Editing Aaron Burr (section)

===Marriage to Theodosia Bartow Prevost===
[[File:Aaron_Burr_and_His_Wife_Theodosia_Bartow.jpg|thumb|A portrait of Burr and [[Theodosia Bartow Prevost]], who Burr married in 1782, by [[Henry Benbridge]]]]
Burr met [[Theodosia Bartow Prevost]] in August 1778 while she was married to [[Jacques Marcus Prevost]], a Swiss-born British officer in the [[Royal American Regiment]].{{sfn|Williams|1973|pp=16–17}} In Prevost's absence, Burr began regularly visiting Theodosia at [[The Hermitage (Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey)|The Hermitage]], her home in New Jersey.<ref name=NYT1977>{{cite news |title=The House Where Aaron Burr Courted Theodosia |date=September 1, 1977 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/01/archives/westchester-opinion-the-house-where-aaron-burr-courted-theodosia.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517143907/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/01/archives/westchester-opinion-the-house-where-aaron-burr-courted-theodosia.html |archive-date=May 17, 2019 }}</ref> Theodosia would go on to visit Burr many times throughout his stay at West Point New York in June through July 1778.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.cga.ct.gov/hco/books/A_General_History_of_the_Burr_Family.pdf |title=A General History of the Burr Family with a Genealogical Record from 1193 to 1902 |first=Charles Burr |last=Todd |edition=Fourth |publisher=The Knickerbocker Press |location=New York |date=1902 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241213221444/https://www.cga.ct.gov/hco/books/A_General_History_of_the_Burr_Family.pdf |archive-date=13 December 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> Although she was ten years older than Burr, the constant visits provoked gossip, and by 1780 the two were openly lovers.{{sfn|Isenberg|2007|pp=69–70}} In December 1781, Burr learned that Prevost had died of [[yellow fever]] while serving in [[Colony of Jamaica|Jamaica]].{{sfn|Isenberg|2007|p=70}}

Burr and Theodosia were married in 1782, and they moved to a house on [[Wall Street]] in Lower Manhattan.{{sfn|Parmet|Hecht|1967|p=57}} After several years of severe illness, Theodosia died in 1794 from [[stomach cancer|stomach]] or [[uterine cancer]].{{sfn|Lomask|1979|p=197}} Their only child to survive to adulthood was [[Theodosia Burr Alston]], born in 1783.{{sfn|Isenberg|2007|p=75-6}}