1. Jehu Burr

Jehu Burr settled in Roxbury Massachusetts, thence he accompanies William Pynchon to the founding of Springfield, and eventually settled at Fairfield Conn. where his descendants became known as the ‘The Fairfield Branch’.  They became the firmest pillars of the old colonial structure, and prominent in both civil and military affairs.
Jehu had four sons:   Jehu born in England.
                                John  "
                                Nathaniel  "
                                Daniel  "
Daniel had 10 children.
One of which was the Rev. Aaron Burr.
Rev. Aaron Burr. settled in Newark, New Jersey as pastor of the First Church.  He married Esther, daughter of Rev. Jonothan Edwards on June 29 1737.
                Their children were: Sarah, b. May 3, 1754, married Judge Tappen Reeve on June 24, 1772.
                Aaron Burr, born Feb. 60 1756.  Died Sept. 14, 1836.
Rev.  Aaron Burr founded The New Jersey, College, now known as Princeton University, and became President.
Rev.  Aaron Burr died Sept. 24, 1757 and his wife Esther died in 1758.

Aaron Burr (the son) was born in the parsonage of the First Church, Newark, New Jersey.  Before the second year of his life had passed, it was clouded by the death of his father, mother and grandparents. he was reared in an uncle's family, Timothy Edwards, the eldest son of President Edwards. He was tutored by Mr. Tappan Reeve, who some years later became his brother-in-law.  By the time he was eleven he was ready for college and was graduated with distinction in Sept. 1772.  He fought in the Revolution and became a Colonel and he married Theodosia .Prevost, the widow of a British officer, they had one daughter Theodosia who was born 1783.  Aaron Burr's political life ended in a duel with Alexander Hamilton when Hamilton was shot and killed.  Daughter Theodosia married an Alston of Virginia and she had one son.  He died at the age of eleven.  On her way to New York to see her father, legend has it that the ship was captured by pirates and Theodosia was compelled to walk the plank into the sea, for she was never heard from again.  There are no descendants of Col.  Aaron Burr.

Benjamin Burr was a member of a sturdy and gallant band that marched through the wilderness to found the city of Hartford, Conn. in 1635.  He was the father of a numerous and respectable family, known to genealogists as the ‘Hartford Branch’.
His descendants settled principally in Conn. and N.Y. and are also quite numerous in Illinois and Iowa.

3.   Rev. Jonothan Burr

Reverend Jonothan Burr, was the founder of the third,, or ‘Dorchester branch’ of the family.  He was a clergyman of culture, piety, and rare eloquence, whose fame was in all the churches, whose lineage and history is given in detail both by Gov. Winthrop and in the pages of that quaint and famous biographer Rev. Cotton Mather.
He was born in the parish of Redgrave, County of Suffolk,  England 1604, and according to an entry in the parish register of Redgrave he was baptized Aug. 12, 1604.
He was entered at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1623 and graduated in 1627.
He died Aug. 9. 1641 of small pox.