Schuyler-Hamilton House
Where Alexander Hamilton courted Elizabeth Schuyler in the winter of 1780.
The house was built around 1760 as the home of army surgeon Dr. Jabez Campfield. During the 1779 to 1780 Continental Army winter encampment, Elizabeth “Betsy” Schuyler stayed here with her aunt while visiting her cousin in town. Alexander Hamilton, then aide-de-camp to George Washington at the Ford Mansion, called on her almost daily through that winter. They became engaged the following spring and married in December 1780.
The house has been owned by the Morristown Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution since 1923 and is open to the public as a small museum. The original 1760s footprint and many period furnishings have been preserved; the parlor where Hamilton called on Schuyler is the room visitors typically remember.
Modest schedule: open Sundays 2pm to 4pm, or by appointment. Tours are guided. The site is one block east of the Green; an easy walk if you’re already in town for the Ford Mansion or the Macculloch Hall Museum.