Elizabeth Monroe
Elizabeth Kortright was born to Lawrence and Hannah Kortright in New York City on June 30, 1768.1 On February 16, 1786, she married James Monroe in New York, and together they had three children: Eliza (1786), James (1799), and Maria (1802).2 Very little is known about Elizabeth Monroe’s personal life; according to family tradition, James Monroe burned his wife’s letters after she died. Only a hand