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2 days ago · On July 1 of that year, at age 77, he married Eliza Jumel, a wealthy widow who was nineteen years his junior. They lived together briefly at her residence which she had acquired with her first husband, the Morris-Jumel Mansion in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.
4 days ago · One such haunt is wealthy former resident Eliza Jumel, a 19th-century real estate impresario who made the stately residence her home with her first husband Stephen Jumel before his death, after...
4 days ago · Eliza Married Aaron Burr in the Front Parlor…and Divorced Him 1 Year Later. After the death of her first husband, French merchant Stephen Jumel, Eliza married Aaron Burr in 1833. The wedding ...
4 days ago · On this virtual walking tour, we will meander through part of Washington Heights, focusing on Eliza Jumel’s years there as the Morris-Jumel Mansion’s longest resident.
1 day ago · Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left, is a superb review of the early days of this nation to the Civil War in terms of the continuing continuing struggle to maintain personal liberty against utopian visionaries and their power-mongering tendencies. Greenfield’s Domestic Enemies is an engaging and engrossing read.
5 days ago · That very same mansion hosts dinners for multiple founding fathers- and was later a residence for Aaron Burr. Burr was married to Eliza Jumel for 3 months when she filed for divorce...and to really stick the knife in the divorce preceedings- she used Alexander Hamilton's son as her divorce attorney.
5 days ago · Book a self-guided tour of the Morris-Jumel Mansion (built in 1765) to learn more about the home's rich history and inhabitants.
