strange woman was a
 descendant of the Burr family, who re-
 sides in Detroit Mich Her name has
 temporarily escaped the clergyman's
 memory. She had been visiting at Vir-
 ginia Beach, Va, where she had heard
 of Mrs Toole's mysterious painting
 from North Carolina gentleman. Her
 visit to Elizabeth City was solely for
 the purpose of seeing the painting, and
 no sooner had she set eyes on it than
 she offered Mrs. Poole $500 spot cash
 for the same, besides any additional
 sum she might require. Mrs. Poole re-
 fused to part with the treasure. She
 told the visitor that there was strong
 family likeness between the latter and
 the subject of the picture, whoever the
 subject might have been; and further
 informed her of the facts, already given
 here, as to how the painting came into
 her possession.
 This ellcitcd from the Detroit woman another remarkable reminiscence, and one which, taken in connection with the foregoing facts, proves that the paint Ing is that of Aaron Burrs daughter the one destined as a present to her father-and that the unfortunate wo- man was drowned by pirates. This, in substance, is the Detroit woman's story:
 With her mother in Detroit formerly resided her mothers aged aunt, a hu- mane woman. who gave up much time to visiting the poor and sick. One evening, in one of the wards of the Ma rlne hospital of that city, was a dying sailor, who seemed terribly startled as the aunt, in company with others, ap- preached his bedside He beckoned her to him. however, and after begging that she alone of the visitors might hear what he had to say-a request which the others granted by retiring to the next ward-he stated that as a young man he had one summer been on a pirate vessel off the North Carolina coast. He then went on to say that he had then helped to overhaul north bound coastlng schooner:
 On the vessel was a beautiful young feminine passenger. dress all in white. He had assisted in dragging her from her cabin, in which was hanging up a painting of herself. While the pirates were engaged in throwing the crew overheard he noted that this beautiful young lady paced the deck, with mag nifieent courage and dignity, her hands folded on her breast and her eyes rais- ed to heaven. She made no remon- strance whatever, and he steadied the plank upon which she walked to the side, thence to be plunged head long into the ocean. He wanted to take away her picture and her dog-a little black and tan fellow-but dread ed to touch either After the pirates had plundered the schooner of money and other treasures, they abandoned the vessel. having set it under full sail, to drift to its doom with the picture and the dog aboard. The dying sailor said that the young woman's sweet face l had haunted him throughout life, and his confession was prompted by strik- Ing resemblance between her and his elderly listener,
 Mrs. Poole's visitor stated that the | sailors story had been for years cur rent tradition of the descendants of | Burr's family, though they had hither- to paid very little attention to 1t, Its 1 extraordinary corroboration by the ac- ,idental meeting of these two women | appears to settle forever the recent l mystery as to the death of Mrs Alston. l The Detroit woman says that the sub- iect of the painting Is beyond doubt | Aaron Burr's daughter-a statement l by other pictures of that |