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Jacques Marcus Prevost

Weeks after his death his widow, Theodosia Bartow Prevost, became involved with Aaron Burr, later marrying him.

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Augustine was then commissioned as a major, Jacques as a colonel and Jacques Marcus as a captain in the new Royal American Regiment, formed of German and Swiss settlers in the colonies by Great Britain after General Braddock's defeat in western Pennsylvania in the French and Indian Wars in 1755 and with the threat of war with France looming.

Theodosia Burr Alston

Her mother was the widow of Jacques Marcus Prevost (1736-1781), a British Army officer who settled in New York City.

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