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Esther Edwards Burr (February 13, 1732 – April 7, 1758) kept a personal journal from October 1754, in which she recorded her perspective on current events and her daily activities.
16 de mar. de 2022 · Esther Edwards Burr’s journal gives us one of the few records of female life in colonial America. Here’s what it reveals.
13 de mai. de 2013 · Read the diary of Esther Edwards Burr, the daughter of theologian Jonathan Edwards and the wife of Princeton president Aaron Burr. Learn about her childhood, education, views, and relationship with her famous husband.
esther edwards burr (1732–58) was the third child of Jonathan Edwards and Sarah Pierpont Edwards. She grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts, at the height of the Great Awakening, hearing the preaching of such evangelists as George Whitefield, and witnessing ecstatic religious behavior, including her mother’s in 1742.
Esther Edwards Burr was the third of 11 children of Sarah Pierrepont and the prominent minister, Jonathan Edwards. At the age of twenty she married Aaron Burr, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Newark, New Jersey, and later a founder and second president of Princeton College.
Sarah Prince’s Eulogy to Esther Burr. Download. XML. INDEX. Download. XML. This richly detailed and intimate journal is the earliest ongoing record of a woman's daily life in the colonial United States. Written as a series of lett...
Esther Edwards Burr. Yale University Press, 1984 - Biography & Autobiography - 318 pages. In October 1754, Esther Burr began to keep an almost daily record of her thoughts and activities, a...
