#margarita schuyler

[terraghostt]

schuyler sisters phone wallpapers!! I had a ton of fun making these. They’re a bit messy but I think they’re pretty cute :))

im still very obsessed with hamilton help

[mojo72400]

The Kissing Booth Turned Upside Down

Wattpad FFN AO3

One day, in King’s High School, Washington’s class were planning to make an attraction for the school festival. Class Rep Aaron Burr was listing out ideas on the blackboard.

“Are there any other suggestions on what we could set up?” Burr asked.

Laurens raised his hand.

“Yes, Laurens” Burr called.

“Why not a kissing booth?“ Laurens suggested.

“Okay?” Burr said as he wrote the suggestion on the blackboard.

‘It’s not like the majority of the class would vote for this. I’ll just humor him’ Burr thought.

“Okay, are there any other suggestions?” Burr asked.

The rest of the class got quiet.

“If no one’s suggesting anything, then are you okay with proceeding to voting” he asked.

The class shrugged their shoulders and give Burr the green light.

“Okay so who agrees with a haunted house?” he asked and a few hands were raised.

“Then who agrees with a maid café?” he followed and more hands than before were raised.

“Finally, who agrees with a kissing booth?” he asked only to his surprise, the majority of the class raised their hands.

“Are you okay with this Mr. Washington?” Burr asked him hoping that he’d be against it and maybe to just have the class do a maid café.

“I’ll allow it” Washington said much to the class’s joy and Burr’s shock.

“Sweet Jesus” Burr said, appalled by Washington’s decision. ‘I’m surrounded by idiots’ Burr thought to himself.

The day of the school festival came and Washington’s class’s kissing booth was set up outside the school building with a $1 for a kiss.

There were shifts on who’s handling the booth and doing the kissing. Burr, Hercules and Lafayette had their shifts already and managed to kiss a few girls and guys. Burr ended up enjoying since he managed to kiss his crush, Theodosia but it wasn’t enough to surpass their sales quota and beat their rival class.

Their rival class from next door has their Class Rep Thomas Jefferson run a mac and cheese stall which was popular among the visitors. Their stall was far from the kissing booth and they only know of its popularity from the big crowd they saw from afar and through word of mouth and social media.

Laurens spent his shift waiting for Alex to come kiss and pay him but ended up kissing some girls and other guys until his shift is almost over. He decided to kiss Alex once his shift ends and his shift starts especially since Alex handles the last shift.

He plans to kiss and pay Alex in the middle of his shift after he kissed a few people to make it look natural and not desperate.

After a few minutes, Laurens’ shift was over and now begins Alex’s shift.

Meanwhile, The Schuyler Sisters, Angelica, Eliza and Peggy from the other class are on their break after handing out flyers to promote their fortune telling booth that their class is doing.

“I can’t believe daddy gave us too much money for our allowance for the school festival, it’s not like we’re gonna spend too much on food and games” Peggy complained.

“Just be thankful, daddy gave you money because he worked on it from his job. I’m planning to save the remainder of my money” Eliza said.

“It’s just that it’s like rubbing it in people’s faces that we’re rich. I don’t want us to be seen as just rich people” Peggy said.

“That I agree with you, Peggy. Let’s all try talking to our dad later about decreasing our allowance but for now, let’s just agree to save our money” Angelica said.

“Fine” Peggy said.

As The Schuyler Sisters neared the Washington’s class booth, Angelica noticed the class’s booth and asked her sisters “Isn’t that Alex working in that booth?”

 “It is. It must be his class’s booth. Let’s go there and meet him” Eliza said.

“Okay” Angelica and Peggy agreed in unison.

The Schuyler Sisters arrived at Washington’s class’s booth.

“Hey, Alex” The sisters greeted him in unison.

“Oh, hey guys” Alex said.

“Kissing booth?” Eliza questioned Alex as she read the sign.

“It was Laurens’ idea” Alex replied.

“And how did that work out?” Eliza asked.

“Decently” Alex said sadly.

Angelica looked at the staff consisting of just Alex, Burr, Laurens, Lafayette and Hercules before saying “This is what your class has to offer aside from you, Alex? It’s like they were saving the best for last.”

“Hey, we’re reliable with the ladies” Burr retorted.

“That’s true” Hercules said.

“Oui” Lafayette agreed.

“Yeah, ladies and some fellas” Laurens awkwardly said.

“Well, I can help from one friend to another” Eliza said as she brought out a dollar while she looked away blushing.

“Thanks” Alex said sheepishly as his face turned red while he received the dollar.

Eliza then closed her eyes and leaned a bit as Alex gently pulled her into a soft and quick kiss.

“Wow” Eliza opened her eyes in amazement after managing to have her 1st kiss with her crush.

“Is there a rule to have another one?” Eliza asked as she pulled out a dollar.

“Not at all. You don’t have to do this for us” Alex said worryingly.

 “No, I’m doing this because I want to, Alex” Eliza said before she and Alex shared another kiss. The kiss this time was a few seconds longer but still gentle.

Seeing her sister and Alex kiss again especially a slightly longer one lit the fires of jealousy from Angelica.

‘You’re not the only Schuyler Sister who has a crush on him. You kiss him once that’s fine, I’m going to give you an advantage but kissing him again? Oh, you’re on!’ Angelica thought.

Once Eliza and Alex’s lips parted, Angelica approached Alex and handed him a dollar.

“If my baby sister is enjoying this that she wanted another one, why not give it a try?” Angelica said as she briefly glanced at Eliza who was glaring at her.

“Oh, okay” Alex sheepishly said as he received the dollar.

Alex and Angelica slowly learned towards each other and closed the gap as their lips touched in a gentle kiss. It was 3 seconds longer than Eliza’s 2nd kiss with Alex. As Angelica parted her lips from Alex, she proceeded to smirk at Eliza.

Eliza gasped at the gesture Angelica gave her and she thought ‘Oh, is that how you wanna play, Angelica?’

“Um, excuse me?” A voice called out.

Alex, the staff and the sister trio turned to the speaker and saw a girl dressed in a red t-shirt and a buttoned denim short skirt.

“Maria?” Alex addressed her.

She was Maria Lewis. She’s the local klutz of King’s High School and developed a crush on Alex after he helped her up when no one would help her after she tripped and fell while running to her next class.

“Can I get a kiss from you?” Maria shyly asked Alex.

“Sure” Alex said as he nervously gulped. ‘But my God, she looks so helpless and her body's saying, "Hell, yes." I can’t say no to this.’ Alex thought.

“I’ll pay after, okay?” Maria said.

“Okay” Alex said.

“We should give her this” Angelica told Eliza.

“Yeah, she looks more helpless than me” Eliza agreed.

Maria took a deep breath and surprisingly initiated the kiss as she pulled Alex closer to her and put her mouth on his. The kiss was passionate and intense but the moment Maria unconsciously slipped her tongue in the heat of the moment, Alex recoiled in surprise, breaking off the kiss.

“I-I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do that. It was in the heat of the moment.” Maria nervously apologized as she backed away a bit.

“It’s okay. It happens, it happens” Alex reassured her.

“Here” Maria pulled out a dollar and walked forward to give it to Alex only for her to trip on her heels and fall which lead to her hand containing the dollar to accidentally slip inside Alex’s pants. Angelica and Eliza’s jaws dropped in shock.

“I’m so sorry. I’m such a klutz” Maria apologized again before noticing that she let go of the dollar inside his pants.

“Oh no, the dollar” Maria said.

“Don’t worry, I got it” Alex said.

Before he could put his hand in his pants, Laurens took this opportunity and stopped.

“No, let me get that for you” Laurens said as he placed his hands in Alex’s pants and grabbed the dollar before pulling out his wallet and pulling out 2 $1 bills.

“Here a clean dollar for Maria’s and my payment” Laurens said as he pushed the 2 $1 bills in Alex’s chest before giving him a quick kiss on the lips.

“Okay?” Alex said, confused as he took the 2 $1 bills that Laurens pushed in his chest while Laurens put the dollar that was in Alex’s pants in his wallet.

“Anyways, I’m sorry” Maria said.

“It’s just an accident, don’t worry about” Alex reassured her again.

“Thanks, bye Alex” Maria said as she waved at him as she left the booth.

“Bye” Alex and the others waved back at her.

“Okay, so where were we?” Eliza said glancing at Angelica.

“I was about to have my 2nd kiss with Alex” Angelica said smugly.

“Man, all this hype about kissing Alex. Hey, Alex, can I kiss you? Peggy said casually as she handed him a dollar.

The 2 other sisters gasped at what they were seeing.

“Sure” Alex casually said as he accepted her dollar. The 2 shared a quick peck on the lips.

“Not bad. Here’s another dollar out of my respect for you, you don’t have to kiss me” Peggy said.

“Sorry, Peggy, you have to kiss me if you’re gonna pay me” Alex said.

“Fine” Peggy said before she casually pulled Alex into a quick kiss before handing him the dollar

“Pleasure doing business with you” Alex said.

“Likewise” Peggy said before leaning close to Alex and whispered “Whoever you choose between Eliza or Angelica, don’t make her cry or I’ll kick your ass.”

“Noted” Alex said.

Peggy returned to her sisters and told them “He’s all yours.”

Angelica and Eliza were about to approach Alex again until a line full of women and men formed, blocking their way towards Alex.

“Where did all these people come from?” Alex wondered aloud.

“I recorded and posted the whole scenario online” Burr said.

“I’m surprised you did that even though I can tell from your face back then that you didn’t like this idea” Alex said.

“I warmed up to it” Burr said.

“After you kissed Theodosia?” Alex asked as he raised his eyebrow.

“Shut up!” Burr blushed “The chance for more customers was up for grabs so I took it”

“Huh” Alex said in acceptance.

“Now get back to work, customers are waiting” Burr said.

“Yeah, our break’s almost over. Let’s go back and hand out some flyers for our class’s fortune telling booth” Angelica said as she looked at her watch.

“Yes, let’s” Eliza and Peggy agreed in unison.

While walking back, Peggy asked “Can we please get some food? We haven’t eaten a single thing since break and I’m starving.”

“Yeah, you’re right. Let’s find a good food stall on our way back” Angelica suggested.

“Expensive or cheap, I don’t care as long as it’s food and it tastes good” Peggy said.

Later that day, Washington’s class’s kissing booth exceeded their quota and beat their rival class’s mac and cheese stall by a small margin.

While their stall is still busy, they still lost. Jefferson looked at Washington’s class’s kissing booth through his binoculars while eating the mac and cheese he bought from his class’s own stall and said “Oh, please, if we ran a kissing, I’d be getting lots of people lining up for my shift.”

“Not with that personality of yours” Madison said.

“What?”

“What?”

The number of visitors slowly dwindled and the sun was starting to set, Alex’s shift was almost over.

The Schuyler Sisters returned just in time before Alex’s shift was over with Angelica and Eliza each of them both handing him a dollar.

“Can we please have one more kiss?” Angelica and Eliza said in unison before glaring at each other.

“I’m surprised you want more and you’re supposed to be the older sister. Isn’t there a saying that goes “Once is enough?”” Eliza said.

“I will never be satisfied with just one kiss and you already had 2. Didn’t the saying go “Once is enough, twice is too much and thrice is a poison that can kill a person?” Angelica argued back.

“What? Don’t blame me, I’m helpless” Eliza said.

“I'm just sayin', if you really loved me, you would share him” Angelica said.

“Ha!” Eliza said as she laughed off her older sister’s prospect of sharing Alex.

“Ugh, women” Peggy face-palmed exasperatedly as she had to listen to her 2 older sisters fighting over the same guy.

“Ladies, if I kiss you both, will you two stop fighting?” Alex asked as he took the dollars from them.

“Fine” Angelica and Eliza begrudgingly agreed in unison.

“Older sisters with less kisses go first” Angelica said before sharing a short but passionate kiss with Alex.

Once their lips parted, Alex turned to Eliza and they also shared a sweet and passionate kiss.

“Thank you for your patronage, ladies” Alex said as he waved goodbye to them.

“Bye, Alex” Angelica and Eliza said in unison as they waved back at Alex.

“Hey, Peggy” Alex casually waved at her.

“Hey, Alex” Peggy casually waved back at him as she walked away with her sisters.

As the rest of Washington’s class came to help Alex, Burr, Hercules, Laurens and Lafayette as they disassembled the booth, Lauren screamed.

“SHIT!”

The class looked at him in surprise before Laurens said “We should’ve sold pictures and charged them for extra.”

“Oh shit. Yeah, we should’ve” Alex agreed.

“We still won anyways” Burr said.

“Yeah, you’re right about that” Alex said.

After a few seconds of awkward silence has passed, Lafayette broke the tension, saying “So, who’s up for an afterparty at my place? Food and drinks are on me!”

“YEAH!” the class shouted in excitement of Lafayette’s afterparty idea.

“I should call Eliza and ask if she and others will join our afterparty” Alex said.

“You planning to have three-way with Angelica and Eliza?” Hercules teased.

“No, I’m inviting them as friends” Alex said.

“Yo, if you can marry a sister, you're rich, son” Burr said.

“Is it a question of if, Burr, or which one?” Alex said confidently.

“But seriously, you know one of these days, you have to choose between the 2, right?” Burr said.

“I know” Alex said exasperatedly.

[andpeggybroadway]

HAPPY PEGGY APPRECIATION DAY💛💛💛

[wardrobeoftime]

Please do gif sets of costumes worn by Angelica, Eliza and Peggy in act 1 of Hamilton

Sure.

[46ten]

Schuyler elopements

The following accounts are from Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times: Catherine Schuyler (1897) by Mary Gay Humphreys.

Regarding the elopement of Angelica Schuyler and John Church:

“Carter and my eldest daughter ran off and were married on the twenty-third of July. Unacquainted with his family connections and situation in life the matter was exceedingly disagreeable and I signified it to them” [Philip Schuyler to William Duer, pg 191] 

[One can read my speculation about why, (x), considering the above, AH was nevertheless acceptable to the Schuylers]

Regarding the elopement (that I don’t think was an elopement, just a surprising marriage due to SVR’s youth) of Margarita (Peggy) Schuyler and Stephen Van Rensselaer: 

“Stephen’s precipitate marriage has been to me a source of surprise and indeed of regret. He certainly is too young to enter into a connection of this kind; the period of his life is an important crisis; it is the time to acquire Fame, or at least to prepare for its acquisition. It is the Time to engage in a busy life, to arouse the Facultys into action, to awake from a lithargic Inattention, which is generally the consequence of youthful pleasures, and make a figure upon the active Theatre. Instead of this our field has indulged the momentary impulse of youthful Passions, and has yielded to the dictates of Remorseful Fancy.” [Harrison Gray Otis to Killian Van Rensselaer, pg 195]

Regarding the elopement of Cornelia Schuyler and Washington Morton: 

At the Morton home in New Jersey there had been a notable wedding, that of Eliza Morton to Josiah Quincy of Boston. The Rev. Samuel Smith of Princton College performed the ceremony before all the aristocracy of the time....Among the guests was Miss Cornelia Schuyler. The bride had a brother, Washington Morton. He made himself prominent as a lad during the British occupation by losing a darning needle which, being the only one in the neighborhood, accordingly had to be loaned from house to house. He was now one of the young bloods of the time. One of his recent enterprises had been a walk to Philadelphia on a wager. He was accompanied by various young men on horseback and in carriages. That night he gave them a dinner at Philadelphia, and was one of the liveliest of the company. He was of superb figure and very athletic. The admiration of Miss Schuyler and Mr. Morton was mutual and prompt. He followed the young lady to Albany and declared his attentions to her father. His walk had given him much distinction, but it was not the sort likely to win the approval of so strict a disciplinarian as General Schuyler, or the championship of so considerate a mother as his wife. 

The young man’s suit was refused. “He has not taken that place which befitted a married man,” and the General, to make sure of his position, led the young man to the wharf and saw him aboard the New York sloop. Returning home he called his daughter into the library and told her what he had done. “My wishes will be respected? Promise me to have nothing to do with him by word or letter.”

“I cannot.” 

“What! do you mean to disobey me?” 

“I mean I cannot bind myself; I will not.”

The issue was made. What steps were taken to secure obedience do not appear. In time, however, the impatient lover found opportunity to send his love a letter, and one moonlit evening two muffled figures appeared under Miss Cornelia’s window. At a low whistle the window opened and a rope was thrown up. Attached to the rope was a rope ladder, which making fast like a veritable heroine of romance the bride descended. They were driven to the river, where a boat was waiting to take them across. On the other side was the coach-and-pair. They were then driven thirty miles across country to Stockbridge, where an old friend of the Morton family lived. It was Judge Theodore Sedgwick, not unknown  to General Schuyler in Congress and about the troublesome boundary commissions. The affair had gone too far. The judge sent for a neighboring minister and the runaways were duly married. So flagrant a breach of the parental authority was not to be hastily forgotten. Philip and Catherine Schuyler had had had various experiences in kind, but this transcended everything out of fiction, from which in fact it seems to have been carefully copied. It was some months before the young couple was pardoned, by the stern father at least, for the mother’s heart quickly responded to the happiness of her children, even though they had been so willful. As in the case of the other runaways, the youthful Mortons disappointed expectation, by becoming important householders and taking a prominent place in the social life of New York, where Washington Morion achieved some distinction at the bar. [pg 202-4].

A few posts about Washington Morton, x

[berubara-4-ham]

"What kind of crossover is this?”

I never put POTC ladies as Schuyler sisters together but here you go. I drew them few days before I watched Hamilton in last August. Well, tonight’s Tony awards are over, I will post this bc Hamilton is won for best musical in 2016.

[lovely-abeille]

hello hello ✨ I was wondering if you could do one about losing yourself after a breakup? I lost myself in us, in her. and now that she’s gone, I’m left trying to figure it all out—to untangle my identity and find who I am, again. and I’m rly struggling with it tbh

horoscope for the heartbroken, schuyler peck // rien ne va plus, margarita karapanou; tr. karan emmerich // clementine von radics // letters from medea, salma deera // the keeper of flocks, fernando pessoa // mirages: the unexpurgated diary of anaïs nin, anaïs nin // ovid, metamorphoses // on earth we're briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong // no exit, jean-paul sarte

[ask-chubby-hamilton]

What i think the chaos Squad's middle names would be based off other characters they played/ or their actors names.

Alexander: Alexander Miranda Hamilton (Lin/ Manuel didn't fit to me)

John: John Anthony Laurens

Lafayette: Gilbert Daveed De Lafayette

Hercules: Hercules Oak Mulligan

Aaron: Aaron Leslie Burr

Elizabeth: Elizabeth Phillipa Schuyler

Angelica: Angelica Renée Schuyler

Peggy: Margarita Peggy-Tyisha Schuyler

Thomas: Thomas Paul Jefferson

James M: James Miller Madison

Maria: Maria Ashley Lewis

Thats all i got, but feel free to add more in the comments or reblog :3

[lams-is-canon]

☆Hamilton headcanoms cuz I'm bored! ☆

MARIA (couldn't think of nickname): bisexual/female

BETSEY (Eliza): Bisexual/female

'GELICA (Angelica): asexual/female

LEXI (Alexander): bisexual/male

LAFFY TAFFY (Marie Joseph Paul Yves roch Gilbert du matter de Lafayette, the marquis De Laffayette): pan/male

HERC (Hercules): gay/male

Jeffershit (Thomas): pansexual/male

Jemmy (James Madison): gay/male

Washingdad (Washington): straight/male

King Georgie (king George): Aroace/male

☆ AND PEGGY (Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler): Bisexual/demi-girl ☆

[pub-lius]

WHEN DID MARGARITA SCHUYLER THE FIRST DIE IM GOING TO CRY I DONT LIKE HISTORICAL INACCURACIES I THOUGHT CATHARINA WAS CATHERINE’S GRANDMOTHER HELP ME

march 14, 1801 (if we’re talking about the same one which im not entirely sure, but i couldn’t find another margarita schuyler) your issue might be using wikipedia, not bc its entirely wrong but there tends to be a lot of variance between the articles so when the information is collected in one spot like that, it can be contradictory. try using this or this for your sources and it should give you a more precise answer. thanks for the ask!

[melpomeneprose]

CHARACTER QUESTIONNAIRE !!

Tagged by: myself.

Tagging: @general-lafayette, @honorhearted, @lauraroleplayss, @the-summer-of-73, @pagetreader, and @washingtonsxalphaxwolf. 💙

✧･ﾟ   𝐃𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄.

► ELIZABETH SCHUYLER-HAMILTON.

Name: Elizabeth Schuyler-Hamilton.

Alias(es): Betsey & Eliza.

Gender: female (she/her).

Orientation: bi (male lean) (Protestant and quiet about it). 
Age: I have her at 24-26 during the American Revolution, after that, 30+, or timeline/verse dependent.

Date of birth: August 9th, 1757

Place of birth: Albany, NYC

Spoken language(s): English, French, Dutch & German.

Occupation(s): socialite, Dutch old money, philanthropist, advocate, wife and mother. Sometimes nurse during the American Revolution -> aiding her father General Phillip Schuyler.

★  ⸻   APPEARANCE

Eye colour: green-brown.

Hair colour: brunette.

Height: 5’2”

Other: values modesty as well as strength and dressing well. She pretty much always is wearing a fichu.

18th century ladies fashion.

18th century fashion glossary.

★  ⸻   FAVORITE

Colour: blue, cream, light pink and white.

Song: Eliza playlist.

Hamliza playlist.

Food: Apple turnover.

Drink: wine.

★  ⸻   HAVE THEY...

Passed university: by 18th century standards.

Had sex: yes.

Had sex in public: no.

Gotten pregnant/someone else pregnant: yes.

Kissed a boy: yes.

Kissed a girl: yes.

Gotten tattoos: no.

Gotten piercings: yes, ears.

Been in love: yes.

Stayed up 24+ hours: yes.

★  ⸻   ARE THEY...

A virgin: no.

A cuddler: yes.

A kisser: yes.

Scared easily: subjective.

Jealous easily: yes.

Submissive: yes.

Dominant: no.

In love: verse/thread dependant.

Relationship status: verse/thread dependant.

★  ⸻   RANDOM QUESTIONS

TW for self-harm/suicide mention.

Have they harmed themselves: no.

Thought of suicide/ideated: once, as a teenager.

Attempted suicide: no.

Wanted to kill someone: Briefly, in a moment of rage and betrayal. (Alexander following The Reynold’s Pamphlet).

Have/had a job: she wants to, but her father won’t let her.

Fears: not being enough.

Sibling(s): Angelica Schuyler-Church, Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler, all of Philip Schuyler’s sons.

Parent(s): Catherine “Kitty” Van Rensselaer/Phillip Schuyler.

Children:

Philip Hamilton

Angelica Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton Jr.

James Alexander Hamilton

John Church Hamilton

William S. Hamilton

Eliza Hamilton Holly

Philip Hamilton II

Significant other: Alexander Hamilton (1780 to 1804).

Or: thread/verse dependant.

Pet(s): the feral tomcat. (affectionate) /j

Eliza’s Wikipedia.

The Dutch in NYC.

Hot take: why Eliza deserves a musical.

The Orphanage Eliza founded.

[ohshit-its1776]

What about a pic of the Schuyler Sisters at the winter 1780 winter ball, drawn looking like how you think they would’ve looked like?

Angelica Schuyler Church 1756-1814

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton 1757-1854

Margarita "peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer 1758-1801

Cornelia Schuyler Morton 1776-1808

Catharine Schuyler Malcolm Cochrane 1781-1857

[musical-attorney]

My Ace Attorney Hamilton Cast

Phoenix Wright as Alexander Hamilton

Kristoph Gavin as Aaron Burr

Larry Butz as John Laurens

Athena Cykes as Marquis De Lafayette

Kay Faraday as Hercules Mulligan

Dhurke Sadhmadhi as George Washington

Damon Gant as King George III

Miles Edgeworth as Angelica Schuyler

Iris Fey/Hawthorne as Elizabeth Schuyler/Hamilton

Pearl Fey as Peggy/Margarita Schuyler

Trucy Wright as Philip Hamilton

Klavier Gavin as Thomas Jefferson

Apollo Justice as James Madison

Matt Engarde as Charles Lee

Nahyuta Sadhmadhi as Samuel Seabury

Dahlia Hawthorne as Maria Reynolds

Redd White as James Reynolds

Roger Retinez as George Eacker

[lizahamilton]

Get to Know Me!

Hello! My name is Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton! I was born August 9, 1757 in Albany, New York. My father is Phillip Schuyler, a Revolutionary War General, and my mother is Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler. Here are 5 fun facts about me!

I have 14 siblings altogether, but only seven of us survived until adulthood. I am the 2nd oldest child and I am closet to my oldest sister, Angelica Schuyler Church and the sister who is the next oldest after me, Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer.

I have many nicknames. Most people call me Eliza and my husband, Alexander Hamilton calls me Betsey.

I learned to play backgammon from Benjamin Franklin himself! Since my father was a war general, we had many influential people in our home. One of which was Mr. Franklin! He took a special liking to me and we often played games together!

I had 8 children! I made a post about that so for more details go down below.

The private orphanage I helped start still provides counseling and services to 5,000 families a year! It is now known about Graham Windham and I have a post about that and I'll link it down below as well.

Those are some fun facts about me! I hope you learned something. If you have any questions or want to know more, you can always ask me questions in my questions box on my blog! Until next time,

Sincerely, E. Hamilton

[46ten]

The Importance of being a Van Rensselaer

Van Rensselaer of Rensselaerswyck: the Boy Patroon, is a chapter in Historic Boys: Their Endeavors, Their Achievements, and Their Times by E.S. Brooks (1885). The whole thing is a bit of a wild read. I’m also guffawing a bit at Stephen Van Rensselaer III (above, in a Gilbert Stuart portrait from the 1790s) treated as worthy of a chapter when the other “boy” subjects are Marcus (Aurelius, the Emperor) William of Normandy (the Conqueror), Frederick (the Emperor), Baldwin (the King), Louis (the XIV), and so on. Maybe they needed an American subject of similar aristocratic bent. Then again, Stephen would be worth about $126 BILLION today (December 2022 American dollars)! He has been included in a list of the 10 richest Americans of all time. 

This chapter has some amazing paragraphs:

The news fell with a sudden shock upon the little city of the Dutchmen. Ticonderoga fallen, and the Indians on the war-path! Even the most stolid of the Albany burghers felt his heart beating faster, while many a mother looked anxiously at her little ones and called to mind the terrible tales of Indian cruelty and pillage. But the young Van Rensselaer, pressing close to the side of fair Mistress Margarita Schuyler, said soberly: "These be sad tidings, Margery; would it not be wiser for you all to come up to the manor-house for safety?"

"For safety?" echoed high-spirited Mistress Margery. "Why, what need, Stephanus? Is not my father in command at Fort Edward? and not for Burgoyne and all his Indians need we fear while he is there! So, many thanks, my lord patroon," she continued, with a mock courtesy; "but I 'm just as safe under the Schuyler gables as I could be in the Van Rensselaer manor-house, even with the brave young patroon himself as my defender."

The lad looked a little crestfallen; for he regarded himself as the natural protector of this brave little lady, whose father was facing the British invaders on the shores of the Northern lakes. Had it not been one, almost, of the unwritten laws of the colonie, since the day of the first patroon, that a Van Rensselaer should wed a Schuyler? Who, then, should care for a daughter of the, house of Schuyler in times of trouble but a son of the house of Rensselaer? [My emphasis.]

And this:

"Time was, lad, when your ancestors, the lord patroons of Rensselaerswyck, were makers and masters of the law in this their colonie. From their own forts floated their own flag and frowned their own cannon. Their word was law and from Beeren's Island to Pafraet's Dael the Heer Van Rensselaer's orders were obeyed without question. Forts and flags and cannon are no longer yours, Stephen, and we would not have it otherwise; but your word still holds as good with your tenantry as did that of the first boy patroon, Johannes the son of Killian, when, backed by his gecommitteerden  and his sclzepens, he bearded the Heer General Stuyvesant and claimed all Rensselaerswyck as his 'by right of arms.' Try your word with them, lad. Let me be your gecommitteerden and, in the name of the patroon, demand from your tenantry of Rensselaerswyck provisions and forage for our gallant troops."

Yes, remember your obligations as 8th Patroon, Stephen. I wonder how many requests for assistance he received? Here’s his response from one from his brother-in-law, AH, in a letter dated 6Nov 1797:

I received your letter on the subject of Mr. [Josiah Ogden] Hoffmans embarrassments [he was heavily in debt] altho I always feel disposed to aid those who are in distress & particularly those for whom I have a friendship yet when I reflect on the extent of the operation proposed & the sacrifices I should be obliged to make to fulfill my engagements if I became responsible a sense of duty to my family forbids me acceding to the proposition.

And that’s why he’s one of the 10 richest Americans ever! Continuing...

I congratulate you on the birth of your son [William Stephen Hamilton, born 4Aug1797]. I hope he may inherit your talents & virtues. My wife as well as myself are much flattered with the name & joins me in love to Mrs H & Children.

There’s been speculation that Stephen is being a little sarcastic here with the “talents and virtues” thing so soon after publication of the Reynolds Pamphlet, but “talents and virtues” was a very common phrase to describe a person, so it would have been glaring if Stephen had only praised AH’s “talents,” or made no mention of his hopes and wishes for his newest namesake. 

Back to the Van Rensselaers with some literary references to them:

From Chapter One of Moby Dick:

No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow. And at first, this sort of thing is unpleasant enough. It touches one’s sense of honour, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes. And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time.

The Van Rensselaers are thought to be the basis of the fictional van der Luydens, the ones who “stood above them all” in NY society in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Wharton was distantly related to the Van Rensselaers herself. There’s some speculation that Wharton’s great love was a Van Rensselaer descendant, Walter Van Rensselaer Berry. And to take this all the way back, Walter Berry’s doubles partner in tennis (they made the finals of the U.S. Championship in 1884) was his cousin Alexander Van Rensselaer, a grandson of Stephen Van Rensselaer III. 

P.S. The Heritage History website is very interesting for its cataloguing of old books (c 1850-1920 or so) on various subjects. 

[julia-the-fish]

hamilton characters and their specialties if they were on grey's anatomy for no reason whatsoever

Alexander Hamilton: trauma

Elizabeth Schuyler: Peds

Angelica Schuyler: Neuro

Margarita Schuyler: Psych

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motrier, Marquis de Lafayette: Dermatology

Hercules Mulligan: plastics

Aaron Burr: general

John Laurens: trauma

George Washington: Chief of surgery / general

Samuel Seabury: CCU nurse

King George III: cardio

Charles Lee: paramedic

Thomas Jefferson: urology

James Madison: physical therapy

Phillip Hamilton: ortho

James Reynolds: pharmacist

Maria Reynolds: neonatal

John Adams: general