USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The illegitimate son of a Scottish immigrant father and a British West Indian mother (who happened to be married to someone else), Alexander Hamilton was born on the Caribbean island of Nevis on January 11. Hamilton himself claimed that he had been born in 1757, but official documents from Nevis list the year as 1755.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hamilton was born on January 11, in either 1755 or 1757, on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies. (There is a dispute among historians about his actual birth year.) Today, Nevis and St. Kitts are one country, known as the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Detailed explanation-3: -He came to the Caribbean in search of wealth, but suffered a string of business failures. Adding to the family’s stigma, Alexander and his brother were born out of wedlock (his parents never married because Rachel had not divorced her husband).

Detailed explanation-4: -Alexander Hamilton was born in Charlestown, Nevis, in the West Indies on January 11, 1757 (or 1755), to James Hamilton, a Scottish merchant of St. Christopher, and Rachel Fawcett.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hamilton was born in Nevis and lived there until age nine, before his legendary political career. He also spent a number of years living in St Croix, USVI. Nevis remains the core of his Caribbean legacy.