1864-Dated Alexander Hamilton Jr. Signed Check, Son of Historic Founding Father Alexander Hamilton

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  1864 Alexander Hamilton Jr. Signed Check, Son of the Historic American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton
  ALEXANDER HAMILTON JR. (1786-1875). Son of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton; Graduated from Columbia College in 1804, just weeks after his father's death in a duel with Aaron Burr, Studied law and commenced practice in New York City, was with the Duke of Wellington's army in Portugal in 1811-1812, and returned to the U.S. on hearing rumors of impending war with Great Britain; Appointed Captain of US Infantry in 1813 and served as Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Morgan Lewis in 1814; In 1822 he was appointed U.S. District Attorney for East Florida, Later practiced law in New York City, and represented Aaron Burr's wife in her divorce proceedings against his father's killer in the 1830's!
  June 24, 1864-Dated Civil War Period, Patrially-Printed Check Completed and Signed, "Alexander Hamilton", Choice Very Fine. This blue printed check is drawn on the National Exchange Bank, Hartford Ct., being entirely filled out and completed by Hamilton's own hand. An interesting career point is that as an attorney, he represented Eliza Jumel in her divorce from Aaron Burr, the very man who killed his father! There is a 2c Blue George Washington portrait Bank Check Revenue Stamp affixed at left, and the stamp is also properly hand-cancelled by Hamilton with his "A H" initials and hand dated June 24 / 1864. A very rare check signed "Alexander Hamilton".
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  Alexander Hamilton Jr. (1786"1875) was the second son and third child of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. He was a lawyer, a veteran of the War of 1812, and served in the New York State Legislature. An interesting career point is that he represented Eliza Jumel in her divorce from Aaron Burr, the very man who killed his father in the infamous duel.
  After college, Hamilton was asked to be an apprentice attorney in Stephen Higginson's Boston law firm, and was later admitted to practice law.
  He sailed to Spain in 1811 or 1812, during a period of political conflict preceding the War of 1812, and joined the Duke of Wellington's forces, then fighting against Napoleon's army in Portugal. After acquiring some military and strategic training with the British Army.
  Hamilton returned to America to serve in the War of 1812, receiving a commission as Captain of the 41st Regiment of Infantry in the United States Army in August 1813. The 41st Regiment did not appear to have seen active service in the war, and Hamilton went on to act as aide-de-camp to his father's friend General Morgan Lewis in 1814, serving until June 15, 1815.
  Hamilton resumed the practice of law, and took office in July 1818 as a member of the 42nd New York State Legislature for a one-year term, as one of eleven representatives to the New York State Assembly from New York City.
  In May 1822, President James Monroe appointed Hamilton as a United States Attorney for East Florida. In 1823, he was appointed to be one of three Land Commissioners for East Florida, and while there, he received the honorary civilian rank of colonel. He ran unsuccessfully against Richard K. Call to be the Florida Territory's delegate in the United States House of Representatives.
  Hamilton subsequently returned to New York, where he became successful in real estate transactions, and for many years was one of the leading names in Wall Street.
  In the mid-1830s, as a lawyer in the New York Court of Chancery, Hamilton represented Eliza Jumel against her husband Aaron Burr during two years of divorce proceedings, which were finalized in 1836 on the day of Burr's death. She and Burr had separated after only four months of marriage.
  Hamilton had a "large and varied correspondence" with other political contemporaries including his close friend Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Salmon P. Chase, and Presidents James Monroe and Zachary Taylor.
  Hamilton courted Eliza Putnam Knox, the daughter of Thomas Knox, a leading New York City merchant, and Mary Hester Knox, ne Kortright, the sister of Elizabeth Monroe. Eliza's birth date is unknown, but Trinity Church, New York, has a record of her baptism which took place there on August 3, 1794. According to John Pintard, Eliza and Hamilton eloped and ran away from the Knoxes initially, before matters were resolved.
  In 1833, Hamilton used funds from his mother's sale of The Grange to purchase a townhouse for her and his family in New York City, at 4 St. Mark's Place (now known as the Hamilton-Holly House). Between 1833 and 1842, he and his wife lived there with his mother, his sister Eliza Hamilton Holly, and her husband Sidney Augustus Holly.
  During a trip through the West with his wife in 1835, Hamilton met Abraham Lincoln, then an Illinois state legislator, in a grocery store where Lincoln was "lying upon the counter in midday telling stories." During the last ten years of his life, Hamilton resided in New Brunswick, New Jersey and in New York City, where he moved after the death of his wife in 1871.
  Hamilton died, having had no children, on August 2, 1875, at his home, 83 Clinton Place, in Greenwich Village. Hamilton was said to have been 5 ft 6.5 in (169 cm) tall.
  
  
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