It makes a lot more sense that he's Jewish rather than African American!!
Here is the article I was thinking about--and one paragraph:
Hamilton was born January 11, 1755, on the island of Nevis in the West Indies, the illegitimate son of James Hamilton, a merchant from Scotland, and Rachel Fawcett Levine, a doctor’s daughter who was divorced from a plantation owner. His unmarried parents separated when Hamilton was 9, and he went to live with his mother, who taught him French and Hebrew and how to keep the accounts in a small dry goods shop by which she supported herself and Hamilton’s older brother, James. She died of yellow fever when Alexander was 13.
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I have no idea where the symbols on our money come from. The early Pilgrims studied Hebrew. In fact, they debated making it the official language of their settlement but found it lacked sufficient vocabulary. They also wanted their legal code to track the rules of the Old Testament. The motto of Yale, begun by their Congregationist heirs is in Hebrew and Harvard has one of the largest collections of old books written in Hebrew in the world.