Well, welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode, we will be talking about the third child of the 11 children born to Jonathan and Sarah Edwards.

This is Esther Edwards Burr.

She was born on February 13th, 1732

into this minister's home in Northampton, Massachusetts.

She would go on to live through the Great Awakening as an 8 to 10 year old, and it's fascinating

how that event formed and shaped her, and she would refer to it often as her life unfolded.

In 1752, she was married after a whirlwind courtship to Aaron Burr.

Aaron Burr was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Newark, New Jersey,

and he was president of then the College of New Jersey, which was meeting and housed in Newark.

He went to Massachusetts specifically with the goal of proposing to and marrying Esther Edwards.

After five days, she said yes to his proposal.

And then he returned to Newark, and two weeks later,

she went to Newark.

Her mother, Sarah Edwards, accompanied her. two weeks later, she went to Newark.

Her mother, Sarah Edwards, accompanied her.

And when she got to Newark, she was married,

and she remained married to Aaron Burr.

In 1752, she also had a visit from a friend of hers. Her name was Sarah

Prince. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas Prince. He was the pastor of Old South Church in Boston, and a supporter of Edwards

through the Great Awakening, and a close friend of Jonathan Edwards.

It'd be natural as Esther made many trips to Boston that she would spend time in the

Prince household and Sarah was about her age and those two became deep and great

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