The expiry of former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton — off by Vice - President Aaron Burr in a affaire d’honneur on July 12 , 1804 — traumatize a new Carry Nation and laid desolate partizan tensions that make modern political relation look like a badly acted reality show . Hamilton ’s acrimonious adversary , President Thomas Jefferson , was chillingly silent ( at least publicly ) about the death of his fellow Founding Father , while Hamilton ’s erstwhile competitor in Constitutional dispute , James Madison , was only touch his death might stir sympathy for the moribund Federalists . The lofty honest-to-god man , George Washington , dead since 1799 , would probably have mourn his brilliant immature aide - de - camp , along with his own vision of a virtuous , non - partisan Republic .
But what about the other gentleman and cleaning woman whose itinerary had crossed with Hamilton ’s , inspired by his vaulting aspiration and submerged in the wake of his tragic flaw ? Lin - Manuel Miranda ’s masterpieceHamiltontells their tarradiddle up to his death — but what happened to them in the aftermath ?
1. AARON BURR
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The most controversial ( read : “ suspect ” ) establish Father , whatever was entrust of Burr ’s political calling go up in smoke with the execution of his former champion - turn - political adversary Alexander Hamilton after their July 11 , 1804 affaire d’honneur — which is ironic , considering the duel was meant to bushel Burr ’s reputation , and with it his political luck . While duel was a uncouth agency of settle “ matter of honor”—itself a fairly foreign conception in today ’s worldly concern — duels very rarely actually mystify to the peak of shooting , with various efforts being made to forestall it from getting that far . Actually down your opponent was consider bloodthirsty in addition to being illegal ( at least in New York ; the bureau in New Jersey , where the affaire d’honneur take position , had a report for looking the other way ) .
After the duel , Burr was charged with execution in both New York and New Jersey and fled the area , going into hiding ( still as Vice - President ! ) in Georgia — not quite another country , but close enough in an old age when train were maxing out at 10 miles per 60 minutes . Burr then returned to Washington , D.C. to finish his condition as Vice - President , where he was immune from prosecution while presiding over the Senate , and do good once again from his weird political luck : After the election of 1804 , the triumphant Democratic - Republicans and defeated Federalists decided the whole Hamilton affair was a needless political obstruction and the heraldic bearing were quietly shelved . In fact , as the crippled duck’s egg , VP Burr enjoyed a political swan song , presiding over the Senate ’s impeachment visitation of the Federalist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase , stemming in part from his late treatment of the trial of notorious muckraker James Callender ( the Senate voted to exculpate Chase ) .
front creditors in New York City , like so many other down - on - their luck , disreputable , or plain ol’ homicidal men in U.S. account , Burr decided to taste to revive his portion by maneuver to the westerly frontier — which , at that metre , meant Louisiana . In 1805 , Burr leased 40,000 Akka on the Ouachita River from Baron de Bastrop , a Dutch businessman with link to the Spanish cap , and enrol scores of following as he journey west . According to one reading , Burr , anticipating a warfare between the U.S. and Spain in the dear future tense , want first crack at the vast fertile lands of Texas when the U.S. kicked the Spaniards out , or perchance even planned to fall the war with his own private invasion ( a practice recognize as “ filibustering ” ) . concord to another version , Burr wanted to mount a revolt against the U.S. government in the Louisiana Territory and organise a new country , perhaps with help from Britain .
Although it ’s not clear what Burr ’s plans were , what his former boss President Thomas Jefferson saw was a disgraced politician setting up a fiefdom on the borders of the United States with his own secret ground forces , and Burr ’s notorious self-seeking made the charges sound plausible enough — particularly after one of his collaborators/“co - conspirators , ” Louisiana Territory governor James Wilkinson , ratted him out ( ironically , Wilkinson himself was in the pay of the Spanish crest , though this was only come upon after his end ) . Other statements Burr made to the British ambassador to Washington , Anthony Merry , sure seem to argue he was planning to detach the newfangled western dominion from the U.S.
Convinced that Burr was plotting rebellion in the Louisiana Territory , planning an illegal invasion of Spanish territorial dominion , or both , Jefferson ordered him arrested in 1806 , and the next year , Burr was hauled back to Virginia to stand test on charges of treason and high misdemeanor . Burr deny the accusal categorically and note his long loyal serve to his country ; meanwhile , Wilkinson was demonstrate to have altered a key piece of grounds for the government ’s case , a letter from Burr purportedly detail the programme for uprising . With no evidence beyond the fact that Burr was headed somewhere with a banding of armed mankind , Chief Justice John Marshall found Burr not guilty in spite of overpowering pressure from Jefferson , an significant early statement of discriminative independency .
After the trial , Burr expend several years in Europe , perhaps plat another invasion of Mexico with help from Britain or France , and then in 1812 returned to New York City , where he worked as a lawyer and stomach the loss of his beloved daughter Theodosia at ocean in 1813 . After practice law for two decade , in 1833 , at the historic period of 77 , Burr splice Eliza Jumel , reputedly the wealthy widow woman in America . She accuse him of mismanaging her funds and filed for divorce not long after ( her attorney : Hamilton ’s 2d son , also constitute Alexander ) . Their divorce was finalized on September 14 , 1836 — the same day Burr died in a boarding house in Port Richmond , Staten Island , age 80 . concisely before his death Burr listen that American colonists in Texas had rebelled against the Mexican government , is enunciate to have exclaimed : “ What was treason in me 30 year ago is patriotism now ! ” He is buried in Princeton , New Jersey .
2. ELIZABETH SCHUYLER HAMILTON, A.K.A ELIZA OR BETSEY
Hamilton ’s devoted and long - suffering wife , Eliza , weather a bombardment of going around the time of the affaire d’honneur , including the deaths of her female parent Catherine , and , three twelvemonth before , the dying of her baby Peggy and her son Philip , who was also fatally injure in a duel . The strong - willed widow , who never remarried , now found herself scrambling to finagle her late married man ’s substantial debts ( the former Secretary of the Treasury and the force behind the First Bank of the United States was not so great with his own money ) . friend and phratry tried to help out , but she was force to give up their house , The Grange — which was complete just two years before Hamilton ’s expiry — in a public auction . Not long after , she was capable to repurchase it because of yet another calamity , the death of her sire Philip just four months after her husband , which left her a modest bequest .
Although Eliza had secured their mob home , she would pass most of the rest of her lifetime in ( relative ) poorness . Nonetheless , she play a major function in securing her husband ’s legacy and contribute to the young land ’s civic life . Over the next five decennium , she equate with all the leaders of the Federalists as well as their associates and descendants , flattering , inveigle and pleading with them to turn over important newspaper and letters written by Alexander over the years , most of which are now adjudge by the Library of Congress . Among the items curated by Eliza was a letter from her husband to George Washington , proving his authorship of part of the first chairwoman ’s illustrious Farewell Address .
Eliza also helped found the first public orphanages in New York City and Washington , D.C. , serving as the director of the New York orphanage from 1821 to 1848 . She also successfully lobbied Congress to have Alexander ’s army pension , which he had forego , reinstated . She spent the last six years of her lifetime living in Washington , D.C. with her widowed daughter , also named Eliza , where she help another Revolutionary widow , Dolley Madison , raise funds for the Washington Monument . After her death in 1854 she was swallow up alongside her husband in the Trinity Church memorial park in New York City .
3. ANGELICA SCHUYLER CHURCH
Eliza ’s older baby Angelica — who dazzled New York society , carried on a womb-to-tomb flirt ( and possibly affair ) with her brother - in - practice of law Alexander , and was a tight champion of both Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette — live only 10 more eld after Hamilton ’s death . During that period , her husband , John Barker Church , had received 100,000 acres of land on the Genesee River in western New York State as refund of a loan to Robert Morris , famous as “ the Financier of the Revolution . ” Her son Philip establish a townsfolk on the land , which he named Angelica in her honor ; John built the family mansion , Belvidere , there . She divided her time between Belvidere and New York City until her last at the years of 58 in 1814 ; she is buried in the Trinity Church cemetery in New York City .
4. MARIA REYNOLDS
After Hamilton ’s ill - advised affaire with Maria Reynolds — which her married man James used to pressure Hamilton before the whole affair blew up with the Reynolds Pamphlet scandal — Maria paid the grueling penalty of any woman of “ ill celebrity , ” in keeping with the double standard of the time . Before the function became public noesis , Maria disjoint her husband ( her lawyer : Aaron Burr ) , and marry James ’ conscientious objector - coconspirator , Jacob Clingman , before divorcing him in 1800 . Reviled as a prostitute , she lose her daughter Susan , who was taken away by the courts to be lift in foster care , although this does n’t seem to have help much : In 1803 , Susan eloped with a certain Francis Wright , who dumped her a few weeks later , and she wound up in a brothel , another dupe of her mother ’s opprobrium . Maria herself died in 1832 at the age of 64 .
5. JAMES REYNOLDS
Not much is known about Maria ’s scum bag husband , who pretty much disappears from the pages of history after the publication of the Reynolds Pamphlet in 1797 . It ’s not heavy to imagine James Reynolds assume a fresh individuality and disappearing into the crowd , aid by the lack of official records , indistinguishability papers , photograph , or electronic communication of any sort in former nineteenth century America . The vernal Republic was a good place to be a career criminal .
6. SAMUEL SEABURY
The Anglican bishop — who , in the musical , Hamilton unforgettably mocks in " The Farmer Refuted"—initially fight independency but after play a cardinal role in the instauration of the Episcopal Church in America . By the time of his death in 1796 , Seabury had helped craft the Episcopalian liturgy and establish continuity between the Anglican and Episcopal Churches , healing the religious rupture induce by the Revolution and thus uphold the direct line of taking over running back to the early Apostles . Among other contributions , Seabury persuaded the American Episcopal Church to adopt the Scottish Prayer of Consecration rather than its short English vis-a-vis . Today the anniversary of his consecration in Aberdeen , Scotland , on November 14 , 1784 , is a feast day in the Episcopal Church .
7. GEORGE EACKER
The New York City lawyer who kill Alexander Hamilton ’s Word Philip in November 1801 only ended up outlive him by a few year . Eacker , a supporter of Burr , insulted Hamilton senior in a lecture by mean he was clear to treason against the Jefferson administration , causing Philip and his friend Richard Price to demand atonement ( a.k.a . an apologia ) . rather , Eacker imprecate them out , an insult to their honor that could not be overlooked . The affray resulted in two duels on November 22 and 23 , 1801 , both held at the same popular duel ground in Weehawken , New Jersey , where Burr and Hamilton would later duel . First Eacker faced off against Price , with the expected issue — two guesswork fired , no injuries , honor maintain . The next day , Eacker toss off Philip in the 2nd affaire d’honneur . Eacker did n’t get to savour his victory for long , however : He give out , likely of consumption ( tuberculosis ) , on January 4 , 1804 , six months before Burr killed Alexander Hamilton .
8. CHARLES LEE
Considered by some a traitor to the Revolutionary case , the hard - drinking Lee ( who blab " I ’m a General , wee ! " inHamilton ) never achieve the ill fame of Benedict Arnold because his attack at subversiveness ( if that ’s what it was — he write to William Howe about the salutary elbow room to defeat the Americans ) never really die anywhere . After his seizure by British military force in 1776 , Lee was freed in a captive exchange and returned to service in 1778 . He led — or rather , failed to lead — the Continental attack at the Battle of Monmouth later that yr , when he ordered his troops to retreat and leave Washington to assort it all out .
Some historian take his disobedience was a deliberate ploy hatched with the British during his enslavement , while sympathetic biographer note that Washington ’s orders were vague and Lee ’s troops outnumber 2 - to-1 . Whatever the verity was , Washington was furious and relieved Lee of instruction on the stain . Lee demand a court warlike to clear his name . He was base guilty , and retreated to populate in his Virginia ( now West Virginia ) acres Prato Rio — then make himself even more disapproval by attacking Washington ’s character , resulting in a duel with Washington ’s adjutant John Laurens .
While at his demesne , he imbibe up plans for a utopian society without clergy , in which citizens would cultivate virtuousness through medicine , poesy , and philosophical system . He died of fever in Philadelphia in 1782 . In his will , Lee — a Deist who made no secret of his scorn for organized organized religion — particularize : “ I desire most earnestly , that I may not be forget in any Christian church , or church - M , or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist coming together - house ; for since I have resided in this country , I have continue so much big fellowship when survive , that I do not chuse[sic]to stay on it when bushed . ” So they eat up him in the churchyard of Christ Church in Philadelphia . Fort Lee in New Jersey is key out after him .
9. THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
The refined , high-flown unseasoned Gallic nobleman lead an equally adventuresome spirit after the American Revolution , include a superstar office in another , far more fierce uprising across the Atlantic . After revert to France a military hero for his role in the American Revolution , in 1791 , during the first , moderate form of the French Revolution , Lafayette help oneself publish the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen with assist from Thomas Jefferson , lucubrate on the mind of universal rights jell forth in the U.S. Declaration of Independence , Constitution , and Bill of Rights .
When the Revolution took a radical turn , however , Lafayette ’s imposing status became a indebtedness , as the Jacobins lead by Robespierre accused him of clandestine monarchist sympathy for defending the regal family from a mob . In 1792 , he fled to the Austrian Netherlands ( today Belgium ) , where he was promptly arrested by the Austrians as an anti - monarchist , proving sometimes you just ca n’t win ( if anyone give care to ask , he wanted a moderate constitutional monarchy ) .
After drop five year in an Austrian prison , during which the Revolution burned itself out , Lafayette was give up at the asking of Napoleon Bonaparte — then busily place the understructure for ( another ) dictatorship — in 1797 . discord with Napoleon ’s authoritarian inclination , Lafayette sagely sat out most of the Napoleonic geological era , grieving the death of his married woman Adrienne in 1807 and only returning to public living in 1815 to help force the emperor to abdicate after his 2d , short - lived regaining to power .
In 1824 , at the age of 68 , Lafayette returned to the United States with his boy Georges Washington to celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of independency . Riding an unprecedented wave of public adulation , Lafayette reunited with Revolutionary War old-timer and undertook a 16 - calendar month grand tour of the nation he helped create , including a visit to the mature Jefferson and Madison at Monticello , and a freestanding visit to John Adams in Boston . Before he left , Congress award him the colossal centre of $ 200,000 along with land in Florida . When Lafayette hark back to France , he carried with him a character of American soil , which was later disperse on his grave after his death in 1834 at the eld of 78 .
10. HERCULES MULLIGAN
One of Hamilton ’s best friends during his footloose youth in New York City , the Irish - born Mulligan , 17 year Hamilton ’s senior , helped convince him to the Revolutionary cause and continue to fiddle a cardinal role organizing resistance to British rule in New York during the Revolution , using his position as a tailor for British officer to gather key selective information which his slave Cato then pass to the greyback . After the Revolution , many Patriots , ignorant of Mulligan ’s secret wartime service , accused him of being a British cooperator and wanted to tar and feather him — ordinarily a fatal procedure . gratefully , George Washington intervened by visiting Mulligan in New York the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. after the British evacuated the city in 1783 , afterwards employing him as his personal tailor . This indorsement by the Father of the Country was enough to get Mulligan lifelong renown and successfulness , and presumably a bunch of awkward apologies .
In 1785 , Mulligan joined Hamilton in founding the New York Manumission Society , one of the first official organisation devoted to terminate slavery , and a precursor to William Lloyd Garrison ’s American Anti - Slavery Society . He continued working as a tailor until his retirement at eld 80 in 1820 , his business doubtless benefit from the sign reading “ Clothier to Genl . Washington ” out front . He become flat in 1825 and was buried in the memorial park of Trinity Church , along with his previous Quaker Hamilton .
11. KING GEORGE III
King George III , the “ tyrannical ” monarch ( who was actually fairly conciliatory before Parliament pushed him into open confrontation with the colonist ) had his honorable days and bad Clarence Shepard Day Jr. after the Colony went their own way , the latter mostly due to his habit of going nuts for long periods of time . ( The lyrics in " You ’ll Be Back " are a subtle nod to his fits of madness : " When you ’re get / I ’ll go mad … " he sing . ) The king ’s madness has often been attributed to porphyria , a genetic shape that also cause the victim ’s water to twist downcast , but historians and medical expert have also suggested that he suffered from a mental unwellness like bipolar upset , while others show to arsenic toxic condition .
Whatever the cause , George III ’s bouts of insanity began almost three decennary into his 60 - year sovereignty from 1761 - 1820 , with the first sequence of prolonged derangement recorded in 1788 . From then on , he would interchange between periods of patent normality and more and more bizarre behaviour — speak for hours on final stage until foam set out coming from his mouth , for object lesson ( the story that he sway hands with a tree is a myth , though ) .
Given the primitive land of medicine in oecumenical and mental healthcare in picky , it ’s no surprisal the treatment tried out on the B. B. King prove more or less useless , including rough chemical applications programme and physical restraint . In 1789 , Parliament attempt to pass by a banker’s bill to produce a regency , which would allow his son , the next King George IV , to carry out royal duty in his place . But George III recovered before the bill was passed , and the theme was shelved . George III relapsed in 1801 and 1804 , and a final relapse in 1810 ( possibly exasperate by the stress of the war with Napoleon ) precede to the formal creation of the Regency in 1811 , which continued until George III ’s demise in 1820 . Despite his madness , King George III was remembered in England as a kind , considerate monarch who was concerned for the welfare of his multitude .
12. ANGELICA HAMILTON
InHamilton , the Treasure secretaire ’s erstwhile son , then 9 , rap that he " has a sister but I want a short blood brother ! " That baby was Angelica , the Hamiltons ' second child , who was ruin by Philip ’s 1801 death . Grief drove her insane , and she remained send until her death at the age of 73 in 1857 . For the rest of her life , she continued to speak about Philip as if he were still alive even as she sometimes failed to recognize her own family members . Her one pleasure was act the forte-piano , as her forefather had learn her when she was a lady friend .
13. AND 14. WILLIAM P. VAN NESS AND NATHANIEL PENDLETON (THE “SECONDS”)
Van Ness , who served as the second to Aaron Burr in the famous duel , and Pendleton , who served as the second to Hamilton , became well-thought-of judges in later age , despite technically being complicit in the reprehensible affair of the duel , as they freely admitted . In fact , hours after the duel , they cooperate to write a joint statement reach their flux eyewitness account , which they submitted to the court on July 17 , 1804 . The statement reads , in part :
15. DAVID HOSACK
