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Thanks to the Hamilton musical, it’s almost impossible to hear the names Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy without bursting into song. The play made the three eldest daughters of Philip Schuyler famous, and in this episode we’re talking about the first two sisters, but mostly just Angelica. Fans know that there was a flirtation between Angelica and Hamilton, but that relationship was exaggerated for the show. Angelica’s actual romance and marriage were downplayed for the show, but it was this union that brought Angelica Schuyler Church to Boston, where she lived for over two years under an assumed name. What was she doing here, and who was the mysterious John Carter who escorted her here?

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• James McHenry to Alexander Hamilton, August 11, 1782
• Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Cranch, December 3. 1784
• Diary of John Quincy Adams, August 25, 1785
• John Trumbull’s autobiography
• The Second Continental Congress elects John Carter as an auditor and accepts his resignation
• The Whig Club, or a Sketch of Modern Patriotism
• “Schuyler Successors: The Big Small World of the Eighteenth-Century Hudson River Valley,” by Danielle Funiciello via Historic Hudson Valley
• THORNTON, WINIFRED KNIGHT. “A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH MANSION, BELVIDERE.” New York History, vol. 31, no. 3, 1950
• John Barker Church’s profile from the History of Parliament Trust
• Historian Joanne Freeman on Alexander Hamilton, March 20, 2020, via C-SPAN
• From a series by JL Bell in January 2017
  • “John Barker Church: ‘the mere man of business’?”
  • “Even the Carters Could Not Shut Their Hearts Against Us”
  • “Carter and My Eldest Daughter Ran Off”
• Tilar Mazzeo’s biography of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
• Our header image shows Angelica and young Philip with a servant, by John Trumbull