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I have a bad feeling about this...

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artstyle crisis still going strong (save me.)

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average rations in valley forge

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I love the fact that there is a Marquis de Lafayette Multiverse.

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It will burn🔥

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me too then i search for her and the fake one comes up and i reblog think its the real one it then i get told i reblog stolen art

ARRRGGHHHH!!!!!!!I'm so fucking frustrated. I reported you for being a fake and yet Tumblr still hasn't deleted you yet???? I mean WTF do I have to do to get the lazy motherfucking t bag staff to GET OFF THEIR MOTHERFUCKING LAZY ASSES and DELETE you already???? Pay them???? They said I could block you but WTF GOOD does that do????? I would have to make a side blog JUST TO SEE WHAT YOURE DOING!!!!!! Fuck.That.Shit.

Burn in hell you art stealing CUNT

And suck my dick!!!!!

I'm not a bully my cultish fans say I'm really "nice" and viciously attack anyone who criticizes me. Just so you know

admit your mean bully 1 i m nice 1

peeple love you an hate me

i return art ok

an calm down or you stroke owt ok by

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You just reblogged some posts by a disturbed person who is impersonating and stealing art from the real aaronburrssexdungeon blog (the fake one has one s in the middle) btw....

are people disturbing them?

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Doodles for Valentine's! (Using references from pinterest)

And a bonus where Laurens does not die AU

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Hamilton punched Jefferson within an hour of him stepping foot on The Liberty

unfortunately for him the guy he socked in the face is distractingly pretty

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happy very late valentines day

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There also really good post I read on this I try to find and reblog. I agree with 1757.

Hello! I absolutely love your blog, especially your art and information filled posts. I have a questions about the inconsistencies I have seen about Hamilton’s age. Acording to Wikipedia, Hamilton is older than Lafayette by 9 months but other sources say that Hamilton is older by 2-3 years (while Laf’s age remains the same) Could you please clear up the confusion. Thank you so much and I hope you have a wonderful day/night

Awww thanks anon, your very sweet ♥︎!

It seems my time has come to answer the century old question; 'just how old was Alexander Hamilton really?' I'm honoured to say the very least :).

So, most historians and biographers of Hamilton and the founding fathers in general say Alexander Hamilton was born on the 11th of January, 1755, on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean. This means he would've been 13 when his mother died, 17 when he arrived in America, 22 when he joined Washington's staff as an Aide-de-Camp, 34 when he became Secretary of the Treasury, and 49 when he died. The most popular believer in this theory is Ron Chernow, the man who wrote the most famous biography of Alexander Hamilton (though some of the 'facts' and takes in that biography are questionable, it's still a good read; however, I would recommend reading people on this platform's critiques of it after reading it just so you know you've gotten your facts right). The main piece of evidence we have supporting this theory is a transcript from a Nevisian probate court case about his mother's belongings not long after she died, stating Hamilton's age at 13. We know that this probate court transaction happened on February 19, 1768, and if Hamilton was 13 in 1768, then he would have to have been born in 1755.

“—where on the 19th of this month Madam Rachael Lewine died, and whose effects were forthwith sealed up, in order now to take an inventory of them for subsequent distribution among the decedent’s surviving children, who are 3 sons, namely, Peter Lewine, born in the marriage of the decedent with John Michael Lewine who, later, is said for valid reasons to have obtained from the highest authorities a divorce from her (according to what the probate court has been able to ascertain), also 2 other sons, namely, James Hamilton and Alexander Hamilton, the one 15 and the other 13 years old, who are the same illegitimate children sc. born after the decedent’s separation from the aforesaid Lewine."

(thanks again, Founders.org)

The other piece of evidence used to support this theory is two poems that were published in the Royal Danish American Gazette, the same publication that later published Hamilton's Hurricane Letter. These two poems were printed one on top of the other, and they present very different ideas about romance. Poem number one is cute and romantic, whereas poem number 2 is lustful and darker.

(you can read the poems here if you want to)

When these poems were published on the 6th of April, 1771 they were prefaced with this message addressed to the printer of the gazette:

I am a youth about seventeen, and consequently such an attempt as this must be presumptuous; but if, upon perusal, you think the following piece worthy of a place in your paper, by inserting it you’ll much oblige Your obedient servant,

A.H.

People take this as irrefutable evidence that Hamilton was born in 1755 because of the same initials. We know Hamilton really liked writing and printing a poem in this same gazette in 1772, and if Hamilton was born in 1755, then he would've been 16 when this was published, and that's 'about 17'.

But how do 1755 Hamilton believers explain how, upon arriving in America, he always stated his birth year as 1757, not 1755? Well, they say that he lied about his birth year to help him get into college. In the 18th century, a lot of kids went to college at the age of 15, or sometimes even younger, and with the 1755 theory, Hamilton would've been 17 when he arrived in America, and he would've finished prep school at 19, making him much older than the other college boys. With an age like that, getting into college would've been very difficult, so it's believed he lied that he was born in 1757, so when he applied to colleges, they saw him as a 17-year-old, far more acceptable than a 19-year-old. Also, they believe Hamilton kept going with this lie and never admitted that he was born in 1755 because to lie about one's age wasn't exactly honourable, and had the democratic-republicans found out about it, then they would've brutally mocked him for it. So even on Hamilton's gravestone, his birth year is 1757 because of his continued lie.

However, this is not the theory I believe to be true. I'm a 1757 Hamilton believer and here's why:

1. The Nevisian court wasn't great; in that same probate court case, Hamilton's stepfather's name is spelt in two different ways: 'Lewine' and 'Lavien'. They also didn't ask Hamilton or his brother for their ages; they asked one of the Lewines, Hamilton's stepfamily, whom he likely barely knew or didn't know of at all. Since they didn't know Hamilton or his brother well, they were probably just guessing their ages based on appearance.

2. We don't know for sure that those poems were written by Hamilton. A.H. is a pretty common initial, and even if they were written by Hamilton, it makes sense that he'd lie about being older because a printer would likely care less about something written by a young, unprofessional 14-year-old than he would about something written by an older, employable 17-year-old. I myself don't believe the poems are written by Hamilton at all, given how much Hugh Knox had to coax him into submitting the Hurricane Letter. We know Hamilton was very shy about publishing his work because of this message that prefaced the Hurricane letter when it was published in 1772:

'The following letter was written the week after the late Hurricane, by a Youth of this Island, to his Father; the copy of it fell by accident into the hands of a gentleman, who, being pleased with it himself, shewed it to others to whom it gave equal satisfaction, and who all agreed that it might not prove unentertaining to the Publick. The Author’s modesty in long refusing to submit it to Publick view, is the reason of its making its appearance so late as it now does.'

The hurricane hit Nevis on the 31st of August 1772. Because it says Hamilton wrote the letter a week later, he must've written it in the first week of September. It was published in the gazette on October 3 of the same year. This means the gentleman mentioned here (Hugh Knox) had to try and coax him to publish the hurricane letter for a full month. No part of the Hurricane letter is explicit or NSFW (at least I didn't interpret any part of it like that), and he published it completely anonymously, with no initials and no age other than being described as a 'youth'. If he wrote that explicit poem with his initials and rough age a year earlier, then his hesitance to publish something inexplicit without anything that could identify him a year later makes no sense.

3. Hamilton never states his year of birth as 1755 outside of the poem, and even then, like I described earlier, there's a chance that wasn't even written by him. At every other point in his life, he's said he was born in 1757. I trust his own word about himself over the Lewine's.

4. Most of the people Hamilton was close to in Nevis later moved to America, and had he been lying about his age, surely at least one of them would've heard of this and pointed it out or at least expressed their confusion at it, but none of them ever did.

I hope that answers your question, anon! That's why the age difference between Hamilton and Lafayette and Hamilton and other historical figures changes depending on your source, and with all that being said and all the facts presented to you anon, feel free to come up with your own opinion on the Hamilton birth year debate. I will forever be a 1757 girlie because I believe the evidence we have for 1755 Hamilton is just so scarce, and none of it really 100% confirms that he was born in 1755. There's always an air of uncertainty, and I trust Hamilton over the Nevisian court any day! I will still treat 1755 believers with respect though because while there isn't anything to definitively prove them right there also isn't anything to definitively prove them wrong.

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