okay so aaron burr tried to help maria reynolds’ daughter susan to get a good start in life – introduced her to people, found her a place in a girls’ boarding school in boston, etc. but the best part is probably when he is writing to his friend about susan in 1800 and he has to be like ‘okay i know what you’re thinking but seriously i’m not THE FATHER’
[Burr] added, in case Eustis might have questioned Susan’s paternity, that she was not his illegitimate offspring: “she has not the most remote affinity to me.” Still he was, he said, “under a sacred obligation to protect her.”
like….how bad your reputation has to be that this happens
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