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Aaron Burr
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1. On February 6, 1756 in what New Jersey town was Aaron Burr born ?
4. Madame Eliza Bowen Jumel was a former prostitute who married Stephen Jumel in 1804. She left her wine merchant husband almost penniless by 1822. Eliza returned to NYC from Paris to try to regain their fortune. Stephen Jumel joined her 6 years later where they lived comfortably until he died at 70 years old from an accidental fall. What was the Jumel Mansion first called ?
9. The two dueling pistols with concealed hair triggers that were used in the 1804 Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr duel were owned by Hamilton's brother-in-law, who was a business partner of both Hamilton and Burr. In 1799 Aaron Burr had two duels with this man and the same pistols, what was his name ?
10. Using the scare of yellow fever, Burr pushed his own companies water bill through the Legislature through political manipulation which got the approval of what Governor ?
13. On his death bed in Port Richmond, Staten Island, who did Aaron Burr want his eye glasses fowarded to (use her Maiden name)?
14. What month was it when Alexander Hamilton (former secretary of the treasury) and Vice President Aaron Burr dueled in 1804 on the riverbank below the cliffs in New Jersey?
15. In 1782 what NY town did Aaron Burr have his first law practice ?
16. Aaron Burr's marriage to Madame Eliza Jumel only lasted four months because he lost her money in a scheme to create a German colony in what US state ?
17. What was the last month in 1833, that Aaron Burr was married to Madame Jumel, during their 4 month marriage ?
18. In 1769 Aaron Burr schooled at the College of New Jersey, which in 1896 changed its name and became an University. Aaron Burr was buried at this school after he died on September 14th, 1836. What was this University renamed ?
20. A brigade commanded by the late General Silliman was taken by another General to defend the small Bunker Hill fort at Grand and Lafeyette streets. The British cut off the Island 3 miles north which halted this General's willingness to heed Washington's order to retreat to Harlem Heights. Aid-de-camp to General Putnam, Major Aaron Burr rescued this brigade on Monday September 16, 1776. Who was that General whose brigade was saved by Burr ?
21. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's famous duel in New Jersey was in what town ?
24. On June 21, 1783 Aaron Burr's daughter Theodosia Bartow Burr was born in Albany. What was the last name of the first widow Aaron Burr married ?
25. After looking at his spectacles in his attendants hands, what was Aaron Burr's last word from his death bed in Port Richmond, Staten Island ?
27. After being acquitted for treason, where in Europe did Aaron Burr exiled himself to, until he was 55 years old ?
28. Aaron Burr introduced the widowed Dolley Payne who ran a boarding house in Philadelphia (America's Capital at the time) to James who ?
29. Who beat Aaron Burr in his 1804 race for Governor of New York, due to Alexander Hamilton's interference ?
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2. Aaron Burr's 1799 Manhattan Company's pump and well was on the west side of Centre Street between Reade and Duane streets by the southern side of the Little Collect Pond. The Manhattan Company's reservoir was located on the north side of Chambers between Centre and what street ?
3. A 20 year old Burr wrote letters for George Washington, but resigned after a month and a half to return to the front lines of the war. Washington held a grudge and later denied Burr's access to Americas archives. While Burr was a Senator from NY, he wanted access to historical archives to write the history of what war ?
4. Aaron Burr's Richmond Hill mansion was constructed on a hill between Varick, Charlton, MacDougal, and King streets. What was this house built after 1760 by the Paymaster of the British Army first called ?
5. By 1840, Aaron Burr's Manhattan Company had 25 miles of wooden pipes and fourteen miles of iron pipes, working 3 feet under street level. The water was raised from underground wells and springs by a steam pump, and stored 15 feet above the level of nearby Broadway. Besides the monthy water bill, how many dollars did a home have to pay to have a lateral pipe hooked up to the Manhattan Company's main pipes ?
6. The Manhattan Company's huge water tank took up 3/4 of a building that was formerly on the corner of Centre street and what other NYC street ?
7. Besides starting rumors how did Alexander Hamilton attack and ruin Burr's bid for Governor of New York ?
8. What New York morning newspaper did Aaron Burr start on October 1, 1802, which had articles by Washington Irving, and was edited by his brother Peter Irving.
11. Aaron Burr's parents both died in 1758 when he was 2 years old, later that same year his grandparents died as well. What fever killed them all ?
12. In 1799, when Burr was a member of the New York Assembly, he started the Manhattan Company as a scheme to open up what kind of business ?
19. Alexander Hamilton's branch of Government (Federalist Party) was pro-British, what country was Aaron Burr's party (Republicans) partial to ?
22. On what NYC street did Aaron Burr have the most law offices on ?
23. The owner of the Richmond Hill mansion after Aaron Burr made a killing when real estate in the neighborhood boomed. In 1820 he moved the mansion to the southeast corner of Varick and Charlton streets (about 100 feet east of Varick to be exact). Aaron Burr leased Richmond Hill for 7 years from the Episcopal Trinity Church (for peanuts), before dueling Alexander Hamilton. In 1804 who did Aaron Burr transfer the 69 year lease of Richmond Hill to ?
26. Aaron Burr wrecked the Federalist Party by leaking to the press a fight between Hamilton and what former President ?
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