Aaron Burr's Ghost

Aaron Burr, the Vice President to Thomas Jefferson, the man who shot Alexander Hamilton. The man who got kicked out of Mexico, the man who married a woman who everyone said had murdered her first husband, even though he was decades older (she divorced him ten months later).

This guy

 It's Hamilton's fingerprints which are all over this city, but oddly not his ghost. You never hear about Alexander Hamilton's ghost. Aaron Burr's ghost, on the other hand...

Aaron Burr's ghost has been seen, they say, at his former carriage house, which is now an insanely expensive restaurant. His daughter Theodosia has also been seen, pushing patrons down the stairs or ripping earrings out of women's ears. If he disapproves of his daughter's dreadful behaviour, he doesn't let it show.

Aaron Burr's ghost, they say, has been spotted at Battery Park, staring forlornly out at the water, waiting for his daughter to return. She'll never return, they say. She was killed by pirates, they say. Never mind that this conflicts with her being seen at their carriage house. Never mind that Battery Park was all landfill added later, and did not exist when the Burrs were actually alive.

Aaron Burr's ghost, they say, has been seen in Weehawken where he shot Hamilton. He's pale, even for a ghost, as if he's about to be sick. Does he regret what he's done? Does he even realise?

Aaron Burr's ghost has even been spotted at Eliza Jumel's mansion. Even though she divorced him, even though he didn't even live there that long, even though it's so far uptown. Aaron Burr's ghost really gets around.

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