Theodosia Burr Alston was the daughter of Aaron Burr and this American patriot who married at what age?
Theodosia Burr Alston Theodosia Burr Alston (June 21, 1783 – approximately January 2 or 3, 1813) was the daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr and Theodosia Bartow Prevost. Her husband, Joseph Alston, was governor of South Carolina during the War of 1812. She was lost at sea at age 29.
Hetty Reckless Amy Hester "Hetty" Reckless was born into slavery in Salem, New Jersey, in 1776, the daughter of Dorcas Boadley, who belonged to the wealthy Johnson family who lived in Johnson Hall. Initially, Reckless was the property of Jane Gibson Johnson and when she died became her son's chattel. When Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson – renowned for his eating of tomatoes in an era when they were thought to be poisonous – married for the second time, his wife Julianna mistreated Reckless. Fleeing to Philadelphia in 1826 with her daughter, Reckless sought help from the Abolition Society claiming at first that she had been emancipated by her previous owner. She recounted that she boarded a stagecoach like any other passenger and rode without question from Salem to Philadelphia, resolved not to return because Johnson's wife had knocked out her front teeth with a broomstick and yanked out tufts of her hair. She also was aggrieved because Johnson's mother had promised her she would receive her freedom, but when the Colonel inherited Reckless, he refused. Colonel Johnson tried to reclaim her as his slave, promising to set her free if she would return and give him her daughter. Reckless refused and did not return to Salem until after Johnson's death in 1850.