Women / Persons ~ P11085
Margaret Moncrieffe
Alternate Names:
- Mrs. Margaret Coghlan
Gender: Female
Life Dates:
Types:
- American (US)
- Artist, painter
- Beauty, celebrated
- English
- Expatriated, exiled person
- Performer, Musician
- Prisoner or captive
- Spy
- Writer
Note: Double agent during Revolutionary War; Captured by Americans and fell in love with Aaron Burr; Subject of a story by Colonel W.L. Stone called "The Language of the Flowers;" Subject of "Margaret Moncrieffe; the First Love of Aaron Burr: A Romance of the Revolution;" Self-published her memoirs to raise money; Died in obscurity