Explanation of the Hamilton-Laurens relationship
- Some things to know about Hamilton: He was known to be quite promiscuous with the ladies. He was married to Elizabeth Schuyler and he also had an affair. Also Hamilton grew up in the Caribbean on an island where gay people would’ve been exiled to and allowed to roam on the island so he would’ve been more aware of gay people whereas Laurens definitely had some internalised homophobia from his father who was a conservative and religious man which most likely contributed to Laurens’ self-loathing.
- They wrote essays against slavery together
- Both aide-de-camp for Washington and in Valley Forge together (shared a room)
- Laurens himself never told Hamilton that he had a wife and daughter, but Hamilton found out about Martha and Frances when he was asked to forward some letters from Martha to John a year and a half after they met.
- The creator of ‘Hamilton’ Lin-Manuel Miranda has confirmed that in his musical Hamilton is bisexual and he believes that Hamilton was in fact bisexual. This is important because Lin would’ve had to do a whole lot of research for ‘Hamilton’ not just for the songs but to get into Hamilton’s head as an actor: ‘Lin-Manuel Miranda himself is aware of this; he has confirmed that the Hamilton in his show, at least, is bisexual.’
- Hamilton was Laurens’ second in his duel with Charles Lee
- Laurens referred to his wife as ‘dear girl’ and referred to Hamilton as ‘dear boy’ and never used these terms for anyone else.
- Hamilton was the most supportive person of Laurens’ black regiment
- Hamilton and Laurens (probably) got their portraits done together when John was a prisoner of war and Hamilton visited him near his 26th Birthday.
- When Laurens died Hamilton (who wrote loads about anything) had like 7 sentences to say about
- This is insignificant but Laurens was awful at writing people back and this one time this guy asked Hamilton to get Laurens to write him back because the person he wrote fastest back to was Hamilton
- Hamilton had a grandson called Laurens as his son John Church Hamilton was the one that found those letters and he really admired John Laurens who also died in his 20s. He also had a great-grandson called Laurens who died when he was 25.
- One source states that: ‘Hamilton showed a strong attachment to the South Carolinian that he never demonstrated even to the woman he later married’
- In Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton biography he states that his relationship with Laurens was the most intimate relationship of his life
- Hamilton’s son said: ‘In the intercourse of these martial youths, who have been styled ‘Knights of the Revolution’ there was a deep fondness of friendship, which approached the tenderness of feminine attachment.’
- Hamilton and Laurens wrote letters to each other whilst Laurens was in France and South Carolina and Hamilton was fighting the war somewhere else.
- There are parts of the letters that have been crossed out that would lead on to something quite suggestive. There are lots of missing letters.
- The language used in the 18th Century between men was quite affectionate however these letters are something else
- For example: ‘a strange cure by the way, as if after matrimony I was to be less devoted than I am now. ‘ This quote from Hamilton to Laurens appears to be stating that Laurens believed that if Hamilton got married he would stop having feelings and be ‘cured’ of whatever feelings he was feeling towards Laurens.
- There is a lot of innuendo that went further than the average military male friendship
- Some more examples: ‘You know the unalterable sentiments of your affectionate Laurens’ and‘Yrs for ever A Hamilton’
- Hamilton was not afraid to be affectionate as he didn’t have the same rigid moral codes that Laurens was subjected to. For example: ‘Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you. I shall only tell you that ’till you bade us Adieu, I hardly knew the value you had taught my heart to set upon you. ‘
- When Laurens left for South Carolina to work on his black regiment, Hamilton begged George Washington to let him have a position in the South as well but Washington refused. Hamilton wrote: ‘In short Laurens I am disgusted with every thing in this world but yourself and very few more honest fellows…’
- At the top of one of the letters the publisher (probably John Church Hamilton, Alexander’s son) wrote: ‘I must not publish the whole of this.’
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