Alexander Hamilton: A Historical Study

Excerpt from Alexander Hamilton: A Historical Study
Alexander Hamilton, the ablest American jurist and statesman of the early constitution era of the United States, was born at the island of Nevis, one of the Antilles under the dominion of England, on January 11, 1757. His father was a Scotch emigrant who had settled at St. Christopher, where he engaged in mecantile business. His mother was the daughter of a Huguenot named Faucetted, a prosperous physician of Nevi. She had been the wife of a Mr. Irvine, also a physician, and during a brief married life dwelt at St. Christopher; but, owning to faults of his, she appears to have been driven to procure the judicial dissolution of the marriage, after which she returned to her father's home at Nevis, and there married James Hamilton.
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