Theodosia Burr Alston

Theodosia Burr Alston (June 21, 1783 – January 2 or 3, 1813) was an American socialite and the daughter of Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States, and Theodosia Bartow Prevost. She became first lady of South Carolina after her husband, Joseph Alston, became governor of South Carolina during the War of 1812. Theodosia was lost at sea at age 29, and her fate has become the subject of much speculation in the centuries since.

Early life Theodosia was born to Aaron Burr and Theodosia Bartow Prevost in Albany, New York, a year after they married. Theodosia's mother was the widow of Jacques Marcus Prevost, a British Army officer who had settled in New York City; she had five other children from that marriage and was nine years Burr's senior.