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["Speech in the Fields"], [6 July 1774]

[“Speech in the Fields”]1

[New York, July 6, 1774]

1. According to J. C. Hamilton (Life description begins John C. Hamilton, The Life of Alexander Hamilton (New York, 1840). description ends , I, 21–23) H made this speech. Almost all of H’s biographers have repeated this story. There is no contemporary evidence, newspaper or other, that H made such a speech or even attended the meeting.

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    “["Speech in the Fields"], [6 July 1774],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-01-02-0051. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 1, 1768–1778, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, pp. 43–44.]