Editing Royall Tyler (section)

==Personal life==
In later life Royall Tyler admitted to his youthful arrogance and profligate conduct, but said he regretted only the limitations which his past placed upon his career and later ambitions.

He was believed to have fathered a child with Katharine Morse, the cleaning woman in the Harvard College buildings when Tyler was a student.<ref>{{cite book |last= Valenti |first=Patricia Dunlavy |date=2004 |title=Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: 1809-1847 |volume= 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ORvg0AeVLxQC&q=%22royall+tyler%22+%22morse%22+%22child%22&pg=PA2 |location=Columbia, MO |publisher=University of Missouri Press |page=2 |isbn=978-0-8262-1528-4}}</ref>  This son, Royal Morse, was born in 1779 and came to public attention as a leader of the 1834 anti-Catholic riots in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]].

According to Palmer family descendants{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}, Tyler fathered one daughter, and possibly two, with his landlady and mother-in-law Elizabeth Palmer while her husband, Joseph Pearse Palmer was away. The girls were Sophia, born in 1786, and Catherine, born in 1791.

Tyler was accused{{by whom|date=March 2015}} of starting a sexual relationship with Mary Palmer before she was old enough to marry.  In her version of events, her neighbors believed that she was pregnant before she married Royall Tyler because the neighbors didn't know that they had married in secret.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}