By Daniel T. Weaver

On November 23, 1801 two men met and fired pistols at each other in Weehawken, NJ. One of them was mortally wounded. His last name was Hamilton, but his first name wasn’t Alexander. It was Philip, Alexander’s nineteen-year-old son. The man who killed him was George I. Eacker. Continue reading “Upstate New Yorker & the Killing of Alexander Hamilton’s Son in Duel” →