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After each of these exchanges, Reynolds would write to Hamilton under the guise of being friends, and Hamilton would, in return, send $30. Maria, most likely manipulated into the scheme, also began to write to Hamilton whenever her husband was out of the house and seduced him anew. However, on January 17, 1792, Reynolds wrote to Hamilton inviting him to renew his visits to his wife. Hamilton complied, paying to Reynolds the requested $1,000 and discontinuing the affair, as he had wished to do for some time. ДЇrom December 15 to December 19, 1791, Reynolds sent threatening letters to Hamilton, and after a personal meeting instead of seeking redress from dueling, he asked for financial compensation. Do not send or leave any thing in his power. Oh, my God, I feel more for you than myself and wish I had never been born to give you so much unhappiness.

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I think you had better come here one moment that you may know the cause, then you will the better know how to act. Reynolds has wrote you this morning and I know not whether you have got the letter or not and he has swore that if you do not answer, or if he does not see or hear from you today, he will write to Mrs.

I have not the time to tell you the cause of my present troubles only that Mr. After Hamilton had shown unequivocal signs that he wanted to end the affair on December 15, 1791, Maria sent him a letter warning of Reynolds's anger over the supposed discovery of the affair: She then obtained an interview for James Reynolds, who applied to Hamilton for a position in the Treasury Office, which Hamilton refused. A short time into the affair, Maria informed Hamilton that her husband had sought a reconciliation with her, to which she agreed without ending the affair with Hamilton. Дuring summer and fall 1791, Maria and Hamilton continued the affair while Hamilton's wife, Eliza, and their children were in Albany, visiting her parents. Thus beginning the infamous Reynolds Affair. Once Hamilton arrived at the boarding house where Maria was lodging, she brought him upstairs and led him into her bedroom, where he recounts that 'Some conversation ensued from which it was quickly apparent that other than pecuniary consolation would be acceptableвЂќ. Hamilton organized a meeting for later that evening to give Maria the money. Due to Hamilton's political office, he could very easily help her move back to New York City. It was there in summer 1791 that 23-year-old Maria visited 34-year-old Hamilton at his Philadelphia residence and asked for help, claiming her abusive husband had abandoned her. The Hamilton affair ДЄt some point before 1791, James Reynolds moved with Maria and their daughter from New York to Philadelphia. Maria had one child with Reynolds, a daughter named Susan, born August 18, 1785, later baptized in October. After the war, he tried frequently to claim damages and obtain reimbursement from the government. Reynolds had served in the Revolutionary War in the commissary department, and was older than Maria by at least several years. On July 28, 1783, when she was 15, Maria Lewis married James Reynolds. Susanna Van Der Burgh Lewis, however, could write at least her name, and Maria Lewis grew up literate, though largely uneducated. The Lewises do not appear to have been well-off: Richard Lewis was a merchant and/or laborer, and could not sign his name.

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Lewis DuBois and Captain Henry DuBois, and five full siblings, at least two of whom (older sisters named Susannah and Sarah) lived to adulthood. She had six half-siblings, including Col. Maria Reynolds, born as 'Maria Lewis,' was born in New York City on March 30, 1768, the daughter of Susanna Van Der Burgh and her second husband, Richard Lewis.

4 The 'Reynolds Pamphlet' and aftermath.

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