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Does anyone know what happened to Angelica Hamilton?

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Alexander Hamiltons daughter

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on 2011-05-24 11:26:46

babelcor has been a Family Tree Circles member since May 2011. is researching the following names: HAMILTON, BICK, KRUMHANSEL.

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by asearcher on 2011-06-18 22:56:51

from what I found she went crazy after Phillip (her oldest brother's) death. She then lived with family members until her death in 1857...

by ngairedith on 2011-06-19 00:06:14

written here to benefit readers who, like myself, may not have known of Angelica. The following links make for very interesting reading ...

Angelica KNOTT (nee Hamilton)
- born 25 September 1784
- died 6 February 1857 in New York

Angelica was 1 of 8 children
- her father was Alexander HAMILTON (1755-1804) Founding Father, Statesman. The thirteen states after the Revolutionary War were weak and still separate. Alexander Hamilton was the strong voice calling for a strong united government with a new Constitution and then most instrumental in the formation and convening of the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia which established the United States of America. He was born southeast of Florida on Nevis, a small island making up the group in the Caribbean known as the West Indies. His mother was unwed and the daughter of a doctor and his father a merchant ... more at link

- her mother was Elizabeth SCHUYLER (1757-1854) a daughter of Revoluntionary War Continental General Philip Schuyler and sister to Angelica Schuyler Church. She was the mother of eight children, including Philip Hamilton, who died in a duel at Weehauken on the same field on which her husband would later lose his life. She was a remarkable woman, outliving her husband by fifty years and fiercely defendeded his honor after his death. After his death, she moved to Washington to be with close friend and confidante Dolly Madison, with whom she raised funds for local orphanages and poor houses until her death in 1854 at the age of 97

Angelica's siblings were:

Philip Schuyler Hamilton (1783 - 1801)
- On November 20, 1801, the Hamiltons' handsome oldest son, nineteen-year-old Philip, recently graduated from Columbia College, had gotten into a quarrel with one of President Thomas Jefferson's supporters, a twenty-seven-year-old lawyer named George I. Eacker. Philip and his friend Richard Price had invaded Eacker's box at the Park Theater and taunted him about a speech he had made on July 4, 1801. Eacker had hailed President Thomas Jefferson as the rescuer of the Constitution and implied that General Hamilton was not averse to seizing power with a coup d'etat. Philip's hooliganish conduct suggests he and his friend Price were drunk. Realistic Robert Troup, belying his fond parents' view of Philip's talents and promise, described him as a "sad rake."

The infuriated Eacker called both young men "damned rascals"?an expression of contempt that left them with only one response, if they hoped to retain their standing in the masculine world of the time. They promptly challenged him to a duel.
- you can read the rest of the story at DUEL

... Angelica
- Did Angelica marry Stephen F Knott ???

Alexander Hamilton (1786 - 1875)
- served in War of 1812 as the General in command of The Old Sandy Fort. Married Eliza P. KNOX

James Alexander Hamilton (1788 - 1878)
- Served as Aide de Camp to General Morgan Lewis, US Army during the war of 1812. Married Mary MORRIS

John Church Hamilton (1792 - 1882)
- served as Aide de Camp of Majgen Harrison, US Army during the war of 1812. Married Maria Eliza Van Den HUEVEL

William Stephen Hamilton (1797 - 1850)
- Was exhumed twice and buried three times in Sacramento, California

Elizabeth Hamilton (1799 - 1859)
- 1st married Samuel LOCKERBY
- next married Sidney HOLLY/HOLLEY

Phillip Hamilton (1802 - 1884)
- born on June 2 1802, 2 months after his older brother Philip was killed. Noted criminal lawyer in New York City as Assistant District Attorney, conducted trial on notorious pirate Gibbs. Phillip married Rebecca McLANE

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