…was all the rage during this period. It often included allusions to love, sexual desires, matrimony, and intercourse. Among the most popular novels of this time was The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, which was known to be “the dirtiest novel in English.”[7] The gentlemen…

…attended the University of Glasgow. The dates of their matriculations (entrances) can help narrow down the years of their births. John Hamilton entered the University of Glasgow in November 1727.[7] His date of birth is already known to be August 1712, making him 15 when he entered university. Robert Hamilton…

© Posted on February 26, 2018, by Michael E. Newton. Last week I wrote about the importance of St. Croix’s No. 9 Company’s Quarter, better known as the Grange Plantation, to the Hamilton narrative. The estate was developed by Alexander Hamilton’s uncle James Lytton, possibly hosted the wedding of Rachel…

…be overlooked: “Mary is sister to the said Margaret Cressy.” * Courtesy of the U.K. National Archives. This piece of information is the first ever found regarding Mary Uppington outside of her connection to John Faucett. Nothing had previously been known about Mary Uppington’s origins or family. For the first…

…condition that the challenger should acknowledge, in writing, that he had received suitable satisfaction from Mr. ——, that he was a gentleman of honor, &c.; and further, that he (Hamilton) should never be known in the business—which terms the challenger was obliged to accede to, or fight young Hamilton; he…

…was just a normal misspelling of Faucett. As these matrikels were the only known records in which Rachel appeared as Fatzieth, it was logical to assume that this was a mere misspelling and not the result of some purposeful act by Rachel or by the authorities. Rachel Fatzieth in the…

…extant records. As these children of Jemima Faucett Iles Gurley were Alexander Hamilton’s first cousins and some of them may have known Hamilton on St. Croix in the late 1760s and early 1770s, any new information about them would be of interest to us. As a quick reminder, here is…

…between them, being the owner’s initials or the initials of the plantation’s name. Here are some examples: Another popular option was to use some sort of design. One of the more popular designs, though still not frequently found in the records, is a six-cornered star, also known as a “star…

…will, till the Cols. pleasure is known. Her clothes she bequeathed to her maid, to the amount only of some £20 or £30; & her watch & trinkets to a most lovely child, now in part an object of my cares. Thus, there was no known record of the date…

…the greatness and importance of Alexander Hamilton. While Rand is well known for that mission, perhaps less well known was something he often said to me, which is that he wanted to spread “true and accurate” information about Alexander Hamilton. Like me, he believed there was too much misinformation about…