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A hurricane. The hurricane struck St. Croix, the island where Hamilton worked as a clerk, and he wrote a piece about the hurricane and the things it suggested. When influential people on St. Croix heard of it and read it, they instantly realized his intelligence and began to find ways to send him to New York to go to college (expecting he would become a doctor and come back, although he never did). Hamilton was either 15 or 17 at the time, the year of his birth, 1755 or 1757 being disputed.ythis ia all a

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