Alexander Hamilton

From that moment on, he was treated as a youthful hero of the cause and recognized as such by Alexander McDougall, John Lamb, Marinus Willett, and other chieftains of the Sons of Liberty

The young man gravitated to controversy, indeed gloried in it.

Seabury gave Hamilton what he always needed for his best work: a hard, strong position to contest.

Once Hamilton was initiated into the cause of American liberty, his life acquired an even more headlong pace that never slackened.

At first, Hamilton didn’t differ much from the Loyalist views espoused by Myles Cooper and was “originally a monarchist,

This nomadic, stateless boy found a home in the best possible city for a future treasury secretary, a city in which commerce always held an honored place. He was to be immersed in a heady world of business, law, and politics, and he made valuable contacts in the merchant community.

Mulligan took full credit for introducing Hamilton into

Hamilton’s attendance at the Elizabethtown Academy brought him into the immediate vicinity of the younger Aaron Burr, who had attended the same school several years earlier.

gregarious man, William Livingston conducted Hamilton into a much more glamorous society than the one he left behind

Hence, the education of this future abolitionist was partly underwritten by sugarcane harvested by slaves.