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Esther Edwards Burr (February 13, 1732 – April 7, 1758) kept a personal journal from October 1754, in which she recorded her perspective on current events and her daily activities.
Mar 16, 2022 · Esther Edwards Burr’s journal gives us one of the few records of female life in colonial America. Here’s what it reveals.
On October 11, 1754, Esther Edwards Burr (1732-1758), the third of Jonathan and Sarah Pierpont Edwards’s eleven children, writing in her diary, called her best friend, Sarah Prince (1728-1771), “the Sister of my heart.”
BURR, Esther Edwards. Born 1732, Northampton, Massachusetts; died April 1758, Princeton, New Jersey. Daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Pierrepont Edwards; married Aaron Burr, 1752. Esther Edwards Burr was the third of 11 children of Sarah Pierrepont and the prominent minister, Jonathan Edwards.
In Esther’s words, faithful friendships are one in which “one might unbosom their whole soul” (112). Learning from Esther Edwards Burr, we can devote ourselves to God and the things of God. We can trace His grace in our practical daily living as we depend on Him moment by moment.
Jan 3, 2018 · Esther Edwards Burr was the third of eleven children born to Jonathan and Sarah Edwards. She was born on February 13, 1732, in Northampton, Mass. She lived through the Great Awakening as an eight- to ten-year-old, and it’s fascinating how that event formed and shaped her.
Written as a series of letters to the author's closest friend, the journal offers a rare glimpse into the public and private life of a spirited and articulate eighteenth-century woman. Esther Edwards Burr was a member, by birth and marriage, of two of New England's elite families.
