![]() Like Philip Schuyler, Angelica and Church were slave owners, according to a New York Timesfact-check of Hamilton. Angelica would move to Paris with Church, who later became a member of British Parliament. (That's conveniently left out of her lovelorn solo in the musical.) Hamilton would go on to marry her younger sister Eliza in 1780. The pair eloped against her family's wishes in 1777 and "the Schuylers were predictably incensed," Chernow noted.īy the time Angelica locked eyes with Hamilton for the first time, she was already married and mother to the first two of her eight children. ![]() The family was suspicious of Church, and discovered he was operating under the name John B. "While there, he managed to both woo Angelica and antagonize her father," Chernow wrote. The pair met in 1776 when Church worked for the army department run by General Schuyler. In Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton, which inspired the Broadway musical, the author refers to Church as a "strange choice" for Angelica. Last month, the mayor of Albany announced the city would remove a statue of Philip Schuyler in front of City Hall the Times Unionreports that in the late 1700s, Philip was "was the largest slave owner in Albany." Angelica was already married when she met Alexander.Īt age 21, Angelica married British politician and businessman John Barker Church. He got it back in 1797 but became ill soon after and retired. Philip, the family patriarch, feuded with Aaron Burr prior to his fatal duel with Hamilton Schuyler lost his senate seat in a 1791 reelection to Burr. ![]() There, the historical site's docent Patricia Sanftner referred to the Schuyler sisters as "the Kardashians" of 1780. Schuyler-Hamilton House, where Hamilton originally pursued Eliza, with The New York Times. In 2015, the three actresses who play the Schuyler sisters (Phillipa Soo is Eliza and Jasmine Cephas Jones is Peggy) visited the Morristown, N.J. Print Collector // Getty ImagesĪngelica was a well-known socialite in the area. ![]() A portrait of Catharine Schuyler Van Rensselaer, circa 1795. ![]()
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