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Pls reblog if u vote :)

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PSA from Blobby. Something we should talk about more ❤️

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Damn, Chernow, for an “unwavering abolitionist” Laurens sure did waver a lot

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Reminder; just because Hamilton was a great dad, and very affectionate and loving to his family, does not mean he was a great guy. Nor does it erase all the inhumane and horrible shit he did, Hamilton was also a manipulator, egotist, and very hypocritical douchebag of a politician. But I think his home life shows that there are always two sides to a penny, and that the founding fathers weren't pure evil. They were human, they had their goods and their bads, and the awful. But being a wonderful father doesn't dismiss what he did outside of family.

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Omg plz

What if I wrote a whole detailed like,, essay about the Grange. Would anyone read it? I just love researching about how they planned this whole happy domestic country side life,, and all the details of how the house was made idk

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Fun historical fact; Alexander Hamilton’s favorite book was Postlethwayt’s Dictionary of Trade and Commerce.

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I’d spend the day burying his body in my back yard.

Idk if anyone ask this but would you spend a day with Tjeff?

Fuck no he’s annoying

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Yellow for sure cause you know golden retriever energy

ik i haven’t posted in forever but i have an important question

what color is lafayette???

imo laurens is blue and hamilton is green but i don’t have a color association for gilbert so im lost

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The great source of his anxiety seemed to be in his sympathy with his half distracted wife and children. He spoke to me frequently of them—“My beloved wife and children,” were always his expressions. But his fortitude triumphed over his situation, dreadful as it was; once, indeed, at the sight of his children brought to the bed-side together, seven in number, his utterance forsook him; he opened his eyes, gave them one look, and closed them again, till they were taken away. As a proof of his extraordinary composure of mind, let me add, that he alone could calm the frantic grief of their mother. “Remember, my Eliza, you are a Christian,” were the expressions with which he frequently, with a firm voice, but in pathetic and impressive manner, addressed her. His words, and the tone in which they were uttered, will never be effaced from my memory. At about two o’clock, as the public well knows, he expired.

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David Hosack to William Coleman, dated 17th of August, 1804, recalling the events of Hamilton's last hours.

Elizabeth had lined up all seven of their children at the end of his deathbed, causing him to go speechless before he would alas pass.

The expression he used "Remember, my Eliza, you are a Christian." is actually something he said often within his letters to her. As he was assuring her that their time together was not over, and that they would reunite again in heaven if they remained loyal Christians. So his last words were basically telling her that they would see each other again.

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A Glimpse of Hamilton’s Darker Side

“John Powers, a local moderate, who was hosting General Lee’s headquarters near the confluence of the Youghiogheny and Monongahela, was summoned to one of Hamilton’s temporary headquarters. Powers appeared promptly, wondering how he could be of service. When Hamilton quizzed him on the role Albert Gallatin had played in the rebellion, Powers had little information to give. Hamilton expressed disappointment and asked whether memory might be improved by Powers’s taking an hour or so in another room. Powers, confused, agreed; then, finding himself thrust at bayonet point into a room full of imprisoned suspects, he understood. He sat there, heart pounding, amid the silent, shabby prisoners. The door was guarded by a soldier with a gun. Nobody moved.

“An hour later, he was ushered back into Hamilton’s office. Still polite, Hamilton asked whether Powers had remembered anything, and Powers, frightened, said he hadn’t. Hamilton changed. The questioning had been a test, he announced; he already had the evidence he needed on Gallatin. Powers’s refusal to help only showed rebel sympathy. Hamilton called for the guard, and this time it wasn’t a test. John Powers was taken to the lockup at Fort Fayette.”

- William Hogeland, The Whiskey Rebellion, pp. 225-226.

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William Hogeland’s recounting of the Whiskey Rebellion was in a lot of ways unfairly skewed when it came to Hamilton and Washington’s motivations, but it was an entertaining read, if only to see Hamilton as the sinister, conniving, Machiavellian force of Jeffersonian nightmares. This anecdote stuck out, however, as a striking example of Hamilton’s very real ability to be both calm and polite, yet intimidating and frightening when the occasion demanded it.

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I really love looking through things about Lafayette’s trip back to America because honestly

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Side by side comparison of Philip Hamilton's handwriting (Left) and his father's, Alexander Hamilton's handwriting. (Right)

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Diddo

I love Madison x Dolley so much I can't 😭😭

I want to talk about them with somebody please PLEASE P L E A S E

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Did Hamilton drink coffee?

Yes! With some frequency, apparently–no one could keep up his pace without a good amount of caffeine, I suppose :)

William Sullivan recorded this about Hamilton’s work routine:

[W]hen he had a serious object to accomplish, his practice was to reflect on it previously; and when he had gone through this labor, he retired to sleep, without regard to the hour of the night, and having slept six or seven hours, he rose, and having taken strong coffee, seated himself at his table, where he would remain six, seven, or eight hours; and the product of his rapid pen required little correction for the press. (Sullivan, 261-62).

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"In the meantime I had previously been called upon and had gone to Greenwich whither Philip had been conveyed from Hoboken after receiving his fatal wound. General Hamilton upon recovering his feelings immediately repaired to the house … where I was in attendance upon his son. As soon as your Father ascertained the direction of the wound, examined the countenance and felt the pulse of your brother, he instantly turned from the bed, and taking me by the hand, which he pressed with all the agony of grief, he exclaimed in tones and manner that can never be effaced from my memory, 'Doctor, I despair.'"

-The papers of Alexander Hamilton Volume 25.

John Church Hamilton on his older brother's, Philip Hamilton's, death.

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What food was common in the 18th century, specifically in America? What meals did people mostly eat? Sorry for the random question. It just popped into my mind and I really want to know, lol.

This is such a fun question! The best source I can point you to is called American Cookery by Amelia Simmons. She wrote it in 1796, and it was the first cookbook by an American with specifically American recipes. It includes instructions for preparing, cooking, and dressing all different types of meats, along with recipes for pies, custards, tarts, puddings, and cakes. Also, foodtimeline.org is a fun source to get an idea of different types of food that were popular all throughout history.

Portions of Hamilton’s cashbook give insight into what type of food the Hamilton family would have been served for meals. On October 19, 1791, for example, he records purchasing: 3 bushels of potatoes, ½ a peck of pears, ½ a bushel of turnips, 3 bunches of carrots and cabbages, 8 lbs of beef, and 12 ½ lbs of mutton. That same week, he also paid for butter, eggs, apples, veal, pork, cranberries, and sweet potatoes. (Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton, p. 237-38).

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hey cicero! do you know anything abt the education of the hamilton kids?

Hi Aryan! Of course!

All of Hamilton's kids were generally highly well educated, and even Hamilton had helped them with their studies himself at times. They had pretty standard education for the time period; the girls were taught at home by their mother. And learned basic feminine things like how to read, cook, and sew, etc. And the boys would usually attend college in their teens up until they grew to adults. You can see the pattern of almost all of Hamilton's sons usually attending King's College (Columbia's College) and becoming a lawyer, or planning on it. (With the exception of William and Phil II) As it seems they were all aspiring to be like their dad and get into law.

Sometime in late in 1791, at the age nine, Philip Hamilton was sent to attend a boarding school in Trenton, New Jersey. A notable teacher of his being William Frazer, an Episcopal clergyman and rector of St. Michael's Church. It is believed he did great in school as Hamilton showed no critiques, even writing to his boy;

"Your Master also informs me that you recited a lesson the first day you began, very much to his satisfaction. I expect every letter from him will give me a fresh proof of your progress. For I know that you can do a great deal, if you please, and I am sure you have too much spirit not to exert yourself, that you may make us every day more and more proud of you."

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Philip would then enroll into Columbia college (Then; King's college. The same his dad attended, and you'll notice this pattern consistently through all the sons.) Where he was praised by Robert Troup to show reminiscence of his father; as he wrote that Philip "was very promising in genius and acquirements, and Hamilton formed high expectations of his future greatness!"

Philip graduated with honors from Columbia College in 1800, and went on to study law following in Hamilton's footsteps. Hamilton would become his mentor for his study of law from then on after. His father gave him a study routine, including waking for study at 6 o'clock every day from April through September, and not later than 7 o'clock for the rest of the year, after which, "From the time he is dressed in the morning til nine o'clock (the time for breakfast excluded) he is to read law." Unfortunately, Philip would die a year after this so he never had the chance to finish his studies.

Alexander Hamilton Jr., by the age of eight, began attending the same boarding school in Trenton, where he would join his older brother Philip, and studying with William Frazer also. He later attended the same College, Columbia college, in New York. According to historian, Ron Chernow, he graduated from Columbia in 1804, several weeks after his father was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. And acording to the St. Andrew's Society of New York, of which Alexander was a member, he "did not graduate on account of an accident, but shortly afterward began the study of law."

James Alexander Hamilton graduated from Columbia University in 1805 at the age of seventeen. But sometime in June 1804, his father assisted him in a particular speech;

"My Dear James

I have prepared for you a Thesis on Discretion. You may need it. God bless you.

Your affectionate father."

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He later studied law, and in 1809, he was admitted to the bar, and practiced law for a year in Waterford, New York.

In 1809, John Church Hamilton graduated from Columbia College, and subsequently studied law. But oddly enough, never became a lawyer and instead spent his career writing and becoming a Biographer.

I believe William Stephen Hamilton attended some type of military school, but I cannot find anything on his education because Hamilton never lived long enough to preserve any of his information, and William was a quiet and reserved man and didn't make a massive mark in history for anyone to do so for him. (He also never married or had kids, and lived half across the country from his family; so yeah no, nobody could preserve his stuff.)

Philip Hamilton II never had a college education, but was tutored by one of his older brothers in New York in law as well. (Probably James or Church, because William and Alex were off elsewhere.) And was one of the few children to successfully become a lawyer.

Unfortunately we don't know too much about the kids education after Hamilton died, as he was the one to preserve most of their stuff, and Elizabeth had to sell a majority of their stuff to stay afloat. So you can see the apparent decline in information with every kids down the line. But I hope this helps!