Elly hamilton biography/1800s
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Eliza Hamilton Holly
Daughter of Alexander Hamilton (1799 – 1859)
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.[1]
Early life
Eliza was born in New York City, New York on November 20, 1799, to Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton.[2] 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.[2][3]
She was a sick infant, about whom Hamilton troubled himself as he began to find solace in his family in the late 1790s.[1][4] 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."[5] She was affectionatel