Events Leading up to the Duel | American Experience | Official Site
1756Aaron Burr is born on February 6 in Newark, New Jersey. His father, Reverend Aaron Burr, is the president of the College of New Jersey, which would later be renamed Princeton. Burrs maternal grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, was a prominent theologian and philosopher who helped ignite New Englands Great Awakening. By age 3, Burr was an