An Oration, Commemorative of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton; The New-York State Society of the Cincinnati, on Tuesday, The 31st July, 1804.

MASON, John Mitchell. [Alexander Hamilton].

Item Number: 134537

New York: Printed by Hopkins and Seymour, 1804.

First edition of John Mitchell Mason’s Eulogy delivered upon the occasion of the death of Alexander Hamilton. Octavo, disbound. In very good condition.

The Burr–Hamilton duel took place in Weehawken, New Jersey, between Aaron Burr, the Vice President of the United States, and Alexander Hamilton, the first and former Secretary of the Treasury, on the morning of July 11, 1804. The duel was the culmination of a bitter rivalry that had developed between both men who had become high-profile politicians in postcolonial America. In the duel Burr fatally shot Hamilton, while Hamilton fired into a tree branch above and behind Burr's head. Hamilton was taken back across the Hudson River and died the following day in New York.