Re: [INDOLOGY] Alexander Hamilton’s Jewish Connection!

Fri Feb 20 21:30:21 UTC 2015

Yes, those two and a third Alexander Hamilton, the laird of Grange, 
Scotland, were first cousins.  See Rosane Rocher and Michael E. Scorgie, 
"A Family Empire: The Alexander Hamilton Cousins, 1750-1830," /Journal 
of Imperial and Commonwealth History, /vol. 23, No. 2, 1995, pp. 189–210.

Rosane Rocher

On 2/20/15 1:00 PM, Matthew Kapstein wrote:
> This is of course the well-known Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) of US 
> revolutionary fame, and
> not the British Sanskritist (1762-1824), who nevertheless seems to 
> have been a relation.
>
> Matthew Kapstein
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> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
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> The University of Chicago
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