where james madison was born?
Port Conway
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 Both Madison and Eston Hemings married free women of color in Charlottesville . After their mother 's death in 1835 , they and their families moved to Chillicothe in the free state of Ohio . Census records classified them as " mulatto " , at that time meaning mixed race . The census enumerator , usually a local person , classified individuals in part according to who their neighbors were and what was known of them . 

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 His mother moved with the young Hamilton to St. Croix in the Virgin Islands , then ruled by Denmark . It is not certain whether the year of Hamilton 's birth was 1757 or 1755 ; most historical evidence after Hamilton 's arrival in North America supports the idea that he was born in 1757 , and many historians had accepted this birth date . But , Hamilton 's early life in the Caribbean was recorded in documents which were first published in Danish in 1930 ; this evidence has caused historians since then to favor a birth year of 1755 . Hamilton listed his birth year as 1757 when he first arrived in the Thirteen Colonies . He celebrated his birthday on January 11 . In later life , he tended to give his age only in round figures . Probate papers from St. Croix in 1768 , after the death of Hamilton 's mother , list him as then 13 years old , a date that would support a birth year of 1755 . Historians have posited reasons for the different dates of birth being used : If 1755 is correct , Hamilton may have been trying to appear younger than his college classmates or perhaps wished to avoid standing out as older ; if 1757 is correct , the probate document indicating a birth year of 1755 may have been in error , or Hamilton may have been attempting to pass as 13 , in order to be more employable after his mother 's death . 

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 James Madison , a 1771 graduate of Princeton and its first graduate student : in the Law window in the nave 's south wall . 

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 Madison was educated in the local schools and also received instruction at home . Before he was legally old enough to enlist , he entered the Continental Army as a private during the Revolutionary War . 

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 James Hamilton abandoned Rachel Faucette and their sons , allegedly to " spar [ e ] [ her ] a charge of bigamy ... after finding out that her first husband intend [ ed ] to divorce her under Danish law on grounds of adultery and desertion . " Thereafter , she supported her children in St. Croix , keeping a small store in Christiansted . She contracted a severe fever and died on February 19 , 1768 , 1 : 02 am , leaving Hamilton orphaned . This may have had severe emotional consequences for him , even by the standards of an 18th @-@ century childhood . In probate court , Faucette 's " first husband seized her estate " and obtained the few valuables she had owned , including some household silver . Many items were auctioned off , but a friend purchased the family 's books and returned them to the young Hamilton . 
