After placing Angelica under the care of Dr. MacDonald, she had started living with her younger daughter Eliza Hamilton Holly. Alexander Jr. had purchased the townhouse for their mother in 1833, using proceeds from the sale of The Grange. Chernow also mentioned that the sudden and severe deterioration of Angelica’s mental health was a result of the shock that she received upon hearing her brother’s death. Eliza married Sidney Augustus Holly on July 19, 1825, and they remained married until his death in 1842. Eliza and her mother remained very close for all her life. The Hamilton family went through another crisis when Angelica’s father got into a duel with the third Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on July 11, 1804. She was the sister of Philip Hamilton, Angelica Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton Jr., James Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton, William S. Hamilton, and Philip Hamilton (the second). Unlike her mother (who was called Eliza as a nickname), her name was Eliza, not Elizabeth; the first name Eliza was given on her baptismal and marriage records.
During her final few years, Angelica constantly referred to her brother Philip as if he was alive. Angelica finds mention in the songs ‘Take a Break’ and ‘We Know.’ The songs were part of a 2015 musical titled ‘Hamilton: An American Musical.’ The sung and rapped-through musical was presented by the Grammy and Emmy Award-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda. Although her parents tried their best to revive her mental state, Angelica’s condition only worsened. Eventually, she went into a state of mind which was described as ‘eternal childhood.’ Her condition was so severe that she had difficulties in recognizing her family members. From 1833 to 1842, Eliza and Sidney Holly continued to live with her mother in an East Village, Manhattan townhouse at 4 St. Mark's Place (now known as the Hamilton-Holly House), together with Eliza's brother Alexander Hamilton Jr. and his wife Eliza P. Knox Hamilton. Carl Frampton, World Champion Boxer opens new Sporting and Study Facility at Erne Integrated College, Enniskillen . "Marriage Records: Holly, Sidney Augustus", "Hamilton-Holly House Designation Report", "An Album of Correspondence by the Matriarch of the Hamilton Family, Chiefly to Members of Her Immediate Family, 1805–1846", Senior Officer of the United States Army, 1799–1800, Delegate, Congress of the Confederation, 1782–1783, 1788–1789, "Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit", Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, Advisor, George Washington's Farewell Address, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eliza_Hamilton_Holly&oldid=983304883, Wikipedia pending changes protected pages, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 October 2020, at 13:43. While home with the children in his wife’s absence, Hamilton wrote of his three-year-old daughter, “Eliza pouts and plays, and displays more and more her ample stock of Caprice.”. Angelica’s parents tried their best to revive her mental health. [7], Prior to 1833, Eliza and her husband lived at The Grange (now the Hamilton Grange National Memorial) with her mother, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton.
In a letter written by her mother in December 1832, Eliza was described as being like her father: “You don’t know how important you are to me. Angelica was known to be a sensitive, charming, and talented girl. Holly Williams and her sister Hilary were on their way to their maternal grandfather's funeral when the unthinkable happened. She remained under the supervision of Dr. MacDonald for the rest of her life. She has not shown the title of parents, but she regularly places their images in social networking. Eliza was only four years old when her father engaged in the duel with Aaron Burr that ended his life. [7] Holly's family, descended from one of Stamford's earliest settlers in 1642, was prominent in business and local government. Eliza Hamilton Holly (November 20, 1799 – October 17, 1859) was the seventh child and second daughter of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton.