Editing Aaron Burr (section)

===Unacknowledged children===
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{{See also|Mary Emmons}}
In 1787 or earlier, Burr began a relationship with [[Mary Emmons]] (called "Eugenie"), who may have been East Indian. She worked as a servant in his household during his first marriage. Emmons may have come from [[Calcutta]] to [[Saint-Domingue]] or Haiti before coming to America.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4lNoVq79qn8C&q=calcutta&pg=PA68|title=One More Day's Journey: The Story of a Family and a People|first=Allen B.|last=Ballard|year=2011|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=9781462052837 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB112847391696860205 |title=Fans of Aaron Burr Find Unlikely Ally In a 'New' Relative |first1=Greg |last1=Ip |newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=October 5, 2005}}</ref> Burr fathered two children with Emmons, both of whom married into Philadelphia's "[[Free Negro]]" community in which their families became prominent:
* Louisa Burr (Webb) (Darius) ({{circa|1784}}-1878) worked most of her life as a valued servant in the home of Elizabeth Powel Francis Fisher, a prominent Philadelphia society matron, and later in the home of her son [[Joshua Francis Fisher]].{{sfn|Maillard|2013|pp=261–300}} She was married to Francis Webb (1788–1829), a founding member of the Pennsylvania Augustine Education Society, secretary of the [[Haitian emigration|Haytien Emigration Society]] formed in 1824, and distributor of ''[[Freedom's Journal]]'' from 1827 to 1829.{{sfn|Maillard|2013|pp=261–300}} After his death, Louisa remarried and became Louisa Darius.{{sfn|Maillard|2013|pp=261–300}} Her youngest son [[Frank J. Webb]] wrote the 1857 novel ''The Garies and Their Friends''.{{sfn|Maillard|2013|pp=261–300}}
* [[John Pierre Burr]] ({{circa|1792}}–1864) became a member of Philadelphia's [[Underground Railroad]] and served as an agent for the [[abolitionism|abolitionist]] newspaper ''[[The Liberator (newspaper)|The Liberator]]''. He worked in the National Black Convention movement and served as chairman of the [[American Moral Reform Society]].{{sfnm|Willson|2000|1p=123 n.11}}

One contemporary of John Pierre Burr identified him as a natural son of Burr in a published account,{{sfn|Pickard|1895|p=224}} but Burr never acknowledged his relationship or children with Emmons during his life, in contrast to his adoption or acknowledgment of other children born later in his life.

In 2018, Louisa and John were acknowledged by the Aaron Burr Association as the children of Burr after Sherri Burr, a descendant of John Pierre, provided both documentary evidence and results of a [[DNA test]] to confirm a familial link between descendants of Burr and descendants of Pierre.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/24/aaron-burr-vice-president-who-killed-hamilton-had-children-of-color|title=Aaron Burr, vice-president who killed Hamilton, had children of color|last=Holpuch|first=Amanda|date=August 24, 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=August 24, 2019|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/08/24/aaron-burr-villain-hamilton-had-secret-family-color-new-research-shows/|title=Aaron Burr – villain of 'Hamilton' – had a secret family of color, new research shows|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> The Association installed a headstone at Pierre's grave to mark his ancestry. Stuart Fisk Johnson, the president of the Association, commented, "A few people didn't want to go into it because Aaron's first wife, Theodosia, was still alive, and dying of cancer [when Aaron fathered Pierre] ... But the embarrassment is not as important as it is to acknowledge and embrace actual living, robust, accomplished children."<ref>{{cite news|last=Natanson|first=Hannah|title=Aaron Burr – villain of 'Hamilton' – had a secret family of color, new research shows|language=en-US|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/08/24/aaron-burr-villain-hamilton-had-secret-family-color-new-research-shows/|access-date=September 25, 2020|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>