1. Although this document is not an H document, it is printed here because it is the only extant MS record of H as a student at King’s College.

This document unfortunately does not answer the question of when H actually attended King’s College. According to Hercules Mulligan, H entered King’s College “in the spring of 75 in the Sophomore Class” (“Narrative of Hercules Mulligan of the City of New York,” Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). Robert Troup, on the other hand, recalled that he had become “acquainted with the General in the year 1773 at Kings, now Columbia College, in New York, where I was a student.… When the General entered College, he did it as a private student, and not by annexing himself to a particular class” (Robert Troup to John Mason, March 22, 1810, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). In referring to the class list on which H’s name appears, Mitchell writes: “The list of this class and others … may have been written in the book at a later time, not when the class entered or graduated, which would make room for error. The official roster was carelessly kept; Hamilton was doubtless at King’s ‘as a private student,’ as Troup said, in the academic year 1773–1774, and then formally entered, as per the Matricula, in 1774, perhaps ‘in the Sophomore Class’ as Mulligan remembered” (Mitchell, Hamilton description begins Broadus Mitchell, Alexander Hamilton, Youth to Maturity, 1755–1788 (New York, 1957). description ends , I, 55).

2. “S. M.” is the abbreviation for student of medicine.