Timeline of Alexander Hamilton���s Attendance at Elizabethtown Academy and King���s College

Alexander Hamilton enrolled at Elizabethtown Academy in the fall of 1772 where, according to John C. Hamilton, he spent a winter ���accustomed to labour until midnight��� and a summer when ���it was his habit to retire at dawn to the quiet of a neighbouring cemetery . . . preparing his lessons for the day.��� In the fall of 1773, Hamilton applied for admission into the College of New Jersey, whose commencement each year took place on the last Wednesday of September. When the school denied��his request��to advance at an accelerate pace, it was too late to be admitted into King���s College for the 1773���74 school year because its commencement had already taken place in May. Hamilton, therefore, entered King���s College in the autumn of 1773 ���as a private student��� and was officially admitted in May 1774 at the next commencement. He studied��at King���s College until�����the American Revolution supervened��� but ���never graduated;��the College having been broken up before his course of Studies was completed.���

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