[1][4] 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.

[9] Holly's family, descended from one of Stamford's earliest settlers in 1642, was prominent in business and local government.

The family shared an East Village, Manhattan townhouse at 4 St. Mark's Place (now known as the Hamilton-Holly House), which Alexander Jr. had purchased for their mother using proceeds from the sale of The Grange.

I hope a few days she will be enabled to go to the Wisconsin.... My Idea as to the Accommodation in case of disease for my daughter was to have hired a portion of one of the Building as I had paid liberally so that it would not have been a disadvantage to the society.

[13] That year, she moved with her mother to 63 Prince Street in Lower Manhattan,[8] which had previously been the home of President James Monroe and Samuel L. Gouverneur.

On New Year's Day of 1853 alone, their visitors included General Winfield Scott, New York Senator William H. Seward, and President Millard Fillmore.

[1] After her mother's death, it is believed that Eliza influenced or expedited the creation of the biography of her father by her brother John Church Hamilton, as she chastised him for his overdue writing based upon their mother's imperative that "Justice shall be done to the memory of my Hamilton.