[4] As the house was being constructed, Walter was serving on the Committee of Sixty to boycott British goods in the American colonies.

As Harriet herself was a painter and Fulton had spent many years studying painting under Benjamin West in Europe before he had become an inventor, the two were a fast pairing.

[9] The vessel set off from New York City, briefly stopped by Teviotdale, and continued up the Hudson before arriving in Albany.

Harriet likely accompanied Fulton on this excursion, as the two are said to have taken advantage of the excitement of the event to announce their recent engagement to their friends and family members.

She complained sarcastically that her husband, referred to as simply "Fulton," had accidentally given away money that was meant for her, in his "good nature and thoughtless way.

"[15] While walking home on the frozen Hudson River, one of Fulton's friends, Thomas Addis Emmet, is said to have fallen through the ice.

[8] He was buried in the Livingston family vault at Trinity Church Cemetery, near Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin.

[18] Harriet married Charles Augustus Dale on November 26, 1816, a year and a half after Robert Fulton's death.

[3] Following Robert's death, Harriet and the children moved to the house permanently until her second husband chose to mortgage the property for $10,000 in 1820.

[3] The building was fully restored, refurnished, and equipped with modern heating, electricity, and plumbing by interior designers Harrison Cultra and Richard Barker in the 1970s.

The stage production was a fictionalized account of the life of Harriet's first husband, Robert Fulton, and it ran for more than three hundred performances at Plymouth Theatre between September 8, 1920, and June 4, 1921.