spearean tragedy where bodies strew a stage.'' Elisabeth D. Dodds, Marriage to a Di≈cult
∑Ω∫ Notes to Pages 493–99
6. Esther Edwards Burr, The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754–1757, ed. Carol Karlsen and Laurie Crumpacker (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), 274.
7. Edwards to Aaron Burr, May 6, 1752, Works, 16: 478. 8. Burr, Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, May 2–June 16, 1757, pp. 260–64. 9. Shippen was also one of the architectural designers of the building. Thomas J. Wertenbaker, Princeton, 1746–1896 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946), 37–38.
10. William Shippen to Sarah Edwards, March 22, 1758, ANTS, George Claghorn transcription.
11. Hopkins, Life, 80n. 12. William Shippen to Sarah Edwards, March 22, 1758. 13. On the other hand, Hopkins' account, written seven years later, adds some last words that sound suspiciously conventional, especially as they were not included in Shippen's letter. According to Hopkins, near the very end when friends in the room were lamenting the e√ects of Edwards' passing, thinking he was beyond hearing them, he surprised them by saying these words, ''TRUST IN GOD, AND YE NEED NOT FEAR.'' Life, 81.
14. It is, of course, possible that some things to the contrary were suppressed by his disciples and descendants who cared for and edited his papers. Yet nothing that has survived there or elsewhere points to such.
15. Sarah Edwards to Esther Burr, April 3, 1758, ANTS, George Claghorn transcription.
16. Sarah Edwards Parsons to Mary Edwards Dwight, April 18, 1758, in Burr, Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 302–3.
17. Ibid. 18. Timothy Dwight Jr. to Gideon Hawley, April 5, 1758, Hartford Seminary Foundation, George Claghorn transcription.
19. Sarah Prince, entry in her private book of meditations, April 21, 1758, in Burr, Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 307–8.
20. Edwards to Esther Edwards Burr, November 20, 1757, Works, 16: 730. 21. Samuel Hopkins, The Life and Character of the Late Reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards (Boston, 1765), appendix, p. 97. (This appendix is not in the Levin republication from which other references to Hopkins, Life, are taken.)
22. Dwight, Life, 582. The two Burr children remained with the William Shippen family in Philadelphia until 1760 when Timothy Edwards, recently married, became their guardian, taking them first to Stockbridge and then in 1762 to Elizabethtown, New Jersey, where Timothy practiced law. The precocious Aaron Jr. graduated from Princeton in 1772 and then studied theology under Joseph Bellamy before turning away from his heritage during the American Revolution. See Suzanne Geissler, Jonathan Edwards to Aaron Burr, Jr.: From the Great Awakening to Democratic Politics (New York: Edwin Mellen, 1981), 102– 23. 23. As another biographer has observed, the Edwards narrative ends like ''a Shakespearean tragedy where bodies strew a stage.'' Elisabeth D. Dodds, Marriage to a Di≈cult Man: The ''Uncommon Union'' of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1971), 201.
24. Stiles, Literary Diary, as quoted in Joseph A. Conforti, Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,