He had lots of children
Aaron Burr had eight children in total four biological, two stepsons, and two adoptive sons, which is one of the interesting facts about Aaron Burr. The eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren, was allegedly one of their illegitimate offspring. Burr started seeing Mary Emmons, sometimes known as Eugenie, who may have been East Indian, around 1787 or before. He employed her as a domestic during his first marriage. Before arriving in America, Emmons could have traveled from Calcutta to Haiti or Saint-Domingue. Burr had two children with Emmons, and both of them married into important families in Philadelphia's "Free Negro" culture.
Theodosia Burr Alston, Burr's cherished daughter and the only child of his to survive childhood, was lost at sea at the age of 29 when the schooner Patriot suddenly vanished without a trace. Burr lost a piece of his family's past and future all at once since a complete trunk full of family writings was also on the ship. Although there are numerous disturbing ideas about what happened to the Patriot, one of them holds that it was sunk by pirates who forced the remaining passengers to cross the plank. Following the passing of his daughter Theodosia, Burr adopted two boys, Aaron Columbus Burr and Charles Burdett, in the 1810s and 1820s. Charles was born in 1814, whereas Aaron was born in Paris in 1808 and immigrated to the United States about 1815.
Burr's marriage made him the stepfather of his wife's two adolescent kids from her previous union. At the ages of 16 and 14, respectively, John Bartow Prevost and Augustine James Frederick Prevost enlisted with their father in the Royal American Regiment in December 1780. When they came back to the country in 1783 to become citizens, Burr took on the role of a father to them, taking care of their schooling, giving both of them clerkships in his legal department, and frequently traveling with one of them as an assistant. Later, Thomas Jefferson chose John to serve as the first judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court in the Territory of Orleans.
