Her brilliance and ambition are best captured in the letters she exchanges with Hamilton, where she presses him to adopt certain political positions and flirts with him via debates over comma placement. After Hamilton and Eliza get married, Angelica becomes a confidante for them both.

Angelica quickly falls in love with Hamilton, but she selflessly does not pursue him, instead setting him up with her sister Eliza (“Satisfied”) her rapid-fire singing in that piece reflects her incredibly quick thinking as a character. Though her father tries to separate her from the political hubbub of the day, Angelica knows that “history is happening in Manhattan”-and she is desperate to be a part of it (“The Schuyler Sisters”). Act 2: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your StoryĪngelica, the eldest and “wittiest” daughter of wealthy New Yorker Philip Schuyler, is considered by the creators of Hamilton to be the “smartest” character in the musical.Act 1: Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down).

Angelica quote to eliza