PAGE 35.  There is still so widespread misconception of the term “creole,” that it is necessary, even at this late date, to reiterate that it was not invented as a euphemism for coloured blood.  In the United States creoles are Southerners of French or Spanish extraction; in the West Indies any person born on one of the islands is a creole, even if he be an undiluted Dane.

PAGE 49.  This deed of trust was entered in Vol.  X, No. 1, page 180, of the Common Records of St. Christopher, on the fifth day of May, 1756, eight months before the birth of Alexander Hamilton.

PAGE 60.  This dialect, or rather this curious mispronunciation of words, and inability to make use of certain letters and more than one or two personal pronouns, is gathered from old books on the islands, for the coloured people of the present generation in the Caribbees, even those of the lower class, now speak, save for their singsong inflection, much like any one else.  But in those days there was no education for the blacks, and they spoke the barbarous lingo I have transcribed without embellishment.

PAGE 65.  Dr. Hamilton died in June, 1764.

PAGE 68.  A piece of eight, then the principal coin in the Danish West
Indies, was worth sixty-four cents.

PAGE 69.  Hugh Knox married and left two children, Ann Knox, who married James Towers, and John Knox, who, I think, became a clergyman on St. Thomas.

PAGE 79.  The lower story of this fine building, built by Mr. Mitchell, is in a state of entire preservation, and is now one of the largest stores in Christiansted.

PAGE 87.  The private burying-ground of the Lyttons was on the Grange estate, owned, at the time of Rachael’s death, by Chamberlain Robert Tuite.

PAGE 88.  Two candlesticks of this fashion have been preserved in Frederiksted, and are said to have been used by Hamilton while there.

PAGE 91.  I am convinced that Hugh Knox baptized Hamilton, and have had the old records of St. Croix, deposited in the archives of Copenhagen, thoroughly searched.  But they are in so dilapidated a condition that one might as profitably appeal to the recording angel.  In 1782 the French destroyed the church registers of Nevis, but it is hardly likely that Rachael Levine had Hamilton baptized.  The islanders were indifferent to baptism under the most amiable conditions, usually waiting until it was reasonable to suppose that their brood was complete, when they took it to the font en bloc.  But Hugh Knox would have attached great importance to this ceremony.

PAGE 120.  There is no doubt in my mind that Hamilton and young Stevens were either first or second cousins, and that the resemblance between them which subsequently, in the United States, gave rise to the gossip that they were brothers, was due to this fact.  I was not able to discover that Mrs. Stevens was a daughter of John and Mary Fawcett, but she or her husband might well have been closely related to Hamilton’s grandparents, for the few prominent families of Nevis and St. Christopher intermarried again and again.  The Fawcetts were married at least twenty-two years before Rachael was born, and doubtless had one of the large families of that time.