MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
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Question
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He was not born on the island.
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HIs parents were never married.
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His mom had been to jail.
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He knew more than the other students.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In many of his letters Alexander also expressed his worry about his poverty and ability to provide for his future wife. The pair were finally married on 14 December, 1780; he was just shy of the age of twenty-four, and she was twenty-three.
Detailed explanation-2: -(Gilder Lehrman Institute) Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler married on December 14, 1780, at the Schuyler family home in Albany, New York. The romance between Elizabeth and Alexander had moved quickly-within a month of meeting, they decided to marry.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hamilton’s father abandoned the family in 1766 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 1772.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1780, Eliza married Hamilton at her family’s mansion in Albany. Their union lasted 24 years before Hamilton’s untimely death in a duel in 1804. Eliza, however, lived to be 97 years old and outlived her husband by 50 years.