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- ↑ John Hamilton, writer to the Regality of Kylesmuir, was John Hamilton, Laird of Kype in Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was born in Kype and married (1) Jacobina Young and (2) either Barbara Murdoch of Cumloden or a Semple. Neither he nor any of his children had nothing to do with Ireland. John Hamilton continued to write to three or four of his male children in the American Colonies from Mauchline (Regality of Kylesmuir) up until the day he died. His letters are online. He descends from Gavin Hamilton, then John Hamilton (who married Jean Cleland), Gavin Hamilton (who married Abigail Hamilton, daughter of John Hamilton, Tutor of Stonehouse.) This family on this site has been grafted onto someone else's tree. I descend from Francis Hamilton, who came with Alexander Hamilton from Scotland on the Bessy, a ship owned by Hamilton, to Maryland to work in the tobacco trade at Portobacco and Piscataway. John Hamilton was apparently married to John Semple, Jr.s sister and was a partner with him and James Lawson. They all went bankrupt and Hamilton lost the family estate of Kype forever. His children stayed in America and lived in Frederick Counties, VA and MD and my Francis lived in that part that later became Berkeley County, WV. I descend through Francis's son, Francis and then through his daughter Susan, who married Wm. Keller and lived in the Shenandoah Valley, VA.--EMBralley 20:21, 28 January 2014 EMBralley
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