He raises the New York Provincial Company of Artillery and is elected captain (1775).Enrolling in King’s College (now Columbia University) in 1774, Hamilton never graduates he leaves to fight Great Britain.Born out-of-wedlock to James Hamilton and Rachel Faucett Lavien, his political enemies would never let him forget that he was illegitimate.
(Hamilton claimed that he was born in 1757, but most historians now believe that he shaved two years off his age - possibly to make himself more attractive for an apprenticeship.)
Hamilton is born on the West Indian Island of Nevis, probably in 1755.Buried in the churchyard at Trinity Church, New York.
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