A lexander Hamilton claimed Nevis in the British West Indies as his birthplace, although no surviving records substantiate this. Today, the tiny island seems little more than a colorful speck in the Caribbean, an exotic tourist hideaway. One million years ago, the land that is now Nevis Peak...
Hamilton’sfather was James Hamilton, a drifting trader and son of Alexander Hamilton, the laird of Cambuskeith,Ayrshire,Scotland; his mother was Rachel Fawcett Lavine, the daughter of a FrenchHuguenotphysician and the wife of John Michael Lavine, a German or Danish merchant who had settled on...
Aaron Burr was the third vice president of the United States (1801–05), who killed his political rival, Alexander Hamilton, in a duel (1804).