<P> In the year before the duel, Eliza's mother Catherine had died suddenly, and only a few months after Hamilton's death Eliza's father died as well . By this time two of her siblings, Peggy and John, had also died . </P> <P> After her husband's death in 1804, Eliza was left to pay Hamilton's debts . The Grange, their house on a 35 - acre estate in upper Manhattan, was sold at public auction; however, she was later able to repurchase it from Hamilton's executors, who had decided that Eliza could not be publicly dispossessed of her home, and purchased it themselves to sell back to her at half the price . In November 1833, at the age of 76, Eliza resold The Grange for $25,000, funding the purchase of a New York townhouse (now called the Hamilton - Holly House) where she lived for nine years with two of her grown children, Alexander Hamilton Jr. and Eliza Hamilton Holly, and their spouses . In 1848, she left New York for Washington, D.C., where she lived with her widowed daughter Eliza until 1854 . </P> <P> In 1798 Eliza had accepted her friend Isabella Graham's invitation to join the descriptively named Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children that had been established the previous year . In 1806, two years after her husband's death, she, along with several other women including Joanna Bethune, founded the Orphan Asylum Society . Eliza was appointed second directress, or vice-president . In 1821, she was named first directress, and served for twenty - seven years in this role, until she left New York in 1848 . By the time she left she had been with the organization continuously since its founding, a total of forty - two years . The New York Orphan Asylum Society continues to exist as a social service agency for children, today called Graham Windham . </P> <P> Eliza defended Alexander against his critics in a variety of ways following his death, including by supporting his claim of authorship of George Washington's Farewell Address and by requesting an apology from James Monroe over his accusations of financial improprieties . </P>

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