#alexander hamilton jr.

[lizahamilton]

My Children and Their Birth Dates

Phillip - 22 January, 1782

Angelica - 25 September, 1784

Alexander Jr. - 16 May, 1786

James Alexander - 14 April, 1788

John Church - 22 August, 1792

William Stephen - 4 August, 1797

Eliza - 20 November, 1799

Phillip "Little Phil" - 1 June, 1802

We also raised Frances "Fanny" Antill, an orphan who lived with us for ten years starting in 1787 (she was two years old). Alexander and I had 9 children, including the ten years Fanny was with us.

[a-modernmajorgeneral]

Dating Mexican silver is somewhat easier than most Latin American objects because of an assaying system established by royal decree in the viceroyalty of New Spain. However, few objects carry the full complement of required marks, and other means are needed to fully understand the silver. Stylistic analysis of the form and the delicate, flat, Mannerist strapwork decoration of this chalice suggest a fabrication date of about 1600. A published example of the crowned “M” Mexico City location mark helps date the paten to the same period.

The chalice is one of seven ecclesiastical items unearthed in St. Augustine, Florida (see History) in the late nineteenth century. Long thought to be Spanish and only recently recognized as Mexican, the vessels are a rare and early body of church silver made for Spain’s North American colonies. St. Augustine was colonized by Spain in 1565, making it the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the United States. The town’s strategic location on the Gulf Stream, where it protected Spanish vessels laden with South American silver en route to Europe, prompted Spain to provide financial support, which extended to the spiritual life of the inhabitants.

From the beginning, religious and daily life in St. Augustine were interwoven. Upon his arrival, founder Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519 – 1574) brought “eight church bells and four ornaments for celebrating Mass.” When Spain became responsible for the colony, funding for the clergy and the goods required for the celebration of Mass were included in the annual budget for Florida’s military garrison. Between the late sixteenth and later eighteenth centuries, most sacramental goods were purchased from Mexico. Proximity was a primary reason, for, in the age of sail, communication was slow. More compelling, however, was the financial incentive — revenues collected in Mexico provided the budget that sustained the Florida colony.

The early date of the chalice and its survival are remarkable given the many dangers through which it passed. How and when it came to be buried at some distance from the parish church of St. Augustine may never be fully determined, but the following events could account for some of its movements.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, St. Augustine was often attacked by English soldiers. During some assaults, such as South Carolina’s unsuccessful six-week siege in 1702, church goods were moved for safekeeping into a fortress called the Castillo de San Marcos. In 1763, when Florida was awarded to the British as a consequence of the Seven Years War (French and Indian War), all moveable church property was shipped to Havana, Cuba; an inventory from the next year records that these items included a “copón [cup] without a foot, silver and gilded on the inside,” a description similar to the chalice in this entry. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 returned Florida to the Spanish, and the ecclesiastical goods were repatriated. An inventory taken in 1787 mentions chalices but lacks details that could identify this example.

St. Augustine joined the United States in 1821, and the parish found itself without financial support due to the separation of church and state under U.S. law. This stressful period was compounded by a largely anti-Catholic Protestant population that had emerged during the years of British occupation and renewed Spanish ownership. Chief among this group was District Attorney Alexander Hamilton Jr. (1786 – 1875), who argued that property of the Roman Catholic Church under the Spanish crown should pass to the U.S. government. Such rhetoric may have prompted church members to quietly relocate the chalice along with the rest of the ecclesiastical silver.

In 1823 Hamilton ran for the office of Territorial Delegate of Florida. Minorcan Catholics, an ethnic Spanish immigrant group affiliated with St. Augustine parish from the time of British occupation, sent a petition to President James Monroe protesting that Hamilton had threatened his opponents with unfavorable decisions on land claims. The name of Bernardo Segui appeared at the top of the document. Segui served as president of the Board of Wardens, which was incorporated that year by the Florida Legislative Council as trustee-proprietors of parish property. He also owned a plantation house on the land purchased in 1871 by the donors of these two objects. It is on this land that the church silver was discovered in 1879.

Church officials had reason to fear the loss of their silver, for the attitude of the Protestant majority was unsympathetic to their culture; upon seeing the communion objects at St. Augustine church in 1827, author and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson observed in his diary that they appeared to him as “great coarse toys.” Church wardens had access to the church building and its furnishings, and it was not uncommon for them to house such items. Segui may have sought to protect the sacred silver items from falling into government hands.

This text has been adapted from "Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000," edited by Jeannine Falino and Gerald W.R. Ward, published in 2008 by the MFA. Complete references can be found in that publication.

Description

The chalice has a raised bowl with straight, slightly everted sides. The lower third is encircled with an applied molding that extends horizontally from the body; four small rings are soldered at equidistant points along the circle. The rings were originally intended to hold small bells that would have rung as the priest raised the chalice during Mass. Below is a cup form with stapwork decoration that bulges slightly before tapering to a short trumpet-shaped stem having two flat graduated rings along a narrow stem. A large baluster with additional strap decoration descends to smaller forms. The foot, now lost, has been replaced with a modern wooden base. The chalice, including the concealed central rod, has been gilded; some residual accretions from the period of its burial remain inside the bowl.

Marks

"M" crowned, the Mexico City location mark, visible at base of chalice bowl.

Inscriptions

None.

Provenance

By 1878, unearthed from property on Oneida Street, St. Augustine, Florida, by property owners William H. Keith (b. 1803 - d. 1885) and Harriet Lovett Keith (b. 1837 - d. 1917), St. Augustine and exhibited at Bigelow, Kennard and Co., Boston; 1880, placed on loan to the MFA; passed by descent and in 1928, given to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 21, 1928)

NOTE: It is not known when this object, along with six other pieces of ecclesiastical silver (MFA accession nos. 28.464 – 28.470) was buried. The cross (28.468) is inscribed with the date 1721 and the name of the Spanish governor and captain general of Florida, Antonio de Benavides (1718 – 1734). It has been suggested that the silver was buried after Spain ceded Florida to the United States in 1821, in response to fears that the U.S. government might seize church property. See Jeannine Falino, Silver in the Americas, 1600-2000. American Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA, Boston, 2008), pp. 465-466, cat. no. 370, and pp. 524-525, Appendix I.

▪︎ Cáliz (Chalice).

Culture: Spanish Colonial

Date: ca. 1600

Place of origin: Mexico City, Mexico

Medium: Silver gilt

[rillunax]

Did you know that Burr’s pose at the end of The Room Where It Happens is the opposite of the iconic My Shot one?

I realized that when rewatching the recorded play and was inspired to draw this

[iseveryoneherederanged]

I swear to god hurricane is criminally underrated cause "when my prayers to god were met with indifference, I PICKED UP A PEN, I WROTE MY OWN DELIVERANCE" has me crying, shaking, throwing up and there is something deeply wrong with anyone who disagrees

[hamilton---admin]

Aaron Burr dies:

Burr: *approaches Heaven*

Hamilton: wELL IF IT ISN'T AARON BURR, SIR

Burr: *screams*

[dont-tell-my-mom-im-here]

Having Hamilton's son be played by the same actor who plays his twink boyfriend was a wild choice and I respect Lin Manuel Miranda for it

[farbexx]

hamburr...hamburr................... hamburr but theyre eating burgers??

burger date

[britney-rosberg06]

I predict China to have a lot of Mercedes coverage and merc fans my heart goes out to you cuz holy shit like: Kimi Antonelli testing the W14 next week, Sebastian Vettel throwing his hat in the ring to return with backing from Lewis, Fernando and Carlos not nailed down anywhere, George ahead of Lewis in the championship, Toto on his Max Verstappen apology tour and saying NOTHING about ANYONE, Williams falling apart while Alex still kinda hanging in the background as an option of all these Merc talks, The car is shit and people are leaving left and right, but their feeder series kids are kinda popping off

And Nico Rosberg is gonna be there to talk about it all

[alexanderhamiltonhasafatass]

"The Hamilton family is so cool!"

The Hamilton family:

[papers-pamphlet]

Only a total of three people here will get this

[figuresinthehaze]

What’s your name man?

[capitalisticveins]

Aaron Burr wouldn’t have missed

[jadelemonadee]

hamilton community we should all draw our faves as their pictures with the 1800s camera lens 😛😛😛 (search hamilton josh lehrer photos if you wanna see some of them ^_^)

example:

[darkfantasies606]

Hamilton good ending

[poscariastri]

i cant stop making these and im glad you guys enjoy them too! f1 drivers as tumblr (and twitter) textposts by yours truly:3

and! @hotwheelschili said on one of my other posts that carlos is the ultimate man with big beautiful brown eyes like a baby cow and i cant argue with that so. here :)