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Revolutionary Life Of Angelica Schuyler
Molly Beer, author of Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution: Beer explores the remarkable life of Angelica Schuyler Church during the turbulent era of the American and French Revolutions. Born into the prominent Dutch Schuyler family in Albany, Angelica received an unusual education and secretly eloped with English businessman John Barker Church. Following the Revolutionary War, the couple relocated to London and Paris, where Angelica cultivated influential relationships with major founding figures, including Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and the Marquis de Lafayette. In her later years, Angelica returned to New York and ventured into the wilderness to help found the town of Angelica. (1)
Revolutionary Life Of Angelica Schuyler
Molly Beer, author of Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution: Beer explores the remarkable life of Angelica Schuyler Church during the turbulent era of the American and French Revolutions. Born into the prominent Dutch Schuyler family in Albany, Angelica received an unusual education and secretly eloped with English businessman John Barker Church. Following the Revolutionary War, the couple relocated to London and Paris, where Angelica cultivated influential relationships with major founding figures, including Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and the Marquis de Lafayette. In her later years, Angelica returned to New York and ventured into the wilderness to help found the town of Angelica. (1)