New York: The Schuyler Family Connection with Sharon McMahon

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

History, Education

4.9 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this solo episode, Sharon dives into the history of one of New York’s most prominent families during the birth of the nation: the Schuylers. Certainly, Hamilton has made famous the Schuyler sisters, but did you know that Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy were just three of the fifteen children born to Philip and Catherine Schuyler? Follow along as Sharon unfurls the Schuyler family tree and shares stories of a foiled kidnapping and the family's surprising connection to the Statue of Liberty and one of our nation’s most recognized poems.

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0:00.0	Hello my friends. I am absolutely giddy to share this story with you today. It has so many
0:09.8	twists and turns. I have so many mind-blown brain-tiggle moments for you. You are going to have
0:16.8	to buckle up. Okay? Just click it or tick ticket right now.
0:23.0	Let's dive into the Skyler family.
0:27.5	I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So
0:31.3	Podcast. I mean, can you start anything without saying,
0:35.6	take Philip Skyler, the man was loaded?
0:38.0	Right? Like, no. Anytime the word Skyler come out of your mouth,
0:42.2	you have to say,
0:43.1	take Philip Skyler, the man was loaded,
0:45.3	it just falls out of the mouth, trips off the tongue.
0:50.1	So Philip Skyler, Eliza Hamilton's father,
0:54.0	Philip Skyler was born in the United States.
0:57.0	In fact, Philip Skyler was part of a small handful of families who were so elite.
1:06.7	They were like the landed patrician families that you see maybe like on Downton Abbey.
1:12.4	They certainly didn't have like
1:13.6	castles but they were that well known that wealthy like intermarried all the
1:20.0	time and had come largely from the Netherlands. the time Philip Skyler was born in the 1730s to the United States in the 1600s.
1:28.0	By the time Philip Skyler was born in the 1730s, He was already a third generation American. So Philip
1:36.8	Skyler, guess what? He dies. Okay? No, no spoilers. That's not shocking. He was
1:42.2	born in the 1730s he's already dead
1:44.0	I'm not ruining the story by telling you that one of the things though that was
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