two o'clock in the afternoon
There may have been moments when the soul of Washington or Laurens brushed his own . Assuredly no woman companioned it for a fraction of a second . Whatever his last thoughts , no man has met his end with more composure . He died at two o'clock in the afternoon . The humour and vivacity which had seldom been absent from Hamilton 's face in life withdrew its very impress with his spirit . His features had something more than the noble repose , the baffling peace , of death ; they looked as if they had been cast long ago with the heads of the Caesars . Gouverneur Morris , staring at him through blistered eyeballs as he lay in his coffin , recalled the history of the House of Hamilton , of its direct and unbroken descent -- through the fortunate , and famed , and crowned of the centuries -- from the Great Constantine , from `` The Macedonian , '' founder of a dynasty of Roman Emperors , and from the first of the Russian monarchs .