Peter Stuyvesant
Hamilton Fish was born on August 3, 1808 at what is now known as the Hamilton Fish House in Greenwich Village, New York City, to Nicholas Fish and Elizabeth Stuyvesant (a daughter of Peter Stuyvesant and direct descendant of New Amsterdam's Director-General Peter Stuyvesant). He was named after his parents' friend Alexander Hamilton. Nicholas Fish (1758–1833) was a leading Federalist politician and notable figure of the American Revolutionary War. Colonel Fish was active in the Yorktown Campaign that resulted in the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. Peter Stuyvesant was a prominent founder of New York, then a Dutch Colony, and his family owned much property in Manhattan.