Eulogy on Gen. Alexander Hamilton, Pronounced at the Request of The Citizens of Boston, June 26, 1804, by Hon. Harrison G. Otis, Esq.

The nephew of James Otis, Harrison G. Otis was a notable leader in the Federalist party and one of the wealthiest men in Boston during his time. He was reportedly "the favorite orator of Boston town meetings in the generation between Samuel Adams and Daniel Webster" (DAB). The Burr–Hamilton duel took place in Weehawken, New Jersey, between Aaron Burr, the Vice President of the United States, and Alexander Hamilton, the first and former Secretary of the Treasury, on the morning of July 11, 1804. The duel was the culmination of a bitter rivalry that had developed between both men who had become high-profile politicians in postcolonial America. In the duel Burr fatally shot Hamilton, while Hamilton fired into a tree branch above and behind Burr's head. Hamilton was taken back across the Hudson River and died the following day in New York.