Two years later, Eliza went to Morristown to live with her aunt, Gertrude, to help inoculate soldiers against smallpox. Of course, she never came, and Alex is disappointed.

Then, as a trick, a mean drunk got hold of the handkerchief and sent it to Alex with a forged note from Eliza that asked him to meet her in the hayloft. As a joke, he surrendered his handkerchief to her. Because he was the messenger of such horrible news, and because she found him attractive, Eliza spent the night making him miserable. Eliza first saw him in the staircase, as he was delivering news of a court-martial to her father. The first seven chapters are set at the Schuyler’s estate in Albany on the day that Eliza Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton first met. Because of this, they needed to marry off their three eldest daughters: Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy. The parents, Catherine and Philip, had recently lost a fortune when the British torched their estate in Saratoga. The novel starts in 1777 with a prologue that introduces the Schuylers. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: De La Cruz, Melissa.

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