Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton - wikipedia Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton For other people named Elizabeth Hamilton, see Elizabeth Hamilton ( disambiguation ). Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton by Ralph Earl, 1787 Elizabeth Schuyler ( 1757 - 08 - 09 ) August 9, 1757 Albany, Province of New York, British America November 9, 1854 ( 1854 - 11 - 09 ) ( aged 97 ) Washington, D.C., U.S. Resting place Trinity Church Cemetery Other names Eliza Betsey Spouse ( s ) Alexander Hamilton ( m. 1780 ; d. 1804 ) Children Philip Hamilton Angelica Hamilton Alexander Hamilton Jr. James Alexander Hamilton John Church Hamilton William S. Hamilton Eliza Hamilton Holly Philip Hamilton II Parent ( s ) Philip Schuyler Catherine Van Rensselaer Relatives See Schuyler family Elizabeth Hamilton ( née Schuyler / ˈskaɪlər / ; August 9, 1757 -- November 9, 1854 ), sometimes called `` Eliza '' or `` Betsey, '' was co-founder and deputy director of the first private orphanage in New York City. She was the wife of American founding father Alexander Hamilton. Contents 1 Childhood and family 2 Marriage 3 Later life 4 Children 5 In popular culture 6 References Childhood and family Elizabeth was born in Albany, New York, the second daughter of Philip Schuyler, a Revolutionary War general, and Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler. The Van Rensselaers of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck were one of the richest and most politically influential families in the state of New York. She had seven siblings who lived to adulthood, including Angelica Schuyler Church and Margarita `` Peggy '' Schuyler Van Rensselaer, and 14 siblings in total. Her family was among the wealthy Dutch landowners who had settled around Albany in the mid-1600s, and both her mother and father came from wealthy and well - regarded families. Like many landowners of the time, Philip Schuyler owned slaves, and Eliza would have grown up around slavery. Despite the unrest of the French and Indian War, which her father served in and which was fought in part very near her childhood home, Eliza 's childhood was spent comfortably, learning to read and sew from her mother. Like most Dutch families of the area, her family belonged to the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, which still survives, though the original 1715 building where Elizabeth was baptized and attended services was demolished in 1806. Her upbringing instilled in her a strong and unwavering faith she would retain throughout her life. When she was a girl, Elizabeth accompanied her father to a meeting of the Six Nations and met Benjamin Franklin when he stayed briefly with the Schuyler family while traveling. She was said to have been something of a tomboy when she was young ; throughout her life she retained a strong will and even an impulsiveness that her acquaintances noted. James McHenry, one of Washington 's aides alongside her future husband, would say that `` Hers was a strong character with its depth and warmth, whether of feeling or temper controlled, but glowing underneath, bursting through at times in some emphatic expression. '' Much later, the son of Joanna Bethune, one of the women she worked alongside to found an orphanage later in her life, remembered that `` Both ( Elizabeth and Joanna ) were of determined disposition... Mrs. Bethune the more cautious, Mrs. Hamilton the more impulsive. '' Marriage In early 1780, Elizabeth went to stay with her aunt, Gertrude Schuyler Cochran, in Morristown, New Jersey. There she met Alexander Hamilton, one of General George Washington 's aides - de-camp, who was stationed along with the General and his men in Morristown for the winter. ( In fact, they had met previously, if briefly, two years before, when Hamilton dined with the Schuylers on his way back from a negotiation on Washington 's behalf. ) Also while in Morristown, Eliza met and became friends with Martha Washington, a friendship they would maintain throughout their husbands ' political careers. Eliza later said of Mrs. Washington, `` She was always my ideal of a true woman. '' The relationship between Eliza and Hamilton quickly grew, even after he left Morristown for a short mission to negotiate a prisoners exchange, only a month after Eliza had arrived. He then returned to Morristown where Elizabeth 's father had also arrived in his capacity as representative of the Continental Congress and by early April they were officially engaged, with her father 's blessing ( something of an anomaly for the Schuyler girls -- both Angelica and Catherine would end up eloping ). Hamilton followed the Army when they decamped in June 1780. In September that year, Eliza learned that Major John André, head of the British Secret Service, had been captured in a foiled plot concocted by General Benedict Arnold to surrender the fort of West Point to the British. André had once been a houseguest in the Schuyler Mansion in Albany as a prisoner of war on route to Pennsylvania in 1775 ; Eliza, then seventeen, might have had a juvenile crush on the young British officer who had once sketched for her. Hamilton, while jealous of André for his `` accomplishments, '' promised Eliza he would do what he could to treat the British intelligence chief accordingly ; he even begged Washington to grant André 's last wish of execution by firing squad, but to no avail. After two more months of separation punctuated by their correspondence, on December 14, 1780, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler were married at the Schuyler Mansion. After a short honeymoon at the Pastures, Eliza 's childhood home, Hamilton returned to military service in early January 1781. Eliza soon joined him at New Windsor, where Washington 's army was now stationed, and she rekindled her friendship with Martha Washington as they entertained their husbands ' fellow officers. Soon, however, Washington and Hamilton had a falling - out, and the newlywed couple relocated first back to Eliza 's father 's house in Albany, then to a new home across the river from the New Windsor headquarters. There Eliza busied herself in creating a home for them and in aiding Alexander with his political writings -- parts of his thirty - one - page letter to Robert Morris, laying out much of the financial knowledge that was to aid him later in his career, are written in her handwriting. Soon, however, Eliza would relocate again, this time back to her parents ' house in Albany. This possibly coincided with the discovery that she was pregnant with her first child, who would be born the next January and named Philip, for her father. While apart, Alexander wrote her numerous letters telling her not to worry for his safety ; in addition, he wrote her concerning confidential military secrets, including the lead - up to the Battle of Yorktown that autumn. Meanwhile, the war would come much too close to home, after British soldiers attempted to raid the Pastures, where Eliza along with Angelica and the rest of her family were living. They were however spared from any harm, thanks to her sister Peggy 's quick thinking. After Yorktown, Alexander was able to rejoin Eliza in Albany, where they would remain for almost another two years, before moving to New York City in late 1783. Earlier that year, Angelica and her husband John Barker Church, for business reasons, had moved to Europe. Angelica lived abroad for over fourteen years, returning to America for visits in 1785 and 1789. On September 25, 1784, Eliza gave birth to her second child, Angelica, named after Eliza 's older sister. In 1787, Eliza sat for a portrait, executed by the painter Ralph Earl while he was being held in debtors ' prison. Alexander had heard of Earl 's predicament and asked if Eliza might be willing to sit for him, to allow him to make some money and eventually buy his way out of prison, which he subsequently did. At this time, she now had three young children ( her third, Alexander, was born in May 1786 ) and may have been pregnant at the time with her fourth, James Alexander, who would be born the following April. In addition to their own children, in 1787 Eliza and Alexander took into their home Frances ( Fanny ) Antill, the two - year - old youngest child of Hamilton 's friend Colonel Edward Antill, whose wife had recently died. In October that year, Angelica wrote to Alexander, `` All the graces you have been pleased to adorn me with fade before the generous and benevolent action of my sister in taking the orphan Antle ( sic ) under her protection. '' Two years later, Colonel Antill died in Canada, and Fanny continued to live with the Hamiltons for another eight years, until an older sister was married and able to take Fanny into her own home. Later, James Alexander Hamilton would write that Fanny `` was educated and treated in all respects as ( the Hamiltons ' ) own daughter. '' The Hamiltons had an active social life, often attending the theater as well as various balls and parties. `` I had little of private life in those days, '' she would remember. At the first Inaugural Ball, Eliza danced with George Washington ; when Thomas Jefferson returned from Paris in 1790, she and Alexander hosted a dinner for him. After Alexander became Treasury Secretary in 1789, her social duties only increased : `` Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. ( Sarah ) Jay and Mrs. ( Lucy ) Knox were the leaders of official society, '' an early historian writes. In addition, she managed their household, and James McHenry once noted to Alexander that Eliza had `` as much merit as your treasurer as you have as treasurer of the United States. '' Elizabeth Hamilton, portrait by James Sharples, c. 1795 Eliza also continued to aid Alexander throughout his political career, serving as an intermediary between him and his publisher when he was writing The Federalist Papers, copying out portions of his defense of the Bank of the United States, and sitting up with him so he could read Washington 's Farewell Address out loud to her as he wrote it. Meanwhile, she continued to raise her children ( a fifth, John Church Hamilton, had been born in August 1792 ) and maintain their household throughout multiple moves between New York, Philadelphia, and Albany. While in Philadelphia, around November 24, 1794 Eliza suffered a miscarriage in the wake of her youngest child falling extremely ill as well as of her worries over Hamilton 's absence during his armed suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion. Hamilton resigned from public office immediately afterwards in order to resume his law practice in New York and remain closer to his family. In 1797, an affair came to light that had taken place several years earlier between Hamilton and Maria Reynolds, a young woman who had first approached him for monetary aid in the summer of 1791. Eliza evidently did not believe the charges when they were first leveled against her husband : John Church, her brother - in - law, on July 13, 1797 wrote to Hamilton that `` it makes not the least Impression on her, only that she considers the whole Knot of those opposed to you to be ( Scoundrels ). '' After returning home to Eliza on July 22 and assembling a first draft dated July 1797, On August 25, 1797 Hamilton published a pamphlet, later known as the Reynolds Pamphlet, admitting to his one - year adulterous affair in order to refute the charges that he had been involved in speculation and public misconduct with Maria 's husband James Reynolds. Eliza was at the time pregnant with their sixth child. Despite her advanced pregnancy and her previous miscarriage of November 1794, her initial reaction to her husband 's disclosure of his past affair was to leave Hamilton in New York and join her parents in Albany where William Stephen was born on August 4, 1797. She only came back to her marital house in New York in early September 1797 because the local doctor had been unable to cure their eldest son Philip, who had accompanied her to Albany and contracted typhus. Over time Eliza and Alexander reconciled and remained married, and had two more children together. The first, Elizabeth, named for Eliza, was born on November 20, 1799. Before their eighth child was born, however, they lost their oldest son, Philip, who died in a duel on November 23, 1801. After being shot on the dueling field, Philip was brought to Angelica and John Church 's house, where he died, both of his parents next to him. Their last child, born the next June 1802, was named Philip in his honor. Only two years later, in July 1804, Alexander Hamilton became involved in a similar `` affair of honor, '' which led to his infamous duel with Aaron Burr and untimely death. Before the duel, he wrote Eliza two letters, telling her : The consolations of Religion, my beloved, can alone support you ; and these you have a right to enjoy. Fly to the bosom of your God and be comforted. With my last idea ; I shall cherish the sweet hope of meeting you in a better world. Adieu best of wives and best of Women. Embrace all my darling Children for me. Alexander Hamilton died on July 12, 1804, with Eliza and all seven of his surviving children by his side. Later life Elizabeth Hamilton, 1825 portrait by Henry Inman Elizabeth Hamilton at 94 In the year before the duel, Eliza 's mother Catherine had died suddenly, and only a few months after Hamilton 's death Eliza 's father died as well. By this time two of her siblings, Peggy and John, had also died. After her husband 's death in 1804, Eliza was left to pay Hamilton 's debts. The Grange, their house on a 35 - acre estate in upper Manhattan, was sold at public auction ; however, she was later able to repurchase it from Hamilton 's executors, who had decided that Eliza could not be publicly dispossessed of her home, and purchased it themselves to sell back to her at half the price. In November 1833, at the age of 76, Eliza resold The Grange for $25,000, funding the purchase of a New York townhouse ( now called the Hamilton - Holly House ) where she lived for nine years with two of her grown children, Alexander Hamilton Jr. and Eliza Hamilton Holly, and their spouses. In 1848, she left New York for Washington, D.C., where she lived with her widowed daughter Eliza until 1854. In 1798 Eliza had accepted her friend Isabella Graham 's invitation to join the descriptively named Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children that had been established the previous year. In 1806, two years after her husband 's death, she, along with several other women including Joanna Bethune, founded the Orphan Asylum Society. Eliza was appointed second directress, or vice-president. In 1821, she was named first directress, and served for twenty - seven years in this role, until she left New York in 1848. By the time she left she had been with the organization continuously since its founding, a total of forty - two years. The New York Orphan Asylum Society continues to exist as a social service agency for children, today called Graham Windham. Eliza defended Alexander against his critics in a variety of ways following his death, including by supporting his claim of authorship of George Washington 's Farewell Address and by requesting an apology from James Monroe over his accusations of financial improprieties. Elizabeth Hamilton petitions Congress to publish her husband Alexander Hamilton 's writings ( 1846 ) Eliza remained dedicated to preserving her husband 's legacy. She re-organized all of Alexander 's letters, papers, and writings with the help of her son, John Church Hamilton, and persevered through many setbacks in getting his biography published. She was so devoted to Alexander 's writings that she wore a small package around her neck containing the pieces of a sonnet which Alexander wrote for her during the early days of their courtship. Even in her nineties, she remained dedicated to charity work, and after moving to Washington, D.C., she helped Dolley Madison raise money to build the Washington Monument. Tomb at Trinity Church By 1846 Eliza was suffering from short - term memory loss but was still vividly recalling her husband. Eliza died in Washington, D.C. on November 9, 1854, at age ninety - seven. She had outlived her husband by fifty years, and had outlived all but one of her siblings ( her youngest sister, Catherine, twenty - four years her junior ). Eliza was buried near her husband in the graveyard of Trinity Church in New York City. Angelica was also laid to rest at Trinity, in the Livingstons ' private vault, while Eliza 's eldest son Philip had an unmarked grave near the churchyard. Children Elizabeth and Alexander Hamilton had eight children : Philip ( January 22, 1782 -- November 23, 1801 ), who was killed in a duel three years before his father 's fatal duel Angelica ( September 25, 1784 -- February 6, 1857 ), suffered a mental breakdown after her older brother 's death, and lived to the age of 72 in a state described as `` eternal childhood, '' unable to care for herself Alexander, Jr. ( May 16, 1786 -- August 2, 1875 ) James Alexander ( April 14, 1788 -- September 24, 1878 ) John Church ( August 22, 1792 -- July 25, 1882 ) William Stephen ( August 4, 1797 -- October 9, 1850 ) Eliza ( November 20, 1799 -- October 17, 1859 ), who married Sidney Augustus Holly Philip, also called `` Little Phil '' ( June 1, 1802 -- July 9, 1884 ), named after his older brother, who had died one year before his birth The Hamiltons also raised Frances ( Fanny ) Antill, an orphan who lived with them for ten years beginning in 1787 when she was two years old. In popular culture Doris Kenyon portrayed Eliza in the 1931 film Alexander Hamilton. The character of Hamilton 's wife also appeared in the 1986 TV series George Washington II : The Forging of a Nation where she was affectionately called Betsy and portrayed by Eve Gordon. Eliza is portrayed in the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton, which was written by Lin - Manuel Miranda and depicts the life of Alexander Hamilton. The role was originated by Phillipa Soo, who received a 2016 Tony Award nomination for her work in the show. Eliza 's depiction in the musical has attracted praise from critics and commentators for emphasizing both her importance in her husband 's life and her own work in propagating his legacy, an approach it shares with its inspiration and source, Ron Chernow 's 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton. References ^ Jump up to : Turner, Annie ( 2009 ). `` Women of the Republican Court : Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton ( 1757 -- 1854 ) ''. Library Company of Philadelphia. Retrieved 2015 - 09 - 30. Jump up ^ Chernow, Ron ( 2004 ). Alexander Hamilton. New York : Penguin. p. 210. Jump up ^ `` Dutch Reformed Church in Albany, New York ''. Retrieved April 22, 2016. Jump up ^ `` First Church in Albany : Our History ''. First Church in Albany. Retrieved 2009 - 04 - 14. ^ Jump up to : Chernow, p. 131 Jump up ^ Desmond, Alice Curtis ( 1952 ). Alexander Hamilton 's Wife : A Romance of the Hudson. New York : Dodd, Mead & Company. Jump up ^ `` Guide to the Records of Graham Windham 1804 -- 2011 ''. Retrieved July 30, 2016. Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 729 Jump up ^ Chernow, pp. 128 -- 29 Jump up ^ Chernow, pp. 102 -- 103 Jump up ^ Katharine Schuyler Baxter ( 1897 ). A Godchild of Washington. F.T. Neely. p. 223. Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 136 ; Chernow, p. 129 Jump up ^ Randall, Willard Sterne ( 2003 ). Alexander Hamilton : A Life. New York : HarpersCollins. pp. 191 -- 92, 211 -- 14, 215 -- 16, 219. ^ Jump up to : `` Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton ''. New York State Museum. 2004 - 01 - 01. Retrieved 2015 - 09 - 30. Jump up ^ Chernow, pp. 150 -- 51 Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 154 Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 156 Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 160 Jump up ^ Chernow, pp. 159 -- 60 Jump up ^ Chernow, pp. 185 Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 200 Jump up ^ Chernow, pp. 206 -- 7 ^ Jump up to : Hamilton, John Church ( 1879 ). Life of Alexander Hamilton : A History of the Republic of the United States of America, as Traced in His Writings and in Those of His Contemporaries. 3. Boston : Houghton, Osgood and Company. pp. 361 -- 362. Colonel Antil ( sic ) of the Canadian Corps, a friend of General Hazen, retired penniless from the service -- his military claims, a sole dependence, being unsatisfied. Hoping to derive subsistence from the culture of a small clearing in the forest, he retired to the wilds of Hazenburgh. His hopes were baffled, and in his distress he applied to Hamilton for relief. His calamities were soon after embittered by the loss of his wife, leaving infant children. With one of these Antil visited New York, to solicit the aid of the Cincinnati, and there sank under the weight of his sorrows. Hamilton immediately took the little orphan home, who was nurtured with his own children... ^ Jump up to : Chernow, p. 203 Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 335 Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 277 Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 319 Jump up ^ Humphreys, Mary Gay ( 1897 ). Catherine Schuyler. C. Scribner 's Sonss. p. 221. Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 210 Jump up ^ `` To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 3 January 1791 ''. Founders Online. Retrieved April 29, 2016. Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 248 Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 353 Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 508 Jump up ^ Knox, Henry. `` Letter from Henry Knox to Alexander Hamilton, 24 November 1794 ''. Founders Online. Jump up ^ Chernow, p. 478 Jump up ^ Hamilton, Alexander. `` Letter from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 1 December 1794 ''. Founders Online. 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Alexander Hamilton Senior Officer of the United States Army, 1799 -- 1800 1st Secretary of the Treasury, 1789 -- 1795 Delegate, Congress of the Confederation, 1782 -- 1783, 1788 -- 1789 United States founding events A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress ( 1774 ) The Farmer Refuted ( 1775 ) Delegate, 1786 Annapolis Convention Delegate, 1787 Constitutional Convention Initiated, main author, The Federalist Papers written by Hamilton Founding Father Secretary of the Treasury First Bank of the United States Revenue Marine ( United States Coast Guard ) United States Customs Service Hamiltonian economic program Residence Act Compromise of 1790 `` First Report on the Public Credit '', 1790 Funding Act of 1790 `` Operations of the Act Laying Duties on Imports '', 1790 `` Second Report on Public Credit '', a.k.a. `` Report on a National Bank '', 1790 `` Report On Manufactures '', 1791 Tariff of 1790 Tariff of 1792 Coinage Act of 1792 United States Mint Whiskey Rebellion Jay Treaty Military career New York Provincial Company of Artillery In the Revolutionary War Battles : Harlem Heights White Plains Trenton General Washington 's Aide - de-Camp Princeton Brandywine Germantown Monmouth Siege of Yorktown Other events Burr -- Hamilton duel Founder, Federalist Party Federalist Era Founder, Bank of New York Bank of North America Advisor, George Washington 's Farewell Address President - General of the Society of the Cincinnati Founder, New - York Evening Post Hamilton -- Reynolds sex scandal Rutgers v. Waddington Relationship with slavery Depictions and memorials Alexander Hamilton ( Fraser statue ) Alexander Hamilton ( Ceracchi bust ) Alexander Hamilton ( Conrads statue ) Alexander Hamilton ( Trumbull portrait ) Alexander Hamilton Bridge Alexander Hamilton High School ( Los Angeles ) Fort Hamilton Hamilton Grange National Memorial Hamilton Hall ( Columbia University ) Hamilton Hall ( Salem, Massachusetts ) Hamilton Heights, Manhattan Hamilton, Ohio Hamilton - Oneida Academy Postage stamps Trinity Church Cemetery United States ten - dollar bill Media and popular culture Hamilton ( 2015 musical ) Hamilton ( 1917 play ) Alexander Hamilton ( 1931 film ) Liberty ! 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Hamilton ( son ) Eliza Hamilton Holly ( daughter ) Philip Hamilton ( youngest son ) Schuyler Hamilton ( grandson ) Alexander Hamilton Jr. ( grandson ) Allan McLane Hamilton ( grandson ) Robert Ray Hamilton ( great - grandson ) VIAF : 26348195 LCCN : n97073432 ISNI : 0000 0000 3533 3869 IATH : w6kw6c37 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Schuyler_Hamilton&oldid=807307755 '' Categories : 1757 births 1854 deaths Alexander Hamilton Schuyler family American people of Dutch descent American members of the Dutch Reformed Church Death in Washington, D.C. 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Question: who established the first private orphanage in new york city
Answer: Elizabeth Hamilton