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1 year ago

i need someone to confirm for me that "our common father" refers to washington. because if so i am ready to scream my head off.

“Hamilton was to me, my dear Sir, more than friend, he was a brother. We were both very young, when associated with our common father; our friendship, formed in days of peril and glory, suffered no diminution from time: with Tilghman and with Laurens, I was upon terms most affectionate; but with Hamilton, my relations were brotherly.”

— Marquis de Lafayette to George Washington Parke Custis when the latter asked Lafayette for his reaction to Hamilton’s death. 


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