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Note: Notes for ESTHER EDWARDS: "She exceeded most of her sex," writers of the period testify, "in the beauty of her person as well as behaviour and conversation. . . . Her genius was more than common. . . . She possessed an uncommon degree of wit and vivacity, which yet was consistent with pleasantness and good nature. . . . In short, she seemed to please one of Dr. Burr's tastes in character, in whom she was exceedingly happy. Her religion did not cast a gloom over her mind and made her cheerful and happy, and rendered the thought of death transporting." She died of smallpox soon after her husband's death, leaving two young orphans, Aaron and Sally Burr. (Narratives of Newark in New Jersey, 1666-1916)
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