Something Is Grievously Wrong in the Household of the Village Minister

Children as badges

In the musical Hamilton Aaron Burr sings, “My grandfather was a fire and brimstone preacher.” That’s the only allusion to the fact that the grandfather of the man who murdered Alexander Hamilton was Jonathan Edwards. Did something go wrong in the Edwards family that Burr’s apple rolled so far from the tree? It happens, though. When Burr goes on to sing,…