![]() Elizabeth Hamilton’s Charity ImpactĮliza spoke up about her opinions on slavery: she was highly against it. She threw herself into her charity work, the story of which is not well known. However, Eliza did not let her grief hold her back. Eliza was then left with 7 children (her oldest son was killed similarly to his father three years earlier) and her grief. ![]() Schuyler House where the Schuyler family lived – Saratoga National Historical Park Alexander Hamilton’s Death: Eliza as a widowĪlexander and Eliza were married for over 30 years and had 8 children, until Alexander’s former colleague, Aaron Burr, shot him in the side with a pistol, thus ending his life. It is said that Alexander was smitten with Eliza almost immediately because of her witty personality. That man was Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton, future Secretary of Treasury. This is how Eliza met General George Washington and his right hand man who would become her husband that next winter. About Elizabeth Schuyler HamiltonĮliza, as she was more commonly known, and her 14 siblings grew up meeting many of their father’s colleagues, who were all in the military. In the 1760’s, only the wealthiest of the wealthy could afford such luxurious clothing. One of the more famous images of this underrated woman in history is one of her in a wig that is similar to the one of Marie-Antoinette, and a silver gown with a matching veil. Her family was indeed very wealthy and well known. ![]() Elizabeth ‘Eliza’ Schuyler Hamilton Source: Wikimedia Commons History of Elizabeth ‘Eliza’ Schuyler Hamilton: Alexander Hamilton’s WifeĮlizabeth Schuyler was born on August 9, 1757, in Albany, New York.
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