USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Over the course of “Satisfied” onstage, Angelica meets Hamilton at a midwinter’s ball, where they enjoy a short but illuminating exchange. Despite the thrill of meeting an intellectual equal, Angelica decides Hamilton’s lack of fortune is too large a romantic impediment.

Detailed explanation-2: -Angelica Church met Alexander Hamilton after the young lieutenant colonel began wooing Eliza. Angelica was pregnant with her second child and accompanied by her now affluent, respectable husband.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow wrote that “the attraction between Hamilton and Angelica was so potent and obvious that many people assumed they were lovers. At the very least, theirs was a friendship of unusual ardor."

Detailed explanation-4: -At age 21, Angelica married British politician and businessman John Barker Church. In Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton, which inspired the Broadway musical, the author refers to Church as a “strange choice” for Angelica. The pair met in 1776 when Church worked for the army department run by General Schuyler.

Detailed explanation-5: -While now no one knows for certain, it’s likely that Alexander Hamilton first met Elizabeth Schuyler at her parents’ house in Albany, N.Y., in the fall of 1777.