Thomas Hamilton (1758 - 1853)

Born 4 Jul 1758 in York County, Colony of Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 2 May 1853 at age 94 in Liberty, Pickens County, South Carolina, United States

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Major Thomas Hamilton performed Patriotic Service in South Carolina in the American Revolution.

Thomas Hamilton Gender: Male Age: 96 Birth Date: 1757 Birth Place: York County, PA Death Date: 1853 Death Place: South Carolina Spouse: Annie Kennedy

Suggested Records United States Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Thomas Hamilton

Name: Thomas Hamilton Age: 92 Birth Year: abt 1758 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1850: Eastern Subdivision, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Gender: Male Family Number: 892

Household Members:
David K Hamilton 56
Jane E Hamilton 57
Matilda Hamilton 17
Milton Bloodworth 18
William N Martin 30
Mary E Martin 24
Jacob H Martin 3
Jane A Martin 0
Rebecca Martin 12
Lonza Harris 16
William W Martin 8
Thomas Hamilton 92

He married Ann Kennedy on 12 December 1782 in York, South Carolina. They had 11 children.

Children:

1. William Wallace b. 1787 married Martha Ann McCann
2. Letitia b. 1791 married William Boggs
3. David Kennedy b. 1793 married Jane Elder Walker
4. Eleanor b. 1795 married Thomas Gilliland Boggs
5. Mary Anne b. 1798 married Josias Dupre Gaillard
6. Cynthia Tennant b. 27 March 1802 married George Miller ^[1]

Pension application of Thomas Hamilton S21267 - 1824 ^[2]

The State of South Carolina

To the Honorable the President and other members of the Senate and to the Speaker and other members of the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina in General Assembly Convened

The Petition of Thomas Hamilton Humbly Sheweth

That in the year your petitioner then residing in York District in the State aforesaid turned out Volunteer under James Willson to take a tour of one month against the Cherokee Indians, after the expiration of that time he went into Randolph County in North Carolina and joined General Sumter and went with him to be Battle of the Hanging Rock from thence Sumter returned into N. C. where he remained but a short time. Sumter marched to join General Gates at Camden but before he arrived Gates was defeated. The British met Sumter and his men and defeated them. After this defeat he returned into N. C. and joined Captain John Moffett. He was afterwards commanded by Captain “Frame” Woods, was with him at the Siege at Columbia. He afterwards served a tour under Captain Thomas Wood on Edisto River. He afterwards served a tour under Captain Reid of Col. Hampton's Regiment was with Hampton at the skirmish at the quarter house near Charleston. He was out upwards of four years in the Service of his Country all the time found his on horse. He never received any compensation whatever for his services. He has raised a family of 11 children all of whom are grown and have left him except one son and his daughters. He has now three orphaned grandchildren dependent on him for support. He is now in the 66th year of his age, by age and disease attendant there on he is unable to labor as he has been accustomed to do. Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays your Honorable body to grant him some relief either a pension or pay for these services. He would not ask or receive anything from his Country while he was able to do without her help but now in the time of need he pleads for that return for his services which he rendered in the time of peril, to which Services there are yet living many witnesses. Any relief granted to your petitioner will be gratefully received and as in duty bound, he will ever pray.

Pendleton 1 November 1824

S/ Thos. Hamilton

State of South Carolina, Anderson District - 1834

On this First day of October 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas for Anderson District in the State aforesaid Thomas Hamilton a resident of the State and District aforesaid aged 75 years who being duly sworn makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

He first entered the service of the United States in the Fall of 1777 in a company commanded by Captain Sadler & Lieutenant James Wilson in Colonel Neale's Regiment against the Cherokee Indians on the Frontiers of South Carolina and served a tour of four months. Immediately after the Fall of Charleston he went into North Carolina with several other of his acquaintances to avoid the enemy and whilst there in June 1780 attached himself to General Butler at Haw River and served with him a tour of one month. In August 1780 he joined General Sumter at Charlotte in North Carolina to which place he had retired after his surprised at Fishing Creek for the purpose of collecting his forces. He was attached to the company commanded by Captain James Jamison and returned under these officers in to South Carolina. From the frailty of memory and the description of the service he cannot detail particularly the marches he undertook or detachments upon which he was sent but for a succession of months it was a season of great activity and although this Deponent was sometimes permitted to go home in short furloughs yet this Declarant declares from the time he attached himself to General Sumter until the withdrawal of the enemy from the State by evacuating Charleston in December 1782 he was in service and always subject to the orders of Sumter or those officers to whose command he was attached by Sumter's Command. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency of any State.

To the Interrogatories propounded by the Court he answers

First – He was born on the 4th of July 1759 in York County in the State of Pennsylvania

Second – Has a record of his age at home taken from an entry in his father's family Bible in possession of a Brother

Third – Was living in York District in this State when he entered the service where he continued during the war and until 1786 when he removed to the place at which he now lives in this District.

Fourth – He was drafted on his first tour of duty against the Indians and a Volunteer always after.

Fifth – He was under General Green [sic, Nathanael Greene] at Orangeburg. And was attached under the command of some regular officers belonging to Greene's troops but the names not recollected. He was with Colonel Wade Hampton very frequently in recollects well that Colonel Hampton once made a registry of the names of troops among whom this applicant was taken but whether it has been preserved or for what purpose it was taken he is unable to say. He was at a Siege of a Fort on Congaree – in the battle of Blackstock's and various skirmishes.

Sixth – Never had a written discharge.

Seventh – he has procured the attendance of John Craig and James Brown with whom he was well acquainted during the war and done much service. He is known by most of the members of the Bar who practice at this Court but cannot attend to specify what particular neighbors would testify to his character for veracity and his reputation as a soldier. He has known Col. Robert Anderson from his boyhood – General Earle has known him intimately for more than 40 years. He is well-known to the Honorable W. R. Davis & by the present officers of this Court and very many men of first respectability .

Power of attorney dated 1854 signed by David K Hamilton of Anderson district South Carolina in which he states he is the son and heir at law of Thomas Hamilton deceased, a revolutionary war pensioner.

Affidavit dated June 25, 1855 filed by Colonel David K Hamilton in which he states he is the son and administrator of the estate of Thomas Hamilton; that he has a family record by which it appears that his mother Ann [Anna] Hamilton died on the 24th day of March 1836 and that his said father died on Made 2, 1853; that he and his sisters Mrs. Letitia Boggs, Mrs. Eleanor Boggs & Ann Gaillard and William Hamilton but now the only living children of his parents.

Veteran was pensioned at the world rate of $118.66 per annum (increased from $44.66 per annum) commencing March 4th, 1831, and ending May 2, 1853, for service as a private in the Infantry & cavalry and wagon master.

Name: Thomas Hamilton ^[3] Birth Date: 4 Jul 1758 Birth Place: York County, Pennsylvania, United States of America Death Date: 2 May 1856 Cemetery: Carmel Presbyterian Church Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Liberty, Pickens County, South Carolina, United States of America Has Bio?: Y Spouse: Ann Hamilton Children: Letitia Boggs, David Kennedy Hamilton , Eleanor Boggs, Mary Anne Gaillard

Thomas Hamilton died intestate - Letters of Administration, to settle his estate, were granted to David K Hamilton on 26 June 1855. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ An Uncompromising Secessionist: The Civil War of George Knox Miller, Eighth (Wade's) Confederate Calvary
2. ↑ Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements - Transcribed by Will Graves
3. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22153152/_ The date of 1856 is incorrect it should be 1853.
4. ↑ Source Citation: Author: South Carolina. Court of Ordinary (Anderson District); Probate Place: Anderson, South Carolina, Source Information Ancestry.com. South Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.