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Rachel Faucette Buck was the mother of Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton. She passed away from a fever both she and Alexander had when he was 13 years old. After Rachel Faucette passed away on February 19, 1768, Alexander's town collaborated in raising funds to send him to America.
She was married to Johann Michael Lavien with whom she had a son named Peter with. Rachel Faucette met James Hamilton in 1750 and then left her husband, moving in with James together with her son, Peter, but was unable to marry James because of her prior marriage with Lavien.
Song References
Alexander Hamilton
"How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman" - Aaron Burr
"Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden
Half-dead, sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick" - Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
"And Alex got better but his mother went quick" - Company
A Winter's Ball
"How does the bastard, orphan, son of a whore" - Aaron Burr
Helpless
"My father left, my mother died, I grew up buckwild" - Alexander Hamilton
Your Obedient Servant
"How does Hamilton, an arrogant, immigrant, orphan, bastard, whoreson" - Aaron Burr