Massachusetts law formerly addressed dueling, even in the event that there was no death. The law can reflect our values and/or work to control our basest instincts. Fashion has placed it upon a footing which nothing short of this can control.” Speaking of Philip Hamilton’s death in a duel, “Reflections on this horrid custom must occur to every man of humanity but the voice of an individual or of the press must be ineffectual without additional, strong and pointed legislative interference. There could not be a more eloquent argument against the practice than that in Hamilton’s own son’s obituary published in the Nov. Descendants of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr played the parts of their ancestors. On July 11, 2004, the 200 th anniversary of the duel, the Weehawken Historical Commission staged a reenactment of the event. But horror in reaction to the Burr-Hamilton duel contributed to the end of the use of dueling as a way to resolve disputes. Hamilton’s death did not end dueling in America.
Aaron Burr was charged with Hamilton’s murder in both New Jersey and New York, but he was never punished for the deed.
Hamilton and Burr followed rituals associated with settling a dispute involving defense of their honor.ĭueling was illegal. Hamilton Cochran enumerated the Rules of Dueling in his book American Duels and Hostile Encounters (Chilton Books, 1963). In the eighteenth century, the Irish Code Duello was adopted as a set of guidelines that were known and used in America as well. July 11 marks the 212th anniversary of the duel in Weehawken, New Jersey, between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr that took Hamilton’s life.
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