…illness, and he met Death with a smile—his value was too well known to dwell longer on it here, and suffice it to say, that he was one of God’s noblest Works.[4] Hugh Knox’s Last Will and Testament On October 1, 1790, just eight days before his death, Hugh Knox,…

© Posted on March 12, 2018, by Michael E. Newton. James McHenry, by James Sharples, c. 1796–1800, courtesy of Independence National Historical Park. James McHenry’s presence at the wedding of Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler is well known. Broadus Mitchell not only had McHenry attending the wedding, but he also…

…“an extremely rare 1782 military document, signed by Alexander Hamilton in his rank of Colonel, which he held towards the end of the Revolution.” On their blog, however, they date this letter to 1783: A fascinating but little known fact is that Hamilton was promoted to Colonel by an act…

…known as the Elizabethtown Academy. He studied at this school from his arrival in October 1772 until he started college in September 1773.[1] The grammar school in Elizabethtown had no dormitories. Out-of-town students were advised, “Boarding may be had in reputable Families on reasonable Terms.” According to John Church Hamilton,…

…James Hamilton was not the head clerk of Archibald Ingram, but he had power of attorney for him, as stated explicitly in the records of St. Croix. Thus, there is no evidence that James Hamilton was a clerk or even an employee of Archibald Ingram. In this one known case,…

…events. Nicholas Cruger On October 15, 1771, Nicholas Cruger left St. Croix for New York “by reason of a very ill state of health.”[1] Details of Cruger’s illness are not given in any known record, but it is possible that his ill health was part of a larger epidemic that…

…leaders of their community, and supported both Rachel Faucett and Alexander Hamilton on St. Croix. While these two sisters are relatively well known, John Faucett of Nevis fathered many children in addition to Ann and Rachel. (John Faucett may have had more than one wife, so to keep it simple…

…with them. Until now, James Ash had been entirely overlooked and was believed to be a person “of no special note” who did “not otherwise figure in the records of Rachael,”[4] but it is now known that his life on St. Croix was intertwined with that of Rachel Faucett’s, both…

…St. Croix’s records, a James Hendrie appears again in the island’s files. The earliest of these records bears a date of January 1769. Whether this was the same James Hendrie or a different one is not known with certainty. The records that have been discovered provide no link between this…

…that, as far as I can tell from a search of Google Books and other sources, has never been known before. President Edward Stevens’s Letter The letter I found, the contents of which are mundane and unimportant, was written by “Edward Stevens, Prest” on January 2, 1810, from St. Croix’s…