On June 23, 1800, The Impartial Register of Salem, Massachusetts, published an “Anecdote of General Hamilton” that had been received “From a Correspondent”: When a youth of 17, he was chief clerk to an eminent merchant at St. Eustatia, who being absent, the business of the compting room, of course,…

…James Hamilton and family in the St. Eustatius census. He did not share the details with me, but I then did a web search and found that Eliza Gramarye, at the time a graduate student at the University of Rochester, had transcribed a number, but not all, of the St….

Only a few records of James Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton’s father, are known to exist. I have previously written about James Hamilton’s birth, his early business career and move to St. Kitts, and his visit to or residence on St. Eustatius (see parts 1, 2, and 3). In addition to the…

…for a medical license in 1775 and received it in January 1776.[1] A previously unknown work by Hugh Knox, related to his efforts to obtain a medical license, is a dissertation he wrote in Latin on St. Croix in December 1773 to the “viris doctissimis & venerandissimis qui [the most…

…such feelings except in broad terms of the other gender. Desiring to write the most sensational and tantalizing narratives, it is clear that many Hamilton biographers simply go too far when writing about Alexander Hamilton’s letter to Kitty Livingston. It is nothing more than a wonderful piece of literature, if…

…you researched so diligently the history esp. on the islands. It will be a thrill! I’m Anita from Facebook and Ancestry.com. Sincerely, Anita noirart10@gmail.com MichaelENewton Thank you Anita. So great to see people so eager to buy copies. It gives me great encouragement that people are still interest in real…

…the family and at what points Hamilton and his father had further contact? Thanks. MichaelENewton Thank you Phil for your comments and questions. Thanks for spotting the typo. Corrected! I wrote about James Hamilton’s departure and later life at https://discoveringhamilton.com/james-hamilton-life-st-croix/ and https://discoveringhamilton.com/james-hamilton-1766-to-1799/ Be sure to also see https://discoveringhamilton.com/james-hamilton-sailor-st-croix-legal-dispute/ which give…

…in the last line: * I would like to thank Rhiannon Markless (www.legalarchiveresearch.com) for locating and photographing at my request the above documents within the collections of the U.K. National Archives. Even with this substantial relief, John Faucett suffered a large loss of £725 14s 9d, by his estimate, more…

…of the Downing plantation, which sat adjacent to James Lytton’s plantation, had been caught by some free blacks in a sugar cane field on the southern boundary of the Evans plantation. They had a boat in their possession, which they allegedly planned to use to effect their escape. In front…

…Hamilton. But this still could be a different Alexander Hamilton. Perhaps in your excitement at seeing “Allexander Hamilthon” you did not notice who else signed the appraisal. (When I first saw this record, I also initially failed to notice the other signatures.) The signature immediately above Hamilthon’s reads “David Beckman”…