Identifier: historicalcoll00barb (find matches)
Title: Historical collections of the state of New Jersey : containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the state. Illustrated by 120 engravings
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885 Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
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Publisher: Newark, N.J. : B. Olds, for J.H. Bradley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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having some difficulty with his pre-ceptor, he ran away, and was not found until the third or fourth day after-ward : thus indicating, at this early age, a fearlessness of mind, and reli-ance on himself, which characterized the subsequent acts of his life. Atthe age of ten he ran away from his uncle, Timothy Edwards, for the pur-pose of going to sea. He entered Princeton College, and graduated at theage of sixteen years, receiving the highest academic honors of the institu-tion, though his moral character at this period could not be considered ofthe highest order. On the breaking out of the revolution, Col. Burr, im-pelled by military honor, joined the American army, and was a volunteerin Arnolds celebrated expedition through the wilderness to Quebec. Hewas afterward for a short period in the family of Washington, but becom I s* r* CO p a I o »c g !J 0> o Ss 3 CO a B 5 O «> 3 CJ re* 3 H PC: -J 32 O * 2. ^ 9^ £ OCT ^ C CD H ft* .^ o o IS §3 « o 5 ^<
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MERCER COUNTY. 281 ing somewhat dissatisfied with that great man, he became aid to Gen. Put-nam, and was afterward appointed lieutenant-colonel. Col. Burr next turn-ed his attention to the study of law, was admitted to the bar in 1782,and commenced practice in Albany. In 1791, he was appointed a Senatorof the United States, and in 1801, Vice-President. In the a;ifumn of 1806, a project was detected, at the head of which wasCol. Burr, said to be for revolutionizing the territory west of the Alle-ghanies, and for establishing an independent empire there, of which NewOrleans was to be the capital, and himself the chief. Burr was appre-hended, and brought to trial Aug. 1807; no overt act being proved againsthim, he was acquitted. Col. Burr died at Staten Island, N. Y., September14th, 1836. It is truly surprising, says his biographer, how any indi-vidual could have become so eminent as a soldier, a statesman, and as a pro-fessional man, who devoted so much time to the other sex as was devo

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