John Pierre Burr was an American abolitionist and community leader in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, active in education and civil rights for African Americans. He was an illegitimate child of Aaron Burr, the third U.S. vice president, and Mary Emmons, a Haitian governess who may have been born in Calcutta, India.
John Pierre Burr
A later portrait of Aaron Burr, c. early 1800s
John Emory Burr, son of John Pierre Burr
Francis Johnson Webb was an American novelist, poet, and essayist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His novel, The Garies and Their Friends (1857), was the second novel by an African American to be published, and the first to portray the daily lives of free blacks in the North.
Aaron Burr, Webb's maternal grandfather
John Pierre Burr, uncle of Frank Webb
Mary E. Webb performing a dramatic reading in London, 1856