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1.Elizabeth did not spend her days in sorrow or self-pity. Instead she immersed herself in charitable work, helping found New York's first private orphanage in 1806, and embarking on a decades-long campaign to ensure “her Hamilton”

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2.Many losses for Eliza  March 1801, when Elizabeth lost her sister Peggy after a long illness. Her oldest son Philip died that November in a reckless duel and Hamilton himself followed fewer than three years later. She then witnessed her father's death in November 1804.

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3. Long-suffering yet intensely loyal, Elizabeth Hamilton buried her sister, her eldest son, her husband, and her father in the space of three turbulent years. She would spend much of her long widowhood working to secure Hamilton's place in American history.

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4. Alexander and Elizabeth were married at the Schuyler home on December 14 of that same year, Hamilton was warmly received into the family. The word had got around that Angelica and Alexander were having an affair but Eliza didn't believe the rumor.

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5. Elizabeth helped Alexander draft political essays, correspond with heads of state, and raise a large family. After her husband’s death in American history’s most famous duel, Elizabeth recast her public image as a philanthropist and protector of Hamilton’s legacy, while privately struggling to keep her family fed and housed on a budget. She outlived her husband by 50 years, and made the most of her extraordinarily long and tumultuous.

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6.Elizabeth Schuyler was born on August 9, 1757, the daughter of the Revolutionary War leader Major General Philip Schuyler. Her mother, Catherine van Rensselaer, descended from one of New York’s richest families. A portrait painted in the 1780s shows Elizabeth posed in a Marie Antoinette-style wig, veil and silver gown, but her dark eyes sparkle.

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8.Eliza, during her nineties, moved to Washington D.C. to help Dolley Madison who was raising money for the Washington Monument. She was very dedicated to charity work throughout her lifetime.  On November 9, 1854 at ninety-seven, Eliza died in Washington D.C. Eliza was buried beside her husband and sister, Angelica, in Trinity Church in New York

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7. Elizabeth, her sisters Angelica and Peggy, and other siblings grew up surrounded by visiting military officers and patriots. She made quite an impression with her witty, yet practical, personality—especially on General George Washington’s chief aide, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton. He seemed to have been smitten from the moment he met her during the winter of 1779-1780.

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http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2010/08/elizabeth-schuyler-hamilton.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-elizabeth-hamilton-deserving-musical-her-own-180958214/

http://historythings.com/elizabeth-schuyler-hamilton-the-beloved-wife-of-hamilton/