Nearly five years ago, unable to find a good long Peggy and Lafayette love story in the world of Hamilton fanfiction, I set out to write one myself. As of today, that story has taken eight works and just under a million words to complete. The series is “The Revolution’s Happening” on AO3. Chronologically, it begins with I Like You a Lot, centered around Alex and John, but the first part I wrote was Provoke Outrage, which is Peggy and Gil’s love story. Along the way, I made connections with Turn and The Scarlet Pimpernel and brought in a lot of historical characters that don’t appear in LMM’s musical, like Francis Marion, Sybil Ludington, and Daniel Phoenix, as well as a handful of (mostly minor) original characters. The story grew to just under a million words, and now it’s done.
If you know it at all, you know that the pivotal event was based on the true story of Peggy rescuing her baby sister (or possibly niece, the accounts vary) when a mob invaded the Schuyler family’s home in Albany. There’s still a gouge in the stair railing that is said to be from an ax that one of the home invaders threw at Peggy as she ran up the stairs. In my story, she grabs her baby sister Katie and runs out of the house when the evil police of President King’s administration arrest her parents, and, much later, Peggy and Gil legally adopt Katie and raise her.
That was where I started, so it only seemed fitting to end the story, which covers more than twenty years, with the wedding of the now-grown Katie. A full account of the wedding is in Chapter 42 of the final work, More of Us. Here are some wedding pictures for you.
The wedding takes place in historic Old Christ Church in Philadelphia.
The Reverend Timothy Dwight, military chaplain and family friend, officiates at the ceremony.
Margarita, the Marquise de Lafayette, mother of the bride.
Dr. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, father of the bride.
Ms. Martha Manning Félice, mother of the groom.
Professor Daniel Félice, father of the groom.
Ms. Elizabeth Hale, grandmother of the groom.
Miss Katherine Louise Schuyler Motier, the bride.
Mr. Gabriel Nathan Félice, the groom.
Miss Mary Eleanor Laurens-Schuyler, the maid of honor
Mr. Jeff Eston, the best man.
Miss Schuyler Margaret Motier, the flower girl.
And they lived happily ever after.
