What is it about the Town of Pelham that seems to attract men who have killed their rivals in notorious duels? Aaron Burr, who served as Vice President during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson and who fought a duel with, and mortally wounded, Alexander Hamilton on July 11, 1804, spent time in Pelham, bought a farm here which he promptly sold to his step-son Augustine J. F. Prevost, and married Theodosia Bartow Prevost, a widow born in Pelham Manor who was ten years his senior. Burr was not, however, the only notorious duelist who shot a rival dead who was attracted to the Town of Pelham.
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