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Angelica Hamilton
Born	(1784-09-25)September 25, 1784
Died	Feb 6, 1857(1857-02-06) (anile 72)
Resting identify	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York
Nationality	American
Parent(s)	Alexander Hamilton Elizabeth Schuyler
Relatives	See Hamilton family

Angelica Hamilton (September 25, 1784 – February half dozen, 1857) was the 2nd kid and eldest daughter of Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton, who was the first U.Due south. Secretary of the Treasury and 1 of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Early on life [edit]

In a letter to the nine-yr-old Angelica Hamilton, who was then staying with her grandparents in Albany, Alexander Hamilton wrote:

I was very glad to learn, my dearest daughter, that you were going to begin the report of the French language. We hope you will in every respect conduct in such a fashion as will secure to you the good-will and regard of all those with whom you are. If you happen to displease any of them, exist always ready to make a frank apology. Simply the best way is to human action with so much politeness, good manners, and circumspection, as never to accept occasion to brand any apology. Your female parent joins in all-time love to yous. Adieu, my very dear daughter.

Angelica was described as a sensitive, lively and musical girl in her youth. She was said to resemble, in beauty, her maternal aunt Angelica Schuyler Church building, for whom she was named.^[ii] During her father's time every bit Secretary of the Treasury, Martha Washington would take Angelica with her to dance lessons along with her own children.^[2]

In improver to French and dance lessons, Angelica played a pianoforte that was bought for her past her aunt Angelica Church, which was sent from London to New York through a friend of her begetter.^[3] Alexander Hamilton, according to a grandson, had a "rich voice" and enjoyed singing popular songs of the day, and "Angelica often accompanied him upon the pianoforte or harp, and appears to accept been given all the advantages of a musical education."^[4]

Mental illness [edit]

Philip Hamilton, whose decease in a duel in 1801 was believed to have precipitated Angelica's mental breakdown

In November 1801, when Angelica was 17 years former, her oldest brother Philip Hamilton died of injuries resulting from a duel with George I. Eacker. The news of Philip's death precipitated a mental breakdown that left Angelica in a state described as "eternal childhood", and often unable even to recognize family members.^[2]

Angelica's nephew, psychiatrist Allan McLane Hamilton, described his aunt as an "invalid" and her status as a blazon of "insanity".^[5] Dr. Hamilton wrote, "Upon receipt of the news of her brother's decease in the Eacker duel, she suffered and then great a shock that her mind became permanently dumb, and although taken care of by her devoted mother for a long fourth dimension at that place was no amelioration in her condition."^[3]

Though the details of what occurred are not clear from a mod medical perspective, historian Ron Chernow similarly attributed the sudden and extreme deterioration of Angelica's mental wellness to her reaction to the death of Philip, with whom she had been very shut.^[2] Other modern authors take described the mental wellness problem, which lasted for the rest of Angelica'south life, without discussion of causation.^[6] ^[vii]

Despite her parents' best efforts to reach her, Angelica's condition but seemed to worsen. Her father had written his friend Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and asked him to send Angelica watermelons and three parakeets, as she was "very fond of birds".^[2] ^[8] Afterward visiting the Hamilton home, James Kent tactfully described Angelica as having "a very uncommon simplicity and modesty of deportment".^[2]

Adulthood and later life [edit]

Years after Alexander Hamilton's death in July 1804, Angelica's aging mother could no longer treat her. Angelica was somewhen placed in the care of a Dr. MacDonald of Flushing, Queens, where she remained for the rest of her life.^[2] ^[three] Of this menstruum, her nephew wrote:

During her after life she constantly referred to the dear blood brother so nearly her own historic period as if live. Her music, that her begetter used to oversee and encourage, stayed by her all these years. To the end she played the same old-fashioned songs and minuets upon the venerable piano that had been bought for her, many years before.^[3]

In 1848, Angelica'southward sister Eliza Hamilton Holly moved their 91-yr-quondam female parent Elizabeth from New York to Washington, D.C.,^[9] where she died in 1854 at age 97. Elizabeth Hamilton requested in her will that her other children exist "kind, appreciating, and attentive" to her "unfortunate daughter Angelica."^[2] Eliza Holly, in a letter to an aunt anticipating Angelica's death, remarked that their mother had not wished to outlive Angelica, and wrote, "Poor sister, what a happy release will exist hers! Lost to herself half a century."^[2]

Three years after her mother'south death, in February 1857, Angelica died in New York at age 72. She was buried in Westchester County, New York at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

In popular civilisation [edit]

In the 2015 musical Hamilton, Hamilton's daughter Angelica is mentioned, although not by proper noun, in the songs "Accept a Interruption"^[10] and "We Know".^[11] The events of both songs have place prior to the birth of Hamilton's second daughter, Eliza, in 1799.

References [edit]

^ Hamilton, Alexander (1969) [1793]. Syrett, Harold C. (ed.). The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. Vol. 15 (June 1793–Jan. 1794). Columbia Academy Press. p. 432. ISBN9780231089142.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Chernow, Ron (2004). Alexander Hamilton. Penguin Books. p. 655. ISBN978-0-xiv-303475-9.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hamilton, Allan McLane (1910). The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton. p. 219 – via Internet Archive.
^ Hamilton, Allan McLane (1910). The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton. p. 47 – via Cyberspace Archive.
^ Hamilton, Allan McLane (1910). The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton. p. 105 – via Cyberspace Archive.
^ Ambrose, Douglas (2007). The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Nigh Elusive Founding Begetter. New York University Printing. p. 21. ISBN978-0814707241.
^ Long, Kat (February 25, 2016). "Why Elizabeth Hamilton Is Deserving of a Musical of Her Ain". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved Oct iii, 2017.
^ Nair, Pooja (February 16, 2015). "Hamil-Fam: The Tragedy of Angelica Hamilton". It's Hamiltime! . Retrieved March 4, 2017.
^ Chernow, Ron (2004). Alexander Hamilton. Penguin Books. p. 730. ISBN978-0-14-303475-ix.
^ Miranda, Lin-Manuel; McCarter, Jeremy (2016). Hamilton: The Revolution. New York: K Central Publishing. p. 169. ISBN978-1455539741 – via Google Books. Philip: I have a sister but I want a little brother.
^ Miranda, Lin-Manuel; McCarter, Jeremy (2016). Hamilton: The Revolution. New York: 1000 Central Publishing. p. 229. ISBN978-1455539741 – via Google Books. Burr: I hope you saved some money for your daughter and sons.