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NARR: Alexander Hamilton was born in 1757 on the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis. He was the illegitimate son of a shiftless Scotsman and a Frenchwoman with a questionable reputation.
THOMAS FLEMING, AUTHOR: Hamilton’s mother was a very tempestuous woman. She threw two husbands out of her bed, at one point she was arrested by her first husband and thrown in jail for, as he put it, whoring with everyone, that was the charges that he made out.
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