Aaron Burr Association Welcomes Black Family Descendant

The Aaron Burr Association announced at their recent meeting in Philadelphia that their founder acquired a black family in the city of brotherly love during his political sojourn there as senator from New York. Louella Burr Mitchell Allen, an 86 year old former nurse, announced at the association's annual meeting that she is Burr's great great, great granddaughter, the descendant of Burr's son, John Pierre Burr. Unfortunately, there is no birth, death or marriage certificate linking Burr to John Pierre. But that has not discouraged Mrs. Allen, who claims to be relying on her family's oral tradition. The Burr Association has accepted Mrs. Allen as one of their extended family. They are apparently taking great satisfaction in contrasting their warm reception to the cool distance Jefferson's descendants have maintained with the family of Sally Hemings.