Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish
(1775-1854)
BIRTH
February 11, 1775
PLACE
New York City, New York
NAME
Elizabeth Stuyvesant
DEATH
September 6, 1854
PLACE
New York City, New York
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Nicholas Fish
(1758-1833)
CHILDREN
Susan Elizabeth Fish
(1805-1892)
CHILDREN
Margaret Ann Fish
(1807–1877)
CHILDREN
Hamilton Fish
(1808-1893)
CHILDREN
Elizabeth Sarah Fish
(1810–1881)
CHILDREN
Petrus Stuyvesant Fish
(1813-1834)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish (1775–1854) married officer Nicholas Fish in New York in 1803. A daughter of Petrus Stuyvesant and Margaret Livingston, she descended from New Netherland’s last Dutch director-general. Their children included Hamilton Fish, later governor, senator and secretary of state, named for Nicholas’s friend Alexander Hamilton. Elizabeth survived her husband’s death in 1833. Family records place her within New York’s Stuyvesant and Livingston dynasties.
EARLY LIFE
Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish was born on Feb 11, 1775 in New York City, New York. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish died on Sep 6, 1854 in New York City, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Their children included Hamilton Fish, later governor, senator and secretary of state, named for Nicholas’s friend Alexander Hamilton. Elizabeth survived her husband’s death in 1833. Family records place her within New York’s Stuyvesant and Livingston dynasties. A daughter of Petrus Stuyvesant and Margaret Livingston, she descended from New Netherland’s last Dutch director-general. Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish died on Sep 6, 1854 in New York City, New York. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery churchyard
131 East 10th Street, New York, NY, 10003, United States
GRAVE
MARKER
Stuyvesant-Fish House Marker
21 Stuyvesant St, New York, NY 10003
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish, Nicholas Fish’s wife and Hamilton Fish’s mother. The Hamilton Fish biographies concern her son. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Collective biography, family reference, primary writings and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration — Allan Nevins. [Related biography of her son] Find on Amazon
2. Hamilton Fish — A. Elwood Corning. [Related biography of her son] Find on Amazon
3. Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley — Cuyler Reynolds (editor). [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
4. The Livingstons of Livingston Manor — Edwin Brockholst Livingston. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
5. The Fish Family in England and America — Lester Warren Fish. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
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