In the course of time, the Adamses went to a new and fine dwelling at Bush Hill on the Schuylkill.

And dear Mistress Abigail, faithful to the house of her heart, wrote wistfully of her just-acquired home: "It is a beautiful place, but the grand and sublime I left at Richmond Hill" ...
In 1797, the house went to a rich foreigner named Temple.

I quote the chronicles of old New York, but can give you little information concerning this gentleman.

The only thing at all memorable or interesting about him seems to have been the fact that he was robbed of a large quantity of money and valuables while at the Hill, that the thieves were never discovered and that for this reason at least he filled the local press for quite a time.

His occupancy seems to have been short, and, save for the robbery, uneventful (if he really was a picturesque and adventurous soul, I humbly ask pardon of his ghost, but this is all I can find out about him!)--for it was in that self-same year that the Burrs came to live at Richmond Hill, and Temple passed into obscurity as far as New York history is concerned.
Mrs.Burr, that older Theodosia who was the idol of Aaron Burr's life, had died three years before, and little Theo was now the head of his household.