After his appearance as a witness to a legal document on June 25, 1766, James Hamilton disappears from the known extant records of St. Croix. The date of his departure from St. Croix is not known, but he must have left the island prior to February 1768 when Rachel Faucett…

One of the great things about discovering something new about historical figures is that it prompts others to look for more information in places no one ever thought of looking. After my discovery that the Hamiltons had spent more time on St. Eustatius than previously known (see Discovering Hamilton or…

As a young man on St. Croix, Alexander Hamilton spent about six years working for the merchant Nicholas Cruger. Except for the five-month period in late 1771 and early 1772, during which time Hamilton managed the company, little is known about what Hamilton did during the remaining five plus years…

© Posted on February 5, 2018, by Michael E. Newton. The story of Alexander Hamilton’s parents is well known. They meet on St. Kitts, move to Nevis, give birth to Alexander Hamilton, move to St. Croix, split up, one leaves the island, and then the other dies, leaving an eleven-year-old…

…Queen’s Quarter were not too far from the Lytton and Lavien estates. William Hendrie must have known the prominent James and Ann Lytton and probably also John Michael and Rachel Lavien, but it is not known how well they knew each other. James Lytton also appears a number of times…

In one of this blog’s first entries, back in November 2017, I wrote about Nicholas Cruger’s “supposed duel” with John Heyliger and how this was “the earliest known case in which Hamilton had a personal interest in the outcome of what he and everyone else believed to be an affair…

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…

…that Alexander Hamilton was born. This house, or rather a replacement built on the ruins of the original, is now known as the Hamilton House and currently serves as a museum and the Nevis House of Assembly. While tradition has held for over a century that this was Hamilton’s birthplace,…

…Venton (by this time known as Ann Mitchell) was “the person in the world to whom as a friend I am under the greatest obligations.”[20] As the person who paid for Alexander Hamilton’s education on mainland North America, thereby launching his American career, the little-known Ann Lytton Venton Mitchell deserves…

…this deposition includes the only known signature of anyone using this name, the “Faucett” spelling used here must be considered the most authentic.[4] Prior to the discoveries shared last week and the discovery of this deposition, little had been known about John Faucett’s early life, i.e., his life prior to…