Talk:John Pierre Burr

Lost changes in web problems
Am editing the article, but many changes were lost due to difficulties this morning in saving the page on the internet.Parkwells (talk) 15:44, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

African American?
Okay so he was born to an colonial American and an "East Indian" mother, and yet his birth name was "Jean Pierre"? Then it says that she may have been born in Saint-Domingue? (Haiti) What's going on in this article? Savvyjack23 (talk) 20:54, 21 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I wondered the same thing. Given the first few paragraphs, we'd probably consider him an Indian-American.  Given the era and place in which he lived, I can see how he might have identified with African-Americans, but that isn't explained in the article.  I'm intrigued.  And was he close to his father, the 3rd US Vice-President?  Can anyone shed more light on this biography?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.73.140.230 (talk) 13:09, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Haitian-born vs. East Indian
A Wikipedia article has to be based on published reliable sources. Information in an article can't be based on personal knowledge (i.e., original research), which includes things such as family members' DNA tests. Due to the Wikipedia policy about verifiability, the previously inserted content discussing DNA test results indicating Haitian vs. East Indian ancestry can't be added to this article until there's a citation to a published source. Lwarrenwiki (talk) 04:19, 7 March 2022 (UTC)


 * @Lwarrenwiki the only thing that has been credibly documented is that she was a Haitian governess. This was documented in the 1800s by Joseph Wilson, and also restated by Allen Ballard in his book One More Day's journey. The current fodder going around that she was East Indian was based on unverified research, which is what those articles reference in Mary Emmons. But I won't put the information about DNA without it being publicized yet. All other items have been sourced correctly. I am the one who originally created this page and references to JP Burr and my family. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Va23Tarheel (talk • contribs) 13:51, 7 March 2022 (UTC)


 * It looks like Sherri Burr, a family member and credible academic source, disagrees. See "Aaron Burr Jr. and John Pierre Burr: A Founding Father and his Abolitionist Son", published by Princeton University at https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/john-pierre-burr. Lwarrenwiki (talk) 16:05, 18 March 2022 (UTC)