Mary Hamilton
BIRTH
Dec 25, 1790
DEATH
May 24, 1869
FAMILY
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Hamilton, Mary
(1790-1869)
Mary Hamilton (1790-1869) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of James Alexander Hamilton. James Alexander Hamilton was a public official and lawyer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Mary Hamilton to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. Born after the Revolutionary War, this person belonged to the next generation that inherited, preserved, and interpreted the political and family legacy of independence. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Mary Hamilton in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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Mary Hamilton was born on Dec 25, 1790. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Mary Hamilton is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Mary Hamilton died on May 24, 1869. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.














