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Alexander Hamilton was born on the West Indian Island of Nevis on January 11,1757, butresearch now indicates that he was born at least two years earlier in 1755. He was the son of James Hamilton(1752-99), a Scottish trader, and Rachel Faucett Lavien (1729-69). After his mothers death and his fathers bankruptcy in 1769, at age eleven he entered the countinghouse of David Beckman and Nicholas Cruger at Saint Croix. There he presented the ability to comprehend the complexities of commerce and accounting. At the age of fifteen, with the help of friends and family to help pay to further his education, he studied at a grammar school at Elizabeth, N.J., and the attended King’s College now Hamilton’s first public act for the revolutionary movement was in 1774 at a meeting held in the “fields” now known as City Hall Park in New York City. Hamilton defended the Boston Tea Party and influenced the callings for the democratically chosen delegates to the First Continental Congress. In the winter of 1774-75, he wrote anonymously two pamphlets, A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress from the Calumnies of their Enemies and The Farm Refuted, signed in
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