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jazzymarie1006 · 10 months ago
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Devil being an official Lafayette is incredible!
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quietfounder · 3 months ago
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I think I'm gonna keep a list of people who know Lunella is Moon Girl and add to it if there are more.
I know some of the names on here are obvious, but I did say I wanted to keep track of everyone who knows:
Devil
Casey
Mimi
Pops
Adria
James Jr.
The Beyonder
Ms. Dillon/Aftershock
LOS-307
Mel-Varr/Marvin Ellis/Kid Kree
Angel (yeah I included the hamster)
Maris Morlak
Merle
Matsuye
Franklin (I'm pretty sure he knows)
Molecule Man
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leftycharacters · 11 months ago
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Today's left-handed character is James "Pops" Lafayette Sr. from Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
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llanternpool · 9 months ago
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Hamilton Swim Team AU
George Washington – head swim coach (a.k.a the boss of the swim team) Coaching style: Strict yet kind
Thomas Jefferson–  Butterfly stroke swimmer (like Jefferon's debating style in Ham: the musical, you have to have exceptional technique to do it well. However, as attributed to Jefferson's relative ease at his Thing, is also naturally athletic (Diggs), so his swimming style isn’t difficult for Thomas Jefferson.)  He's on the competitive team and swam competitively throughout high school. Then he studied abroad at the uni Lafayette attended in France for two years.  When he got back to America, Thomas was invited to GWash’s swim team (as well as the college the swim team is hosted by). Thomas's family knows GWash. Are these related? I’ll let you decide.
Thomas's swimsuit :  a purple, moderately short Speedo with black accents.
The speedos Thomas buys are from premium swim shops that have inflated prices.
Fun facts:
His boyfriend is James Madison
Models in his free time
Used to have performance anxiety at swim meets and has social anxiety that he hides well publically
James Madison –  breaststroke style swimmer (breaststroke is a lower effort swimming style (like how James doesn’t speak up much during Cabinet Battles). That doesn't mean you can’t swim fast using breaststroke – if your technique is good you can (like how Madison very effective at his job when he needs to be because of his skill™️)
As always,  James is frequently sick. So, he has to sit out at competitive meets most of the time and cheers on Thomas usually.
James's swimsuit style: a standard length black speedo (the most common color) with light bluish-gray accents 
Fun facts: 
When he isn’t sick he swims very well
His boyfriend is Thomas Jefferson
Hamilton – Butterfly stroke swimmer (butterfly is objectively the hardest swimming style, you need excellent technique and innate ability to do it well). 
Hamilton is arguably the fastest and most technically skilled swimmer in the swim team. Obviously, he’s on the competitive team. 
Ham’s swimsuit: a relatively short green swimsuit with black accents (mans a little slutty)
Fun facts: Jefferson is the only one who is on the same level as Alex technique-wise at swimming
Burr – freestyle swimmer (it’s the most standard swimming style. That doesn’t mean you can’t be good at it, just that it’s the most standard one. )
Despite desperately wanting to be on the competitive team, everytime he just BARELY doesn’t make the cut (so he's in the non-competitive swim team). Are he and Ham together? Let me know /j but also /srs
If you guys want, I might include Laf, Hercules and John Laurens and/or the girls in this AU !
Please feel free to tag, comment, message me or leave asks on my page if you wanna talk about it!! I promise I’m friendly & would love to chat w/ u guys about it /gen :-)
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earthydoll · 9 days ago
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FANDOM MASTERLIST – ♪
Hello everyone! Dolly here. This is my list of fandoms and ships for roleplay! Please feel free to read this and hmu if anything interests you!
rp rules !! please read
KEY ; Bold — Wanted muse (if none, i can play as either)
x — Romantic pairings
& — Platonic pairings
warning!! a shitton of ships, crackships and maybe problematic pairings
I. EPIC : THE MUSICAL — 🐚
Odysseus x Penelope
Odysseus x Poseidon
Odysseus x Polites
Eurylochus x Ctimede
Odysseus x Hermes
Eurylochus x Hermes
Penelope & Telemachus
Eurylochus x Zeus
Odysseus & Telemachus
Odysseus & Ctimede
Telemachus x Antinous
Antinous x Calypso
Calypso x Poseidon
Circe x Odysseus
Circe x Calypso
Circe x Penelope
Penelope x Polites
Odysseus x Polites x Penelope (can double up if needed)
Odysseus x Poseidon x Zeus
Athena x Aphrodite
Aphrodite x Ares
Circe x Hermes
Aphrodite x Hermes
Athena &/x Odysseus
Athena &/x Penelope
Athena &/x Penelope &/x Odysseus (Can double up as either)
Athena x Literally anyone
Athena & Telemachus
Apollo x Hermes
and more... feel free to ask
II. HAMILTON — 🐚
Hamilton x Laurens
Hamilton x Jefferson
Hamilton x Eliza
Eliza x Jefferson
Hamilton x Laurens x Eliza (Can double up)
Maria x Hamilton
Eliza & Angelica
Angelica & Peggy
Peggy & Eliza
Burr x Angelica
Burr x Theodosia Sr.
Burr x Maria
Maria x Lafayette
Maria x Angelica
Angelica x Theodosia Sr.
Eliza x Martha L. (Laurens' wife)
Martha L x Laurens
Kinloch x Laurens
Laurens x Lafayette
Rachel (Hamilton's mom) x Washington
James Jr(Hamilton's Brother) & Hamilton
James Jr x Mary (his wife)
any historical wife x husband
Phillip x Frances Laurens
Phillip x Theo Jr
Theo Jr x Frances L.
Phillip x Theo Jr. x Frances L. (Can double up)
Eliza & Any of her kids
Hamilton & Angie Hamilton (his daughter)
Angie H. & Phillip
Angie H. x Eacker
Angie H. x Frances L.
Angie H. x Theo Jr.
and more.. feel free to ask
III. GOOD OMENS — 🐚
Crowley x Aziraphale
Muriel & Crowley
Muriel & Aziraphale
Beelzebub x Gabriel
Shax x Furfur
Maggie x Nina
Maggie x (Fem!presenting) Aziraphale
Maggie x Mostly anyone
and more... feel free to ask
IV. DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES — 🐚
*: I'm still on season 6. Please don't spoil me
Bree &/x Gabby
Bree &/x Susan
Susan x Mike
Edie x Susan
Edie x Mike
Tom x Lynette
Lynette x Bree
Gabby x Carlos
Gabby x John
Lynette & Any of her kids
Bree x Anyone
and more... feel free to ask
W.I.P
I'll edit whenever i feel like it lol.
dm me or interact if interested
—xoxo, Dolly
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mngrlmgic · 2 years ago
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LUNELLA LOREDUMP — MULTICANON MIX!
> INHUMANITY
Inhumans are a subsection of humanity with latent DNA alternations originating from the Kree's experiments on early man. An intensive project originally intended to create new soldiers for the alien empire's intergalactic war, the initiative was scrapped once cryptic warnings foretold their creations to be their undoing. Fleeing earth, the test subjects were left to perish on the planet by their creators.
Today the project is nothing more than a rumor, the Kree attempting to erase all mention of the project and the descendants of augmented humanity being generally clueless with the abilities that come with their engineered DNA remaining latent more often than not.
Lunella Louise Lafayette discovered she was one of the unlucky few to have their latent inhuman genes triggered at the age of 9, quickly developing the ability to swap minds much to her protest. The supergenius would dedicate much of her time attempting to suppress and/or outright eliminate her abnormalities to little success.
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> MEET THE LAFAYETTES
The Lafayette family live in an apartment complex located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. For the first ten years of her life, it was just Lunella and her parents— James Lafayette Jr and Ardia Lafayette, with the occasional visits from her paternal grandparents. Things weren't always easy in that house, there was a palpable rift between the three as her parents struggled with a daughter going through more than they could possibly know.
When tensions hit a boiling point, and the cost of living rose, Lunella's paternal grandparents would move in. Miriam Lafayette and James Lafayette Sr always had a close connection with the girl, and with their support along with the rest of the family getting involved with James Sr's roller rink, the five were able to grow closer than ever.
Although Lunella would continue to keep the discoveries of her inhuman characteristics to herself, she would grow more open with her interests in science and engineering— quickly taking to using her staggering intellect to help around not only the house but the rink as well.
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> MOON GIRL LANDING
One of Lunella's biggest personal heroes is a woman only known by the moniker Moon Girl. A mysterious scientist employed by the space program, she would vanish without a trace leaving behind many incomplete blueprints. Lunella would pour over the scraps of her recovered work, determined to piece together the last big project she'd undertaken before her disappearance. Within her secret lab beneath the apartment, Lunella would put together a machine who's functions she was unsure of, quickly learning it to be a portal generator upon completion. A large, red, mutant dinosaur would come through the portal she created and immediately cause a scene rampaging through the city.
Feeling responsible for stranding the creature here, and feeling it was much more intelligent than the heroes who'd captured it gave it credit for, she would break the dinosaur out of containment as a masked vigilante.
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> KID KREE
Although the Inhumans have become an afterthought to most Kree, there are a few in positions of power who feel the empire has right to take the species to trial for their foretold betrayal. Amongst these individuals lies Mel-Varr, son of a Kree military general. Infiltrating Lunella's elementary school under the guise Marvin Ellis, he sought to capture and bring her home as a war trophy in order to earn the approval of his father. His plan would not play out as expected, the kree boy growing quite fond of Lunella after the two get past the rather rocky slew of initial interactions.
The two would part ways shortly before her 10th birthday, Lunella keeping rather spotty contact with the boy outside of dire emergency.
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> MG & DD: ORIGINS
Now harboring a dinosaur in her lab, Lunella would grow a rather immediate fondness for the creature. Having used her inhuman abilities to get a look at where he'd been contained through his eyes, the newly established link between the two would allow for not only the exchange of language but the discussion of a name. Devil quickly grew to become practically family over the many months he learned to live in Lunella's lab, being the first she would open up to about her fears of what being inhuman meant. The two would fall into a rhythm of walking the Lower East Side at night, allowing Devil fresh air without the immediate threat of recapture as Lunella would don the same disguise she'd used to free him in order to not give away who's hiding him.
It isn't until the pair stop a robbery in progress by compete accident, Devil more upset about the coldcuts the robbers had sullied in their botched escape than the fact a robbery was happening at all, that they're mistaken for heroes and their names are requested.
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur have a rather tame debut, protecting local businesses and assisting the community for months. By the time Lunella hits her 11th birthday, the pair are known amongst local businesses.
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> AFTERSHOCK
The superhero duo wouldn't break out into the public consciousness until Lunella's 13th birthday had come and gone, their typical community efforts being placed front and center by Casey Calderon— a schoolmate who's life the duo had saved in the pursuit of the block's first very own supervillain. The constant blackouts put not only the community as a whole, but Lunella's family in jeopardy with the amount of business struggling to stay afloat with inconsistent power.
With the defeat of Aftershock and a much needed outfit rebrand, Casey's assistance helped elevate the duo to the staple heroes of the L.E.S they've become known to be.
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lboogie1906 · 3 months ago
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Pastor James M. Lawson, Jr. (September 22, 1928 - June 9, 2024) was one of the Civil Rights Movement’s leading theoreticians and tacticians in the African American struggle for freedom and equality in the 1950s and 1960s. Raised in a household of ten children, he was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania to the Reverend James Morris and Philane May Cover Lawson, Sr. He grew up in Massillon, Ohio.
He entered Baldwin-Wallace College. He became a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation local chapter and the Congress of Racial Equality. He became a “conscientious objector” during the Korean War. He was found guilty of violating the draft laws of the US, and sentenced to three years in a federal prison. He returned to Baldwin-Wallace and earned his BA. He traveled to India to work for the Methodist Board of Missionaries. He studied the Gandhian principles of satyagraha or the strategy of passive political resistance. He used these principles to combat and end racial segregation in the US.
He entered Oberlin College’s Graduate School of Theology. He met the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who urged him to move south and aid in the Civil Rights Movement. He moved to Nashville and enrolled at the Divinity School of Vanderbilt University, where he served as the southern director for FOR and began hosting nonviolence training workshops for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He trained many of the future leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, including James Bevel, Diane Nash, John Lewis, Bernard Lafayette, and Marion Barry.
He was expelled from Vanderbilt for organizing the Nashville student sit-ins. He became the pastor of Centenary Methodist Church. He led various community movements for racial justice in Memphis. He invited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis to speak where 15,000 people heard his famous “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop Speech.”
He moved to Los Angeles, where he became pastor of Holman United Methodist Church and continued his social activism, advocating for Palestinian and immigrant rights; gay and lesbian issues; the poor; and an end to war in Iraq. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence
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sporadiceagleheart · 7 months ago
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This edit says for birthdays and deaths of May 19th 20th and 21st and Jesus is our only holy God just like our father God who healed and lifted them up to be our Angels
Star Hobson, Peggy Cass, Andrea Helton, Emmett Goins, Gavin Lane Morris, Evelyn Ward, Robert White Creeley, Alexander Dale Oen, Biggie Smalls, Philip II, Aurelia Cotta, Alexander Pope, Elizabeth Fry, Mary Anning, Henry VI Of England, Albert David Hedison Jr., Albert Hay Malotte, Sir Michael Elias Balcon, Anthony Arnatt Bushell, Albrecht Dürer, Eleonore Maria Josefa of Austria, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché, LUCIEN BONAPARTE (PRINCE OF CANINO), 1775-1840, MINISTER, Dabney Herndon Maury, Reverdy Johnson, JOHN F. LOUDON, Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev, Brigadier-General Mosby Monroe Parsons, George Lafayette Beal, William Peter Sprague, Elizabeth Storrs Mead, Newton Martin Curtis, Louis Renault, Joseph Parry, Charles Albert Gobat, Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois, Henri Julien Félix Rousseau, Giuseppe Mercalli, Princess Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte of Belgium (21 May 1864 – 23 August 1945) was a Belgian princess who became Crown Princess of Austria through marriage to Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Stéphanie of Belgium, Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren, Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, Princess Sophie Helene Cecilie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, Maybelle Evelyn Taliaferro, May Frances Aufderheide Kaufman, John Peale Bishop, Baroness Suzanne Lilar, Raymond William Stacy Burr, Marcel Lajos Breuer, Manly Wade Wellman, Harold Robbins, Andrei Sakharov, Doris Mae Akers, Justine Kay Kendall McCarthy, Alice Elizabeth Drummond, Malcolm Fraser, Hernando de Soto, Archibald Primrose, Jane Addams, Sammy Davis Sr., Rajiv Gandhi, William Russell Hardie, John Emery, James Stewart, John Gielgud, Otto Waldis, Ion Dumitrescu, Peter Copley, George Leslie Goebel, Edith Marilyn Fellows, Elizabeth May "Betty" Driver, Alfred Moore, and so many more names I probably can't add but I got names on my paper list of Angels
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burr-did-nothing-wrong · 2 years ago
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John Laurens
John Marshall
John Jay
John Adams
John Q. Adams
John C. Hamilton
John Faucette
John Hancock
John Vanderlyn
John Van Ness
John Glover
John Fries
John Fenno
John Church
John Paul Jones
John MacPherson
John Witherspoon
John Bradstreet
John Campbell
John Dickinson
John Parker
John Trumbull
John Gano
John P. Burr
John B. Schuyler (1)
John B. Schuyler (2)
John B. Schuyler (3)
John Lansing Sr.
John Lansing Jr.
John Dagworthy
John Washington
John Burgoyne
John Forbes
John Wollaston
John Custis
John Sullivan
John Wickham
John Cadwalader
John Prevost
John Andre
John Jameson
John James
James Cheetham
James Madison
James Callender
James Monroe
James Wilkinson
James Reynolds
James A. Hamilton Sr.
James Hamilton Jr.
James A. Hamilton...Jr. Jr?
James Livingston
James Lafayette
James Varnum
James Watson
James Wilson
James Mackay
James Innes
James Hillhouse
James Ewing
James McHenry
James Craik
James Abercromby
James Abercrombie
James Bayard
James Duane
James Jackson
Going back in time to murder every John and James I see
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choicesgoddess · 4 years ago
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Hamilships As Folklore Songs
Betty: Marliza
Illicit Affairs: Burrdosia
Cardigan: Hamliza
Seven: Philodosia
Epiphany: Mullette
Invisible String: Lams
The Last Great American Dynasty: Wash and Martha
August: Jeffmads
Mad Woman: Everyone Against Alex
This Is Me Trying: Jamilton
The 1: Lafham
Peace: Thomgelica
My Tears Ricochet: Hamilburr
Hoax: Hamgelica
Mirrorball: Pegayette
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jazzymarie1006 · 10 months ago
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The other Lafayettes' reactions to Lunella being Moon Girl are all so great. They really show off their respective dynamics with her.
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mellmong · 7 years ago
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some doodles..
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Everybody is together and enjoying their fresh beginnings
(I know I’m late posting this, but still. Happy Late Holidays!)
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esmiblood90irisglimmer · 7 years ago
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Pictures of Me (Hamilton Fanfic) Chapter 8
Chapter 8: Taken
I never went to school for the rest of the week as Washington expect that I still had that terrible cold. Though that I let him believe since he doesn’t know that my biological father is taking away from New York City before heading back to Nevis at the Caribbeans. Being aware of my surrounding as I packed my clothes and other items as my father watch me. Any funny business can lead me getting harm by his hands. I was even forced to write a letter to my adoptive telling them that I’m running away from New York and heading back my hometown. I know they’ll be heartbroken but luckily I’m leaving a few clues behind which is a USB drive the contain all the evidence they need to report to the authority. I’m not sure how long it would take them to find me but hopefully soon.
“Let go, son, Nevis await for us” my father spoke before taking our luggage to the Black SUV parked behind the apartment complex. Old Peggy began whimpering while laying down on the bed while staring at him with her large puppy eyes. I wasn’t allowed to bring my pup since I know that my father wouldn’t want to take the risk of us being found by the locals or the authority.
“Coming sir” I replied with fear that almost release itself from my voice. I didn’t want to show any fear of this monster since that what he feeds off. It’s better to follow his lead for now until Washington finds me within the range of New York or somewhere else.
Suddenly out of the blue my father grabbed me by the arm in a very tight manner. His crusty nails were sinking deep into my skin. I almost whimper in pain as I felt a gun being press against my back. My blood immediately went cold for a moment when the gun press down on my body. I was shaking with noticing while my James uses his other hand in order to keep me silent. I intended to fight against his grasp while kicking my legs in the air. Soon he slams my head against the hard brick wall just enough to leave a small cut on my forehead.
“If you ever pull that fucking stunt again, then its bye bye to John Laurens!!” James hissed into my ear in such an aggressive manner as he pulled my hair harshly. Tears stream down my face as my thoughts were about my beloved Laurens for a moment just seeing his loving smile before replace with his body cover in his own pool of blood. I began sobbing harshly as my body was shaking violently as my father shove into the black SVU before covering my eyes with a blindfold and tied my hands up with an old rope.
“I’m sorry it had to be this way but I had no other choice but bring our family back together. Don’t worry son, one day you’ll understand” James spoke before covering me for what felt like blankets at the moment. The blood from the cut of my forehead still trickling down my face as if I was crying in fear and help. I attempt to break my hands-free from the rope but it was no use my father tighten the rope where it could dig my skin deeply. I was trapped in my father black SVU all tied while feeling helpless and fear to creep up through the course of my body.
I soon began to apologize in a soft whisper as if my voice could be carried off by the wind itself. I apologize for being weak, I apologize for not being able called Washington dad since he was a better father figure than my own father. I apologize to Lafayette and Mulligan for causing them to worry so much and I want to apologize to John the most for not being able to confess my love to him.
Tears were flowing down my faces while I cried in silent knowingly that I may not never to see my family and friends again. I was being taken away from them without being known to them. I wish that I reported this to the police or Washington but I didn’t since I was too ashamed of being afraid and being weak.  Soon I felt my phone began vibrating knowingly that it was Washington on the other line calling me drastically nonstop. I was unable to answer it due to my hands being tied up by the old rope soon James yank my phone out of my jeans before smashing it. I wasn’t sure if it was smashed by a hammer or just smash it down to the ground.  
“Now, now child no more tears....you’ll soon understand” James spoke
“Understand what...you being a fucking monster” I growled but only to met with a slap across my face and a few punches somewhere on my body. Feeling blood escaping from my mouth as I cough up a few drop of blood on the car floor.
“Don’t you dare fucking talk to me like that again!!”  James grabbed my face in a tight grip where his nails were sinking into my cheeks. Tears continue flowing down my face again as I was sobbing in fear and pain.
“...I’...I’...I’m sorry...please...stop”
“Good, Now stay still and be quiet”
I nodded until my father slams the doors before noticing I was shaking violently nonstop and was breathing heavily in silent. Knowing that I was having a panic attack or perhaps maybe an anxiety attack. My chest keeps getting tighter and tighter before suddenly the only I sound was my father turning the car on before heading down the road of New York City.
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fanciful-follies · 7 years ago
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Read the new chapter to see if Aaron lives or dies
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lacrimosathedark · 4 years ago
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Hamilton Inaccuracies/Corrections (because why not?)
Okay so, I saw a post on reddit that was like, “what’s some inaccuracies in Hamilton off the top of your head?” and I got a whole bunch...and then I had to double check to make sure if I was right...and I’m pretty long-winded...and  now I have this 5,000ish word monstrosity. And apparently you can only post 1000 characters at a time on reddit. Laaaaame. So here’s some Hamilton facts I’ve gathered in my brain. Since it was kinda off the top of my head despite being so long, it’s kinda vague in some places, so if anyone wants to expand on anything (or correct me if I oopsed somewhere) please do! Though nicely please.
Also I am also awful at citing things, but I know I learned some of this from @john-laurens and @ciceroprofacto so thank you.
LET’S BEGIN!
Act 1
Rachel Faucette was not a prostitute, but she was a “whore” in the sense that she did what she fucking wanted with her body. During her first marriage she may or may not have been sleeping around, but she refused to stay with John Lavien, her husband, anymore. So he had her arrested. And he could do that. Because patriarchy and theocracy. And she was essentially put in solitary confinement. You can see why she tried to leave, right? She tried to get their marriage annulled or get a divorce. I forget what the issue was but she couldn’t and eventually she just moved to another island where she met James Hamilton.
The intro song makes it seem like Alexander was an only child. He actually had an older brother, James Jr., but he kinda fucked off after their mother died, working and taking care of himself. They also had an older half-brother Peter Lavien, but I don’t think they really knew him other than as the son of their mother’s abusive ex who took everything from them when she died. John Lavien was able to do that because when Rachel was with James Hamilton, she had not been able to get legally divorced from him so she wasn’t really married to James Hamilton, so James Jr. and Alexander were illegitimate ie bastards. He was an asshole. I don't think Peter had anything against the Hamiltons, but I think he grew up to be a Loyalist so. He actually made some trouble in South Carolina for Henry Laurens, John's dad! But I think I read somewhere he also left money for Alex and James Jr. In his will, which is sweet.
This is more visual since it’s not specified in the song, but in the show, Hamilton’s cousin mimes hanging himself. Peter Lytton’s cause of death if I recall was inconclusive, but he was in his bed and there was a lot of blood. So, yeah, he didn’t hang himself.
Alexander did not punch the bursar. However he did return to Princeton later during the war and blew a canon through the school and apparently decapitated a painting of King George lololol. He was under orders, but yknow. Probably felt pretty good after he was rejected for accelerated courses. He wasn’t the only bastard rejected, though! Ben Franklin’s bastard son was too. The guy in charge of admissions, Witherspoon, hated bastards as a concept and Princeton was a very religious school at the time I believe.
It may have been the plan by Aaron and Esther Burr for Aaron Jr to graduate Princeton, but like, he couldn’t really be sure of that? He was like 2 years old when they died, and his older sister Sally was 4 I believe, maybe 5.
Hercules Mulligan met Alex in 1772. His older brother Hugh knew Alex’s old employer in St. Croix and helped him get to mainland America. Alex and Hercules lived together for a long while, and Hercules is actually who got him interested in the revolution.
John Laurens was in England in 1776. He wouldn’t meet Hamilton and Lafayette until he accepted his post as Washington’s aide-de-camp upon his return in August of 1777.
Lafayette couldn’t have met Hamilton before August 1777 because that’s when he met Washington, and he was appointed as a volunteer to the Continental Army only a week prior, and before that he had been in France. But Lafayette later declared their relationship to be like that of brothers, Alexander his closest connection in the states besides Washington.
Lafayette admired and absolutely adored Laurens and they were besties, but neither of them knew Mulligan. They may have met in passing, or heard about him from Hamilton, but nothing more.
“Lafayette” was actually a nickname based on his title of “Marquis de la Fayette”. In his autobiography, he wrote: “It’s not my fault I was baptized like a Spaniard, with the name of every conceivable saint who might offer me more protection in battle.” I’m glad he thought it was funny at least. His name is Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de la Fayette.
Hercules Mulligan is not known to fuck horses.
The Revolution had already sorta started. Actually, Hercules and Alexander had been part of local militias before 1776.
This is more of a miscommunication since the actors are close in age, though the lyrics try to get it across. There’s a reason Mulligan says he’s got the others “in loco parentis”. In 1776 Hamilton and Lafayette would have been 19, Laurens would have been 22, and Mulligan would have been 36.
I think we all know “Laurens, I like you a lot” does not cover the scope of their relationship but that’s rather self explanatory so unless someone asks I’ll leave it at that. And for other clarifications. But at the very least I’ll share this: Anyone who saw them knew they were like attached at the hip (without knowing how attached *winkwonk*) and you could almost always contact one through the other. Laurens was notoriously bad at answering letters, to Hamilton too (and Alex did bitch about it because he is insecure and needs love), but it became quickly known he got back to Hamilton fastest so people would be like “Tell Laurens I said hi!” or “Hey, I need to get these to Laurens, you send them to him.” Which is hilarious. I just imagine Alexander going, “Why me?”
While all of them are Revolutionaries, Laurens is the only one you could solidly call an abolitionist, and Mulligan’s even shaky on the manumission part. He was supposedly part of the Manumission Society Hamilton helped start, but Mulligan also personally owned slaves and was never known to have freed them (One helped him with spy shit. His name was Cato!). In fairness, Hamilton and Lafayette wholeheartedly agreed with Laurens, and Hamilton was the biggest supporter of his battalion plan, and both of them did try to continue working towards equality after the war, but it was never the top priority for either of them and their lives kinda went to hell, so it fell to the wayside. Lafayette actually did some nifty stuff worth looking at, and Hamilton might have tried to keep one of John Lauren’s freed men from Henry Laurens! But as slavery stuck around for a while, it clearly wasn’t anything significant.
Angelica would meet and befriend Thomas Jefferson in Europe, but she would never manage to convince him to put women in a sequel because he’s a huge misogynist and told her in multiple letters that politics isn’t for women and I think he deserves a shoe up his southern backside. Side note, it always bothered me that Lin played up the misogyny in the musical. I mean, yeah, all of them would be misogynists compared to us, but for their time, Hamilton wasn’t so bad. If there was anyone to play up misogyny with, it was Jefferson, because he would tell Angelica for years and years that politics could never make women happy, and that the women in France were foolish for trying etc.. Hamilton would actually discuss politics with Angelica frequently and openly. And there’s a proto-feminist in the cast that was never recognized—Aaron Burr! He respected Theodosia Sr. as an equal and she was his most valuable political ally, and he made sure Theodosia Jr. got the same education any boy of her time would have. He actually respected women to a decent degree. Not to say he wasn't as much of a ho as Hamilton cuz yeah that's accurate (but they were both disaster bisexuals more on Burr's sexuality later)
Farmer Refuted was an essay Hamilton wrote arguing against Samuel Seabury's posts. They weren't shouting in the public square(but Lin got the sass right. I love his face when Hamilton and Seabury are fighting over the podium). Seabury was also really really old, not young and cute like Thayne, hence the line about "mange". Blech.
General Montgomery didn’t take a bullet in the neck, it was a grapeshot from a canon in his head (and his thighs), but close enough I guess. Side note: Burr actually served a short interim on Washington’s staff, but only for like 10 days because they hated each other lolol.
Alexander didn’t bring Laurens, Mulligan, or Lafayette to Washington. Lafayette joined up with the Continental Army in 1777 and quickly convinced them he wasn’t like the other French nobles; he was a glory-seeking kid with a boner for America (for some reason???). Laurens was requested by Washington to join his military family and he arrived also in August 1777 just after Lafayette. Like previously stated, Mulligan was doing shit even before Hamilton did.
Alexander would not have been in charge of spy shit (though may have been somewhat involved). Washington had people like Mulligan for that, who actually saved Washington a few times. But also, the "King’s men who might let some things slide" was the tactic Mulligan used. He was actually very charming, and his wife was very high in British society and he was a skilled tailor, so they were thought of well among the redcoats, and he got a lot of information through chatting with his customers. He also could usually smooth-talk his way out of trouble. Actually, Mulligan blended in so well, when the war was over, people in the city wanted him out cuz they thought he was a Loyalist. So George fucking Washington paid him a visit and commissioned I think a coat from him, and that cleared that up. He got a LOT of business after that.
Alexander would not be Washington’s right hand man, or at least, not his only one if Lin was using that to mean aide-de-camp. In that case, Laurens would also be Washington’s right hand man, along with many men not named in the musical.
John Laurens may have been reliable with the ladies (comes with the territory of being hot, rich, and a perfect gentleman), but he most certainly didn’t want to be. His father noted, rather proudly at the time, that as a young teenager he expressed no interest in girls. John was also married by 1780, and at least Alexander knew. (he told John he'd found out in the well-known April 1779 letter. You know... “Cold in my professions...find me a wife...the length of my nose...” That one.) Because John apparently didn't tell people he was married. Laurens. Sweetheart. Get. Your. Shit. Together.
John also would not be at this ball. February 1779 to March 1780 he is fighting down south, and this ball was early 1780.
The tomcat thing may be half true. Martha Washington did supposedly name a cat Hamilton, but it was an affectionate thing. The slang tomcat meaning ho wasn’t a thing at that time, so it couldn’t be named to tease Alex for his promiscuity. I believe this was one of the many things John Adams made up to slander Hamilton.
Hamilton and Eliza had met before 1780. They had met once two years prior at a dinner her father had hosted. Also, Hamilton had been courting her friend Kitty Livingston, and his friend and fellow aide Tench Tilghman had been attempting to court Eliza, and they’d actually done at least one sort-of double date (which is adorable). So this shouldn’t have been the first time they’d seen each other. Could still be when they fell in love, though, since they started courting after this. Which is cute to think about.
Speaking of Tench and Eliza! I don't remember when this took place but Tilghman journaled it, he went out on something of a hike with a few ladies and they got to a cliff. Of course, he had to help the girls climb up. Except Eliza who started climbing by herself like a natural to the bewilderment and likely horror of the other ladies. Elizabeth Schuyler was a bamf okay?
Of course everyone knows by now, Angelica was married before Eliza. During the Winter’s Ball, she’d already eloped with Jack Carter aka John Barker Church and run away to Boston.
Their courtship was not that fast. Not like, weeks. More like months. Fun fact, Eliza is the only of the five (yes FIVE) Schuyler sisters who didn’t elope and actually got her parents permission! But here’s a heartbreaking fun fact: while Alex was courting Eliza, Laurens was taken prisoner and then on probation. He wasn’t allowed to leave the state of Pennsylvania. He was mentally in a very dark place. Alex kind of procrastinated telling Laurens about Eliza, didn’t say he was courting anyone until they were already engaged.
I can't leave this alone if I'm sad you have to be too. Alex was hella depressed during this time too. Of course he was a soldier so he couldn't see Eliza as much as he'd have liked. On top of that, he kept pushing for an exchange for John and kept getting rejected because they couldn't show preference for him. And then Laurens was sending him very few letters, of course, and the ones he did send were very depressed, even suicidal sounding. He had to work while dealing with that. He had to keep begging Eliza to write to him to be reassured that she still liked him.
No one could show up for Hamilton for the wedding. Some sources say fellow aide James McHenry showed up, but he’s the only one. Alexander even invited his deadbeat dad, offered to pay all his travel expenses and everything, guess how that turned out. So Eliza’s side of the hall was packed and his was empty. God, can you imagine how sad that is?
Another heartbreaking fun fact! John Laurens was out of probation and could have made it to the wedding, was invited (Hamilton, I kid you not, jokingly invited him to a threesome with his new wife in a letter: “I wish you were at liberty to transgress the bounds of Pensylvania. I would invite you after the fall to Albany to be witness to the final consummation.” (emphasis is original to Hamilton. As is the misspelling of Pennsylvania. Yes, seriously.)) and John did not go. Instead he went back to work trying to talk his way out of getting sent as an envoy to France and suggesting Alexander to take his place. You know. His boyfriend who just got married. Sure, he was right that Hamilton was better equipped for the job, but yknow. Another fun fact, one of the guys who voted for John to be the one to go to France was John’s ex-boyfriend Francis Kinloch. Who was a turncoat, and had been a royalist when he and Laurens split. How’s that for some twisty bullshit.
Sorry, this one isn’t about the musical, it’s a tangent, I just got excited about that quote. Both that style of innuendo and the misspelling of Pennsylvania are consistent in Hamilton’s writing. Listening to john-lauren’s podcast about the April 1779 letter can really help you understand how Hammy uses innuendo but also I just love listening to it it’s insightful and hilarious and I love John Laurens but y u do this and my heart hurts for Hamilton but he is also a ho but aNYWAY. As for Pensylvania...well, he kinda made that mistake on an important document. ...It’s The Constitution. He misspelled Pennsylvania on The Constitution. No big deal. Not like something that could haunt his legacy forever. Oh my god I’m so sorry.
Philip Schuyler did have sons. Five in fact. Two of them died pretty young though I think, considering there are three kids in a row named John Bradstreet Schuyler. The other two were named Philip Jeremiah and Rensselaer.
Laurens, Lafayette, and Mulligan were all married before Hamilton. Hercules Mulligan married Elizabeth Sanders in 1773. Lafayette married his beloved Adrienne in 1774. John Laurens was regretfully obliged to marry Martha Manning in 1776.
Sigh. Again with the misogyny. Anyway, I wanted to comment on the marriage as a loss of freedom. From what I can tell, Elizabeth helped Hercules with his spy work at home. John was literally fighting a war across the ocean from his wife, and probably having an illegal affair with Alexander (though to be fair to him, he was kind of running away from Martha because he didn't marry her for love, gosh, there are no winners here). Lafayette absolutely adored his wife but still was also fighting a war an ocean away, and had multiple affairs, at least one with his wife’s blessing. So yeah, losing your freedom with marriage? Bullshit.
Despite where it is in the musical and Eliza singing the beginning, Stay Alive is roughly about Valley Forge, which would be December of 1777 through June of 78. So before the ball and wedding. (Fun fact! A lot of people theorize Valley Forge as when Hamilton and Laurens’ relationship may have escalated into romantic and/or sexual territory. They may have had more privacy, as small temporary buildings were being made to better withstand the cold, and Hamilton was sick a lot during that time and did need tending a lot. West Indian boi did not like Northern winter.) But yeah, Congress being stupid and the army resorting to eating their horses sometimes and not being able to buy food and equipment? All true. It was a real bad winter.
Mulligan wouldn’t have to go back to New York, he never would have left. He remained there as a tailor and a spy throughout the war. He wouldn’t have been traveling with Washington.
Hamilton and Laurens didn't write essays so much as start working out John's battalion plan and writing letters trying to push for it.
This duel happened in 1778, so like. This timeline is so fucky.
Stay Alive makes it seem like Hamilton was the one who wanted to duel Lee, but it was 100% Laurens from the start. The off-Broadway version demonstrates it a bit better. Hamilton was Lauren's second to save his ass. Hamilton had a rough relationship with Washington, but Laurens admired him greatly and would have willingly defended his commander’s honor. John was a Good Boy who always bowed his head to his asshole father, even at first for his battalion plan, but John wouldn’t let even his father talk shit about Washington. Fun fact about this duel, Alex and John were late to the duel because they “got lost in the woods”. Oooookay. Suuuuuuure. And Baron von Steuben was straight. (Fact: Steuben was very gay and pretty much pushed out of Europe for it. And he actually also had challenged Lee! They talked things out before this.)
Aaron Burr was not Charles Lee’s second. His second was a Major Evan Edwards. Lin wanted a parallel with the final duel. To be fair, that was a really cool way to do it and I like it better that way.
Alexander Hamilton could NOT agree that duels are dumb and immature. He was in 10 duel challenges as a participant in his lifetime, 9 of which he was the challenger. One time he challenged two people at once. One time he challenged an entire politcal party apparently. No, I am not kidding. He had a bad day. And I think you know the one time he wasn’t the challenger.
Lee did not yield on the first shot, nor was Laurens satisfied. Lee was pretty much like, “It’s just a flesh wound!” and wanted to go another round and Laurens agreed, but Hamilton and Edwards managed to talk them down. Yes he was shot in the side. But that wasn’t all because Laurens absolutely roasted Lee at his court martial. 
Lee: Were you ever in an action before?
Laurens: I have been in several actions; I did not call that an action, as there was no action previous to the retreat. 
I love this man. So much. The sass of this man.
We don’t know if Washington was angry about the duel with Lee. We do know that Laurens, and probably Hamilton, had Christmas dinner with him two days later. When Hamilton left, it was because Washington had snapped over a misunderstanding (caused by Lafayette actually, and he really tried to make it better because Lafayette is a sweetheart), and then continued to deny Hamilton the command he requested, and he resigned. It was entirely unrelated to the duel and Laurens. However, the daddy issues are real.
I don’t know if Lafayette went to France for more funds and came back with more guns, but Laurens certainly did! Ben Franklin told him to chill, but he actually got super impatient and ended up supposedly disrespecting and maybe kinda threatening the court, demanding what he needed, and walking out. They were were kind of shocked and impressed into giving more than had been requested. Any existing deities bless John Laurens. I love him.
Lafayette actually nominated his own aide to lead the charge and Hamilton appealed for himself and Washington finally gave in to Hamilton.
Laurens was not in South Carolina. When he finally got back from France, he was sent to Yorktown. He actually was commanding the group Alexander led. (Power couple lol) He also helped with negotiations after the battle. Also, supposedly making the British play ‘The World Turned Upside Down’ on their way out was Laurens’ idea because boy is made of sass and spite.
Henry Laurens would not have sent a letter to Hamilton about John’s death. Even if he would have, he couldn’t. At that time, he’d been locked up in the Tower of London as a prisoner. We have no idea when or how Alexander found out, or who might have told him. We know he wrote to Nathanael Greene on October 25 and Lafayette on November 3 (literally 2 months after Laurens' death), and the mentions of Laurens were very short. It’s thought that he really couldn’t talk about Laurens. People have compared it to the stories of how Benjamin Tallmadge apparently couldn’t hear Nathan Hale’s name without crying.
After Yorktown Alexander resigned and John went down south to flush British troops out of the southern states. His group was ambushed at Combahee River and he decided to charge instead of wait for backup and he died. Many people think it was a combination of his usual recklessness, suicidality, and glory-seeking mixed with a desperation with the war coming to an end. It was such a small skirmish. He deserved better. He left his daughter, Frances, whom he had never met, orphaned, as her mother had died months earlier from sickness. She was adopted by John’s oldest younger sister, also coincidentally Martha Laurens (though married was Martha Laurens Ramsay).
The Levi Weeks case was years later than that, in 1800, though it was alongside Burr. Hamilton actually lost his first trial as a defense lawyer and was not with Burr.
The whole conversation where Hamilton proposes Burr help him write the Federalist Papers is fake. Lin made that up entirely.
John Church’s wealth kinda...varies. He was a gambler. At first, he was actually in quite a bit of debt. He did make it big eventually and he and Angelica moved to Europe. He really didn’t seem to be a lot of fun to most people, but Angelica eloped with him. She chose him against her father’s wishes. I don’t get why Lin kept writing lines saying she didn’t love him, at least at first. He also does this in the cut song Congratulations where she says “I languished in a loveless marriage” bish you eloped wat She also lived as a socialite and was adored by anyone who met her apparently, so like???? da fuq Lin. Didja really do Laurens dirty for these lies or at the very least uncertanties? Could you not prop up that romance without making her say she hates her husband?
Act 2
More of a personality miscommunication. Irl Thomas Jefferson was shy, quiet, and hypersensitive, nothing like how Daveed plays him. If you knew a guy like the real Jefferson in real life you might be endeared to him out of pity or because he seems sweet, but in the short time of a musical that would immediately be read as cold and unlikable. So the best way to portray “this guy is a likable asshole” is to make him loud and made of sass which is what Daveed does magnificently. So, not at all accurate to real Jefferson, but gets the concept of him across.
Thomas was not off getting high with the French. Probably. He was making negotiations for the Revolution. And abusing Sally Hemings (his, at the time, 14 year old slave, who was also his sister-in-law, and 30 years his junior, and was brought along to entertain his daughter). And actually probably chatting up with Angelica!
By the time Philip was 9, he had two sisters, Angelica (7) and his foster/adopted sister Frances Antill (6), but he also had two brothers already, Alexander Jr. (5) and James Alexander (3), with maybe another one on the way since William Stephen would be born next year.
The whole comma thing is backwards. It was Angelica who made the initial mistake. Hamilton pointedly and flirtatiously teased her about it before closing it with “Adieu ma chere, soeur” French for “Goodbye my dear, sister”. So it’s more playful and less lovey dovey in context, so the tone is all wrong. It’s not romantic, it’s teasing and snarky.
Say No To This feels like it’s over quick. The affair lasted a year, not just the summer Eliza was away.
Clermont Street wasn’t renamed until many years later.
I don’t know that Alex has always considered Burr a friend. Irl they weren’t as close, and Hamilton was keenly aware of how slimy Burr could be.
Lafayette was NOT fine. He was imprisoned a lot during the French Revolution, the poor man, and many members of his wife’s family were killed. HOWEVER! Hamilton was not just sitting by. Angelica and her husband did make an attempt to rescue Lafayette, and the Hamiltons fostered Lafayette’s son Georges Washington Lafayette (yes that was his actual name). So Hamilton also did not forget Lafayette.
Not all his defendants got acquitted, obviously. Stop being cocky, Ham.
People comment on how Jefferson whines about Hamilton’s fashion sense while literally dressed in violet velvet. The original plan was to have him in browns, but Daveed is just such a friggin star that they just had to give him something brighter and decided to go with a Prince-inspired look. Originally the browns were going to be representative of his supposed representation of farmers. Though note here: Jefferson’s agricultural representation is much the same as modern Republicans’ rural representation. More for show.
Actually, let's get political for a sec. I've done some research in my hyperfixation and in searches for Hamilton shiz I've ended up stumbling into far-right nonsense and I know how to recognize the degrees of nonsense from years of actually paying attention to it now because this is what I do apparently. Which is weird, right? Lin kinda portrays him like a lefty. Well, here's the thing. Any proud historically educated Republican will tell you that their roots are in the Federalist Party. Which is technically true. What they will neglect to mention is the flip between parties that happened when the Republicans decided to use southerners racism to their advantage in elections. Being subtly racist can get the racists and the non-racists on your side! Yeah, it's gross. Federalists are more like Democrats. The corporatists. They clearly care more about companies and Wall Street, but they put actual action into social progress on rare occasion. Democratic-Republicans are like Republicans, conservatives who don't want social change and rail against it and pretend they aren't for corporate interests while being just as bad as the other guys. But Republicans have a tendency to rewrite history to paint themselves as the good guys, or reclaim things that aren't theirs as their own. Just look at the Civil War! Or...literally just...America I guess. Yikes. But yeah, here's your warning. Don't just go looking at and trusting things labelled Federalist. It likely won't be friendly.
John Adams didn’t fire Hamilton, Hamilton left. Eventually. And this is not the only time this kind of verbal confrontation happens, and not the one that destroys the Federalist Party. That actually happens after the Reynolds Pamphlet. But John Adams hates Alexander Hamilton with the burning passion of a thousand suns and really kinda earns this.
I’m not sure if he specifically called Alex a Creole bastard but I wouldn’t be surprised, there were other similar racist and bastard-related insults. You know the tomcat thing mentioned above. He started the rumor of the affair with Angelica. He accused him of being a rake (male version of whore at the time). He also may have behind closed doors accused him of being a sodomite. His (probably gay) son Charles helped with that one, bringing back rumors from a dinner he had with Hamilton (who he was working for) and John Church because Church joked about Alex being fond of a guy. Adams probably thought working for Hamilton was what made his son gay and alcoholic (Charles was an alcoholic and may have died in part because of that; Hamilton was not an alcoholic, but he supposedly could not hold his drink. He was smol).
Jefferson, Madison, and Burr didn’t accuse Hamilton of speculation. It was James Monroe, Abraham Venable, and Frederick Muhlenberg. Lin wanted to keep consistent representation of the Democratic-Republican party. But anyway, the whole thing went to hell because Monroe sent the letters to Jefferson (or I’ve also heard Monroe gave them to Madison who sent them to Jefferson) who, the spiteful gangly fucker, started spreading rumors because fuck Hamilton, amirite? Hamilton challenged Monroe to a duel over that. And who stopped this duel? Aaron Burr. He gets to be the good guy now and then.
It wasn’t just total strangers that got Alex off the island. He was sponsored by his cousin Ann Lytton and his teacher Reverend Hugh Knox. Also, he was kind of expected to get an education and come back and help out the island...guess what he never did. Oops.
This one I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure. I think Eliza was upstate with her family when the Reynolds Pamphlet was released, away from Alex. I also know she had recently given birth to their son, William Stephen. A lot of people think Alexander had been keeping that in mind. Eliza had had a miscarriage once before, when she was under a lot of stress and alone and with the kids and he had to be away (Whiskey Rebellion), so some people think he made sure she was surrounded by her family and waited until the child was born to drop this on her, and gave her distance from him if she needed it. At least he knew he fucked up, and he really did love her.
Those weren’t Alexander’s guns. They belonged to John Church.
It was quite some time between Philip’s challenge and the actual duel.
Another age miscommunication; Eacker was 27ish and Philip was 19 when the duel happened. There was a whole 8 years between them! 
Eacker didn’t shoot early. Actually, both of them stood staring at each other for a really long time doing nothing. But Philip went to make a move and Eacker shot him.
Alex and Eliza had made up from the Reynolds Pamphlet bullshit before Philip died. When he passed, Eliza was already pregnant with the son they would also name Philip in honor of his older brother.
Hamilton wasn’t really the deciding factor in the election of 1800. But he did say that about Burr and it did help swing the vote somewhat. But also, this was before Philip died. Philip died in 1801.
If a vote is that close, you can’t win in a landslide??? That’s not how words work???? Mister Miranda????? You are a writer??????? Sir???????
Burr actually held a term as Jefferson’s Vice President.
The Burr vs Hamilton Duel was in 1804 and was actually about another election and other things Hamilton was saying about him. Burr was running to be governor of New York and lost but heard about Alexander telling people the things he listed Alexander saying in Your Obedient Servant.
Thayne should not have played Alexander’s doctor. Sydney should have played Alexander’s doctor. Do you know why? Philip and Alexander had the same doctor when they died. Alexander took that doctor with him to the duel. His name was David Hosack.
While there’s evidence to suggest Burr experienced immediate regret (he stepped forward as if wanting to see if Hamilton was okay and supposedly asked after him and wished him well before Alexander passed) in the years that followed, until he was on his death bed, he expressed nothing but neutrality or even pride for having shot Hamilton. The ‘the world was wide enough’ comment could plausibly be entirely made up, and even if it were true, it was supposedly said toward the end of Burr’s life. Burr's life was quite a ride after Alex. He tried to make like his own empire out of Texas, and then of course was tried for treason, but he got out of that, but then everyone hated him for that ON TOP OF already hating him for killing Hamilton, so he had some crazy journey around Europe for a while. He kept a journal, writing entries like letters to Theo. The most notable things I think he writes he'd "been amused for an hour with a very handsome young Dane. Don't smile. It is a male!" which implies maybe Theodosia knew her dad was bi and was at least amused by it? And he spent a while living with Jeremy Bentham, who is generally accepted to have been gay (if you want more Burr gayness look into Jonathan Bellamy and Robert Troup. Troup knew Hamilton too!). Unrelated to his sexuality but I find it important, Burr spent, in modern cash, $40 on a coconut, in his own words, "like an ass." He returned to America eventually. I dont remember if it was before or after his foreign adventures, but his beloved grandson (also named Aaron Burr) died, and then not long after, Theodosia was lost at sea on her way to visit her dad. No one knows what happened to her. It's so sad. Anyway he married a wealthy widow named Eliza, spent all her money on charity, and died the day their divorce was finalized. And Eliza Jumel's divorce lawyer was Alexander Hamilton Jr..
Poor Eliza couldn’t go through all of her husband’s papers. Her son, John Church Hamilton, finished the work for her when she no longer could and put together the biography that inspired Chernow’s that inspired Lin’s musical. (He named a son Alexander and a daughter Elizabeth. He even named one of his sons Laurens! Aw.) And we have come full circle.
The End :33
There’s probably more but that’s what I’ve got. Thanks for reading!
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