Andrew Hamilton (lawyer)
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Andrew Hamilton was a Scottish lawyer in the Thirteen Colonies who settled in Philadelphia. He was best known for his legal victory on behalf of the printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger.
An 1808 portrait of Hamilton by Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller
An 1892 illustration from Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
Building the Cradle of Liberty, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris. Andrew Hamilton (center), with two women on his arms, discusses construction plans with a foreman during the construction of Independence Hall (shown in the background).
James Hamilton, son of the British-born lawyer Andrew Hamilton who was active in the Thirteen Colonies, was also a lawyer and governmental figure in colonial Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. He served t
Andrew Hamilton (lawyer)
…Garden Street near the old Philadelphia Mint building, which is now used by the Community College of Philadelphia. Hamilton left the estate to his son James Hamilton after his death; he in turn passed it on to his nephew William Hamilton. When the federal capital was located in Philadelphia, Bush Hill was rented to…
A portrait of Hamilton, c. 1750s
Henry Muhlenberg's passport, issued by Hamilton in 1752