Charlestown / Nevis
The Disputed Birthday
Portrait
Alexander Hamilton was born on this island on the eleventh of January, in a year nobody has settled: he gave 1757, and a relative's testimony at the 1768 probate hearing implies 1755. The Georgian stone house in the town that carries his name is a 1983 reconstruction standing on a site linked to him by a tradition traceable only to about 1903, and Hamilton himself never said where on Nevis he was born.
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