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Rev. Myles Cooper (1737-1785)
S. B. Hutchings; after John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)
Oil on canvas, 1820
New-York Historical Society
Gift of Nicholas William Stuyvesant
President of King's College (now Columbia) when Hamilton attended, Cooper strongly supported British rule. Hamilton, already a patriot activist, nevertheless prevented an angry mob from tarring and feathering Cooper one night in May 1775.
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