In the musical, Hamilton meets his cohort band of brothers--Irish tailor Hercules Mulligan, high-bred abolitionist John Laurens, and America's favourite fighting Frenchman, the Marquis de Lafayette--all at the same time, during Aaron Burr, Sir. In reality, he met them over the course of several years after arriving in the colonies. WHICH OF THE GANG DID HE FIRST BEFRIEND?
Hercules Mulligan