Alexander Hamilton Captain (Covenanter)

ALEXANDER HAMILTON Lord of Grange

Fake Genealogy

Contrary to what is claimed by at least one pedigree published by My Heritage Lord Alexander Hamilton of Grange, here treated, is not the same person as Alexander Hamilton of Grange whose son James Hamilton was the father of Alexander Hamilton, 1st Secretary of the United States Treasury Stirnet: Hamilton 25

The Question of Identity

The father and mother of Alexander Hamilton, Lord of Grange, has not been satisfactorily identified. It should be said, however, that he is not one of the sons of Sir George Hamilton of Donalong, Baronet and his wife Mary Butler who are mentioned in the Scots Peerage account of the family. The Scots Peerage I: pp. 52-6

Possible (probable) Scottish Covenanter. Maybe left out of family (government and genealogist) records due to being a Covenater (or other reasons).
All Scottish Covenanters Index results for people named "Alexander Hamilton":
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7021/?name=alexander_ha...

(For some reason (or reasons), a lot of information has been left out of "Stirnet", wikitree, "A history of the house of Hamilton" by Lieutenant-Colonel George Hamilton, "The Scots Peerage", the Hamilton DNA Project (which is done independently, but included in the Family Tree DNA website), and other so-called expert sources.)

Captain Alexander wrote this 2-volume set of books in the year 1723 (three hundred years ago). Yet not one of the aforementioned sources stated knowledge of this very interesting source of information. Had one individual on this geni website sending messages to all of the managers of Alexander Hamilton strongly denying his very existence. He then contacted the geni curator who agreed with him.

HAMILTON, Alexander
in the Scottish Covenanters Index

Name HAMILTON, Alexander
Birth Date Abt 1650
Birthplace St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland
Notes ! 23vol5 pg. 640 - of Kinkell! 23vol5

https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/9898:7021?_phsrc=...

Source Information.
Drown, Isabelle McLean, comp.. Scottish Covenanters Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.

Death: 7 OCT 1732
Dictionary of national biography
by Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904
https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati25stepuoft/page/133/mod...

Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22 Alexander Hamilton death 7 OCT 1732
Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22
Glover - Harriott (Vol 08).

https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/20027187:1981?ssr...

The dictionary of national biography
by Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904, ed; Lee, Sidney, Sir, 1859-1926, ed; Davis, H. W. Carless (Henry William Carless), 1874-1928, ed; Weaver, J. R. H. (John Reginald Homer), 1882- ed

Publication date 1921
Topics Smith, George, 1824-1901
Publisher London, Oxford university press
Collection americana
Digitizing sponsor Google
Book from the collections of University of California
Language English
Volume 8
Book digitized by Google from the library of University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

First published 1885-1901, in 66 volumes

Vol. 23 (3 v. in 1) has title: the dictionary of national biography ... Supplement, January 1901-December 1911, edited by Sir Sidney Lee

Vol. 24 has title: The dictionary of national biography ... 1912-1921, edited by H. W. C. Davis an J. R. H. Weaver; with an index covering the years 1901-1921 in one alphabetical series

"Memoir of George Smith": v. 1, p. [xxi]-lix

https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio02nichgoog/page/1017/mod...

"HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (d. 1732), merchant and author, describes himself as having a rambling mind and a fortune too narrow to allow him to travel like a gentle- man.' He therefore applied himself to the study of nautical affairs,' and having spent his younger days ' in visiting most of the maritime kingdoms of Europe and some parts of Bar- bary,' and having made a voyage to Jamaica, he went out to the East Indies in 1688, and remained there till 1723.

https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati25stepuoft/page/132/mod...

Again, death: 7 OCT 1732.

This Alexander Hamilton (one of many Hamiltons named Alexander) never visited the Americas (contrary to the information below).

This family?

Hamilton in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s < AncestrySharing > Name: Hamilton
Arrival Year: 1729
Arrival Place: America
Primary Immigrant: Hamilton
Family Members: Wife & Child
Source Publication Code: 1212.8
Annotation: Date and port of arrival. This is a more readable account than that given in no. 1212.11 below. There is much difference in how names are transcribed. See 982.7 above for another version of this voyage.
Source Bibliography: CLINTON, CHARLES. "Journal of the Voyage of Charles Clinton from Ireland to America 1729." In Olde Ulster, vol. 4 (Jan.-Dec. 1908), pp. 175-183.