Aaron Burr, Part 1
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780766160965
Subjects: Historical - U.S.; Biography / Autobiography
First sentence: IN September, 1753, the Reverend Jonathan Edwards, pastor of the Church in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, wrote to his son-in-law, the Reverend Aaron Burr, pastor of the Church in Newark, New Jersey, to inform him "that a meeting of the Church of Stockbridge . . . unanimously voted that whereas Mrs. Esther Burr, formerly Edwards, a member of this Church, has in divine Providence been removed from hence to dwell at Newark, she is recommended to your stated Communion as a member in full standing in this Church, by Recommendation from the Church of Northampton, and having so remained without offence during her continuance here."