#and mother of Peter Lytton's son

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Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton (1755/57-1804) was a lawyer and politician, often recognized as a Founding Father of the United States. He served as George Washington's aide-de-camp during the American Revolution, before going on to become the first US secretary of the treasury and a leader of the Federalist Party. He was mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804.

Early Life

Alexander Hamilton was born on the small island of Nevis in the British West Indies on 11 January 1755 or 1757; most modern scholars favor 1755 as his birth year, based on the discovery of a 1768 probate paper that listed his age as 13. He and his older brother, James, Jr., were born out of wedlock to James Hamilton, the wayward younger son of a Scottish laird, and Rachel Faucette Lavien, a married woman who had abandoned her husband after years of unhappy marriage. The couple lived together for several years until 1765, when James Hamilton abruptly deserted his family, either because he had run out of money or because he knew his continued presence would leave the still-married Rachel vulnerable to charges of bigamy. In any case, Rachel was left destitute. To provide for her sons, she opened a modest shop on St. Croix, purchasing her merchandise from her landlord. In early 1768, both Rachel and Alexander contracted yellow fever; while the boy soon recovered, the mother succumbed to the disease on 19 February.

The orphaned Hamilton brothers were sent to live with a cousin, Peter Lytton, but this situation would end after only a year when Lytton committed suicide. The brothers were then split up; James, Jr., was apprenticed to a carpenter, while Alexander found work clerking for the merchant house of Beekman and Cruger. Still only a teenager, Hamilton excelled at his various tasks, which included tracking cargo, helping to chart courses for ships, and calculating prices in multiple currencies. In 1771, he was even left in charge of the firm for five months while the owner was away. Hamilton was a voracious reader who aspired to write works of his own and penned several poems in the early 1770s. In the autumn of 1772, he wrote a letter to his father in which he detailed a hurricane that had recently devastated St. Croix. The letter found its way into publication in a local paper, the Royal Danish-American Gazette, leaving readers dazzled with its vivid and bombastic descriptions:

It seemed as if a total dissolution of nature was taking place. The roaring of the sea and wind, fiery meteors flying about it in the air, the prodigious glare of almost perpetual lightning, the crash of falling houses, and the ear-piercing shrieks of the distressed, were sufficient to strike astonishment into the angels.

(quoted in Chernow, 37)

This essay would prove to be one of the most consequential of Hamilton's life; upon learning that its author was only 17, local community leaders pooled their funds to send the promising young man to college in North America. He landed in Boston in October 1772, before going on to New York City, where he would enroll in King's College (present-day Columbia University) the following year. Hamilton was insatiably ambitious and dove into his studies, which included a classical curriculum of Greek and Latin as well as rhetoric, history, mathematics, and science. His academic career would soon be interrupted, however, by the rising tensions between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies over the question of American liberties, particularly that of taxation without representation. Hamilton became swept up in the Whig (or Patriot) movement, writing a series of anonymous pamphlets in which he defended the Boston Tea Party, supported the actions of the First Continental Congress, and condemned Parliament's Intolerable Acts. He opposed the mob violence often displayed by fellow Patriots; on 10 May 1775, he saved the college's Loyalist president, Myles Cooper, from an angry mob by speaking to the crowd long enough to allow Cooper to escape.

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back on my bullshit y'all. implausible historical scenario: southern alexander hamilton (pt 1: lavien & laurens version)

Part 2: Washington's son dramatic-ass version

my favorite hobby is shoving historical figures into impossible scenarios so i can get them to do what i want. once again made up some convoluted series of events just to create a hamilton wildly out of character- god forbid, a southerner who might even get along with thomas jefferson. here's the first implausible scenario that make it possible.

Alexander goes to live with his half brother Peter Lavien.

Peter Lavien was the legitimate child of Rachel Hamilton’s first marriage. He moved to Beaufort, South Carolina in 1764 at eighteen and became a prominent merchant and member of the church. However, he returned to St. Croix in 1769 to settle his mother’s estate, aka get everything that she had wanted to go to James Jr. and Alexander. In 1769, the two boys were taken in by their cousin Peter Lytton (who died), and then Lytton’s father, who also died a month later. Probable that this happened after Lavien had once again left St. Croix, but let’s just imagine that he for some reason takes pity on the boys - and takes them with him. Nothing makes sense here, roll with it.

It would be even sadder and morbidly funny if he only took Alexander. I say this because in his 1778 last Will and Testament Lavien left “Alexander Hamilton and his brother Robert Hamilton” a fairly substantial amount of money. One brother must’ve left a greater impression on him and maybe poor James Jr. hears this half brother who took his inheritance say “Alex and Robert can come with me” and goes “Who tf is Robert, fuck this” and peaces out. 

Now, politically: Extrapolating since I’m not sure how prominent “prominent merchant” is, but maybe this means that Alex has the chance to meet prominent southerners early on, who like many others, are charmed by his energy and precocity. Does this mean he has more affection and allegiance for South Carolina than he did in real life for St. Croix? Does his politics and economic experience change? Assuming that like Washington, wartime experience is enough to make him a nationalist and he still had some experience at Cruger’s (and maybe helping Lavien) and thus does not have differing economic beliefs, his enemies would lose out on a major attack: perceived bias to the North. His connection to the Schuyler family would still serve, but maybe without as much weight, since he has those southern connections. 

I love the idea of a South Carolinian Alexander Hamilton who grows up in a fairly secure American home with a steady guardian. The personal implications! The family drama of being forced to rely on a half brother who resents you for taking his mom, and who you resent back for taking your inheritance! Does this give him more issues, less issues? No idea! Even worse, Lavien was apparently a Tory, so there’s that. Two brothers who perhaps got closer over the years, split apart again by political differences. “I take pity on a bastard brat and you repay me with this?” type shit. Lavien moved out to Georgia in 1777, and apparently died in 1780 or 1781 which means Hamilton would’ve been a prominent aide de camp to the commander in chief, and potentially married into a great New York family when it happens. How would he react to that?

And I can’t give up the idea of Colonel Alexander Hamilton of South Carolina meeting John Laurens of South Carolina. Maybe I push it further and say they meet early on and become childhood friends, even.

This is really stretching it but idc, they get to be childhood friends and Hamilton gains the favor of Henry Laurens. Maybe they even go to Europe together, wreak havoc on everything, and then disobey both Laurens' worried father and Alexander's Tory brother to join the army as aide de camps.

Maybe in this universe, Hamilton is chosen to go to South Carolina instead of John Laurens and their fates are switched. Maybe Henry Laurens who still wants to keep his kid out of danger asks Hamilton to go in his stead and pushes Washington about it, and Hamilton, wanting a command, readily agrees. Maybe that continues on after Yorktown, when Hamilton returns to South Carolina. Maybe Laurens has to learn that Hamilton died in a skirmish through a letter from his father and vows to continue on their shared dreams and Hamilton's plans, becoming the influential but even more abrasive leader of the federalist party. i want to see the switch, where it's the more idealistic laurens who isn't a good politician either (the two of them are a disaster) enters the public arena to be slandered and corrupted - laurens who is isolated from his fellow southerners and who seems to be mourning someone constantly and washington knowing exactly who it is. a laurens who looks back and yearns for a promising, brilliant young man who could've done so much more if he only had the chance WAIT WHO SAID THAT-

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Does Hamilton have abandonment issues? Especially if you look into the exchange between his dad and him, I feel like his dad always asks for money and Alex always unconditionally give them to him.

Hamilton definitely dealt with a lot of abandonment issues, that was especially present in his close relationships.

Hamilton lost many loved ones throughout his childhood, and even later in life but his fear of abandonment definitely had to stem from his childhood trauma. With his father leaving his impervished family in 1765, only to lose his mother in 1768 due to yellow fever when he was eleven years old. After being taken in by his cousin, Peter Lytton, he soon lost that legal guardian too because of an act of suicide, and his uncle - father of Peter - shortly after. Hamilton was then separated from his brother, and despite some communication between the two they never successfully saw each other again. So, by the time Hamilton made it to the colonies, he had lost a majority of his close family and was on his own.

Hamilton's strained but still an attempt of a relationship with his father displays that Hamilton was quite eager to see his father again, but was incredibly anxious about losing contact with him again. Sometime in 1780, Hamilton mentions to Elizabeth that he'll inform James of their wedding and hope he'll attend. But as we all know, James did not attend. Some years later and again, Hamilton is anxious about losing contact with his father so much so that he even questions if James had died;

“But what has become of our dear father? It is an age since I have heared from him or of him, though I have written him several letters. Perhaps, alas! he is no more, and I shall not have the pleasing opportunity of contributing to render the close of his life more happy than the progress of it. My heart bleeds at the recollection of his misfortunes and embarrassments. Sometimes I flatter myself his brothers have extended their support to him, and that he now enjoys tranquillity and ease. At other times I fear he is suffering in indigence. I entreat you, if you can, to relieve me from my doubts, and let me know how or where he is, if alive, if dead, how and where he died. Should he be alive inform him of my inquiries, beg him to write to me, and tell him how ready I shall be to devote myself and all I have to his accommodation and happiness.”

(source — Alexander Hamilton to James Hamilton Jr, [June 22, 1785])

Despite the lack of requited communication with his father, Hamilton decided to name his fourth son after him in 1788. And even when Hamilton was knee-deep in political scuffles, struggling with his work as Treasury, Hamilton never stopped trying to keep up communication with his father. Later on, Hamilton even offered to help James sail over to America, where he would take care of him in his old age. During the August of 1792, Hamilton wrote to Seton asking for assistance with forwarding a letter to St. Vincents to deliver it to his father. Though unfortunately, Hamilton's letter was never actually delivered, so James reached out again reporting delays in his plans to set sail for America due to a war which broke out between France and England. And, well, unfortunately James never did reunite with Hamilton. But regardless, Hamilton was always loyally willing to trust his father and supply him with whatever funds he needed at the time. As if anxious that if he lost communication with his father again, it would become lost forever.

Not only that, but this fear of losing his loved ones was also apparent in his relationships with his lovers. John Laurens was terrible at writing back to people, and his family and friends often reprimanded him for it. So, you can imagine Hamilton's distress when he barely receives word from Laurens;

“I acknowlege but one letter from you, since you left us, of the 14th of July which just arrived in time to appease a violent conflict between my friendship and my pride. I have written you five or six letters since you left Philadelphia and I should have written you more had you made proper return. But like a jealous lover, when I thought you slighted my caresses, my affection was alarmed and my vanity piqued. I had almost resolved to lavish no more of them upon you and to reject you as an inconstant and an ungrateful ___.”

(source — Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens, [September 11, 1779])

And while later Hamilton does admit he also neglected to write, he still faults Laurens more since one of his letters was miscarried. Although just a bit later and Hamilton is desperate to hear word from Laurens;

“That you can speak only of your private affairs shall be no excuse for your not writing frequently. Remember that you write to your friends, and that friends have the same interests, pains, pleasures, sympathies; and that all men love egotism.”

(source — Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens, [September 16, 1780])

He even worries about this in regards to his own wife. Where he even goes on a bit of ramble of his fear that Elizabeth would neglect him;

“It is an age my dearest since I have received a letter from you; the post is arrived and not a line. I know not to what to impute your silence; so it is I am alarmed with an apprehension ⟨of your⟩ being ill. Sometimes I suspect a ⟨– – –⟩ of your letters. Sometimes my anx⟨iety accuses⟩ you of negligence but I chide my⟨self⟩ whenever it does. You know ⟨very well⟩ how precious your letters are to m⟨e and⟩ you know the tender, apprehensive ⟨amia⟩ble nature of my love. You know the pleasure that hearing from you gives ⟨me.⟩ You know it is the only one I am now capable of enjoying. After all you certainly would not neglect ⟨me⟩ if you possibly could. Here am ⟨I⟩ immersed in business, yet every d⟨ay or⟩ two I find leisure to write to my a⟨ngel;⟩ the reason is you are never out ⟨of⟩ my thoughts, and if I had but one hour in the four and twenty to rest ⟨all⟩ of it would be devoted to you. I do not say this to reproach you with unkindness. I cannot suppose you ca⟨n,⟩ in so short an absence, have abated ⟨your⟩ affection; and if you even found any change, I have too good an opin⟨ion⟩ of your candour to imagine you would not instantly tell me of it.”

(source — Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, [July 20, 1780])

He even thought that she was deathly ill because he wasn't getting a response, and although later he apologizes for over-worrying he still remains adamant she writes back;

“Pardon me my lovely girl for any thing I may have said that has the remotest semblance of complaining. If you knew my heart thoroughly you would see it so full of tenderness for you that you would not only pardon, but you would even love my weaknesses.”

If you thought that him worrying over her being ill was a bit far, he even goes on to worry that Elizabeth - his soon-to-be bride, mind you - doesn't even love him and is simply marrying him out of generosity;

“For god’s sake My Dear Betsey try to write me oftener and give me the picture of your heart in all its varieties of light and shade. Tell me whether it feels the same for me or did when we were together, or whether what seemed to be love was nothing more than a generous sympathy. The possibility of this frequently torments me.”

It is clear Hamilton dealt with some anxiety with the thought that all his loved ones would either leave him, and if not that; than them dying.

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you know, i need someone to tell this to, and unfortunately for you, you have been randomly selected as that person.

Alexander Hamilton's biracial cousin once removed aka Peter Lytton's son was called Don Alvarez de Velasco (you prolly know that) now as non-spanish speaker what i didn't realize was that his ma had essentially named him Lord de Velasco. and by GOD do i need the story behind it. is it like when black men would be named Mister so that their white peers couldn't sidestep the honorific? was there something else at play? Did they live a good life after Peter Lytton's death? mulattos could at the very least reach the upper rungs of society in the Carribean and being a Lytton has to count for /something/ so did Alvarez ever "rise" in Crucian society in so much as he could? Did his mother call him Don or Alvarez?

ofc, im not asking you this directly. but its just. he's been reduced to alexander hamilton's cousin's bastard biracial son and drops off mention in any text i could find. granted I'm also driving my chariot through that road because i don't know another road. the only other mention i came across was a historical society in st croix hosting a lecture titled with his name and was about the lives of mulattos i think, i believe. i was desperate for some info on this figure that i even wrote a mail to the society that was prolly promptly deleted as spam because of how stupidly it was written

who was he, yknw? i wonder if we'll ever know

did you ever have a figure like this? atp I'm just yappin lmao sorry for the long ask!

HOW DID I MISS THIS? i still love you, sorry, was not ignoring you!!

When you ask about whether I have historical figures like this I wonder about, YES! and they're almost always women or non-white people. We know their names (if that) and their general relation to the White Dudes history focuses on. It isn't often we know much else, even with some deep dives into any primary documents and context that would clue us into the rest. Wish they'd all just keep diaries, hahhaha. Of course that wasn't always possible and so many people, if they were even literate or had the means to keep diaries, wouldn't even write about themselves in complete honesty. History loves writers because their poetry, fiction, diaries, pamphlets, and letters give us more to learn about. Again, it was such a privilege to be a writer at all, and people marginalized by history and modernity are disproportionately affected by systemic erasure of their existence. History is told by the victors, or whatever they say.

I'd say I wonder about most historical figures, but somebody like Hamilton's cousin is up there for sure. His mother has always piqued my curiosity because obviously her ex husband Lavien was a major POS but history remembers HER exactly how he wanted her to be remembered: a whore. It pisses me off when biographers (r-r-r-ron) reduce her to that, and as a result, LMM's impression of her in the musical was much of the same and it's TRAGIC UGHHHH. It's actually so disgustinf that I start to foam at the mouth because what a fucking injustice.

After your message to my inbox and during my subsequent response, I actually started to go on a rabbit hole reading AGAIN about Alexander's childhood because the number of times he moved, the adults involved in his life, and how he was treated because of his illegitimacy makes it hard to remember exactly what went down. Now added to the list: Hamilton's cousin once removed who happened to be mixed. And though I will not reduce Alvarez to a prop on his own, how interesting to better understand Lytton, right? Of course every person's existence contextualizes other people, but with that said, understanding Don Alvarez as his own person is much more interesting. I'm happy knowing as the years go on, more and more colleges and historical societies are funding and publishing research for biracial, Black and Indigenous people in history, as it seems the Liberal Arts College of the Virgin Islands has done. And yet... the lack of readable information about Don Alvarez online is so, so disheartening.

If you can't contact the historian and speaker for that talk on Crucian Lifestyles, your only recourse is to go out there and dig through mountains of archives until you can find it out yourself. curiosity is so draining

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its been a while but i had to do all the Laurens siblings and also my life fell apart (/lh) so here we go

Rachel Faucette

*disclaimer* I can’t find a source I really trust on this, so I’m using Chernow’s biography for convenience’s sake. Here is one source that appears to be informational, but I haven’t had time to develop an opinion on it

So Rachel was born around 1729 in St. George Parish. There’s not a lot of information on her, so a lot is either unsure, speculated, or debated. For example, she was possibly part black, but there’s no definitive evidence for this. She was also described as being “bright, beautiful, and strong willed,” as well as, “a woman of superior intellect, elevated sentiment, and unusual grace of person and manner. For her he [Alexander Hamilton] was indebted for his genius.”

Rachel had six siblings, but five of them died, leaving her only with her sister Ann.  They lived in Nevis on a small sugar plantation with at least seven enslaved people. They lived on steep, rocky hills, which from my one singular trip to a hilly place, that must have sucked. In 1737, the island experienced an agricultural plague and drought, which caused a wave of emigration, which included Ann Faucette. She married James Lytton and they moved to St. Croix.

Rachel’s parents had a rocky marriage and they argued a lot. In 1740, they agreed to “live separately and apart for the rest of their lives.” Rachel and her mother possibly moved to St. Kitts and met James Hamilton for the first time. Rachel’s father died in 1745, and she inherited all of his property. 

Rachel moved to St. Croix and built an estate outside Christiansted called the Grange, and soon met this bitchass mother fucker, Johann Lavien. 

Lavien peddled household goods for a living and aspired to be a pLaNTeR, which was just the white people word for slave holder. He could have possibly been Jewish, but if so, he was not open about it. Alexander Hamilton attended a Hebrew school, so it’s possible that Rachel converted to marry Lavien. Also, Lavien’s son Peter was baptized way later in life, so it’s possible that he converted from Judaism to Christianity after he moved out the Carribean. 

So the Carribean was a big international trade center, so a lot of stupid young men with no skills went there to try to become merchants and get rich, but it never worked bc you have to start rich in the 18th century to be rich. Lavien was especially stupid and spent all his money on a plantation and really fancy clothes, like a douche. He probably married Rachel for the money too.

“A Dane, a fortune hunter of the name Lavine, came to Nevis bedizzened with gold and paid his addresses to my mother, then a handsome young woman having a snug fortune.” -Alexander Hamilton (who really didn’t like Lavien)

Rachel’s mother gave Lavien the go-ahead to marry Rachel, but Rachel didn’t really care for him. (”In compliance with the wishes of her mother... but against her own inclination,” according to Alexander). Still, she married Lavien in 1745. 

They settled on a plantation called Contentment. Funny. And a year later they had their son, Peter. After five years of Lavien just being annoying and wasting money, Rachel just. left. in 1750. 

This really pissed off Lavien, and he set out to humiliate her. (TW for abusive and sexist language, skip the quotes in this paragraph) He said she had “committed such errors which as between husband and wife were indecent and very suspicious,” and she was “shameless, coarse, and ungodly.” He had her arrested in Christiansvaern, and we have another amazing example of the 18th century prison system. Lavien expected this experience to make her submit and “...everything would be better and that she like a true wife would have changed her ungodly mode of life and would live with him as was meet and fitting.” (Tw for mention of torture methods. skip the next paragraph)

It was a highly guarded prison, and torture was practiced pretty regularly. They practiced whipping, branding, castrating, shackling with heavy leg irons and entombing in filthy dungeons. 

“Rachel spent several months in a dark, cramped cell that measured ten by thirteen feet, and she must have gone through infernal torments of fear and loneliness. Through a small, deeply inset window, she could stare across sharpened spikes that encircled the outer wall and gaze at the blue-green water that sparkled in the fierce tropical sunlight. She could also eavesdrop on the busy wharf, stacked with hogsheads of sugar... All the while, she had to choke down a nauseating diet of salted herring, codfish, and boiled yellow cornmeal mush.” -Ron Chernow

Obviously, instead of submitting to Lavien, she just left! Because of course she would! What the fuck Johann! However, since men have too much privilege, her leaving caused her the relinquish benefits of a legal separation, and she could never remarry. In 1750, she left for St. Kitts.

We can guarantee that Rachel met James Hamilton in St. Kitts in the early 1750s because the shebanged. They were both dragged down a few steps on the social ladder from where they previously stood (more detail on James in a minute) and overall life sucked asshole. 

Because of Rachel’s not-divorce, her and James weren’t able to get married. What KILLS ME is that Hamilton later pretended his parents were married, and said, “My mother afterwards went to St. Kitts, became acquainted with my father and a marriage between them ensued, followed by many years cohabitation and several children.” 

This quote is actually pretty important because it says a lot, or it could. Firstly, it implies that they possibly had more children than just the two sons we know of, Alexander and James Jr. Secondly, it coincides with the fact that they presented themselves with Rachel and James Hamilton. However, Alexander did know that they were not legally married (people wouldn’t let him forget), but it shows that he sees their relationship as just as valid without a legal marriage *cough* Laurens *cough*. Anyway, their relationship possibly lasted 15 years, and by all sources it seems decently healthy. 

Rachel inherited a property in the capital Charlestown (no relation to South Carolina). She also “inherited” three enslaved servants from her mother, Rebecca, Flora, and Esther, one of which had a son named Ajax who was assigned to Alexander and his brother. 

Rachel had her son educated through individual tutoring, and by herself, since she was fluent in French. I’m not sure if James was given the same educational opportunities, but he probably was as the older brother, but Alexander definitely took to them better than his brother. 

“...rarely as he alluded to his personal history, he mentioned with a smile his having been taught to repeat the Decalogue in Hebrew, at the school of a Jewess, when so small that he was placed standing by her side upon a table.” -Hamilton’s grandson

Oh did you think Lavien was gone? Think again bitch it’s 1759. (TW for abusive and sexist language, skip quotes in next two paragraphs)

Lavien’s in a lot of debt now, and he had to cede most of his plantation, like a bitch lol. He probably wanted to marry this other chick, so he went to obtain a divorce summons on February 26, 1759. According to that bitch, Rachel “absented herself from [Lavien] for nine years and gone elsewhere, where she has begotten several illegitimate children, so that such action is believed to be more sufficient for him to obtain a divorce from her.” grr this makes me so angry.

Additionally, Lavien said he “had taken care of Rachel’s legitimate child from what little he has been able to earn,” and Rachel had, “completely forgotten her duty and let husband and child alone and instead given herself up to whoring with everyone, which things the plantiff are so well known that her own family and friends must hate her for it.” (sic) And as awful as that is, the last statement is possibly true, because Rachel’s communication with her loved one’s is eh... well, we don’t really know, but she didn’t really have much of a social life after rumors spread.

Rachel didn’t refute the allegations or show up to court, which was really bad for her, because on June 25, Lavien recieved a divorce that permitted him to remarry, but not Rachel. 

Things only got worse when James got a business assignment in Christiansted in April 1765, and brought his family to St. Croix. Where Lavien lived. So, Rachel was no longer seen as Mrs. Hamilton, and only known for what Lavien said about her. 

And on top of that, James just. Left. 

According to Ronny boy, Rachel wasn’t really phased by how she was treated in Christiansted. “As she ambled about Christiansted in a red or white skirt, her face shaded by a black silk sun hat, this ‘handsome’, self-reliant woman seems to have been fired by some inner need to vindicate herself and silence her critics.” 

With her sister and brother-in-law supporting her financially, she moved into a two-story house on 34 Company Street by an Anglican church and school, which could have possibly influenced Hamilton’s religion later in life. 

“Adhering to a common town pattern, she lived with her two boys in the wooden upper floor, which probably jutted over the street, while turning the lower stone floor into a shop selling foodstuffs to planters--- salted fish, beef, pork, apples, butter, rice, and flour. It was uncommon in those days to be a shopkeeper... ‘White women are not expected to do anything here except drink tea and coffee, eat, make calls, play cards, and at times sew a little...’ She bought some of her merchandise from her landlord, while the rest came from two young New York merchants, David Beekman and Nicholas ruger...”

Like many other people who enslaved a small handful of people, Rachel rented out her five female enslaved servants and their four children. She also had a goat that she probably used to provide milk for her sons. 

In late 1767, the family moved to 23 Company Street, then to number 34. Not long after, Rachel caught a fever, and was tended to by a woman named Ann McDonnell, then Dr. Heering took over on February 17. (TW for death and historical medical practices, skip next paragraph)

Alexander got sick as well, and they were both subjected to medieval purgatives. Valerian was given to Rachel, which expelled gas from the alimentary canal. (google it if you want, it’s just farts). Bloodletting was performed on Alexander.

Then, Rachel died at nine o’clock on February 19, around the age of 38. I cried.

James Hamilton Sr.

siiiiiiiigh. Listen man, as much as I want to like this guy, I.... mmmmmmm. I don’t hate him but. If I met him irl, I’d punch him in the nuts.

James Hamilton was born in 1718, the fourth out of eleven children. His father, Alexander Hamilton (psa for men to stop naming their kids after their family members bc it makes it very difficult) was the laird of Grange in Stevenston Parish in Ayrshire, Scotland (another psa for men to stop naming their houses after their childhood homes). 

“The truth is that, on the question who my parents were, I have better pretensions than most of those in this country plume themselves on ancestry.” -Alexander Hamilton (not the laird, the twink)

Because James wasn’t the oldest son, he wasn’t very likely to inherit... anything, so he had to make his own fortune! Because that always ends well!

It seems like James was kind of the outcast in his family, like kinda Bruno vibes if you’re picking up what I’m putting down. Also his future financial issues likely contributed to his estrangement from his family. He had no formal education and was “Easygoing and lackadaisical, devoid of the ambition that would propel his spirited son, James Hamilton did not seem to internalize the Glaswegian ethos of hard work and strict discipline.” He was kind of a himbo ngl.

His older brother John took James to a four-year apprenticeship with a businessman named Richard Allen. This started a chain of events where John had to constantly bail James out of debt. He also paid for his apprenticeship, which didn’t work out, so he went to the West Indies to make bank. 

He started in St. Kitts, trading sugar. He “must have started out with a modicum [ha] of social cachet in St. Kitts, but it was never enhanced by money or business success.” There’s a whole bunch of business stuff that Chernow explains, but I think Hamilton sums it up pretty well:

“In capacity of a merchant he went to St. Kitts, where from too generous and too easy a temper he failed in business and at length fell into indigent circumstances... It was his fault to have had too much pride and too large a portion of indolence, but his character was otherwise without reproach and his manners those of a gentleman.”

This is interesting, because if he had “manners those of a gentleman” he could have possibly taught those lessons of etiquette to Alexander, since he was described pretty early on as being very gentlemanly, and this could have been a start for him. However, the sentiments Hamilton shows in this statement about his dad were not always the case. 

You already heard the story of him and Rachel, so I’ll give you this quote from his great grandson:

“Hamilton’s father does not appear to have been successful in any pursuit, but in many ways was a great deal of a dreamer, and something of a student, whose chief happiness seemed to be in the society of his beautiful and talented wife, who was in every way intellectually his superior.” 

Okay, mansplain manipulate malewife.

Sooooo.... about him leaving his family and all that.

He was still leeching off his brother when they moved to St. Croix, and he served as head clerk for Archibald Ingram. Ingram asked James to collect debt from Alexander Moir. The lawsuit ended in January 1766, and after winning, he left his family. 

His sudden move could have been motivated by Lavien’s bullshit. However, according to Chernow, “These scenarios seem unlikely given that James Hamilton never appeared on the St. Croix tax rolls, suggesting that he knew all along that he was a transient visitor.”

His son says that it could have been because of the debt, which is the most likely reason in my opinion. 

“You no doubt have understood that my father’s affairs at a very early day went to wreck, so as to have rendered his situation during the greatest part of his life far from eligible. This state of things occasioned a separation between him and me, when I was very young.”

Now, it’s time for the Hurricane letter. This is arguably the most famous of Hamilton’s writings, and really the only one from his youth that’s talked about, but it’s mostly used to discuss the hurricane itself, but I think it really shows his frustration towards his father.

In the letter, which is addressed to his father, he blames the cause of the hurricane that caused devastation to St. Croix on the populace of the island, and their ungodliness and sin, and some of the traits he lists as the causes line up with descriptions of his father, or how an “illegitimate” son might view his father who abandoned him. 

“The following letter was written the week after the late Hurricane, by a Youth of this Island, to his Father... ‘Where now, oh! vile worm... What is become of thine arrogance and self sufficiency?... How humble, how helpless, how contemptible you now appear. And for why? The jarring of elements--- the discord of clouds? Oh! impotent presumptuous fool! how durst thou offend that Omnipotence, whose nod alone were sufficient to quell the destruction that hovers over thee, or crush thee into atoms? See thy wretched helpless state, and learn to know thyself. Learn to know thy best support. Despise thyself, and adore thy God.’”

James Hamilton stayed in the Caribbean, living on several island St. Vincent by June, 1793. Alexander attempted to come into contact with him, but to no avail. He died some time in the 1790s. 

“But what has become of our dear father? It is an age since I have heared] from him or of him, though I have written him several letters… Sometimes I flatter myself his brothers have extended their support to him, and that he now enjoys tranquillity and ease. At other times I fear he is suffering in indigence. I entreat you, if you can, to relieve me from my doubts, and let me know how or where he is, if alive, if dead, how and where he died. Should he be alive inform him of my inquiries, beg him to write to me, and tell him how ready I shall be to devote myself and all I have to his accommodation and happiness.” -Alexander Hamilton to his brother James 

James Hamilton Jr

There really isn’t much to say about James Jr, but I can tell you the little about him Chernow put in his biography.

James was born two years before Alexander. When his mother died, he and Alexander stayed together. He, along with Alexander, had to deal with the complicated court decision after their mother’s death. 

The court had to decide how to split the inheritance between her three sons. Rachel left behind debts, and their property was immediately claimed.

“The court decided that it had to consider three possible heirs: Peter Lavien, whose father divorced Rachel ‘for valid reasons (according to information obtained by the court) by the highest authority,’ and the illegitimate James and Alexander, the ‘obscene children born after the deceased person’s divorce.’“

This court case exposed James and Alexander to the unfortunate reality of their mother’s life, which really affected Alexander and the way he viewed women.

During the year they were waiting for the decision, all of Rachel’s property was auctioned. Alexander’s uncle bought back his books for him. 

Eventually, the decision was made to disinherit the two illegitimate sons, and in November 1769, Peter Lavien claimed the estate, and gave no relief to his half brothers. 

James and Alexander were placed under the guardianship of Peter Lytton, their first cousin. (TW for suicide and mental illness, skip this paragraph). According to Peter’s brother, he was “insane”, and he also had a black mistress. On July 16, 1796, Peter Lytton died from suicide, and either “stabbed or shot himself to death.” 

Peter wrote a will for his mistress and child, but excluded James and Alexander. Their uncle attempted to help, but couldn't do much, and died a month later. He also excluded his nephews from his will. 

Then left to be an apprentice carpenter to Thomas McNobeny. The carpentry industry was one of the industries that people of color mostly worked in, and white people who worked in those industries were considered stupid and less then, since they had to compete with people of color. 

James wrote to Alexander sometime in 1785 to ask for money. (here’s Alexander’s response). He possibly died in 1786. 

In my personal opinion, he seems kind of distant from Alexander, but still protected him, and his mother likely put him in charge of his younger brother, since that was typical of the 18th century. Because of his circumstances and social standing, he would have been hardworking, but not very well educated. 

[lacrimosathedark]

Hamilton Inaccuracies/Corrections (because why not?)

Okay so, I saw a post on reddit that was like, “what’s some inaccuracies in Hamilton off the top of your head?” and I got a whole bunch...and then I had to double check to make sure if I was right...and I’m pretty long-winded...and  now I have this 5,000ish word monstrosity. And apparently you can only post 1000 characters at a time on reddit. Laaaaame. So here’s some Hamilton facts I’ve gathered in my brain. Since it was kinda off the top of my head despite being so long, it’s kinda vague in some places, so if anyone wants to expand on anything (or correct me if I oopsed somewhere) please do! Though nicely please.

Also I am also awful at citing things, but I know I learned some of this from @john-laurens and @ciceroprofacto so thank you.

LET’S BEGIN!

Act 1

Rachel Faucette was not a prostitute, but she was a “whore” in the sense that she did what she fucking wanted with her body. During her first marriage she may or may not have been sleeping around, but she refused to stay with John Lavien, her husband, anymore. So he had her arrested. And he could do that. Because patriarchy and theocracy. And she was essentially put in solitary confinement. You can see why she tried to leave, right? She tried to get their marriage annulled or get a divorce. I forget what the issue was but she couldn’t and eventually she just moved to another island where she met James Hamilton.

The intro song makes it seem like Alexander was an only child. He actually had an older brother, James Jr., but he kinda fucked off after their mother died, working and taking care of himself. They also had an older half-brother Peter Lavien, but I don’t think they really knew him other than as the son of their mother’s abusive ex who took everything from them when she died. John Lavien was able to do that because when Rachel was with James Hamilton, she had not been able to get legally divorced from him so she wasn’t really married to James Hamilton, so James Jr. and Alexander were illegitimate ie bastards. He was an asshole. I don't think Peter had anything against the Hamiltons, but I think he grew up to be a Loyalist so. He actually made some trouble in South Carolina for Henry Laurens, John's dad! But I think I read somewhere he also left money for Alex and James Jr. In his will, which is sweet.

This is more visual since it’s not specified in the song, but in the show, Hamilton’s cousin mimes hanging himself. Peter Lytton’s cause of death if I recall was inconclusive, but he was in his bed and there was a lot of blood. So, yeah, he didn’t hang himself.

Alexander did not punch the bursar. However he did return to Princeton later during the war and blew a canon through the school and apparently decapitated a painting of King George lololol. He was under orders, but yknow. Probably felt pretty good after he was rejected for accelerated courses. He wasn’t the only bastard rejected, though! Ben Franklin’s bastard son was too. The guy in charge of admissions, Witherspoon, hated bastards as a concept and Princeton was a very religious school at the time I believe.

It may have been the plan by Aaron and Esther Burr for Aaron Jr to graduate Princeton, but like, he couldn’t really be sure of that? He was like 2 years old when they died, and his older sister Sally was 4 I believe, maybe 5.

Hercules Mulligan met Alex in 1772. His older brother Hugh knew Alex’s old employer in St. Croix and helped him get to mainland America. Alex and Hercules lived together for a long while, and Hercules is actually who got him interested in the revolution.

John Laurens was in England in 1776. He wouldn’t meet Hamilton and Lafayette until he accepted his post as Washington’s aide-de-camp upon his return in August of 1777.

Lafayette couldn’t have met Hamilton before August 1777 because that’s when he met Washington, and he was appointed as a volunteer to the Continental Army only a week prior, and before that he had been in France. But Lafayette later declared their relationship to be like that of brothers, Alexander his closest connection in the states besides Washington.

Lafayette admired and absolutely adored Laurens and they were besties, but neither of them knew Mulligan. They may have met in passing, or heard about him from Hamilton, but nothing more.

“Lafayette” was actually a nickname based on his title of “Marquis de la Fayette”. In his autobiography, he wrote: “It’s not my fault I was baptized like a Spaniard, with the name of every conceivable saint who might offer me more protection in battle.” I’m glad he thought it was funny at least. His name is Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de la Fayette.

Hercules Mulligan is not known to fuck horses.

The Revolution had already sorta started. Actually, Hercules and Alexander had been part of local militias before 1776.

This is more of a miscommunication since the actors are close in age, though the lyrics try to get it across. There’s a reason Mulligan says he’s got the others “in loco parentis”. In 1776 Hamilton and Lafayette would have been 19, Laurens would have been 22, and Mulligan would have been 36.

I think we all know “Laurens, I like you a lot” does not cover the scope of their relationship but that’s rather self explanatory so unless someone asks I’ll leave it at that. And for other clarifications. But at the very least I’ll share this: Anyone who saw them knew they were like attached at the hip (without knowing how attached *winkwonk*) and you could almost always contact one through the other. Laurens was notoriously bad at answering letters, to Hamilton too (and Alex did bitch about it because he is insecure and needs love), but it became quickly known he got back to Hamilton fastest so people would be like “Tell Laurens I said hi!” or “Hey, I need to get these to Laurens, you send them to him.” Which is hilarious. I just imagine Alexander going, “Why me?”

While all of them are Revolutionaries, Laurens is the only one you could solidly call an abolitionist, and Mulligan’s even shaky on the manumission part. He was supposedly part of the Manumission Society Hamilton helped start, but Mulligan also personally owned slaves and was never known to have freed them (One helped him with spy shit. His name was Cato!). In fairness, Hamilton and Lafayette wholeheartedly agreed with Laurens, and Hamilton was the biggest supporter of his battalion plan, and both of them did try to continue working towards equality after the war, but it was never the top priority for either of them and their lives kinda went to hell, so it fell to the wayside. Lafayette actually did some nifty stuff worth looking at, and Hamilton might have tried to keep one of John Lauren’s freed men from Henry Laurens! But as slavery stuck around for a while, it clearly wasn’t anything significant.

Angelica would meet and befriend Thomas Jefferson in Europe, but she would never manage to convince him to put women in a sequel because he’s a huge misogynist and told her in multiple letters that politics isn’t for women and I think he deserves a shoe up his southern backside. Side note, it always bothered me that Lin played up the misogyny in the musical. I mean, yeah, all of them would be misogynists compared to us, but for their time, Hamilton wasn’t so bad. If there was anyone to play up misogyny with, it was Jefferson, because he would tell Angelica for years and years that politics could never make women happy, and that the women in France were foolish for trying etc.. Hamilton would actually discuss politics with Angelica frequently and openly. And there’s a proto-feminist in the cast that was never recognized—Aaron Burr! He respected Theodosia Sr. as an equal and she was his most valuable political ally, and he made sure Theodosia Jr. got the same education any boy of her time would have. He actually respected women to a decent degree. Not to say he wasn't as much of a ho as Hamilton cuz yeah that's accurate (but they were both disaster bisexuals more on Burr's sexuality later)

Farmer Refuted was an essay Hamilton wrote arguing against Samuel Seabury's posts. They weren't shouting in the public square(but Lin got the sass right. I love his face when Hamilton and Seabury are fighting over the podium). Seabury was also really really old, not young and cute like Thayne, hence the line about "mange". Blech.

General Montgomery didn’t take a bullet in the neck, it was a grapeshot from a canon in his head (and his thighs), but close enough I guess. Side note: Burr actually served a short interim on Washington’s staff, but only for like 10 days because they hated each other lolol.

Alexander didn’t bring Laurens, Mulligan, or Lafayette to Washington. Lafayette joined up with the Continental Army in 1777 and quickly convinced them he wasn’t like the other French nobles; he was a glory-seeking kid with a boner for America (for some reason???). Laurens was requested by Washington to join his military family and he arrived also in August 1777 just after Lafayette. Like previously stated, Mulligan was doing shit even before Hamilton did.

Alexander would not have been in charge of spy shit (though may have been somewhat involved). Washington had people like Mulligan for that, who actually saved Washington a few times. But also, the "King’s men who might let some things slide" was the tactic Mulligan used. He was actually very charming, and his wife was very high in British society and he was a skilled tailor, so they were thought of well among the redcoats, and he got a lot of information through chatting with his customers. He also could usually smooth-talk his way out of trouble. Actually, Mulligan blended in so well, when the war was over, people in the city wanted him out cuz they thought he was a Loyalist. So George fucking Washington paid him a visit and commissioned I think a coat from him, and that cleared that up. He got a LOT of business after that.

Alexander would not be Washington’s right hand man, or at least, not his only one if Lin was using that to mean aide-de-camp. In that case, Laurens would also be Washington’s right hand man, along with many men not named in the musical.

John Laurens may have been reliable with the ladies (comes with the territory of being hot, rich, and a perfect gentleman), but he most certainly didn’t want to be. His father noted, rather proudly at the time, that as a young teenager he expressed no interest in girls. John was also married by 1780, and at least Alexander knew. (he told John he'd found out in the well-known April 1779 letter. You know... “Cold in my professions...find me a wife...the length of my nose...” That one.) Because John apparently didn't tell people he was married. Laurens. Sweetheart. Get. Your. Shit. Together.

John also would not be at this ball. February 1779 to March 1780 he is fighting down south, and this ball was early 1780.

The tomcat thing may be half true. Martha Washington did supposedly name a cat Hamilton, but it was an affectionate thing. The slang tomcat meaning ho wasn’t a thing at that time, so it couldn’t be named to tease Alex for his promiscuity. I believe this was one of the many things John Adams made up to slander Hamilton.

Hamilton and Eliza had met before 1780. They had met once two years prior at a dinner her father had hosted. Also, Hamilton had been courting her friend Kitty Livingston, and his friend and fellow aide Tench Tilghman had been attempting to court Eliza, and they’d actually done at least one sort-of double date (which is adorable). So this shouldn’t have been the first time they’d seen each other. Could still be when they fell in love, though, since they started courting after this. Which is cute to think about.

Speaking of Tench and Eliza! I don't remember when this took place but Tilghman journaled it, he went out on something of a hike with a few ladies and they got to a cliff. Of course, he had to help the girls climb up. Except Eliza who started climbing by herself like a natural to the bewilderment and likely horror of the other ladies. Elizabeth Schuyler was a bamf okay?

Of course everyone knows by now, Angelica was married before Eliza. During the Winter’s Ball, she’d already eloped with Jack Carter aka John Barker Church and run away to Boston.

Their courtship was not that fast. Not like, weeks. More like months. Fun fact, Eliza is the only of the five (yes FIVE) Schuyler sisters who didn’t elope and actually got her parents permission! But here’s a heartbreaking fun fact: while Alex was courting Eliza, Laurens was taken prisoner and then on probation. He wasn’t allowed to leave the state of Pennsylvania. He was mentally in a very dark place. Alex kind of procrastinated telling Laurens about Eliza, didn’t say he was courting anyone until they were already engaged.

I can't leave this alone if I'm sad you have to be too. Alex was hella depressed during this time too. Of course he was a soldier so he couldn't see Eliza as much as he'd have liked. On top of that, he kept pushing for an exchange for John and kept getting rejected because they couldn't show preference for him. And then Laurens was sending him very few letters, of course, and the ones he did send were very depressed, even suicidal sounding. He had to work while dealing with that. He had to keep begging Eliza to write to him to be reassured that she still liked him.

No one could show up for Hamilton for the wedding. Some sources say fellow aide James McHenry showed up, but he’s the only one. Alexander even invited his deadbeat dad, offered to pay all his travel expenses and everything, guess how that turned out. So Eliza’s side of the hall was packed and his was empty. God, can you imagine how sad that is?

Another heartbreaking fun fact! John Laurens was out of probation and could have made it to the wedding, was invited (Hamilton, I kid you not, jokingly invited him to a threesome with his new wife in a letter: “I wish you were at liberty to transgress the bounds of Pensylvania. I would invite you after the fall to Albany to be witness to the final consummation.” (emphasis is original to Hamilton. As is the misspelling of Pennsylvania. Yes, seriously.)) and John did not go. Instead he went back to work trying to talk his way out of getting sent as an envoy to France and suggesting Alexander to take his place. You know. His boyfriend who just got married. Sure, he was right that Hamilton was better equipped for the job, but yknow. Another fun fact, one of the guys who voted for John to be the one to go to France was John’s ex-boyfriend Francis Kinloch. Who was a turncoat, and had been a royalist when he and Laurens split. How’s that for some twisty bullshit.

Sorry, this one isn’t about the musical, it’s a tangent, I just got excited about that quote. Both that style of innuendo and the misspelling of Pennsylvania are consistent in Hamilton’s writing. Listening to john-lauren’s podcast about the April 1779 letter can really help you understand how Hammy uses innuendo but also I just love listening to it it’s insightful and hilarious and I love John Laurens but y u do this and my heart hurts for Hamilton but he is also a ho but aNYWAY. As for Pensylvania...well, he kinda made that mistake on an important document. ...It’s The Constitution. He misspelled Pennsylvania on The Constitution. No big deal. Not like something that could haunt his legacy forever. Oh my god I’m so sorry.

Philip Schuyler did have sons. Five in fact. Two of them died pretty young though I think, considering there are three kids in a row named John Bradstreet Schuyler. The other two were named Philip Jeremiah and Rensselaer.

Laurens, Lafayette, and Mulligan were all married before Hamilton. Hercules Mulligan married Elizabeth Sanders in 1773. Lafayette married his beloved Adrienne in 1774. John Laurens was regretfully obliged to marry Martha Manning in 1776.

Sigh. Again with the misogyny. Anyway, I wanted to comment on the marriage as a loss of freedom. From what I can tell, Elizabeth helped Hercules with his spy work at home. John was literally fighting a war across the ocean from his wife, and probably having an illegal affair with Alexander (though to be fair to him, he was kind of running away from Martha because he didn't marry her for love, gosh, there are no winners here). Lafayette absolutely adored his wife but still was also fighting a war an ocean away, and had multiple affairs, at least one with his wife’s blessing. So yeah, losing your freedom with marriage? Bullshit.

Despite where it is in the musical and Eliza singing the beginning, Stay Alive is roughly about Valley Forge, which would be December of 1777 through June of 78. So before the ball and wedding. (Fun fact! A lot of people theorize Valley Forge as when Hamilton and Laurens’ relationship may have escalated into romantic and/or sexual territory. They may have had more privacy, as small temporary buildings were being made to better withstand the cold, and Hamilton was sick a lot during that time and did need tending a lot. West Indian boi did not like Northern winter.) But yeah, Congress being stupid and the army resorting to eating their horses sometimes and not being able to buy food and equipment? All true. It was a real bad winter.

Mulligan wouldn’t have to go back to New York, he never would have left. He remained there as a tailor and a spy throughout the war. He wouldn’t have been traveling with Washington.

Hamilton and Laurens didn't write essays so much as start working out John's battalion plan and writing letters trying to push for it.

This duel happened in 1778, so like. This timeline is so fucky.

Stay Alive makes it seem like Hamilton was the one who wanted to duel Lee, but it was 100% Laurens from the start. The off-Broadway version demonstrates it a bit better. Hamilton was Lauren's second to save his ass. Hamilton had a rough relationship with Washington, but Laurens admired him greatly and would have willingly defended his commander’s honor. John was a Good Boy who always bowed his head to his asshole father, even at first for his battalion plan, but John wouldn’t let even his father talk shit about Washington. Fun fact about this duel, Alex and John were late to the duel because they “got lost in the woods”. Oooookay. Suuuuuuure. And Baron von Steuben was straight. (Fact: Steuben was very gay and pretty much pushed out of Europe for it. And he actually also had challenged Lee! They talked things out before this.)

Aaron Burr was not Charles Lee’s second. His second was a Major Evan Edwards. Lin wanted a parallel with the final duel. To be fair, that was a really cool way to do it and I like it better that way.

Alexander Hamilton could NOT agree that duels are dumb and immature. He was in 10 duel challenges as a participant in his lifetime, 9 of which he was the challenger. One time he challenged two people at once. One time he challenged an entire politcal party apparently. No, I am not kidding. He had a bad day. And I think you know the one time he wasn’t the challenger.

Lee did not yield on the first shot, nor was Laurens satisfied. Lee was pretty much like, “It’s just a flesh wound!” and wanted to go another round and Laurens agreed, but Hamilton and Edwards managed to talk them down. Yes he was shot in the side. But that wasn’t all because Laurens absolutely roasted Lee at his court martial. 

Lee: Were you ever in an action before?

Laurens: I have been in several actions; I did not call that an action, as there was no action previous to the retreat. 

I love this man. So much. The sass of this man.

We don’t know if Washington was angry about the duel with Lee. We do know that Laurens, and probably Hamilton, had Christmas dinner with him two days later. When Hamilton left, it was because Washington had snapped over a misunderstanding (caused by Lafayette actually, and he really tried to make it better because Lafayette is a sweetheart), and then continued to deny Hamilton the command he requested, and he resigned. It was entirely unrelated to the duel and Laurens. However, the daddy issues are real.

I don’t know if Lafayette went to France for more funds and came back with more guns, but Laurens certainly did! Ben Franklin told him to chill, but he actually got super impatient and ended up supposedly disrespecting and maybe kinda threatening the court, demanding what he needed, and walking out. They were were kind of shocked and impressed into giving more than had been requested. Any existing deities bless John Laurens. I love him.

Lafayette actually nominated his own aide to lead the charge and Hamilton appealed for himself and Washington finally gave in to Hamilton.

Laurens was not in South Carolina. When he finally got back from France, he was sent to Yorktown. He actually was commanding the group Alexander led. (Power couple lol) He also helped with negotiations after the battle. Also, supposedly making the British play ‘The World Turned Upside Down’ on their way out was Laurens’ idea because boy is made of sass and spite.

Henry Laurens would not have sent a letter to Hamilton about John’s death. Even if he would have, he couldn’t. At that time, he’d been locked up in the Tower of London as a prisoner. We have no idea when or how Alexander found out, or who might have told him. We know he wrote to Nathanael Greene on October 25 and Lafayette on November 3 (literally 2 months after Laurens' death), and the mentions of Laurens were very short. It’s thought that he really couldn’t talk about Laurens. People have compared it to the stories of how Benjamin Tallmadge apparently couldn’t hear Nathan Hale’s name without crying.

After Yorktown Alexander resigned and John went down south to flush British troops out of the southern states. His group was ambushed at Combahee River and he decided to charge instead of wait for backup and he died. Many people think it was a combination of his usual recklessness, suicidality, and glory-seeking mixed with a desperation with the war coming to an end. It was such a small skirmish. He deserved better. He left his daughter, Frances, whom he had never met, orphaned, as her mother had died months earlier from sickness. She was adopted by John’s oldest younger sister, also coincidentally Martha Laurens (though married was Martha Laurens Ramsay).

The Levi Weeks case was years later than that, in 1800, though it was alongside Burr. Hamilton actually lost his first trial as a defense lawyer and was not with Burr.

The whole conversation where Hamilton proposes Burr help him write the Federalist Papers is fake. Lin made that up entirely.

John Church’s wealth kinda...varies. He was a gambler. At first, he was actually in quite a bit of debt. He did make it big eventually and he and Angelica moved to Europe. He really didn’t seem to be a lot of fun to most people, but Angelica eloped with him. She chose him against her father’s wishes. I don’t get why Lin kept writing lines saying she didn’t love him, at least at first. He also does this in the cut song Congratulations where she says “I languished in a loveless marriage” bish you eloped wat She also lived as a socialite and was adored by anyone who met her apparently, so like???? da fuq Lin. Didja really do Laurens dirty for these lies or at the very least uncertanties? Could you not prop up that romance without making her say she hates her husband?

Act 2

More of a personality miscommunication. Irl Thomas Jefferson was shy, quiet, and hypersensitive, nothing like how Daveed plays him. If you knew a guy like the real Jefferson in real life you might be endeared to him out of pity or because he seems sweet, but in the short time of a musical that would immediately be read as cold and unlikable. So the best way to portray “this guy is a likable asshole” is to make him loud and made of sass which is what Daveed does magnificently. So, not at all accurate to real Jefferson, but gets the concept of him across.

Thomas was not off getting high with the French. Probably. He was making negotiations for the Revolution. And abusing Sally Hemings (his, at the time, 14 year old slave, who was also his sister-in-law, and 30 years his junior, and was brought along to entertain his daughter). And actually probably chatting up with Angelica!

By the time Philip was 9, he had two sisters, Angelica (7) and his foster/adopted sister Frances Antill (6), but he also had two brothers already, Alexander Jr. (5) and James Alexander (3), with maybe another one on the way since William Stephen would be born next year.

The whole comma thing is backwards. It was Angelica who made the initial mistake. Hamilton pointedly and flirtatiously teased her about it before closing it with “Adieu ma chere, soeur” French for “Goodbye my dear, sister”. So it’s more playful and less lovey dovey in context, so the tone is all wrong. It’s not romantic, it’s teasing and snarky.

Say No To This feels like it’s over quick. The affair lasted a year, not just the summer Eliza was away.

Clermont Street wasn’t renamed until many years later.

I don’t know that Alex has always considered Burr a friend. Irl they weren’t as close, and Hamilton was keenly aware of how slimy Burr could be.

Lafayette was NOT fine. He was imprisoned a lot during the French Revolution, the poor man, and many members of his wife’s family were killed. HOWEVER! Hamilton was not just sitting by. Angelica and her husband did make an attempt to rescue Lafayette, and the Hamiltons fostered Lafayette’s son Georges Washington Lafayette (yes that was his actual name). So Hamilton also did not forget Lafayette.

Not all his defendants got acquitted, obviously. Stop being cocky, Ham.

People comment on how Jefferson whines about Hamilton’s fashion sense while literally dressed in violet velvet. The original plan was to have him in browns, but Daveed is just such a friggin star that they just had to give him something brighter and decided to go with a Prince-inspired look. Originally the browns were going to be representative of his supposed representation of farmers. Though note here: Jefferson’s agricultural representation is much the same as modern Republicans’ rural representation. More for show.

Actually, let's get political for a sec. I've done some research in my hyperfixation and in searches for Hamilton shiz I've ended up stumbling into far-right nonsense and I know how to recognize the degrees of nonsense from years of actually paying attention to it now because this is what I do apparently. Which is weird, right? Lin kinda portrays him like a lefty. Well, here's the thing. Any proud historically educated Republican will tell you that their roots are in the Federalist Party. Which is technically true. What they will neglect to mention is the flip between parties that happened when the Republicans decided to use southerners racism to their advantage in elections. Being subtly racist can get the racists and the non-racists on your side! Yeah, it's gross. Federalists are more like Democrats. The corporatists. They clearly care more about companies and Wall Street, but they put actual action into social progress on rare occasion. Democratic-Republicans are like Republicans, conservatives who don't want social change and rail against it and pretend they aren't for corporate interests while being just as bad as the other guys. But Republicans have a tendency to rewrite history to paint themselves as the good guys, or reclaim things that aren't theirs as their own. Just look at the Civil War! Or...literally just...America I guess. Yikes. But yeah, here's your warning. Don't just go looking at and trusting things labelled Federalist. It likely won't be friendly.

John Adams didn’t fire Hamilton, Hamilton left. Eventually. And this is not the only time this kind of verbal confrontation happens, and not the one that destroys the Federalist Party. That actually happens after the Reynolds Pamphlet. But John Adams hates Alexander Hamilton with the burning passion of a thousand suns and really kinda earns this.

I’m not sure if he specifically called Alex a Creole bastard but I wouldn’t be surprised, there were other similar racist and bastard-related insults. You know the tomcat thing mentioned above. He started the rumor of the affair with Angelica. He accused him of being a rake (male version of whore at the time). He also may have behind closed doors accused him of being a sodomite. His (probably gay) son Charles helped with that one, bringing back rumors from a dinner he had with Hamilton (who he was working for) and John Church because Church joked about Alex being fond of a guy. Adams probably thought working for Hamilton was what made his son gay and alcoholic (Charles was an alcoholic and may have died in part because of that; Hamilton was not an alcoholic, but he supposedly could not hold his drink. He was smol).

Jefferson, Madison, and Burr didn’t accuse Hamilton of speculation. It was James Monroe, Abraham Venable, and Frederick Muhlenberg. Lin wanted to keep consistent representation of the Democratic-Republican party. But anyway, the whole thing went to hell because Monroe sent the letters to Jefferson (or I’ve also heard Monroe gave them to Madison who sent them to Jefferson) who, the spiteful gangly fucker, started spreading rumors because fuck Hamilton, amirite? Hamilton challenged Monroe to a duel over that. And who stopped this duel? Aaron Burr. He gets to be the good guy now and then.

It wasn’t just total strangers that got Alex off the island. He was sponsored by his cousin Ann Lytton and his teacher Reverend Hugh Knox. Also, he was kind of expected to get an education and come back and help out the island...guess what he never did. Oops.

This one I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure. I think Eliza was upstate with her family when the Reynolds Pamphlet was released, away from Alex. I also know she had recently given birth to their son, William Stephen. A lot of people think Alexander had been keeping that in mind. Eliza had had a miscarriage once before, when she was under a lot of stress and alone and with the kids and he had to be away (Whiskey Rebellion), so some people think he made sure she was surrounded by her family and waited until the child was born to drop this on her, and gave her distance from him if she needed it. At least he knew he fucked up, and he really did love her.

Those weren’t Alexander’s guns. They belonged to John Church.

It was quite some time between Philip’s challenge and the actual duel.

Another age miscommunication; Eacker was 27ish and Philip was 19 when the duel happened. There was a whole 8 years between them! 

Eacker didn’t shoot early. Actually, both of them stood staring at each other for a really long time doing nothing. But Philip went to make a move and Eacker shot him.

Alex and Eliza had made up from the Reynolds Pamphlet bullshit before Philip died. When he passed, Eliza was already pregnant with the son they would also name Philip in honor of his older brother.

Hamilton wasn’t really the deciding factor in the election of 1800. But he did say that about Burr and it did help swing the vote somewhat. But also, this was before Philip died. Philip died in 1801.

If a vote is that close, you can’t win in a landslide??? That’s not how words work???? Mister Miranda????? You are a writer??????? Sir???????

Burr actually held a term as Jefferson’s Vice President.

The Burr vs Hamilton Duel was in 1804 and was actually about another election and other things Hamilton was saying about him. Burr was running to be governor of New York and lost but heard about Alexander telling people the things he listed Alexander saying in Your Obedient Servant.

Thayne should not have played Alexander’s doctor. Sydney should have played Alexander’s doctor. Do you know why? Philip and Alexander had the same doctor when they died. Alexander took that doctor with him to the duel. His name was David Hosack.

While there’s evidence to suggest Burr experienced immediate regret (he stepped forward as if wanting to see if Hamilton was okay and supposedly asked after him and wished him well before Alexander passed) in the years that followed, until he was on his death bed, he expressed nothing but neutrality or even pride for having shot Hamilton. The ‘the world was wide enough’ comment could plausibly be entirely made up, and even if it were true, it was supposedly said toward the end of Burr’s life. Burr's life was quite a ride after Alex. He tried to make like his own empire out of Texas, and then of course was tried for treason, but he got out of that, but then everyone hated him for that ON TOP OF already hating him for killing Hamilton, so he had some crazy journey around Europe for a while. He kept a journal, writing entries like letters to Theo. The most notable things I think he writes he'd "been amused for an hour with a very handsome young Dane. Don't smile. It is a male!" which implies maybe Theodosia knew her dad was bi and was at least amused by it? And he spent a while living with Jeremy Bentham, who is generally accepted to have been gay (if you want more Burr gayness look into Jonathan Bellamy and Robert Troup. Troup knew Hamilton too!). Unrelated to his sexuality but I find it important, Burr spent, in modern cash, $40 on a coconut, in his own words, "like an ass." He returned to America eventually. I dont remember if it was before or after his foreign adventures, but his beloved grandson (also named Aaron Burr) died, and then not long after, Theodosia was lost at sea on her way to visit her dad. No one knows what happened to her. It's so sad. Anyway he married a wealthy widow named Eliza, spent all her money on charity, and died the day their divorce was finalized. And Eliza Jumel's divorce lawyer was Alexander Hamilton Jr..

Poor Eliza couldn’t go through all of her husband’s papers. Her son, John Church Hamilton, finished the work for her when she no longer could and put together the biography that inspired Chernow’s that inspired Lin’s musical. (He named a son Alexander and a daughter Elizabeth. He even named one of his sons Laurens! Aw.) And we have come full circle.

The End :33

There’s probably more but that’s what I’ve got. Thanks for reading!

[ultrahamilham]

Also side note Johann wasted most of his wealth before marrying Rachel. So i am assuming once wed Johann got her wealth.

Rachel felt stifled by her older husband, finding him crude and insufferable. She was miserable with him.

In 1746 the teenage bride gave birth to Peter her only legitimate son. In 1748, Lavien bought a half share in another small sugar plantation, enlarging his debt and frittering away Rachel’s fast dwindling inheritance. The marriage deteriorated to the point where the headstrong wife simply abandoned the house around 1750.

Lavien ranted in a subsequent divorce decree that while Rachel had lived with him she had “committed such errors which as between husband and wife were indecent and very suspicious.” In his severe judgment she was “shameless, coarse, and ungodly." Enraged, his pride bruised, Lavien was determined to humiliate his unruly bride. Seizing on a Danish law that allowed a husband to jail his wife if she was twice found guilty of adultery and no longer resided with him.

In Fort Christiansvaern they could be whipped, branded, and castrated, shackled with heavy leg irons, and entombed in filthy dungeons. The remaining cells tended to be populated by town drunks, petty thieves, and the other dregs of white society. It seems that no woman other than Rachel Lavien was ever imprisoned there for adultery.

Lavien imagined that when Rachel was released after three to five months this broken woman would now tamely submit to his autocratic rule that:

“Everything would be better and that she like a true wife would have changed her ungodly mode of life and would live with him as was meet and fitting,” as the divorce decree later proclaimed.

In reality he had not broken her invincible spirit. Her time in jail only made her want to get rid of him more.

After staying with her mother for a week Rachel did something brave but reckless that sealed her future status as a outcast: she fled the island, abandoning both Lavien and her sole son, Peter. In doing so, she relinquished the future benefits of a legal separation.

Now James Hamilton, had also been bedeviled by misfortune in the islands. Born around 1718, he was the fourth of eleven children (nine sons, two daughters). He and Rachel met in the early 1750s. They had two known children James in 1753(?) and Alex in 1755(?).

She put her two sons in a Jewish school. A large percent of the community were Jewish. The island they lived on was full of violence and gore. Hamilton saw or lived off the violence and gore is saw daily (either with the inhumane slave treatment or duels).

Lavien wish to marry his new woman that abruptly prompted him to obtain an official divorce summons from Rachel on February 26, 1759.

In a document seething with outrage, Lavien branded Rachel a scarlet woman, given to a sinful life. Having failed to mend her ways after imprisonment, the decree stated, Rachel had “absented herself from Lavien for nine years and gone elsewhere, where she has begotten several illegitimate children, so that such action is believed to be more than sufficient for him to obtain a divorce from her.”

And so Rachel was brandish as a whore. He two sons became bastards and she couldn't have Hamilton in her name. James Sr. let the boys keep his surname.

This was how Lavien designated Alexander and his brother: whore-children. He was determined to preserve his wealth for his one legitimate son, thirteen-year-old Peter. Thrust back into the world of her former disgrace, Rachel lived blocks from the fort where she had been jailed and no longer had the liberty of posing as “Mrs. Hamilton. And most likely Alex never laid eyes on his father for the man was a workaholic and scrounging off his brother's fortunes.

Rachel and the kids were taken care of by Anne her sister and James Lytton her husband. And Rachel made clothes to sell.

In 1767 thirty-eight year old Rachel and her son Alexander contracted a unnamed illness. Rachel had to endure an emetic and a medicinal herb called valerian, which expelled gas from the alimentary canal. Alexander submitted to bloodletting and an enema. On February 19th 1767 at 9:00PM Rachel passed away as her son lay beside her. Alexander survived and attended the funeral while still ill he recovered enough to stand.

And the two were sent to their cousin Peter Lytton. Unlike in the musical Peter Lytton didn't end his own life by hanging. On July 16, 1769, PeterLytton was found dead in his bed, soaked in a pool of blood. According to court records, he had committed suicide and either “stabbed or shot himself. Peter's black mistress Ledja nor their son informed the boys.

And from there Alexander's story takes place.

Ooooh okay! That's pretty interesting!!!

[fanfics-andstuff]

Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf

1755-01-11: Olivia and Alexander Hamilton’s Birth - Olivia and Alexander were born in Charlestown, St. Kitts, and Nevis.

 1765-01-16: Hamilton’s Father Left - James Hamilton, Olivia and Alexander Hamilton's father, and a Scottish Laird, left Hamilton and his family, most likely due to the fact, Olivia, Alexander, and James Jr. were his illegitimate children. It was a relief for the children because he would always beat up James Jr. and Olivia, trying to protect their youngest sibling.

1766-02-17: Hamilton’s Mother Dies - Rachel Faucette Buck, Hamilton's mother, died on February 19, 1768. Cause of death: Yellow Fever. After her death, Alexander and Olivia moved to live with their cousin for a year. Before she died, she gave Olivia the Hamilton ring (gold ring, amethyst pearl-shaped center, and small emerald cut emeralds) that was said to be passed down from generation to generation and a navy blue and dark purple diary, she gave Alexander her necklace from George (5 sapphire petals, a red ruby center, and a thin gold chain).

 1766-02-20: Hamiltons In Court - John Lavien (Rachel’s husband) arrived wanting a divorce decree. He wanted the court to reward the entire estate to his son, Peter because the twins were illegitimate. Alexander and Olivia had their uncle, James Lytton, sign a false birth year for court documents that had them add two years their senior. The only thing they got was books taken from Peter, thanks to their uncle.

 1767-02-17: Hamilton’s Cousin Committed Suicide and James Jr. Left to Become a Carpenter- Peter Lytton committed suicide over the death of his wife. Alexander and Olivia are now, with no money and family, or destitute orphans. James Jr had to leave the twins behind to become an apprentice of a carpenter.

 1771-01-16: Alexander In Charge Of A Trading Charter - Since girls couldn’t work, Alexander had to. Turns out, that Alexander had the perfect “age” for jobs.

 1772-08-31: Hurricane Maria Hits - Hurricane Maria hit St. Croix, where Alexander was working and Olivia was nearby to look out for her younger brother.

 1772-09-06: Alexander Writes About Hurricane Maria - Alexander wrote to his father describing the storm and gained the attention of the island’s elite. He “wrote his way out”.

 1772-12-01: Olivia Receives a Letter That Alexander Died - Somewhere between these months, Olivia gets a letter that the ship Alexander was on sunk and there were no survivors. She was then sold to a family in Setauket, Long Island as a slave, where she meets Benjamin Tallmadge, Anna Smith, Abraham Woodhull, and Caleb Brewster.

 1776-09-15: Olivia Gets Freed - Thankfully Olivia was considered white, so she was taught how to improve her grammar, writing, healing, cooking, etc. She still had her Nevis accent, but Olivia could play it off by saying Spanish was her native language. Speaking of languages, Olivia was fluent in French, Latin, Greek, Italian, Danish, and Hebrew. 4 or so years later, Olivia was a free woman.

 1777-04-27: Olivia Reunites With Alexander - Olivia gets assigned as a spy for the continental army. The rest of the army gets word that she had the same last name as Alexander’s. After being reintroduced to each other, Olivia forces Alexander to take more care of himself (eating, sleeping).

 1777-09-11: Olivia gets shot in the side during the Battle of Brandywine.

 1777-10-18: Olivia And Alexander Presumed Dead - Both Hamilton twins jumped in the Schuylkill River and swam deeper, hoping the British Cavalry presumed them dead. They were washed down miles going with the current of the river. Alexander carried her unconscious body to the Patriot camp. Hercules Mulligan found the twins and helped them get to their destination quicker.

 1777-10-19: Washington Finds Out The Twins Are His - Olivia woke first and told Washington to read her diary for answers because she was too tired. He found out about Olivia’s life story and found out Olivia Rachel and Alexander James Hamilton were his biological children. Washington then found out about the Hamilton family ring and Rachel’s flower necklace. Olivia and Washington swore to never tell this to Alexander and to any human being (not a certain diary written in code that no one, but Olivia and Alexander can understand).

 1777-10-20: Olivia sneaks off to the Battle of Paoli, instead of resting.

 1777-10-21: The Locket - Washington gave Olivia a gold locket engraved with ‘Together In Mount Vernon, Virginia’ complete with a gold chain. Inside was a portrait of the Hamilsiblings (Alex, Olivia, Ben, and Laf) on the right and a portrait of the Washington couple on the left.

 1778-05-25: Olivia Comes Back - After disguising herself as a black-haired, Dutch woman, named Denise Melody, she returned to Washington about the British army. Olivia resigned as a spy because she didn’t want to come back to England ever again. But mostly, she was afraid that King George III would force her to marry him.

 1778-05-26: Olivia Becomes The First Woman General - After listening from every soldier in the Continental Army, General George Washington makes Olivia a General. The only difference is that she would be traveling with the main camp because she doesn't have enough experience to lead her own army. She helped train the under-trained soldiers, sewed clothes for those who were practically naked, negotiated with wealthy families to give the army food, helped with the battle plans because of her knowledge as a spy, and her overall kindness and empathy to everyone helped her rise to the top to not only the soldiers but to the rest of the people in the Colonies.

 1778-06-28: The Battle of Monmouth - Olivia saves Benjamin Tallmadge from William Bradford when Charles Lee ordered him to. The rest of the army arrives behind Washington. Olivia participates in the Battle of Monmouth. 

 1778-09-15: Olivia And Lafayette’s Relationship - In Olivia’s diary, she didn’t specify the date because she wrote “I believe it is the 15th of September 1778”. In the entry, she wrote about her and Lafayette’s relationship began as platonic but over time, it became romantic.

 1778-11-01: Olivia Joins The Culper Ring - After begging and pleading to her father and Commander in Chief, Olivia joins the Culper Spy Ring with the rest of the members: Benjamin Tallmadge, Caleb Brewster, Anna Strong, Abigail, Abraham Woodhull, and Robert Townsend. Olivia gets a golden band from Apollo that helps disguise her appearance with the use of the mist, she gives the other rings to the other members. They created a cover that the golden rings were from their deceased family member. In reality, they used it to signal the others when they need help or have information about the British.

 1778-12-15: Olivia As a Maid - Olivia disguises herself as a beaten and branded girl as a Caribbean slave, even though she was white by the Continental Army to John André's home to spy on him. She later resigns from her post before her next battle.

 1779-07-16: Stony Point - Olivia helps capture Stony Point, New York with the army.

 1779-11-17: Olivia And John Get Married - To keep the relationship between John and Alexander less suspicious, Olivia proposed a marriage proposal to John’s father; Henry, who knew about their secret relationship, agreed. Even though both adults were married, they had no love for the other than familial love. They agreed that their marriage was only public and behind closed doors, they would seek out their paramour (John-Alexander and Olivia-Lafayette).

 1780-06-17: Olivia’s Quadruplets - 9 months later, Olivia gave birth to 4 children: Rachel Olivia, Alexander John, George Benjamin, and Elizabeth Gilberta Laurens from oldest to youngest. The godparents of each child were Olivia-Martha Washington, Alexander-George Washington, George-Benjamin Tallmadge, and Elizabeth-Lafayette. Because of this, Olivia took a break from the army for a while.

 1780-09-23: Caleb Brewster and Olivia Find Out Arnold's A Traitor - After talking with Anna Strong, Brewster and Olivia ride full speed towards West Point, NY to deliver the message to George Washington. Ben and Olivia tried to shoot Arnold, but due to their closeness, they couldn't.

 1780-10-02: John André Hanged - André was born a child of Athena and knew about the Greek Gods. He knew that Olivia was spying on him, but didn't comment on it until they were in private before his execution. The Fates had cut his string in front of him when Olivia posed as a maid and had demigod dreams of his death. John knew that Olivia was a legacy of Apollo and Athena, he didn't want to hurt his family.

 1780-12-14: Alexander and Eliza Get Married - Eliza accepted John’s relationship with her husband as long as Alexander doesn’t cheat on her with other women.

 1780-12-15: Olivia Boards L'Hermione - Olivia joins Lafayette to bring down turncoat Benedict Arnold. They join 1, 200 troops and sail south to Virginia.

 1781-05-20: Abraham Boards L'Hermione - Abraham gets captured by the French and gave information to Lafayette, but before anything else happens, the ship gets attacked by cannons. When Brewster and Olivia identify Abraham as a spy for the Culper Ring named Samuel Culper Sr, they sail to Yorktown, Virginia.

 1781-09-28: The Battle Of Yorktown - Olivia gets shot 3 times during the battle but recovered soon after. Lafayette soon bid Olivia farewell to sail back to France. Olivia gives him her very long lock of braided hair inside a portrait locket necklace of her for him to remember her by. He also gives her a braided lock of his hair and a portrait locket of himself.

 1782-01-22: Olivia Becomes An Aunt - Phillip Hamilton was born.

 1782-08-27: John Laurens Dies - Olivia, Alexander, Hercules, and Lafayette get letters from Henry Laurens that John died in South Carolina. In her letter, Olivia receives her husband’s wedding ring. Heartbroken, Olivia vows to never marry again.

 1782-09-01: Olivia And Alexander Return To New York - Olivia gets a house in Harlem near her brother and his family. She led a quiet life with her children, unlike Alexander, for a while.

 1783-01-01: Olivia Bids Angelica Farewell - Over the course of the years, Olivia and Angelica became best friends. She hated the fact that Angelica and her family would go back to the same country they fought for years.

 1783-06-20: Pennsylvania Mutiny - Olivia watches the 10 leaders of the Pennsylvania Mutiny be gunned down by their own men beside Alexander and Ben.

 1783-09-03: The End Of The Revolution - The Treaty of Paris was finally signed which negotiated between America and Great Britain, ended the revolution, and recognized America as an independent.

 1787-10-?: Alexander Asks Olivia To Co-Write The Federalist Papers - Sometime before the writing of the Federalist Papers, Alexander asks Olivia to co-write it with John Jay, James Madison, and himself. Olivia politely declined because she believed that the three men could do it without her.

 1787-05-25: The Twins Go To The Constitutional Convention - Olivia Hamilton Laurens and Alexander Hamilton were one-half of the New York delegates. The former was the only woman to go to the Constitutional Convention. Though the twins did little in writing the Constitution, they signed the paper anyway.

 1789-02-04: Olivia Becomes The First Woman Vice President - Olivia ran for President all in good fun. The results were unanimous because she was one of the contributing factors that helped America become independent, only second to George Washington, and became the Vice President of the United States.

 1790-03-22: Olivia Meets Thomas Jefferson - When Jefferson and Olivia met, let’s just say that they will forever be enemies. This is partly the reason why Alexander and Jefferson were also enemies.

 1790-06-20: Olivia Refuses To Go To The Jefferson Dinner - Olivia doesn’t go to the dinner with Jefferson, Madison, Alexander, and a few others saying she had other things to do. But she doesn’t go because she didn’t want to be caught in the middle of a verbal fight between Alexander and Jefferson, again.

 1791-07-05: Olivia Finds Out About Alexander’s Affair - Alexander needed to speak to someone about his affair with Maria Reynolds, so he went to Olivia (naturally). Olivia slaps him and tells him about his promise to Eliza when he married her. She tells him if her husband finds out and tells/writes you to give him money to keep the affair a secret, he himself would pay entirely.

 1792-?-?: Olivia Receives Word About Lafayette’s Capture - Historians would never know the date when Olivia gets a letter that Lafayette fled from France and in prison because she only wrote the year and stopped writing in her diary for the rest of that year. They figured that she was extremely heartbroken to write.

 1793-02-25: Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf -  Olivia was poisoned by a loyalist named Micheal Key. Thankfully the poison was expired and went on to sit in Mount Vernon for hours talking about the establishment of the first U.S. bank. But due to Olivia’s frail and weak body for not eating and sleeping at the correct times, she became gravely ill. She sent her four children to Setauket with Abraham Woodhull. the week before. The four mentioned people came to her room in Mount Vernon. minutes before Olivia died. She gave Washington the locket he gave her all those years ago, gave Benjamin her sun hair comb he gave her when the war was over and her golden spy ring, gave Eliza her and John’s wedding rings and gave Alexander the Hamilton family ring and her diary (she instructed him to only read the entry about their true heritage when he is on his deathbed). She then instructed Ben to give Lafayette, her one true love, to give the gift he gave her when they started their relationship, a sapphire bracelet when he visits America once more. Olivia told the three to forgive her for leaving too early, she remembered the time she gave Washington piano lessons (which failed), the time where she forced Alexander to eat and sleep more regularly, and the time where she helped Eliza with her pregnancy with Phillip and her other children. She sang, “Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf,” which she does when she tries to reassure those around her. Olivia’s last words were, “I’ll see all of you on the other side, John, my love, I’m coming.” She was buried in Trinity Church Cemetery with a large monument. When the States learned of her death, the nation stopped working for days. Everyone who knew her (which was a lot) attended the funeral ceremony. Washington placed a bronze statue of Olivia depicting her holding a gun in her right hand and her diary in her left hand with the four rings on her fingers to show that women too, can be powerful.

 1793-02-26: Micheal Key Hanged - Because he assassinated the Vice President, Micheal John Key was hanged the next day at noon.

 1867-01-11: Olivia On Currency - In memory of Olivia, they put her face on the $20 on her birthday. However, in 1928, she was briefly replaced by Andrew Jackson but quickly regained her place after much controversy. 

 1999-12-15: Olivia Becomes Lyria - Olivia Rachel Hamilton Laurens, rebirthed to Lyria Eclair Graham de Vanily, the most powerful demigoddess of her century.

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AH and Peter Lavien connections, part 2

See part 1 here. I left off at John Kean becoming Cashier of the Bank of the U.S., 25Oct 1791, and thereafter working pretty much constantly with AH, the man whose half-brother he was in a partnership with in the early 1780s. But this was not the only way Kean and AH were tied together. 

In 1786, Kean moved to NYC and married Susan Livingston (1759-1833). Susan was the daughter of Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1710-1792) and therefore niece of William Livingston (the one AH lived with for a time) and first cousin to Sarah (married to Jay), Susannah (Suki), Catharine (Kitty) and 10 other W.Livingston/Susannah French kids. Since Susan was also one of EH’s cousins, Kean and AH were now related by marriage. 

Susan L. Kean is included in the “Subscriptions for the Relief of the foregoing [French Distressed Persons] written by AH in 1793. The subscribers are listed (in their own handwriting/signatures) as:

Mary Morris.—10 dollars Eliza Hamilton—20 dollars Th Cazenove—Ten dollars Susan Kean 5 Dols.

Unfortunately, John Kean died in 1795, and Susan became a widow. A few years after, AH offered her some financial advice in response to her request. It shows the closeness of the families (and again AH writes things that can be viewed as inappropriate when writing to his wife’s female relatives):

New York Jany 23. 1799

HONORED MADAM

How do you like, My dear friend, this mode of beginning my letter? Just as well, I presume, as I did the counterpart of it in your letter of the 18th instant, which reached me only yesterday. Are you now to be told that the more familiarly you treat me, the more you will gratify my friendship and regard for you?

You consult me on a subject about which I have less skill than you suppose & much less than many others. But whatever my advice may be worth it is at your command whenever you imagine it can be of use to you. You appear desirous of promptly knowing my opinion. According to my present lights, you will do well to invest the money you have, partly in the purchase of the Stock of the New York Insurance Company and partly in the proposed loan. I like different investments because it divides whatever of risk may be. Either of these objects will give you good interest for your money. The chance is that both will rise rather than fall in price. Both are in my apprehension safe.

Loans on real security give too little income with great trouble in the collection. And in times of great national calamity, which alone can endanger other securities, that of real property, we have seen, is not without its hazards. By watching the course of things, it is possible to anticipate dangers and to slip out of them. You ladies know better than anybody else how to make a good retreat from slippery and perilous ground.

Eliza and Angelica reciprocate the tender of affection. My friend Peter [Peter Philip James Kean, her 10-year-old son] must take care by becoming a very clever fellow to deserve success & ’tis many to one that he will then command it.

Adieu My Dear Madam

Here enters Julian Ursin Niemcewicz (1758–1841), former aide to Tadeusz Kosciuszko. Upon their release in 1796, Niemcewicz came to the U.S., eventually settling in Elizabethtown, NJ. He became the tutor of Peter P.J. Kean, and in 1800 married the mom, Susan L. Kean, but (was probably forced to) renounced any claim to her property. This is what Founders includes: “He visited Poland 1802–04 to settle his father’s estate. Never entirely comfortable in the United States, he parted amicably with his wife and her son in 1807, after the formation of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, and returned to Europe for good.” 

If you want to keep going down the line, Peter P.J. Kean (1788-1828) eventually becomes owner of William Livingston’s Liberty Hall property (read more about that, Susan L. Kean renaming it Ursino after her second husband, and Kean University here). Peter married Sarah Sabina; one of their children was Julia Kean (1816-1887), who married Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), the son of Nicholas Fish. The Keans become a political dynasty in NY/NJ, continuing to intermarry in the old Dutch NY/NJ families and becoming senators, governors, and on and on. Currently, Tom Kean Jr is a Republican minority leader in the NJ Senate running for U.S. Congress. (Watch a campaign video if you doubt that they pronounce the surname as “Kane.”) And all from John Kean coming to NY, supported in part by money and connections from Peter Lavien, AH’s half-brother. Not that much different from AH’s own story.

Back to the main parties. Peter Lavien spent way less time with their mother, Rachel, than AH did. But were there other things about the past that he would have shared with someone like John Kean? Did AH and Kean talk about their sorta shared history? Did Kean provide him with more information about the Lavien family, or did that come from AH’s Lytton relatives or others? Did any of that information make its way to AH’s description of John Michael Lavien in the copy of his 1800 letter to William Jackson/James McHenry?:

A Dane [Lavien was neither Jewish nor Danish] a fortune-hunter of the name of Lavine came to Nevis bedizzened with gold, and paid his addresses to my mother then a handsome young woman having a snug fortune. In compliance with the wishes of her mother who was captivated by the glitter of the ..but against her own inclination she married Lavine. The marriage was unhappy and ended in a separation by divorce. .. But unluckily it turned out that the divorce was not absolute but qualified, and thence the second marriage was not lawful. Hence when my mother died the small property which she left went to my half brother Mr Lavine who lived in South Carolina and was for a time partner with Mr Kane. He is now dead.

AH is still spelling it Kane! (In fairness, AH also knew a James Kane, an Albany merchant, though unrelated to John Kean.) 

It shows how much knowledge was out there about AH and his past, which is why I’ve always side-eyed the “lying about his birth year” stuff and this narrative that AH was embarrassed about/tried to hide his background. Even if he did, it would have been impossible. There were connections everywhere. 

And BTW, 150 pounds sterling (British) is today the equivalent of about 24,000 pounds. It wasn’t a shabby sum that Peter Lavien left to his half-brothers. 

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left him with nothing but ruined pride, something new inside; a voice saying, “alex, you gotta fend for yourself.’ || a comprehensive headcanon deep dive, mostly for future reference.

alexander was born to a one rachel faucette, and told his father was one james hamilton. despite alex’s later insistence that his parents were wed, this actually never did happen; the trio moved from the island of nevis to the USVI of st. croix by the time he was about eight, and his father abandoned the family by the time he was ten. then, left only in his mother’s care, he began to truly shine; she listened intently to his ramblings, battled wits with him even despite his young age. with no one there to ridicule them for it, they shone brighter than they ever had before.

his mother owned and operated a little shop on the corner of the main town square in christiansted, st. croix, where she sold an assortment of things (mainly books and souvenirs). she and her son lived upstairs, up above the shop, where their belongings were scarce. his mother, due to a previous (unhappy and abusive) marriage, often tried to hide her belongings/savings, in case her previous husband/family (the laviens) (or hamilton) ever came for them. of her most cherished belongings were a bible she received from her late mother, and a handful of pictures of her and her family (specifically, photographs of her and her only surviving sister, ann).

ann lytton, who is considerably older than her younger sister, rachel faucette, falls ill the same year the hamiltons move to st. croix, this eventually leading to her passing. alexander and his mother attend the funeral (although only a brief service), and then spend the rest of the day with ann’s husband (james) and their son (peter). alexander is only ten years old at the time, and he doesn’t fully understand death (though he knew his aunt well, the loss didn’t considerably affect him at the time); he wishes his father were around, if only to have some company in this disinterest. 

when alexander is twelve years old, his mother falls gravely ill. he, with his own weak immune system, ends up doing the same shortly thereafter. she insists on not contacting a doctor (they could barely afford rent, much less unnecessary doctors visits or medicine). then, in the early morning of february 19th, she expires in bed right next to him. alexander contacts the police and paramedics, who arrive to the scene and promptly export him to the hospital (thus separating him from his mother for the last time).

he is in the hospital for just under two weeks. he recovers enough to attend his mother’s funeral, which is also attended by a man named thomas stevens, his son (ned), and the ever-infamous lavien family (michael, and the son he had with rachel faucette, peter). it is also attended by the surviving lytton family, who supported him and his mother throughout their misfortunes; one of the hamiltons’ most prized possessions, before rachel passed, was a dining furniture set gifted to them by the lyttons; this set is taken back by the lyttons upon her passing, and everything else the hamiltons owned falls into the hands of the lavien family. the lyttons purchase alexander’s books from them, along with a few of rachel’s belongings, returning them to the boy (these becoming his only possessions at the time).

soon after the funeral, alexander is whisked off to spend a bit of time with james lytton, and a bit of time with the stevens family, before ultimately landing in the custody of one peter lytton, his cousin considerably older than him. unbeknownst to alexander, his cousin was dealing with many mental illnesses that continued to go undiagnosed and untreated. peter commits suicide only a year later, in july. alexander discovers peter’s body, attends the funeral at the side of james lytton, only to lose that man as well only a few weeks later. he is then whisked off to be (legally) adopted by the stevens family, though they rarely claimed him to be a “part of the family”; alex chooses, instead, to bounce between homes, rotating between the stevens home, his friends’ places, and homeless shelters. this continues until he hits about sixteen.

by age sixteen, he is working for local businesses, writing for local papers, and trying to prepare for college; he writes a few very beautiful pieces, and many people decide to pitch in to pay his way to New York City (where he’d already received a full ride scholarship to Columbia University). there, he studies economics and english, graduating from his undergrad studies in only three years; he also meets friends that, for the first time, support his dreams for revolution and actually want to hear what he has to say. this is a turning point for him. he ends up (very quickly) marrying his roommate, john laurens, who not only exposes him to the good and healthy part of the world, but also (unfortunately) unearths a great deal of since-internalized trauma.

he maintains very loose correspondence with his father (james hamilton), though refuses to tell anyone of this. he also maintains very loose correspondence with ned stevens, who many back home insisted held a stark resemblance to him (this is a fact many, alexander included, have come to hold as truth: the stevens’ bloodline is his true paternal lineage, making ned his half-brother). he still, to this day, maintains very scarce communication with these two, though still adamantly refuses to tell anyone of this (not even his husband, whom he entrusts with far more than he does with anyone else).

during his undergraduate studies, his adoptive mother passes away, prompting alexander to return to st. croix for the first time since his departure so many years prior. laurens accompanied him; they reunited with the stevens family (thomas, ned) and (albeit briefly) toured the town of christiansted. they walked past alexander’s childhood home (and rachel’s corner store), though he didn’t clarify to laurens why; they mostly visited a few restaurants, a coffee shop alexander frequented as a child and teen (where most of the employees didn’t recognize the name --- the older employees knew him as soon as he opened his mouth). 

he has very rarely discussed his childhood with anyone he’s met in New York; the one who knows the most is likely john laurens, though even then, he knows only the basics: alex’s mother passed, his cousin committed suicide, his father abandoned them, his true lineage likely lies in the stevens bloodline. this is all john laurens is aware of, with alexander sparing the vast majority of the details (likely for his own sake; he has never discussed at length most of this childhood trauma and he would very much like to keep it that way).

he possesses quite a few of pieces from his past, many of which laurens is still unaware of; these include: a photo of rachel soon after she moved to st. croix (this photo is displayed in the laurens-hamilton apartment, on the kitchen counter), a photo of rachel and ann when they were in their teens/early 20s, the bible his mother received from her mother, a handwritten prayer his mother wrote when he was a young boy, and a handwritten bit of poetry his mother wrote while he was in late grade school. he keeps most of this tucked away in a box within a box, hidden with his older journals; he makes no attempts to tell people to stay away from this box, though it is a locked box. the passcode to this lock is the date his mother died (021908). every february 18th, he stays up until about 1:00am, when he lights a candle, remains silent for a few minutes, then blows it out and goes to bed. he makes sure to do this when he knows he is alone (for fear of someone asking for reasoning; he isn’t yet ready to explain that, even after all these years).

he has many lingering fears from his youth: the fear of storms (specifically thunderstorms), the fear of people stealing his belongings (never to return them again; this specifically applies to his books and journals), a fear of getting too close to anyone (for fear of history repeating itself in removing them from this ever-winding narrative). he’s only aware of a few of these, and of those, he is very acutely aware of their origins; he currently visits a therapist every other week, and despite having gone for months now, has made very slow progress in opening up about his trauma. he sees this as a failure; others would likely see it as a huge success.

he will name his first child rachel, after his mother. this fact is irrefutable. 

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Amos Blanchard also states that AH's mother was American (and his father English, when most were careful to make the distinction of Scottish), so I don't think accuracy of AH's origins was of much importance to him. Nor, I think we can safely assume, did he think it would be important to his 1830s readers. I

Now it was important to come from a good family - how would one learn virtue and honor unless through the conduct of one's family? A reprobate father would have reprobate sons. This is why I suspect AH carefully shielded the facts around his mother's divorce and illegality of his parent's 'marriage," as it was a "blemish," a "delicacy," that reflected poorly on his character, as a gentleman - though it seems highly likely just from his correspondence that he at least shared this fact with Philip Schuyler and Elizabeth S. Hamilton, in addition to William Jackson (in the letter meant for McHenry). I also think he would have been indignant about being described as an orphan until he actually became one (in 1799) - I don't think we can trace in his correspondence or the memories of his friends that AH's perception was ever that his father had abandoned him - I don't even know where that comes from, except for, as below, it makes for a good story.

I agree with the speculation that Blanchard may have mixed up a story about Anne Mitchell, as she may have been somewhat well known, and he could have mistaken her for American (See post here 46ten — “My sister-in-law flying under the guillotine... (tumblr.com) ) Allan McLane Hamilton has got to be wrong (he's wrong about other stuff, too) - considering Mitchell definitely spent time with Elizabeth Hamilton in both the 1780s and 1790s, it's very likely AH spent time with her, too.

There's a lot of misogyny underlying the AH insecurity narrative, much of it based around an imagined deep feeling of anger and bitterness towards his mother that 1) he never expressed in correspondence; 2) his sons (JC Hamilton and JA Hamilton) never wrote that their father felt. It makes for a good story when it's more challenging to explain the idea of the gentleman code and the state of manners in the late 18th century Anglo-American world for an audience that is unfamiliar with those concepts.

From young adulthood on, AH maintained that he was born in 1757 in Nevis - his Columbia College schoolmates confirmed that he stated 1757 was his year of birth - and I guess everyone just accepted Nevis, too. Edward Stevens could have corrected anyone, but obviously maintained it was Nevis, too. There's no contemporaneous account linking AH to Nevis, though. However, he also couldn't just claim whatever in isolation - he had worked for a NYC merchant company, he knew people from St. Croix and the West Indies (not just Edward Stevens) and they knew him (and Philip Schuyler and lots of others who traded with Caribbean merchants), Monroe's wife is the niece of Cruger's former business partner, AH's cousins - grandsons of the Ann Faucette Lytton who was Rachel's sister - also make their way to the states and one hangs out with AH in NYC and clearly meets some of his friends. But it was certainly a good point of propaganda for his opponents to NOT have AH's mother and father around to attest to his family status that made him deserving of being considered a well-born gentleman, and certainly a good hit to call him a bastard. But his familial background really wasn't a mystery AH seemed to be hiding, as though he even could have - as some 20th-21st century biographers make it out to be. Now when one figures out why older (white, male) historians want to tell a story like that instead of the facts, well, one can start to grasp a whole lot more about American myth-making.

And Rachel's definitely dead in 1768 or thereabouts. There is a record of Peter Lavien settling the estate in 1769 - no record of whether he saw his two half-brothers while in St. Croix (if the other half-brother was even in St. Croix - James Jr is the REAL mystery - WTF happened to him?).

ETA: I'll just give it away, and write that a good part of this effort by (old, white, male) historians, besides just wanting to tell a cuter story, is trying to not let people in on the idea that the 'Founders' lived under a very different code than we do, where one's familial connections were critically important to the notion of status, which was connected to virtue and honor, and that many of the 'Founders' maintained that one should be 'well-born' in order to play a role in politics and be considered of service to society. See here: 46ten — Gentlemen Revolutionaries (tumblr.com) Part of American myth-making and maintenance of the status quo is that the 'Founders' need to be like us, so that we don't really question the systems and institutions they put in place and whether they are or should be applicable to our notions of governance and society. I'll also thrown in the caveat that the more scholarly, not for public consumption the historian is, the closer they'll get to these truths. But the myth-maker historians writing for the public are often just writing a bunch of B.S.

Since you are a purveyor of odd Hamilton takes... Came across this in American Military Biography (1830) by Amos Blanchard:

I had assumed the "orphan Alex" narrative was there from the start (and maybe this is just a very badly researched book), but that made me wonder when that actually became the default version of the story.

(Also how can you be an orphan with a living parent anyway...?)

I love my curated collection of odd Hamilton takes...some of them are printed out on a dart board so I can skewer them to hell along with the corresponding historian's picture but the ones I agree with are 100% accurate and concrete facts.

And thank you so much for sharing, this is really interesting! My first thought was maybe Blanchard was thinking of Ann Mitchell, Hamilton's cousin. She lived in America for several years, may have been his major benefactor, and he singled her out in his final letters, entreating Betsey to treat her well.

From a quick search it seems unlikely she accompanied him here (Allan McLane Hamilton thought they never met in America), but perhaps the knowledge of a maternal figure helping Ham was public at the time, and the author rolled with "mother"? I stumbled on a paper from 1952, "Alexander Hamilton: The Fact and Fiction of His Early Years" by Larson that addresses the popular myth that Hamilton received help from two friendly aunts; apparently there was an aunt Ann Lytton who died before all of this, separate from the actual helper: Ann Lytton Venton Mitchell, Hamilton's cousin. Not sure how far back that mixup goes, but maybe this author heard about this mother who was actually an aunt who was actually a cousin through the grapevine. Christ.

This did get me thinking about how I've never dug into Rachel's death because it seems like such a concrete incident. There is the 1768 probate court transaction available on founders online for anyone looking for easy access but now I'm having a second hand existential crisis. Maybe Hamilton was actually chilling with his very alive mother who is so confused rn.

I also assumed the orphan narrative thing was present from the start. From what I know, the "lacks good parentage, native land, and money" aspect was always subtly present (which is in itself honestly misleading but makes sense since he's beefing with the elite elite) but maybe not the "all alone in the world with nobody to help him" aspect.

I'm considering the various examples of people being shady, like Jefferson writing that Ham is a man who "from the moment at which history can stoop to notice him, is a tissue of machinations against the liberty of the country which has not only recieved and given him bread, but heaped it’s honors on his head". This was a letter to Washington of all people, so maybe this indicates that there was some general understanding of Hamilton's background as lacking that allowed him to say all this even in consideration of his frustrations. Newspapers alluded to it. In 1800: "And you might find yourselves equally mistaken, in supposing, that the mode of your descent from a dubious father, in an English island would be no bar in this country to the pretensions to the Presidency."

So clearly there's some aspect of the lowborn narrative peeking through, but I think it would make sense for people to believe & say that he came from questionable, middling backgrounds, but still not see him as an orphan. His childhood wasn't good or stable by any means, but he still had some support from family and benefactors going for him in America. And he never let go of his deadbeat dad for all the good that did him so he probably didn't refer to himself as an orphan, right? He didn't even like people thinking of him as lower-class, ("I have better pretensions than most of those who in this Country plume themselves on Ancestry") so I'm sure he didn't embrace the Charles Dickens characterization.

I dunno, maybe it's later historians who dug into Ham's insecurities, feelings of isolation expressed in certain letters, and his elusive background to complete the orphan narrative.

If anything, I suppose this further shows just how far back ambiguities about Hamilton's origins go. Blanchard also claims that Hamilton was born on St. Croix, and apparently there's some modern speculation that he wasn't even born on Nevis. 1830 isn't too far off from Hamilton's death; what book/person did Blanchard consult, if he even did, for this info? I also know that Adams referred to Hamilton as the "Scottish Creolian of Nevis", so Adams must've heard from a different source that Ham wasn't originally from St. Croix. So confusing.

But anyways, thank you so much for sharing this with me - I'm so bad at finding old resources, and I would've never learned that some doofus wrote about Hamilton with - gasp - a nondead parental figure.

Hope you're having a great day! :)

[yr-obedt-cicero]

If it is possible, can you tell us more about James Jr (the brother of ham sr) ?

Knowledge about James's life is very scant, and there is little to say.

James Hamilton Jr was born sometime in 1753, having been named after his father, James Hamilton. Four or two years later, James's younger brother, Alexander Hamilton, was born on the 11th of January. Rachel inherited a property in the capital Charlestown, and also three enslaved servants from her mother who were; Rebecca, Flora, and Esther, one of them had a son named Ajax. He was assigned to care for James Jr and his brother.

February 19, 1768, his mother died from Yellow Fever. The town judge supplied both James Jr and Hamilton some shoes and veils for their mother's funeral. James Jr and his brother had to wait as the court struggled to settle the complicated decision of what to do with Rachel's property, children, and debts.

“The court decided that it had to consider three possible heirs: Peter Lavien, whose father had divorced Rachel ‘for valid reasons (according to information obtained by the court) by the highest authority,’ and the illegitimate James and Alexander, the ‘obscene children born after the deceased person's divorce.’”

(source — Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow)

After that, the two Hamilton boys were sent to live with their thirty-two year old cousin, Peter Lytton. Who was a less than an ideal caretaker, with his failed business investments, and his brother considered him “insane”.

(Tw; minor talk of suicide)

On July 16, 1769, Peter was found dead in his bed, soaked in a pool of his own blood. Court records deducted it was an act of suicide, and that Peter had either shot or stabbed himself. The Hamilton boys were left out of Peter's will, and instead focused on supplying Ledja - Peter's black mistress - and their mixed-race son. Then James Lytton, Peter's father and the boys' uncle, tried to assist the them when he heard of Peter's death. But he wasn't very successful due to more court complications that came alongside Peter's death. Yet, that same year in August, James Lytton had also died; and failed to mention his nephews in his will that was prepared five days beforehand.

After this, James and his younger brother were separated, and would never see the other again. James was then apprenticed by an aging Christiansted carpenter, Thomas McNobeny. Which was telling about his limited abilities. Most white folk shied away from crafts such as carpentry, where they had to compete with folks of mixed races, or even skilled slave labor. Chernow points out that if James shown any real promise or head for business; it is doubtful that he would have dropped so low as to resort to manual work. Being an awful contrast to his younger brother, who had begun to clerk for the mercantile house of Beekman and Cruger, the New York traders who had supplied his mother with provisions. It implies James Jr was the less educated of the two, or perhaps he was more brawny.

Not much can be said about James and his adult life. But his grown-up younger brother had gained contact with him sometime in 1785. Hamilton wrote to James Jr 2 months before James sent a letter to Hamilton, in which he described his poor conditions. Hamilton soon replied with another letter;

“New York, June 22, 1785.

My Dear Brother:

I have received your letter of the 31st of May last, which, and one other, are the only letters I have received from you in many years. I am a little surprised you did not receive one which I wrote to you about six months ago. The situation you describe yourself to be in gives me much pain, and nothing will make me happier than, as far as may be in my power, to contribute to your relief. I will cheerfully pay your draft upon me for fifty pounds sterling, whenever it shall appear. I wish it was in my power to desire you to enlarge the sum; but though my future prospects are of the most flattering kind my present engagements would render it inconvenient to me to advance you a larger sum. My affection for you, however, will not permit me to be inattentive to your welfare, and I hope time will prove to you that I feel all the sentiment of a brother. Let me only request of you to exert your industry for a year or two more where you are, and at the end of that time I promise myself to be able to [invite you to a more] comfortable settlement [in this Country. Allow me only to give you one caution, which is to avoid if possible getting in debt. Are you married or single? If the latter, it is my wish for many reasons it may be agreeable to you to continue in that state.

But what has become of our dear father? It is an age since I have heared] from him or of him, though I have written him several letters. Perhaps, alas! he is no more, and I shall not have the pleasing opportunity of contributing to render the close of his life more happy than the progress of it. My heart bleeds at the recollection of his misfortunes and embarrassments. Sometimes I flatter myself his brothers have extended their support to him, and that he now enjoys tranquillity and ease. At other times I fear he is suffering in indigence. I entreat you, if you can, to relieve me from my doubts, and let me know how or where he is, if alive, if dead, how and where he died. Should he be alive inform him of my inquiries, beg him to write to me, and tell him how ready I shall be to devote myself and all I have to his accommodation and happiness.

I do not advise your coming to this country at present, for the war has also put things out of order here, and people in your business find a subsistence difficult enough. My object will be, by-and-by, to get you settled on a farm.

Believe me always your affectionate friend and brother,

Alex. Hamilton”

(source — Alexander Hamilton to James Hamilton Jr, [June 22, 1785])

The brothers seemed to have shared longer correspondence, but only a fragment survives with this one letter. James seemed to have confined to his brother about a sort of pain he is in, wether emotional or physical isn't specified.

Despite their long distance through the many years, Hamilton is happy to send his brother cash to help himself with. Which seems to his way of promising James he still cares about him as his brother; “My affection for you, however, will not permit me to be inattentive to your welfare, and I hope time will prove to you that I feel all the sentiment of a brother.”

Hamilton was preparing for his brother to move to America with him, where there he would be able to better support his brother. Even teasingly telling him that if he wasn't yet married to wait so he could get himself an American wife.

It isn't known if James Jr was still in contact with his father or not, but Hamilton seems to think so. And considering later Hamilton himself got back in contact with their father, it isn't unlikely to assume James Jr had sooner.

The letter was apparently given to the National Intelligencer by a Hamilton family member;

“A member of the family of the late General Alexander Hamilton has handed us a copy of the subjoined letter from that distinguished soldier and statesman to his brother, which it is thought will possess interest for our readers.”

(source — Littell's Living Age, Volume 60)

Although interestingly enough, James Jr disappears from the St. Croix and Nevis records after 1786. Danish writer, Holger Utke Ramsing; found that the only Hamilton recorded to be living in St. Croix after 1786 was a “Madame Anna Hamilton,” and Ramsing presumed that was his childless widow. However, Mennonite records show that, in 1889, a Benjamin Franklin Hamilton was ordained as a bishop, and he is recorded to be the son of a nephew of Alexander Hamilton.

The Hamilton National Genealogical Society has a record of James Jr apparently marrying a Catherine or Courtney Bailey in Baltimore in 1796. And then dying there in 1835, almost 40 years after his assumed death date. Ramsing assumed James had died in 1786 due to his absence in the St. Croix property records, but that would not be true if Benjamin's lineage is accurate. Ramsing did publish his findings in 1939 — so it is plausible he overlooked or was not presented with American records due to old technologically, or distance constraints. If James migrated to Baltimore in 1786, it would explain his absence from St. Croix. It isn't definitively known if Anna Hamilton was even related to James or an unrelated woman with a shared surname. As it is also possible he was common-law married to Anna before abandoning her to go to the States, but there is, unfortunately, no way for us to know for certain. Additionally, Mitchell Hamilton argues that James Jr lived on several of the southern islands before he moved to St. Vincent sometime before June, 1793.

So overall, it is likely James Jr probably left the Carribean for America like Hamilton wanted around 1786. And then settled in Baltimore, where he married a Miss Bailey and the couple had some children. To which then they had children, one of whom became a Mennonite bishop. But not much else is known about him, and there are no mentions of Hamilton and James ever meeting in America.

[brookston]

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