Robert Hamilton (1732 - 1821)

Born 31 Mar 1732 in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Conkey) Hamilton — married 1 Oct 1767 in Granville, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 30 Nov 1821 at age 89 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Name

Robert Hamilton, Children of son Robert Hamilton and Margaret included Benjamin, Micah, William, Alexander, Patty, Robert, Rebecca, Polly, Robert, Washington.

Birth

March 31, 1742 Barre, Massachusetts

Title

Lieut.

Death

November 30, 1821 Bane, Worcester, Massachusetts

Biography

Robert Hamilton was born in Barre, Massachusetts March 31, 1732. On October 1, 1767 he married Margaret Conkey, b. April 28, 1846, the daughter of Alexander Conkey of Pelham, MA and they set up a second farm in Conway, Massachusetts. He signed the motion on January 12, 1767 to request Conway split off from nearby Deerfield to form it's own town. Robert went back and forth between the two farms until his second son, Micah, took over the Barre farm some years later. Robert quickly became a patriot of the American cause in the battle for American independence and rose to the rank of Lieutenant in Captain David Cowden's Company, Col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge regiment. He first engaged April 27, 1775 serving three months and responding to the alarms at Lexington and Concord. Then, again, he fought at Prospect Hill September 28, 1775 and then again in August, 1777 marching towards Bennington, Vermont under Captain William Cooley's Company in the Hampshire Regiment. When he was in Conway, he served as a Tax Collector in 1779 and 1782 and a Representative to the the General Court of Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787.. His promotion signed by John Hancock attached.

Sources

• History of Conway. 1767-1917. By The People of Conway, Rev. Charles Stanley Pease, A.M. Editor. Springfield Printing and Binding Company, Springfield, Massachusetts. 1917. Page 298.
• New York Probate Records "New York Probate Records, 1629-1971." Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. County courthouses, New York.
• Revolutionary War Pension Records

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=revwarpbountylandgrants&h=26279&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt.

• Massachusett Compiled Marriages Marriage date: 1 Oct 1767 Marriage place: Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts Web Address

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=mamarriages_ga&h=167945&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt.

• Vital Records of Conway Massachusetts to the year 1850. Published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Robert Henry Eddy Memorial Rooms. Boston, MA 1943. Page 56-57.

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of Geer.ged on 25 September 2010.
• Childrens names in biography were added per Solome Hamilton's "Genealogy of Hamilton Family"