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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Greensburg Standard. (Greensburg, Indiana)
1 Feb 1907.
THE PIONEERS
Our Oldest Citizens, Who Made This Country What It Is
A Successful Farmer, Stock Raiser And A Splendid And Public Spirited Citizen
As the musing organist first lets his fingers wander where they list over the keys - beginning far away, and builds a bridge for his theme, this article begins with a family driven from Scotland, the land of hills and heather, to the north of Ireland by the Catholics, in the days of persecution for conscience sake, on account of their Presbyterian belief. After the middle of the eighteenth century - probably about 1767 - William Hamilton, the first of the family that came to America, married Isabella Thompson. They soon afterwards came from Ireland to the new world, and took up their abode in Pennsylvania; but the romantic story of Daniel Boone and the far-famed fertility of the vales and hills of Kentucky attracted thither ambitious young men from the West. Catching the spirit, William Hamilton, with his wife and three sons, Robert, Thomas and Samuel, located on McBride's creek, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and lived for several years upon a body of land that grew into a valuable estate, and was the nucleus of the fortunes owned and controlled by his descendants in later days - not only in Kentucky, but in Indiana. That branch of the Hamilton family which came from Kentucky and settled in Indiana, has been connected in some way, with all movements looking towards the religious, moral, social, educational and material growth of the community in which they have lived. ...
- Atlas of Decatur Co., Indiana: to which are added various general maps, history, statistics, illustrations. (Chicago: J.H. Beers, 1882)
78.
... On both the fathers' and the mothers' side, the Hamiltons are of Scotch-Irish descent and of the Presbyterian faith, and, tradition says, were driven from Scotland over to Ireland at the time of the Catholic persecution of Protestantism in Scotland. William Hamilton, the paternal grandfather of the men who settled here, came from Ireland to Pennsylvania about the middle of the last century. When or where he was married is not known, but his wife's name was Isabella Thompson. Soon after a settlement was begun in Kentucky, he with his wife and three sons (Robert, Thomas and Samuel) emigrated to that State and settled on McBride's Creek, in Bourbon County, where he died not many years thereafter. ...
- ↑ Will Abstract of William Hamilton, in usgwarchives.net - VITALS-Deaths, Partial 1792-1815, Bourbon County, Kentucky [1].
HAMBLETON (HAMILTON), Wm. -
sons, Alexander, Thos., Robt., and Samuel;
daughters, Nelly BLAIR, Ibby HINMAN;
wife, Isabella.
Made 29 Mar 1800. Proved Jan 1801.
Witnesses: John HOPKINS, John WAGNER; Sam. DONNELL.
(Will Book B, p. 112)
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