Recorded as from New York State. General Schuyler Hamilton [1822-1903], New York City; his grandson, Schuyler Hamilton, city unknown, by whom sold to (Harry Stone Gallery, New York), by 1941;[1] sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953. [1] The information about the Hamiltons originated with Stone, who relayed it to Colonial Williamsburg when he offered the portrait there in 1941 (photocopy of letter from Stone to James L. Cogar, curator, Colonial Williamsburg, 13 March 1941, in NGA curatorial files; courtesy of Richard Miller, associate curator, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia). Stone apparently did not pass the information along to the Garbisches when they purchased the painting. General Schuyler Hamilton's grandfather was Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), George Washington's secretary of the treasury from 1789-1795, while Griffin was serving in Congress.