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inoculation), Esther fell ill and died on April 7, 1758, after "a few days illness". She was seized with a fever, apparently not linked to her recent smallpox inoculation, which produced a violent headache and then delirium. Her sister Sarah believed it was not unlike the sudden fever from which her
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most likely a reference to her last name after she married Aaron Burr Sr. Esther wrote about ordinary things that happened around her, but she also sometimes expressed original thoughts about serious topics in passing such as the dominant themes of loneliness and hardship of everyday existence as
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In the play, Aaron Burr mentions Esther twice in the first half of the musical. Esther is personified by a female ensemble member during "Wait For It" after Leslie Odom Jr., playing the role of Aaron Burr Jr., sings the line "My Mother was a genius" and then proceeds to sing, "when they (Esther
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Edwards Burr and Aaron Burr Sr.) died they left no instructions, just a legacy to protect", implying that they didn't tell Aaron Burr Jr. anything before she died, Esther is briefly also mentioned in "Aaron Burr, Sir".
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