Philip and Catherine Schuyler had eight children who survived to adulthood, including three sons Peggy, the third of Schuyler’s daughters, was “very pretty,” according to the Scottish poet Anne Grant, and possessed “a kind of wicked wit.” The elder Catherine Schuyler’s biographer, Mary Gay Humphreys, described Peggy as having “animated and striking” features as a young woman, she was “lively” and “the favorite of dinner-tables and balls” and, in later in life, was “bright, high-spirited generous.”īut not all descriptions were so rosy. The Schuyler family was one of the wealthiest in New York, and each daughter was, according to Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow, “smart, beautiful, gregarious, and rich … they collectively charmed and delighted all the visitors to the Schuyler mansion in Albany.”

Peggy Schuyler had “a kind of wicked wit.”

She was born in Albany in September 1758.

Peggy was a nickname depending on the source, she was either Margaret or Margarita Schuyler. Peggy Schuyler’s name wasn’t actually Peggy. (The actress who plays her becomes Maria Reynolds in the second act.) But in real life, this Schuyler sister was much beloved by Hamilton-and much more than “and Peggy.” Here are a few things you should know about her. He also couldn’t fit in much about Peggy, the Schuyler sister who, in the show, is worried about being out too late downtown and disappears after the first act. There were a lot of details that Lin-Manuel Miranda couldn’t fit into the Broadway musical Hamilton-that time Hamilton claimed to have communicated with a dead Revolutionary War commander as a joke, for example, or his epic rivalry with New York Governor George Clinton, or a mic-dropping diss rap directed at John Adams.

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