[writer33]

Really. I didn't know that Hamilton's birthplace.

[Pharmboy]

Yep--he was the bastard son of a Scottish peddler/traveler and Rachel Levine--a Huegenot woman who married a Jewish guy and then split with him.

His biologic father never had anything to do with him and he was orphaned at 13 when his mother passed. Because of his genius he was sent to NYC by some rich guys on the island and the rest, as they say, is history.