![]() Two months later, the last hundred British troops withdrew from Manhattan, going aboard the 64-gun man-of-war Asia. Hurrying north, Washington spent a day in New York City, where, on Sunday, June 25, 1775, Alexander Hamilton braced at attention for Washington to inspect his militiamen at the foot of Wall Street. George Washington as commander in chief of the Continental Army then surrounding British-occupied Boston. In June 1775, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia chose Virginia delegate Col. In events leading up to the excerpt that follows, Hamilton was swept up by revolutionary fervor and, at age 20, dropped out of King’s College and formed his own militia unit of about 25 young men. ![]() Rejected by Princeton because the college refused to go along with his demand for accelerated study, Hamilton went instead in 1773 to King’s College (now ColumbiaUniversity), then located in Lower Manhattan. At age 17, he arrived in Boston in October 1772 and was soon boarding at the ElizabethtownAcademy in New Jersey, where he excelled in English composition, Greek and Latin, completing three years’ study in one. Knox, along with the Cruger family, arranged a scholarship to send Hamilton to the United States for his education. Hugh Knox, the minister of Christiansted’s first Presbyterian church, Hamilton found another patron. His employer was Nicholas Cruger, the 25-year-old scion of one of colonial America’s leading mercantile families, whose confidence he quickly gained. Croix) office of a New York-based import-export house. She died of yellow fever when Alexander was 13.Īfter her death, Hamilton worked as a clerk in the Christiansted (St. His unmarried parents separated when Hamilton was 9, and he went to live with his mother, who taught him French and Hebrew and how to keep the accounts in a small dry goods shop by which she supported herself and Hamilton’s older brother, James. Hamilton was born January 11, 1755, on the island of Nevis in the West Indies, the illegitimate son of James Hamilton, a merchant from Scotland, and Rachel Fawcett Levine, a doctor’s daughter who was divorced from a plantation owner. ![]() “Washington set the mold for the presidency, but the institution wouldn’t have survived without Hamilton.” “ALEXANDER HAMILTON is the least appreciated of the founding fathers because he never became president,” says Willard Sterne Randall, a professor of humanities at ChamplainCollege in Burlington, Vermont, and the author of Alexander Hamilton: A Life, released this month from HarperCollins Publishers. ![]()
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