![]() In real-life Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton lived to be 97 years old, and basically became a Founding Mother due to her lifetime of work. One popular theory is that "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" ends with Eliza finally dying, 50 years after her husband's fatal duel. ![]() It's a powerful final gut punch to the show, but what exactly does it mean? Theory #1: Eliza Went To Heaven In the final moments of the song Eliza looks out into the audience, and gasps/weeps. We learn how she started New York City's first private orphanage, raised money for the Washington Monument, and shared her late husband's life with anyone who would listen. Reynolds spilled the beans about the affair, but also said that Hamilton had been involved in his pension scheme.The show's finale "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" reveals how the world continued on without Alexander, and the legacy Eliza (Phillipa Soo) protected in her long life. So James decided to take his story to Hamilton's political rivals, and was paid a jail cell visit by none other than future president James Monroe. A pension scheme later landed him in prison for forgery, and when he sought Hamilton's help, he was turned down. Maria's husband, James Reynolds, caught wind of the affair, and began shaking Hamilton down for money. When he visited the boarding house where she was staying to deliver the funds, Maria invited him to her room, where, as Hamilton would later write in his pamphlet about the affair, it became "apparent that other than pecuniary consolation would not be unacceptable." ![]() Hamilton met Maria Reynolds in Philadelphia in 1791, when she visited the then-Secretary of the Treasury to request financial support for her struggling family. Hamilton depicts the Reynolds Affair, one of the country's earliest sex scandals. Disney Her family life was marred by scandal and tragedy. Schuyler sisters Peggy, Eliza, and Angelica in Hamilton. The pair had eight children, and also took in Fanny Antill, the orphaned toddler daughter of a Revolutionary War colonel. In short she is so strange a creature that she possesses all the beauties virtues and graces of her sex without any of those amiable defects, which from their general prevalence are esteemed by connoisseurs necessary shades in the character of a fine woman. ![]() She has good nature affability and vivacity unembellished with that charming frivolousiness which is justly deemed one of the principal accomplishments of a belle. Her good sense is destitute of that happy mixture of vanity and ostentation which would make it conspicuous to the whole tribe of fools and foplings as well as to men of understanding so that as the matter now stands it is ⟨very⟩ little known beyond the circle of these. She is most unmercifully handsome and so perverse that she has none of those pretty affectations which are the prerogatives of beauty. In 1780, Hamilton wrote Angelica a letter describing his infatuation with Eliza: I have already confessed the influence your sister has gained over me yet notwithstanding this, I have some things of a very serious and heinous nature to lay to her charge. Her lines in the play, "I’m just sayin’, if you really loved me, you would share him," are drawn from a letter the real Angelica wrote to Eliza, in which she joked, "I love him very much and if you were as generous as the Old Romans you would lend him to me for a while.") (As the musical shows, Hamilton also got pretty flirty with Eliza's vivacious older sister, Angelica. She met Alexander Hamilton in 1780, when both were in their early 20s.
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