Page 394 - "'Among the roll of forty-nine officers of Scotland in 1649 was Sir Hance Hamilton who obtained adjudicated lands in the Province to the amount of one thousand acres. From him Colonel Hance Hamilton of York County, Pennsylvania, doubtless descended."
I need some help from an expert on the line of Capt Hance Hamilton who immigrated 1729 with 140 Scotch-Irish and eventually settled in York Co, PA. There has been mixing up concerning the 3 Generations of Hance Hamiltons.
1) (Sea) Capt. Hance Hamilton b. c. 1690 in Ulster Ireland the man who led the fabled 140 families to PA, landing in 1729.
2) Lt. Col. Hance Hamilton b. 1721 Ulster Ireland, d. 1772 York PA (son of #1) - who became the 1st sheriff, and later went on to have an illustrious, but short, career in the French and Indian Wars.
3) Col. Hance Hamilton b. c. 1745 (son of #2) - who became prominent in his own right, and became a Colonel about the time of the American Revolution
