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Alexander Hamilton
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Extremely basic Army & Marine ranks under the cut- Continental Army and modern translations. I will not be covering the Continental or modern Navy because…I just. can’t with the Navy’s rank structure.
hi! New here. I have a question! I heard Hamilton had violet-blue mixed eyes. Do you think he had Alexandria's genesis? I mean, it's the closest to what I think it could be. Since violet eyes aren't naturally accusing and are generally the result of a mutation.
This has actually been a theory of mine for a while now! As always, we may never know for certain. But Alexandria Genesis was not discovered until around the year 2013, [x] thus of course, the people of the colonial days would not know of any proper terminology for this rare sort of diagnosis; but there are many accounts of Hamilton that would actually describe the symptoms. Fisher Ames account of Hamilton's eye color in the New York Mirror was recorded as;
The same writer remarks that General Hamilton’s eyes were grey. This is a mistake. They were of a deep azure, eminently beautiful, without the slightest trace of hardness or severity, and beamed with higher expressions of intelligence and discernment than any others I saw oscillate in the “human face divine.”
Even though Hamilton's own grandson, Allan McLane, would go on to describe Hamilton's eyes as having taken on a purple shade—His grandfather had died years before his birth, so it is far from a first hand account, yet decently worth noting in case he may have heard it from relatives or friends of Hamilton;
His eyes were a deep blue—almost violet—and he undoubtedly presented the physical appearance of his Scotch father rather than his French mother: His eyes were deep set, his nose long, and of the Roman type, and he had a good chin, the jaw being strong; the mouth firm and moderately large.
To go further, other symptoms of Alexandria Genesis were noted in the link above as; “Those who have this mutation will never grow any facial, body, pubic, or anal hair (not including hair on their head, on their ears, noses, eyebrows and eyelashes). Women also do not menstruate, but are fertile”
There are no accounts of Hamilton having any noticable facial hair at all, rather the opposite in fact, where he is often described as having a young, or even feminine appearance. Additionally, if you look closely at many portraits of Hamilton throughout his lifetime, you will notice there are no signs of any facial hair around his portrayed face;
hey cicero!! are you back on tumblr or are you just active briefly?
Hey, Charlie! I will probably continue to post scarcely and irregularly, as I don't nearly have the same free time as I did a few years ago, but I have found a stable enough routine to hop on here every now and then and dabble into history :)
Did the Hamilton family keep in touch with Fanny after she left?
Unfortunately, with how hard it is to get access to the Hamilton family correspondence, let alone transcribe a lot of it; the answer is not so entirely certain. Nothing I have ever found suggests so, but I also have not transcribed every - or even half - of the letters the family wrote. Not to mention, it is a fair possibility any correspondence with Frances or mentioning her could have easily been destroyed for privacy or just lost to time.
I find it hard to believe Elizabeth or any of the children would have completely cut ties with someone they had lived with for ten years and described as family, though. [x] The only thing that could possibly suggest so, is the fact that James knew a bit about Frances' life after she left, but he very well could have just heard it circling through the news (Bold text is mine);
She was educated and treated in all respects as his own daughter, and married Mr. Tappan, an eminent philanthropist of New York.
I have heard the misconception that James was one of the only kids to still cherish Frances because his own daughter would later be named Frances ‘Hamilton’ Bowdoin (1813-1887), but that is realistically not the case as James' wife, Mary ‘Morris’ Hamilton, had a mother named Frances ‘Ludlam’ Morris (1766-1852), and it was likely her namesake instead of Antill's.
I believe there was a historian who seriously suggested that Frances officially departed from the family to live with her sister, Mary Antill, due to the Reynolds controversy catching publicity because it was during the year of 1797. And while that might actually provide reason as to why it isn't known if Frances kept contact with the family or not, perhaps severing ties due to the public shame—I still wouldn't full-heartedly believe that with what lack of evidence remains.
Please sign this petition. Almost all of the 500k books that they removed are actually no longer in print and inaccessible to many.
The publishers did not care about those books in the first place but they did this anyway because they have vendetta against open access.
what’s your opinion on the recent roleplaying chattel slavery in America dispute?
The. what
Yeah, I can't say I condone roleplaying active or even post slavery in a satirical or lighthearted setting without proper nuance or boundaries. Internationalism isn't an excuse for wild misinformation. That's weird, don't do that.
Hi! I heard from an online friend that Hamilton was a terrible artist. Is this true, and is there any evidence that shows as such.
XX Bizzkit
I'll let you be the judge of that. This is what is presumably a self-portrait drawn by then Captain Hamilton in his military pay book in 1776.
It's okay, you can be honest.
It is also debatable wether this powder horn is truly his, but the unicorn certainly isn't helping his case.
Hi! If you don’t mind me asking what is up with the nicknames in the 1700s/1800s? Bc literally like Martha Washington JR was nicknamed “Patsy” and I don’t see how that works anyways love ya! <333
Hello. The simple answer is, colonists were weird with nicknames.
“Patsy” was a nickname for names like Martha and Matilda, like how “Polly” was a nickname for Mary. Oftentimes, M's were changed to P's, and a feminine suffix was added at the end. Additionally, the nicknames were usually an altered version of a nickname. So, it would roughly follow down the pipelines of nicknames like “Peggy” for “Margaret”; Margaret → Meg/Meggy → Peg/Peggy. Or Mary → Molly → Polly. Elizabeth → Beth → Betsey.
As you can see this with many figures like Margaret “Peggy” Schuyler, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson, Mary “Polly” Eleanor Laurens, Elizabeth “Betsey” Schuyler, etc, etc. It is similar with the nickname “Neddy”; Edward → Ed/Eddy → Ned/Neddy.
hi ! i hope this isn’t too much to ask but i keep hearing abt philip hamilton and theodosia burr jr being inlove w eachother 🤨 and i rlly don’t know if this is true or not,, what’s ur opinion on it??
Answered here. Overall opinion; there is little to no evidence or material surviving about them or what their relationship could have been like. It is my assumption they, at the very least, heard of each other through their fathers or just public talk in general. Wether they were rivals, lovers, sounds more unlikely than anything—when they were probably just rather acquainted, as it would have been hard to not hear or see of the other with their fathers in close quarters and business throughout their lives. It is mostly fandom based, and the lack of records on Theodosia and Philip in general supplies even less room to analyze what unknown relations could have existed between them.
how did hamilton find out about lauren's wife?
By looking through a forwarded packet by Brigadier General William Thompson, containing letters from Manning to Laurens that Hamilton inclosed in a letter to him;
I anticipate by sympathy the pleasure you must feel from the sweet converse of your dearer self in the inclosed letters. I hope they may be recent. They were brought out of New York by General Thompson delivered to him there by a Mrs. Moore not long from England, soi-disante parente de Madame votre épouse. She speaks of a daughter of yours, well when she left England, perhaps ⟨– – –⟩.
“Dearer self” is meant to refer to his wife.
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Happy pride month from some fancier-than-my-usual corner of the 1770s!
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