CONTINUED Molly Beer, Angelica Schuyler Church and the American Revolution Molly Beer discusses Angelica Schuyler Church (1755-1814), a prominent figure during the American Revolution. Born to the influential Schuyler family in Albany, Angelica was well-
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🗓️ 6 September 2025
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Molly Beer discusses Angelica Schuyler Church (1755-1814), a prominent figure during the American Revolution. Born to the influential Schuyler family in Albany, Angelica was well-educated, a trait uncommon for women of her time but typical for Dutch families. She eloped with John Carter (later John Barker Church), much to her family's dismay, a decision perhaps driven by love for the cosmopolitan Englishman. Angelica was deeply involved in the revolutionary cause, supporting the French army and maintaining a strong patriotic identity even while living in London after the war. She cultivated extensive connections with key figures like George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Lafayette.
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| 0:30.4 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Bats for spending time with the author and historian Molly Beer of Angelica, New York. Angelica Schuyler Carter and her children and her husband set sail for Europe following the |
| 0:43.8 | agreement that there will be a peace treaty between the United Kingdom, King George III and his |
| 0:49.9 | court, and the founders of the United States of America. |
| 0:59.3 | It so happens that our heroine, Angelica, arrives in Paris. |
| 1:04.4 | At the same time, the negotiators for the peace treated, |
| 1:09.6 | the peace of Paris 1783, are finishing their work under a strange sky, |
| 1:15.0 | lots of clouds and overcast. What is it, Molly, that they sail with that summer and what is it due to the economy of continental Europe and America? |
| 1:20.9 | Yes. So when they make their Atlantic crossing after the war has resolved, you expect bright skies, but instead they get these like blood red |
| 1:31.2 | sunsets and there's sunrises and sunsets and and this like they call it a dry haze. It, |
| 1:37.6 | you know, it turns out that it's an Icelandic volcano that is erupting, but it is going to cause |
| 1:42.3 | acid rain and weather changes over |
| 1:45.2 | Europe that will reduce harvests and stunt crops and result, you know, and contribute to the French |
| 1:52.3 | revolution when it gets started. |
| 1:53.5 | They've gone to Paris for business reasons because John Carter suddenly becomes John Church. What's happened? How did this happen, Molly? |
| 2:05.1 | So the reason they go to Paris, one of the reasons is because John Carter has been, and they go |
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