| Show mystery still shrouds enshrouds En fate of beautiful daughter of aaron burr for more than half a century it was believed that tile the patriot the vessel on which Theod theodosia osla wife of governor alston of south carolina and daughter of aaron burr was on her wa way y to new york had gone down with all on board in a midwinter storm off hatteras a storm severe enough to scatter even the british war fleet which was harrying american shipping at tile the time put but in a seventy ave ive year old banks woman dying at sags nags lead head N C told a story which though possibly apocryphal cast dou doubt bt upon the long accepted supposition and shrouded the fate of the patriots passengers and r rew in mystery dr AV G pool 0 of f elizabeth city N C went to nags head to minister to the sick woman As lie he was about to depart from tier her home lie he noticed on the wall a portrait aft of a charming lady done in oil on mahogany the victure so art aroused ased ills his interest that lie he asked ills his patient for its history when slie she was about el eighteen that Is in I 1 1812 the aged woman said a ship without crew or p passengers as had come com e rol roiling lIlli 11 on to the reefs off kitty hawk the ship had been tn in perfect condition its bunks even being made and its table set yet not a person living or dead had been aboard As was their custom at tile the time the bankers had scuttled the abandoned vessel and one of them the narrators sweetheart had kept as part of his share of the 44 findings the oil portrait trait and presented it to her she had hidden it away now 57 ye years ars later she offered it to the doctor in liou lieu of a fee doctor pool recognized in the pictured face a possible likeness to theodosia and induced some members of the burr family to examine it upon comparing it with known portraits of theodosin they declared it highly probable that the painting was indeed tier her likeness which she had carried with tier on the patriot as a gift to her fattier father the picture is now in the collection of herbert L pratt of glen cove L 1 I if the hapless ship scuttled by the bankers was tile the patriot what became of its passengers and crew they may have lost their lives by taking to small boats as the ship rolled toward the reefs they may have been captured capol callol by a british man mano 01 ol o war or they may have been made to walk the plank by pirates like you or tile the bloody babe who since the days of teach blackbeard ha had iop op crated to in those stormy waters and hideouts hide outs teach himself its had d been trapped in the vicinity a and nd be headed |
