The lyrics to "Say No To This" also fit with Maria Reynolds' feelings on the situation. More specifically, "How can I say no to this? There is nowhere I can go..." The fact that historically, James Reynolds forced Maria to do it with Alexander, makes it even worse. Also, the fact she wanted to write her own pamphlet around her own side of the story, and...note In history, she did eventually divorce James Reynolds and despite the effect the pamphlet had on her reputation and one more failed marriage, ended up, by all accounts, happily remarried to a French doctor until her death at a relatively old age for the time (just days shy of sixty). She even became a grandmother by her daughter with James Reynolds.
Peggy and Phillip died in the same year (1801). As one Tumblr user pointed out, Eliza was very likely wearing black when she arrived at Phillip's side in Stay Alive Reprise because she was at Peggy's funeral/mourning Peggy. The heartbreak Alexander referred to in Blow Us All Away was very likely Peggy's death.
By the end of the play, however, Eliza is basically alone. She is forced to raise very small children, one of whom is a young adult who had suffered a severe mental breakdown following Phillip’s death and essentially regressed to a small child. How she herself didn’t go mad with grief is a miracle.
In "Hurricane", Hamilton notes that while in the eye of the hurricane, it's quiet for just a moment. Then the chaos resumes. Well, in the song immediately afterward, what happens? He's in the center (the eye) while chaos flies all around him (i.e. a hurricane.) In other words, he was in a hurricane of his own making and that precise moment he wrote the pamphlet, he was in the eye.
In the second cabinet battle, Hamilton says "Lafayette's a smart man, he'll be fine". To make a long story short, by the end of the French Revolution, the real Marquis de Lafayette was anything but fine; after everything he suffered, the only thing that could really be said for him is that he and most of his children survived. Hamilton's faith in his friend directly led to Lafayette's suffering in the Revolution.note Lafayette would spend at least five years in prison while his family were either hiding or being killed.
For what it's worth, Lafayette doesn't seem to have held a grudge. In October 1804 he wrote to Jefferson: "The Deplorable fate of My friend Hamilton Has deeply Afflicted me—I am Sure that whatever Have Been the differences of parties, you Have Ever Been Sensible of His Merits, and Now feel for His Loss."
Doubling as fridge tearjerker. Eliza could have very well been jolted out of bed with the news that her husband was mortally wounded. At least their last interaction was sweet: her coaxing him back to bed and him kissing her hand and praising her as the "best of wives, best of women" — how the historical Alexander signed his farewell letter. In real life, Alexander was brought to the home of William Bayard Jr., received medical attention, and died the next day in the presence of Eliza, their children, and more than 20 friends and family members.
