Thus ended the tragic story of the Blennerhassetts, though they themselves may not have considered it so. For the love that had been the cause of their adventures in the new world sustained them to the last. Yet their later years were a far cry from the romantic dreams in which Blennerhassett stood at the right hand of the Emperor Aaron I while Margaret presided as first lady in waiting to the Princess Theodosia. Such was the heavy penalty the Blennerhassetts had to pay for Harman, as his partner Woodbridge put it, having “all kinds of sense except common sense.” For some fifteen years Aaron Burr continued to practice law in New York City successfully. At the age of 77 years he had one last romantic passage which culminated in his marriage to the widow Jumel, for which nothing good could be said on either side. The episode soon ended in divorce. Time for the Colonel was now fast running out. Yet how many of his enemies had he already survived! Death came to him at last in September, 1836, at the age of 80 years. The body of Aaron Burr was laid to rest in a grave beside those of his father and his grandfather in the cemetery at Princeton. One evening at twilight many, many years later, two visitors stood at the foot of the grave. Instinctively both of them had removed their hats as they approached the spot. They were Burr’s biographer Walter Flavius McCaleb and Woodrow Wilson, then President of Princeton University. They remained for a moment in silence. It was broken by Wilson’s voice, pitched very low: “How misunderstood--how maligned--” This from a historian who must have been acquainted with all the facts. Even in death, and in spite of the passage of time, Aaron Burr still exercised his fascination. _Bibliography_ Abernethy, Thomas Perkins. _The Burr Conspiracy._ New York, 1954. ----. “Aaron Burr at Blennerhassett Island and in Ohio.” _Bulletin_, Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, January, 1954. Adams, Henry. _History of the United States During the Administration of Thomas Jefferson._ New York, 1930 ed. Ambler, Charles Henry. _Thomas Ritchie._ Richmond, 1913. _Annals of the Congress of the United States._ Tenth Congress, first session, 1807–08, Vol. 17. Armstrong, Margaret. _Five Generations: Life and Letters of an American Family_ (The Mayos). New York, 1930. Bailey, Thomas A. _The American Pageant._ Boston, 1956. Beveridge, Albert J. _The Life of John Marshall._ New York, 1929. Bradford, Gamaliel. _Damaged Souls._ John Randolph of Roanoke. New York, 1922. ----. _Wives._ Theodosia Burr Alston. New York, 1925. Brown, Alexander. _The Cabells and Their Kin._ New York, N.D. Bruce, William Cabell. _John Randolph of Roanoke._ New York, 1922. Bowers, Claude. _Jefferson in Power._ Boston, 1936. Boushall, Frances. “Celebrated Taverns and Hotels Have Served Richmond.” _Richmond Times-Dispatch_, July 18, 1945. Christian, W. Asbury D.D. _Richmond, Her Past and Present._ Richmond, 1912.