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Happy Thanksgiving!   

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton!! 

Happy birthday, William S. Hamilton. (8/4/1797), 6th child of Alexander Hamilton. He held office in 1824 as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, and again in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives in 1842-1843. He also worked for the General Land Office as Deputy Surveyor of Public Lands. He served in 1827 in the Winnebago War as a captain. He moved to Wisconsin and established Hamilton’s Diggings that same year, a lead ore mine. He later renamed the settlement Wiota. He moved to California in 1849 during the Gold Rush, a decision he regretted deeply. He ended up dying a year later from what was most likely cholera. Hamilton never married and had no children. 

R.I.P, Alexander Hamilton Jr. (8/2/1875). He served as an aide-de-camp to General Morgan Lewis in the war of 1812. After the war, he resumed his previous law practice and became a member of the 42nd New York State Legislature in July 1818. After running unsuccessfully to become Florida’s delegate in the House of Representatives, Hamilton returned to New York, where he became successful in real estate transactions and was one of the leading names on Wall Street for several years. 
          Bonus Fact: He was Eliza Jumel’s lawyer in her divorce from Aaron Burr. The divorce was finalized on Burr’s death day in 1836. 

Happy Birthday, Mary Jefferson Eppes. (8/1/1778). She was Thomas and Martha Jefferson’s daughter, one of the only two that survived to adulthood. She went on to marry her half-cousin, with whom she had three children. Only one survived to adulthood, her son Francis W. Eppes. Sadly, she died in 1804 at the age of 25. 

RIP Frances Antill (7/21/1863). Her father suffered a breakdown after her mother’s death in 1785. At 2 years old, she was left in the Hamiltons’ care. James Alexander Hamilton later said she “was educated and treated in all respects as [the Hamiltons'] own daughter.” She lived with them until she was 12, at which point her older sister Mary was married and able to take her in. 

Happy 4th of July. On the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, (7/4/1826), John Adams died of a heart attack at the age of 90. His last words were, “Thomas Jefferson survives.” He was wrong, because Thomas Jefferson had died 5 hours earlier at the age of 83. 

Yesterday was James Madison’s Death Day (6/28/1836) and the Battle of Monmouth (6/28/1778)

Happy Birthday, Theodosia Burr Alston (6/21/1783)

The compromise of 1790 was signed today (6/20/1790)