Philip Hamilton

Philip Schuyler Hamilton known as Philip Hamilton I (January 22, 1782 – November 24, 1801) was the eldest child of Alexander Hamilton (the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. He died at age 19, fatally shot in a duel with George Eacker.

Birth and early childhood Philip Hamilton was born in Albany, New York, on January 22, 1782. His father, Alexander Hamilton, was the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His mother, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, named her firstborn after her father, Philip Schuyler, who served as a Continental Army general under George Washington.

In Spring 1782, Alexander Hamilton wrote that Philip was a "fine boy", and that his birth was "attended with all the omens of future greatness," and continued to express high expectations and hopes for the future of his firstborn:

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