Eliza Hamilton Holly

Eliza Hamilton Holly (November 20, 1799 – October 17, 1859) was the seventh child and second daughter of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Early life Eliza was born in New York City, New York on November 20, 1799, to Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Unlike her mother (who was called Eliza as a nickname), her name was Eliza, not Elizabeth; the first name Eliza was given on her baptismal and marriage records. She was a sick infant, about whom Hamilton troubled himself as he began to find solace in his family in the late 1790s. While home with the children in his wife's absence, Hamilton wrote of his three-year-old daughter, "Eliza pouts and plays, and displays more and more her ample stock of Caprice." She was affectionately nicknamed "Little Betsey" by her father. She was the sister of Philip Hamilton, Angelica Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton Jr., James Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton, William S. Hamilton, and Philip Hamilton (the second).