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Alexander Hamilton Research Paper

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Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton was born on Nevis a small island in the British West Indies to Rachael Faucette originally of St. Croix a half British, half French Huguenot who was married to Johann Michael Lavien a Danish plantation owner and a man in his 30’s who Faucettes mother had married her off to in her teens. Lavien had made terrible financial decisions, frequently beat her and they experienced unending misfortunes. Faucette had no love for her husband and was actually thrown into prison for adultery and called a whore after a fight with Lavien. Once released from prison she left her young son and husband and escaped the marriage to St. Kitts with her mother. Once on St. Kitts she met James Hamilton in 1751 the son of a Scottish
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