Every day many people walk past this grave site marker in New York's Lower Manhattan area. Many, especially tourists, don't k ow that one of the Founding Fathers of the United States is buried there along with his wife.
The sad thing is even tough they did so much for America, no one would really care about some random dude from the 1700s and his wife if there wasn't a musical about them... But thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda their story got told and people can finally know about their lives
Some random dude? You know he was a founding father, first secretary of state, and creator of America's early economy? While Hamilton did Colbert bump them, especially Eliza, they would still be remembered for as long as America exists.
@@xtyna100 i wouldnt call them a*sholes but like seriously u'd rather watch charli, addison, avani dancing or know about the worlds gratest families (the schuylers and hamiltons)?
@@davinaslvr I’d rather know about the greatest families, to be honest I do not care about talentless people, I do not know who are all those people you mentioned
@@jillbugsweet Hamilton's former officers (fellow Aide-de-Camps) paid and planned his grave. Eliza had 97 years to plan her's and if I'm not mistaken she choose to have that grave.
@@alexanderwinn1778Yea he would have people plan his funeral if he were to ever pass away which he did in 1804, he was so busy he probably never had the time to plan it
So eliza owned an orphanage and asked the kids when they got older to wrote a book on Alexander but eliza died before she could get to see the book poor girl 🥺
If Alexander Hamilton's name had been forgotten, (He is on our $10 bill, after all!!!) Lin would NOT have bothered to take the time, make the effort Invest the money OR His reputation - to present a musical about him🎆 (Just sayin'...)
She defended his honor all her life. Also, his eldest son died in defense of his honor (a duel...with the same pistols that Alexander himself later chose to use: perhaps planning to die like his son did...) Alexander was not a flawless man; that, he never pretended to be - But he was a brilliant, courageous man a loving husband and a mist attentive, tender father+
Most people go to nyc and look at museums and tourist places while when I go to nyc I want to go to trinity church and see their grave sites and I also want to go to his house that they have gated up I think idk a lot about it but yea
I’d like to visit New York. Both for the musicals and this grave. I’d thank them, maybe tell them like other people have about the influence Lin’s musical on the Hamiltons has on so many people. I’d like to do that.
We surely feel more alive, more deeply moved, witnessing his tombstone However Heaven is our goal✨ - where both reunions & long awaited introductions, will happen🎆
Every other founding fathers story got told, every other founding father got to grow old. When you gone who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story? Lin told his story. After 200 years his story got told
I look at this and see an area untouched by time since the day they were laid to rest. What a shock it would be to wake up to a sight like this in modern day New York City.
My dearest,Alexander, Born In the carribean...his father slip when he was 10 and 3 years later,him and his mother get deadly ill with yellow fever,Hamilton survives but his mothers died. He moves in with his cousin who commits suicide and because a sales clerk. He starts getting interested in his mother’s old books and starts writing. Everyone thinks he is a good writer and sends him to America,were he goes to college and becomes one of the founding fathers and first secretary of treasury
To Phillipa soo’s gasp at the end on the musical I believe that it breaks this forth wall and his story, their story every time a performance is done is their story getting told each time,
It would not be hard to find. But I am sure the church would never agree. A ground penetration by Lidar could easily find the coffin. What a God awful rule that Church had in those days.
@@brooks6766 That is crazy. You would think that they would have attended the funeral and been present at the cemetery the coffin was taken to be buried.
Peggy is buried I think in Albany but I could be mistaken. She married a Van Resselaer who where at the time one of the richest families in New York. She was originally buried in a family spot on the grounds of a Van Resselaer home but grave robbers broke into the family crypt and stole things. I believe it may have been her grandson or had the coffins moved to a rural Albany cemetery where he had bought plots.
Let me tell you what I wish I'd known when I was young and dreamed of glory you have no control who lives who dies who tells your story-George Washington 1796
