Aaron Burr News 2010

 

Hi Peter,

    Just to let you know Jane and I do plan to get to the last couple of days of the Aaron Burr conference in August, having made reservation for Friday night, the 27th, at the Westin this morning.

    Still perusing your books, they're safe here and don't leave the house.  Thanks very much for the loan.

        Best, John Endicott  7/26/10

PS  Here's a link to an article on the 1800 article you may not have seen  http://jvbline.org/Burr.pdf

    Also, some Burr books and documents can be found at www.archive.org

Excellent 1800 Election Analysis Article John!

Thanks for sending it.

Pete

 

206 year duel anniversary article

http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index.ssf/2010/07/on_this_day_alexander_hamilton.html

with new, funny ESPN video featuring Weehawken footage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfeuU0NB5lg

 

 

http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/Jamie-Stiehm/2010/06/29/Remembering-Robert-Byrd   6/29/10

Did you know that Sen. Robert C. Byrd loved a certain farewell speech by Aaron Burr, Jefferson's Vice President? Burr was also the president of the Senate, a far more important post as far as Byrd was concerned. Not only did he speak the speech from time to time on the floor of the Senate, but for  Byrd-watchers above in the press gallery, he reenacted it. Suddenly we the listeners were transported back to 1805 to hear the prophecy that if the Constitution were ever destined to perish, its expiring agonies would be witnessed on this floor. It is here--it is here. Byrd got down on his hands and knees to make this point.

Byrd had a fabulous sense of the past, of the ghosts and shadows walking the halls in the Capitol, including Daniel Webster and John F. Kennedy. When Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's brain cancer was announced in May 2008, it was a rare thing to see a senator weep for another openly on the floor as he did, speaking of his love and friendship for the man once his rival for majority leader--so long ago. 
 

 

 

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/jun/09/affair-honour-aims-teach-history-and-life-lessons/

 

 

6/12/10 San Diego Band Teacher Breathes New Life Into American History

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/jun/11/band-teacher-breathes-new-life-american-history/

He has a role for a mistress for Burr but not Hamilton,

when it was the married Hamilton who cheated on his wife Elizabeth with 23 year old Marie Reynolds.

 

05/22/10 Five Best Books on American Moguls (Fallen Founder is one)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703315404575250451003452566.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Fallen Founder. Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel but Hamilton was cheating. Hamilton borrowed the pistols from a friend despite the fact he owned an excellent set himself. Hamilton's gun fired early and Burr took careful aim and shot him. There was no necessity for a reload.

The 1976 for the bicentennial the dueling pistols were examined. They are owned by the Rockefellers. It was determined that Alex's gun had a hair trigger and apparently he didn't know how to use it. When you look at a 10-spot remember Hamilton got what he deserved.

 

 

Crime History - Hamilton, Burr were first legal Dream Team

By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff Writer
April 1, 2010

On this day, April 1, in 1800, the original legal Dream Team, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, won an acquittal in the infamous Manhattan Well Mystery.

Bride-to-be Gulielma Sands disappeared on the night she was to secretly wed Levi Weeks, a young carpenter. Her body was found at the bottom of a well.

The public immediately suspected Weeks. One witness claimed to have seem him taking measurements of the well before Sands disappeared.

As his defense attorneys, Weeks hired Hamilton, a Founding Father, and Burr, a future vice president. After five minutes of deliberation, the jury found Weeks not guilty.

Five years later, Burr shot and killed Hamilton in the country's most famous duel.

Weeks later became an accomplished architect in Mississippi.

- Scott McCabe



Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/crime/Crime-History---Hamilton_-Burr-were-first-legal-Dream-Team-89609392.html#ixzz0jxFOsivu
 

 

 

 

 

 

1836:  http://www.silive.com/homegarden/interiordesign/index.ssf/2010/02/stop_awhile_at_the_eagle_hotel.html

 

Jan 23, 2010

Pete,

 
      I appreciate your using the Aaron Burr signed Putnam pistols certification on the Aaron Burr Association website. My wife and I would still consider selling the item eventho we couldn't hope to find a greater piece of history.   .....  Thank You.
 
Paul T. Thacker
61 Queen Drive
Chillicothe, Ohio - 45601-9256
Ph - 740  775-1780
pthacker39@roadrunner.com

 

 

 
  

 

 

 

I certify that from inspection of a pair of steel mounted pistols now in the possession of Mr. John P. Putnam and this day shown to me by him I believe them to be the same pistols which were carried and used by Major General Israel Putnam in the war of the Revolution in that I was then Aid-De-Camp to Gen Putnam and believe I often saw said pistols in his possession.

 
           Dated Sept 29th 1835                                                                              A  Burr
                  Witnes Thereunto          Alexander S Tuttle

 

175 Year Old NATIONAL TREASURE

This is a paper used by United States historians to reveal that General Israel Putnam carried and used the British Major John Pitcairn Pistols throughout his Revolutionary War service. This paper, being unlike the other in the Lexington, MA Historical Society, refers to the Pistols as being 'NOW' in the possession of Israel’s Grandson Mr. John P. Putnam. This infers that Mr. John P. Putnam may not have had the Pistols with him before he visited Aaron Burr. The document is about 6"x 8".

 

In June 1835, 60 years after the Battle of Bunker Hill, Aaron Burr thought he would soon die and sent for his Memoir Writer Matthew Livingston Davis to receive all of his papers. In September, Aaron sent for Israel’s Grandson - John Pope Putnam. Matthew Davis never obtained the two pistols documents - possibly his final writings.

 

I believe the pistols weren’t in the Putnam family from the Revolutionary War to 1835. It is possible that after the War, General Putnam presented them to his Aid-De-Camp Aaron Burr just as General Washington bequeathed his Doune Pistols to Major General Lafayette. This may have been the pair of pistols that were in Burr’s Will on July 10, 1804 to be left to his step-son Frederic. This was in the case that Alexander Hamilton would shoot him dead the next day - Wed., July 11, 1804.

 
There were two uniquely different certifications written for the famous pair of John Murdoch unmatched Doune pistols, which from one British Major John Pitcairn fired the first shot of the Revolutionary War, “SHOT HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLD” on April 19, 1775. This was 235 years ago. He fired his pistol and flourished his sword to signal the beginning of the Battle of Lexington and Concord. This is the only document like this.

 

Rev. War 1775 + sixty yrs. = 1835 + 175 year old document = 235 yrs. in 2010

 

                                               PATRIOTS DAY
                        Let Us Celebrate - Monday, April 19, 2010 
 
                   SEPTEMBER 29, 1835  -  SEPTEMBER 29, 2010.
                 175th ANNIVERSARY of a NATIONAL TREASURE:
                             PUTNAM PISTOLS CERTIFICATION.
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