#jonathan bellamy

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theyre so cute they make me sob 😢😢😢 also does anyone even remember this ship

also hi im back sorry i had like massive art block 🫩🫩🫩

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spill the thoughts i wanna see the thoughts ‼️

AAAAA IM SO HAPPY RHX

SRSLY THANXK I HAVE SO MAY THOUGHST ON THEM HOLD ON

SO

Aaron and Jonathan never met in college, but rather when Aaron started studying theology under Joseph Bellamy's (Jonathan's father) in Connecticut. They possibly met during that time, but i might be misremembering.

Apparently there is a letter where Bellamy asks Burr to live together alone and unmarried, as they both resisted to such idea. "Where we are to convince mankind that the only happy life is that of a bachelor" (I stole this from a post i read a while ago. Quote is apparently from their letters so DONT trust me on this)

YOU CNANT HUST TELL YOUR FRIEND TO LIVE WITH YOU ALONE UNMARRIED ??? ANS SAY ITS??? PLATONIC???

but one of the most known letters is one that Bellamy sent burr when he had joined the army

"I was infinitely surprised to hear from you in the army. I can hardly tell you what sensations I did not feel at the time. Shall not attempt to describe them, though they deprived me of a night’s sleep” -Bellamy to Burr.

While I understand tha words were used differently THAT MF WAS THINKING OF BURR HES STRAGHT IP SWOONING OVER HIM-

MAY I ADD

"It rains, my boy, excessively. Does it not drop through your tent?" -Bellamy to Burr

(The same letter^)

also more letters:

"He is one of the cleverest fellows I have to deal with. Sensible, a person of real humor, and is an excellent judge of mankind, though he has not had the opportunity of seeing much of the world.” -Burr about Bellamy, to Matthias Odgen

" Curse on this vile distance between us. I am restless to tell you every thing;  but uncertainty whether you would ever hear it bids me be silent, till, in some future happy meeting, I may hold you to my bosom,and impart to you every emotion of my heart.” -Bellamy to Burr, 3 March 1776

Sadly, Bellamy passed away from smallpox at the age of 24. (Also he was engaged, so he probably changed his opinion) Burr was heartbroken at the notice, and wrote this to his sister:

"My faithful Correspondent, my best, my, (almost), only Friend, is, alas, no more — J. Bellamy’s Death gave me Feelings, which few Deaths can ever renew.” -Burr about Bellamy to his sister, 8 June 1777

faithful correspondent??? My (almost) only friend??? FEELINGS WHICH FEW DEATHS CAN EVER RENEW????

Basically they were doomed and I love them for it. wish Bellamy had more time.

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Yucky 🤢

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you know what I’m about to say.......................

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Aaron Burr’s Boyfriends

(Not necessarily boyfriends just close friendship, don’t attack me)

Jeremy Bentham

Philosopher friend when Burr was in europe

While in Britain, Burr quickly formed a close friendship with Bentham, staying at one or another of Bentham’s homes for weeks at a time.

Bentham and Burr shared similar views such as equal rights for women, the end of slavery, while Bentham also espoused a variety of other reform causes: the right to divorce, opposition to the death penalty, and decriminalization of homosexual acts.

Burr is not often classed with major thinkers like Bentham, but their intimacy was real. Bentham even sought Burr’s comments on essays that the philosopher was preparing.

Burr wrote to his daughter Theodosia fondly of Bentham “He is, indeed, the most perfect model that I have seen or imagined of moral and intellectual excellence. He is the most intimate friend I have in this country, and my constant associate. I live in his house and compose a part of his family.”

He [Burr] befriended the English utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham and spoke to him with remarkable candor. “He really meant to make himself emperor of Mexico,” Bentham recalled. “He told me I should be the legislator and he would send a ship of war for me. He gave me an account of his duel with Hamilton. He was sure of being able to kill him, so I thought it little better than murder.” Always capable of irreverent surprises, Burr gave Bentham a copy of The Federalist. -Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow

Jonathan Bellamy

Was together in the army with Burr

“He is one of the cleverest fellows I have to deal with. Sensible, a person of real humor, and is an excellent judge of mankind, though he has not had the opportunity of seeing much of the world.” -Burr about Bellamy to his friend Matthias Ogden

“I was infinitely surprised to hear from you in the army. I can hardly tell you what sensations I did not feel at the time. Shall not attempt to describe them, though they deprived me of a night’s sleep” -Bellamy to Burr, 3 March 1776

“Curse on this vile distance between us. I am restless to tell you every thing; but uncertainty whether you would ever hear it bids me be silent, till, in some future happy meeting, I may hold you to my bosom,and impart to you every emotion of my heart.” -Bellamy to Burr, 3 March 1776

“My faithful Correspondent, my best, my, (almost), only Friend, is, alas, no more — J. Bellamy’s Death gave me Feelings, which few Deaths can ever renew.” -Burr about Bellamy to his sister, 8 June 1777

Luther Martin

He was the leader of Burr’s defence lawyer team in 1807, that's when they properly met and became really good friends during the trial (Jefferson accused Martin also of treason for essentially being too close with Burr)

In 1819 Martin pretty much lost everything and in 1823 Burr offered that Martin move in with him and his adopted children. Martin later in 1826 died in Burr’s home

Young Dane

Not really a boyfriend but wanted to add it because I found it funny

“In the public room, however, I have been amused for an hour with a very handsome young Dane. Don't smile. It is male!” -London, 21 December, 1808, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr

When Burr wrote amuse, especially in this context, it often meant that Aaron sex god Burr was getting laid, as per usual...

Alexander Hamilton

Not a boyfriend (unless..) but historians keep shipping hamburr so I wanted to add him as well

“Alexander Hamilton's obsessive hatred of Aaron Burr was based on a powerful, unconscious homosexual attraction to him, as is always the case in such examples of paranoid and obsessive behaviour. The fact that Hamilton was known by his peers to be suffering from “recurring illnesses” i.e. manic-depression, which name is interchangeable with the term schizophrenia, adds further proof to this diagnosis.” “Furthermore, there was clearly a passive, feminine homosexual undertone in Hamilton’s actions at the duel, as he presented himself in a totally helpless physical posture to Burr and waited for the latter to shoot him with a gun, symbolically representing being penetrated by the issue of Burr’s penis i.e. gun. Basically what Hamilton’s actions were telling Burr was “Here, take me, and do what you will with my body.”” -Schizophrenia: The Bearded Lady Disease, J. Michael Mahoney

“He had occasion to pay some attentions to Aaron Burr during a visit Burr made to Boston after the death of Hamilton. He took him to the Athenaeum, and while walking through the sculpture gallery, seeing the bust of Hamilton near him, turned off, naturally thinking it would be disagreeable to Burr to be brought before it. But Burr went directly up to it and said in a very loud tone, ‘Ah! Here is Hamilton.’ And, pressing his finger along certain lines of his face said, 'There was the poetry!’”” -The Journal of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., quoted in Charles Francis Adams’ Richard Henry Dana: A biography (1890)

will probably add more for hamburr but this took me longer than expected and i’m not willing to go through all that gay shit™

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What do you think Burr's sexual orientation was?

It’s funny that you ask that because I think that’s the same question people have been asking for the last 250 years. Nancy Isenberg’s book has an entire section about it at the end where she cites example after example of people being obsessed with the idea of Burr’s sexuality. Sexuality wasn’t really something they put a label on back then (you either engaged in martial sex or in “sin,” which was defined as basically everything else) so it’s kind of hard to say. It was easy for people to associate Burr with sin, though, not just because of Hamilton’s hatred for him, but because he was a man who (kind of) openly engaged with sex workers, was very charming to people, and believed in a lot of what we consider now to be basic truths like “women and black people are people.” So people at the time associated him with the most extreme sexual views imaginable, regardless if they were true or not. He supposedly had a particular power over young men, the so-called Burrite Boys, and a lot of people associated them with Burr engaging in some sort of grooming behavior.

The majority of lovers that we know of by name have been women (Theodosia Sr., Mary Emmons, Celeste, “Clara,” Eliza Jumel, etc.), but given that he was so secretive and so much of his writing has been lost or intentionally destroyed, we’re never going to know. There are some notable smaller examples, though.

Jonathan Bellamy

When Burr was about 18-19 he stayed with a family friend who had a son about his age, and they really hit it off. Jonathan would die by the time Burr was 20, but they often wrote to each other during Burr’s first few years in the Revolution. Absolutely none of Burr’s letters to Bellamy have survived or been found, but we do have 2 or 3 letters from Jonathan that Burr felt was pertinent enough to put into his memoirs. It’s obviously impossible to say for certain because there is so little evidence and the way words and implications were used 250 years ago is much different than they are now so examining them through a modern lens is difficult, but this many is straight up swooning over Mr. Patriotic Aaron Burr to the point he’s having dreams about him.

There is also a separate letter (which I can’t find right now) where Jonathan basically tells Burr (paraphrasing) “Marriage is dumb, let’s run off into the woods together! No girls allowed!” Which is obviously a very normal, very heterosexual thing to say to your male best friend.

European Journal

This one is also a bit of a unsubstantiated point for two reasons; Burr keeps a very detailed record of his expenses, and therefore a record of the people he slept with and how much money he spent on them while in Europe. He sometimes gives little descriptions of the type of person (he never uses names), but most of the time he doesn’t.

The second point that makes it confusing is that Burr talks in code, essentially. He abbreviates things, he uses numbers or letters in place of certain names, he straight-up omits certain words, he’ll write in different languages, and he has a code word that he uses well talking about sexy times. Muse. So, example, instead of writing “I had sex with ---,” the majority of the time he’ll say “I was amused by” or “Muse - 2 dollars.” But it is such an innocuous word, it’s hard to say for certain every time he uses it, it means a sexual encounter (which is why he chose it.)

There are several points in the journal where he talks about being ‘amused’ or ‘approached’ by various males, the most famously memed line being “I have been amused for half an hour with a very handsome young Dane. Don’t smile. It is a male!” (December 21, 1808). There are also several interactions that may or may not imply that Burr was propositioned

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So, I guess the long & short of it is that we really don’t know. He never seemed uncomfortable interacting with women or men, so maybe he really was as sexually open as they say.

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