All the Inaccuracies in Hamilton
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Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis, which was not a forgotten spot by any stretch
to
imagination.
Nevis was a major trading port.
Except it wasn't his first refrain, he was a published poet before that.
Ron Chernow notes that
Hamilton, when applying for Princeton College and indeed King's College later, may have
altered his birth year so as to appear younger and thus more appealing as a potential student.
Therefore, any mention of Hamilton's age may here be inaccurate.
At least we presume, since all we have, and all Alexander had to go on, is the fact that
after he left to collect a debt and never returned, he didn't send his mother Rachel
any money to support them.
Two years later, see Alex and his mother bedridden
Rachel Fawcett contracted yellow fever in 1768, three years after Hamilton was allegedly ten,
at least according to the birth date used by Ron Chernow.
Half dead, sitting in their room, sick, the scent thick, and Alex got better
He didn't really get better, he suffered from kidney ailments as a result of his treatment.
But his mother went quick
But only if you consider a week to ten days, according to the World Health
organisation to be a quick death.
Another immigrant coming up on the platform
There are multiple references made throughout the play to Hamilton being an immigrant.
Hamilton was, as before stated, born on the island of Nevis, which at the time was a British colony,
thus making him a British citizen. New York, to which he later moved, was also a British colony
at the time. Technically then, Hamilton was not an immigrant, because he was only moving from one
British colony to another, not from one nation to another.
He's in, he's destroyed his re-
Well to be fair, he also destroyed a lot of his own rep, as the musical itself goes on to discuss.
But apparently they remembered him enough to put his face on the $10 bill.
Me, I died for him.
Judd Lawrence didn't strictly speaking die for Hamilton, he died in a different state,
still fighting the war he hadn't realised had finished a year ago.
Me, I loved him.
The musical goes to some lengths to establish that Angelica loved Hamilton in a romantic sense.
However, beyond playful flirting in letters,
there is little to no evidence that this is actually true.
It's probably worth remembering for later songs that this song sets the beginning of
the musical's events as the year 1776.
This first meeting of Hamilton and Burr is completely fictionalised.
It's also unlikely that Hamilton and Burr met in 1776 at all.
While they may have passed by each other during their respective studies, it was likely not
until the Revolutionary War was underway in earnest that they met.
Princeton College was not called Princeton College at that time.
It was called the College of New Jersey.
Lin-Manuel Miranda admits that this anecdote was fudged for the sake of a rhyme.
In any case, Hamilton is not thought to have been a particularly violent person, so it's
highly unlikely he'd punch anyone, let alone the Bursar of the College of New Jersey.
So how'd you do it? How'd you graduate so fast?
It was my parents' dying wish before they passed.
Burr's fast graduation was not on account of it being his parents' dying wish. In
