![]() The find was first reported by the Albany Times Union. The handwriting believed to be James Hamilton’s is a match to Hamilton’s handwriting on a document held by that the Massachusetts Historical Society that is also accompanied by strands of Washington’s hair. ".in handwriting, that this is George Washington's hair as given to James A. The envelope bore an inscription that indicated. It was in a yellowed envelope: Several strands of gray or whitening hair, neatly tied together by a single thread, were in a yellow envelope that had been placed between pages in the old almanac. ![]() ![]() So we believe, and it's pretty clear, that the hair would have been a gift from them to the Hamiltons.”Īccording to Union College, the hair in question belonged to founding father George Washington. The couple, Eliza and Alexander, were friends with Martha and George Washington. Hamilton was colleagues and friends with George Washington. The Schuylers were fairly prominent in the area and they just had a wide social circle, and also Eliza and Alexander Hamilton were this young couple. He had a daughter named Eliza Schuyler, and Eliza married Alexander Hamilton. "This is in the late 1700's, so, he was in the American Revolution. India Spartz is head of special collections and archives at Union College. Recently, historical records project archivist Daniel Michelson was going through the lot, and came across the old almanac, believed to have belonged to Philip Schuyler, the son of General Philip Schuyler, one of the college’s founders. For decades it was stored along with some of the library’s oldest books and documents. “Gaines Universal Register or American and British Kalendar for the year 1793,” unbeknownst to Union College, ended up in the school's Schaffer Library without ever having been catalogued. Long ago, someone placed an envelope containing strands of our first president's hair in a leather book that has now surfaced at Union College in Schenectady. In olden times before cameras and voice recorders, friends and acquaintances often gave one another strands of hair as keepsakes.
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