facts below! May 23 is officially Peggy appreciation day!wear as much yellow as possible that day! wow it's late but it's not(10:08pm) why am i still here i shared two animations and did a research thing on Asperger syndrome and Peggy also i had caffine but i also have art block so bless the people who let me in their maps(@ninjito @Winterline13 @queen-crowley)
-this Schuyler sister was much beloved by Hamilton—and much more than “and Peggy.” -She was born in Albany in September 1758. which means during the time she was 18 in the song Schuyler Sisters -The Schuyler family was one of the wealthiest in New York .Philip and Catherine Schuyler had eight children who survived to adulthood, including three sons -The elder Catherine Schuyler’s biographer, Mary Gay Humphreys, described Peggy as having “animated and striking” features; as a young woman, she was “lively” and “the favorite of dinner-tables and balls” and, in later in life, was “bright, high-spirited [and] generous.” -According to Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow, Peggy was “sarcastic” and “very beautiful but vain and supercilious.” -She first became acquainted with Hamilton via letter in 1780, shortly after Hamilton began courting Eliza (or, as Hamilton also called her, Betsey) -a group of Tories and Native Americans surrounded the Schuyler mansion and forced their way into the home searching for the patriarch. The family—including Angelica and Eliza, both pregnant—fled upstairs during the assault, realizing too late that they’d left behind Catherine Schuyler’s baby daughter (also named Catherine). When Peggy snuck downstairs to retrieve the infant, who was in a cradle near the door, one of the raiders stepped in front of her with a musket and demanded to know where General Schuyler was.Peggy replied, cooly, that he had “Gone to alarm the town.” As the raiders, afraid that troops were coming, fled, Peggy grabbed baby Catherine and ran back up the stairs. -In June 1783, when she was almost 25, Peggy married a distant cousin, Stephen Van Rensselaer III, 19; it was likely an elopement. (In fact, Eliza was the only Schuyler sister who didn’t elope.)By 1789, the couple had three children, only one of whom would survive to adulthood. -By 1801, Peggy had been ill for two years. Hamilton, who had resigned as Treasury Secretary six years before, was in Albany on business that March when Peggy took a turn for the worse.On March 16, Hamilton wrote to Eliza with the sad news that her sister, not yet 43, had passed away. that's all! have a great day!
