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Where Was Alexander Hamilton Born?

Hamilton was born on the Caribbean island of Nevis in either or His father, the Scottish trader James Hamilton, and mother, Rachel Faucette Lavien, weren’t married.

Rachel was still married to another man at the time of Hamilton’s birth, but had left her husband after he spent much of her family fortune and had her imprisoned for adultery.

Hamilton’s father abandoned the family in and his mother died two years later.

Hired as a clerk in a trading company on St. Croix when he was just 11, Hamilton gained wider attention after he published an eloquent letter describing a hurricane that had hit the island in Locals helped raise money to send him to America to study, and he arrived in New York in late , just as the colonies were gearing up for a war for independence from Great Britain. 

Rise from Obscurity 

While studying at King’s College in New York (now Columbia University), Hamilton got involved in the colonial cause, writing pamphlet