Sadly, at that same place three years earlier, Alexander Hamilton's son Philip Hamilton was killed in a duel with George Eacker, November 22, 1801.
Philip Hamilton was defending his father's honor after Eacker, a supporter of Jefferson, had denigrated him in a speech at Columbia University.
The two had run into each other outside a play at New York's Park Theater, resulting in a hostile, screaming confrontation, and the challenge of a duel, where Philip was killed.