![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He certainly is too young to enter into a connection of this kind the period of his life is an important crisis it is the time to acquire Fame, or at least to prepare for its acquisition. “Stephen’s precipitate marriage has been to me a source of surprise and indeed of regret. Harrison Gray Otis, a friend of Van Renesselaer’s, wrote to Killian Van Rensselaer : Because of his young age, mutual friends expressed concern that the marriage between Peggy and Stephen would fail. Stephen was a wealthy orphan who had just graduated from Harvard College a year before the couple was wed, but had not yet attained his majority and come into his inheritance. “The general’s temper was none of the mildest, and he was greatest enraged at this defiance of his paternal authority, and vented his wrath upon his secretary, accusing him of having aided the escapade.” According to Annals of the Van Rensselaers in the United States: Especially as They Relate to the Family of Killian K. Van Rensselaer’s cousin Killian Van Rensselaer was General Schuyler’s private secretary. She was 25 and six years older than her husband.” James Peale painting of Margarita Schuyler from Wikipedia “Margarita climbed out of her second-floor room in her father’s mansion to elope with her 19 year old husband. In A Place in History: Albany in the Age of Revolution, 1775-1825 Warren Roberts writes: To this the father objected, and the young couple settled the matter by getting married without delay.” I wrote earlier about Hamilton’s advice on finding a husband to his sister-in-law, Margarita (Peggy) Schuyler and wanted to share a little more about Peggy’s daring elopement with her distant relative, 19 year old Stephen Van Rensselaer III in 1783.Īccording to an account by Maunsell Van Rensselaer, Stephen “was in love with Margaret Schuyler, daughter of the General, and although only nineteen was anxious to get married. Teamwork Made the Dream Work: Washington and Hamilton.Hamilton’s “Elegant Eulogium” of Nathanael Greene. ![]() Hamilton’s Cats- Catstravaganza Charity Event in LA!.Hamilton to Receive Honorary Degree from Albany Law. ![]()
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