Aaron Burr Sr. was born on January 4, 1716. His family emigrated to the New World back in 1625.

They settled in the town of Fairfield, Connecticut.

Fairfield was about 50 miles above New York City,

and it was right along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

Well, as a young man, Aaron Burr went off to Yale.

He graduated in 1735 at the age of 19.

He stayed in New Haven through the end of the 1730s and into the early years of the 1740s.

This was a very crucial time in New England and in fact in all of the American colonies.

In the mid-1730s there were the revivals in the Connecticut River Valley

and they were certainly all around New Haven and then in the early years of the 1740s

was the Great Awakening. This was a very formative time, not only for the colonies, but for

Aaron Burr Senior. While he was there in New Haven, he was essentially apprenticed to James

Pierpont. Pierpont was the father of Sarah, who was the wife of Jonathan Edwards.

He was also minister of the prominent church there on the town green in New Haven and he was one of the founders

of Yale University.

Well, Pierpont led Aaron Burr Senior into learning about the pastoral ministry and also about education.

Burr co-wrote a grammar on Latin.

It was entitled a complete introduction to the Latin tongue. But Aaron Burr would make his mark in the town of Elizabeth,

New Jersey. Now there in this town he and Jonathan Dickinson essentially moved Princeton University

into what we could call phase two.

Phase one was the Log College Days and that was founded by the Tenants and it was

very much part of the Great Awakening and of that

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