John was born about 1793. John Hamilton ... He passed away in 1886. [1]
Living on the Licking River:1817-1868 "I appears that not long after their marriage about 1817, Mary and her husband, John Hamilton, were living in the Licking River Valley, a few miles over the mountains from the Big Sandy River Valley. From the 1820 Floyd County census we know that John lived near the home of his father with Mary and their young children; a son [Samuel] and a daughter [Elizabeth] under ten years of age. In 1823, Morgan County was formed from parts of Floyd and Bath counties, so any subsequent records of the family should be found in Morgan County records. Marriages of John's siblings are also recorded in the work by Mrs. Parrish. Like many other men of the period, John took advantage of his opportunity to buy unclaimed lands in the region at bargain prices, using the Kentucky Land Warrant System, as modified in 1815. Mrs. Parrish wrote that in 1820 four Kentucky Land Warrants for a total of 250 acres of land were issued to John Hamilton in Morgan - actually Floyd at the time - Co., KY; in 1827, 50 acres on Stone Coal Creek, and on branches of Paint Creek; in 1833, 50 acres; in 1840, 100 acres; in 1845, 50 acres. I recently discovered that John and his father - their last name spelled Hambleton by the surveyor - had surveys done on their respective 100 acres of land on Stone Coal Creek in 1821. That same year, John's brother, Thomas - his last name spelled Hambilton by the surveyor - had 50 acres surveyed on Middle Creek. Any subsequent surveys for John should be in entered in Morgan County survey books. Mrs. Parrish lists six sons and one daughter of John and Mary but doesn't have any succeeding generations of this branch of the Hamilton family. From my other sources, I learned of the existence of Mary's first child and recorded a number of additional generations of Mary and John's descendants in my records. Existing vital statistics of their children are at the beginning of this biographical sketch. Most, if not all of them, appear to have lived near the place of their birth. Elizabeth is known to have had at least eight children; Samuel, twelve children; Thomas, eight children; Benjamin, seven children; John; four children; Mary, ten children; Sarah, no known children; and David, fifteen children, by two wives. James is listed in the 1850 Morgan County census, age 14, but no other records of him have been found. Mary died about 1868 and John survived her by about eighteen years. He and others of the family were buried on the family farm in Morgan County. Years later, the Paint Creek Dam was built and the graves were moved to the Hamilton Cemetery in nearby Red Bush."
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