Philip Hamilton
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Portrait of Philip Hamilton (posthumous, c. 1802), from a book by his nephew Allan McLane Hamilton
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January 22, 1782 Albany, New York |
| Died | November 24, 1801 (aged 19) Weehawken, New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
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Alexander Hamilton Jr. (brother) James Alexander Hamilton (brother) John Church Hamilton (brother) William S. Hamilton (brother) Philip Hamilton (brother) Angelica Schuyler Church (aunt) Peggy Schuyler (aunt) Schuyler family Philip Schuyler (grandfather) |
Philip Hamilton (January 22, 1782 – November 24, 1801) was the oldest child of Alexander Hamilton, who was the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
"…It is agreed on all hands, that he is handsome, his features are good, his eye is not only sprightly and expressive but it is fully of benignity. His attitude in sitting is by connoisseurs esteemed graceful and he has a method of waving his hands that announces the future orator. He stands however rather awkwardly and his legs have not all the delicate slimness of his fathers. It is feared He may never excel as much in dancing which is probably the only accomplishment in which he will not be a model. If he has any fault in manners, he laughs too much. He has now passed his Seventh Month.”
- Alexander Hamilton describing a 7-month old Philip Hamilton in a letter to Richard Kidder Meade
Philip Hamilton was born on January 22, 1782, to Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, and Alexander Hamilton. Philip spent the first years of his life in New York alongside his family. Since childhood, his parents had great expectations and hopes for the future of their eldest son. Alexander wrote that Philip's birth was "attended with all the omens of future greatness." This led Alexander to look for signs of success in his child, who was then just a baby. When Philip was 7 months old, Alexander wrote that Philip had "a method of waving his hand that announces the future orator." Observations like this continue in Alexander's writing into late childhood, until Philip is sent to boarding school. Many people shared in Alexander's opinion of Philip, as he continued to grow, an increasing amount of people joined in this opinion. A friend of the Hamilton family, Dr. David Hosack observed that "Young Hamilton was very promising in genius and acquirements, and Hamilton formed high expectations of his future greatness!”
In 1791, at the age of nine, Hamilton was sent to attend a boarding school in Trenton, New Jersey, studying with William Frazer, an Episcopal clergyman and rector of St. Michael's Church. By 1794, his younger brother Alexander, then eight years old, joined him there.
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