Hamilton, a Scotsman, and Rachel Faucette, a married woman of half-British and half-French Huguenot descent. In any case, it is well-known that both Alexander and his older brother James Jr. In fact, as Chernow writes, few questions bedevil Hamilton biographers more than this date. As a result, most recent historians opt for 1755 as Hamilton’s year of birth, but the baffling matter is far from settled.
Croix in the Virgin Islands listed his age as 13, and he himself gave it as “about 17” when he sent a poem to the editor of a St. For example, in 1768, a probate court in St. The place and the day seem correct, but the year is probably wrong: evidence uncovered in the 20th century suggests that he may have been two years off in his estimations. Later in life, he often claimed that he had been born on the tiny island of Nevis in the British West Indies on January 11, 1757.
The birth of Alexander Hamilton is shrouded in several mysteries in the absence of surviving records, at least one of them will probably remain unsolved for the foreseeable future, if not forever.
“How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman – dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by Providence – impoverished, in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?” Well, get ready to find out as we delve into Ron Chernow’s masterful 900-page biography of Alexander Hamilton, one of the least understood and most commendable of America’s Founding Fathers! The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father
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