Theodosia Burr Alston (June 21, 1783 – January 2 or 3, 1813) was an American socialite and the daughter of the third U.S. Vice President, Aaron Burr, and Theodosia Bartow Prevost. She became First Lady of South Carolina after her husband, Joseph Alston, became governor of South Carolina during the War of 1812. She was lost at sea at age 29.

2019年1月22日 · Theodosia Burr Alston, the beloved daughter of disgraced vice president Aaron Burr, left the port of Georgetown, South Carolina on the schooner Patriot in 1812 and was never seen again. Throughout the 19th century, newspapers titillated readers with lurid stories of her alleged fate, including captivity, murder, and deathbed confessions of ...

2024年1月30日 · On an ocean voyage from South Carolina to visit her father in New York in December 1812, Alston, and the other passengers, were never heard from again. In succeeding years, tales of misdeeds by local ship scavengers, also known as “bankers”, pirate capture, and murder and associated confessions made the popular news stream of the day.

2022年3月9日 · In 1800, Theodosia became deeply enamored with Joseph Alston, a wealthy planter from South Carolina. “My father laughs at my impatience to hear from you,” Theodosia wrote teasingly to Joseph...

2010年2月25日 · Raised by her doting father, Theodosia grew up in New York City where, especially following the death of her mother, she was known as the "hostess of Richmond Hill." She has been identified as "among the most educated women of her day."

Theodosia Burr Alston (1783–1813) was brilliant, accomplished, and unusually well educated for a woman of her time. Her father, Aaron Burr, firmly believed that girls should study the same subjects that boys did, and so she learned mathematics, Latin, Greek, and composition in addition to the more traditional subjects for girls, such as ...

2022年7月4日 · The daughter of third U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, Theodosia Burr Alston boarded the "Patriot" ship in 1812 to reunite with her father. But she never made it. Theories ranged from privateers sinking the ship to Burr's daughter being forced to walk the plank.

As she grew older, Theodosia took over as host of the Burr estate and, in 1801, married Joseph Alston, the same year Aaron Burr became vice president. Theodosia remained loyal and supportive as her father's career declined after his duel with Alexander Hamilton in 1804.

2020年6月21日 · Two hundred years after her death, Theodosia Burr Alston’s name found itself revived in the most unexpected of places – inside a Broadway theater.

2021年4月22日 · On the last day of December in 1812, Theodosia Burr Alston, then South Carolina’s First Lady, left Georgetown, SC, on a small schooner named The Patriot. She was sailing to New York to visit her notorious father for the first time in several years. It was a trip expected to take six days.