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Ancestors of Christina Marie Wise Brown

      952. Leonard Hamilton, born Abt. 1750 in Spy Park, Maryland; died 1819 in Rolling Fork Settlement, Kentucky. He was the son of 1904. Patrick Hamilton and 1905. Mary Anne Green. He married 953. Nancy McAtee Abt. 1770.

      953. Nancy McAtee, died Bef. 1819.

Notes for Leonard Hamilton:

"Leonard Hamilton and his wife Nancy McAtee, (through their daughter who married Richard Spalding) were the grandparents of the most Rev. Martin John Spalding, bishop of Louisville, Archbishop of Baltimore, a writer, scholar, and orator of note and one the the great prelates of the country. Also of the Very Rev. Benedict J. Spalding, D.D., Vicar General of the Diocese of Louisville; also Sister Perpetua, a saintly Sister of Loretto.
"Through their grandson, Richard M. Spalding, who married Mary Jane Lancaster, Leonard and Nancy were the great-grandparents of the late Most Rev. John Lancaster Spalding, bishop of Peoria, titular arch-bishop and not less capable and distinguished in ever way than his revered uncle, Martin John Spalding; of another (2) Rev. Benedict J. Spalding (2nd), an exemplary and beloved priest who labored for a while in KY, but died in the Diocese of Peoria; and d(3) Richard Spalding, who was drowned almost on the eve of his priestly ordination; and of the late (4) Madam Henrietta Spalding, noted member of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart in Saint Louis.

More About Leonard Hamilton:
Date born 2: 1750, Charles Co., Maryland
Died 2: 1819, Kentucky

More About Nancy McAtee:
Name 2: Ann McAtee

Children of Leonard Hamilton and Nancy McAtee are:

476	i.	Clement M. Hamilton, born October 26, 1771 in Charles Co., Maryland; died July 27, 1859 in Calvary, Marion Co., Kentucky; married Nancy Ann Spalding August 07, 1792 in Holy Cross, Washington Co., Kentucky.
	ii.	Mary Hamilton, born October 11, 1773 in Charles Co., Maryland; died August 04, 1812; married Benedict J. Spalding January 14, 1805; born 1785 in Maryland; died 1870 in Kentucky.
	iii.	Elizabeth Hamilton, born 1775 in Charles Co., Maryland; died November 28, 1856; married (1) Luckett Hezekiah; married (2) Unknown Luckett; married (3) Thomas McAtee March 25, 1791; born in 1st marriage?; died Bef. 1799.

Notes for Elizabeth Hamilton:
[John Wimsatt.FTW]

Edward McAtee has Elizabeth Hamilton, b. 1775 La Plata, Charles County, MD. m. 1791 to Thomas Mcatee. He died before 1799. Could she have married twice? The second marriage to Luckett.

More About Elizabeth Hamilton:
Date born 2: 1775

iv.

Leonard Hamilton, born 1775; died April 09, 1832 in disaster "Brandywine", MI River (above Memphis); married Mary Ann Beaven November 22, 1814.

More About Leonard Hamilton:
Date born 2: 1783, Charles Co., Maryland
Died 2: 1822

Martha Hamilton, born 1776 in Charles Co., Maryland; married William James April 23, 1796.

More About Martha Hamilton:
Date born 2: 1780
Date born 3: 1780, La Plata, Charles Co., Md.

vi.

Anastasia Hamilton, born 1778; married Ignatius Hagan 1797.

More About Anastasia Hamilton:
Date born 2: 1777, Charles Co., Maryland

		vii.		Ann Hamilton, born February 03, 1779 in Charles Co., Maryland; died November 17, 1864; married (1) Charles Bland; married (2) Jeremiah Knott January 26, 1806.
		viii.		Henrietta Hamilton, born 1781 in Charles Co., Maryland; died December 03, 1815; married Richard Spalding July 25, 1801; born 1777 in Maryland; died 1850 in Kentucky.
		ix.		Harriet Ann Hamilton, born July 1786 in Charles Co., Maryland; married (1) John Thomas; married (2) Livingston J. Thurman August 17, 1802; born in 1st marriage.

More About Harriet Ann Hamilton:
Name 2: Harriet Hamilton
Date born 2: 1776
Date born 3: 1776, La Plata, Charles Co., MD.

More About Livingston J. Thurman:
Name 2: Livingston Thurman
Name 3: Livingston Thurmon

George Alexander Hamilton, born January 06, 1788 in Charles Co., Maryland; died 1878; married Clara Fenwick 1810.

More About George Alexander Hamilton:
Date born 2: 1773, La Plata, Charles Co., Md.

xi.

Samuel Hamilton, born 1793 in Charles Co., Maryland; died 1823; married Elizabeth Delia Thomas October 11, 1819.

      954. Benedict Joseph Spalding, born December 1746 in Calvert Co., Marlyand; died August 01, 1815 in Washington Co., Kentucky. He was the son of 1908. Benedict Joseph Spalding and 1909. Elizabeth Mattingly. He married 955. Alethaire Abell Abt. 1770 in St. Mary's Co., Maryland.

      955. Alethaire Abell, born April 22, 1753 in St. Mary's Co., Maryland; died December 01, 1821 in Washington Co., Kentucky. She was the daughter of 1910. Samuel Abell and 1911. Eleanor O'Bryan.

Notes for Benedict Joseph Spalding:
      Benedict, and his wife Alethaire, lived and prospered in their native Maryland from the date of their marriage in 1769 until the spring of 1791, when they and their ten children, along with a group of other Catholic families led by Benedict, made the long and perilous journey from southern Maryland to Nelson County, Kentucky.
      The time required for a migration of this kind was about six months. Our ancestor and his family and those accompanying them traveled in covered wagons and/or on horseback until they reached Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh). The route which they used originated in southern Maryland and led from Port Tobacco to Baltimore, to Old Town, to Fort Cumberland, and thence by way of Braddock's Road to Red Stone and Fort Pitt. At Fort Pitt a flat boat was purchased or built, and a family making the hourney, along with all of its household equipment, tools, and other materials, would float down the Ohio River for a distance of 300 miles to Limestone, above present Louisville, where they would disembark and travel overland to their future home.
      Benedict and his family were fortunate because his brother-in-law, Robert Abell, had emigrated from Maryland to Kentucky several years before, and he and the group of Catholic settlers with him had established a settlement on the Rolling Fork River in Nelson County, not far from Bardstown.
      Benedict and his family settled in the same locality, and soon Benedict, who was a man of property, had acquired almost 2,000 acres of land, which lay on both sides of the Rolling Fork. He erected his permanent home on the south side of that stream. He dispsed of ninety-five acres across the river from his home for the use of the Catholic Church, and upon this land Clavary Church and convent were subsequently erected.
      Benedict became the most active and influential citizen in the Rolling Fork community, except his brother-in-law, Robert Abell. He represented Washington County in the General Assembly of Kentucky in 1805, and became high sheriff of that county in 1809. Furthermore, he was an extensive farmer and a successful trader and merchant.
      After his arrival in Kentucky, he and Alethaire had two children, making twelve, all of whom lived to maturity.
      In addition to his other activities, Benedict owned and operated a number of boats or rafts, which carried merchandise, especially whiskey, from Kentucky down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Natchez and New Orleans. This was a profitable, although risky, business due to river pirates and marauding Indians.
      He was a rugged individual. He met his problems head on and overcame them. He was blessed with a gentle and religious wife who survived him by more than six years. He raised six daughters and six sons, and left his wife and all of his children well-to-do. He was the ancestor of a numerous group of hardworking and prosperous people, many of whom serve the Catholic Church as priests and nuns. He had more than one hundred grandchildren.

SOURCE: THE SPALDING FAMILY OF MARYLAND, KENTUCKY AND GEORGIA

Notes for Alethaire Abell:
Benedict's wife, Alethaire, had a brilliant mind and was remarkable for her amiability and other personal attractions. She was a faithful and devoted member of the Catholic Church, and instructed and brought up her children in that religion; and undoubtedly, during the first years in Kentucky she had a lot of teaching to do, not only religious, but secular. There were no schools worthy of the name, and only one or two missionary Priests in the entire area of Kentucky. There were what the Methodists would call "Circuit Riders," and rode on horseback hundreds of miles each year visiting Catholic settlements. There were no churches, and Mass was celebrated in private houses, and the neighborhood attended services there. These services were frequently held at Benedict Spalding's home on the Rolling Fork.

Children of Benedict Spalding and Alethaire Abell are:

	477	i.		Nancy Ann Spalding, born February 08, 1771 in Leonardtown, Maryland; died January 26, 1863 in Calvary, Marion Co., Kentucky; married Clement M. Hamilton August 07, 1792 in Holy Cross, Washington Co., Kentucky.
		ii.		Mary Zeralda Spalding, born February 01, 1773 in St. Mary's Co., Maryland; died January 24, 1847 in Kentucky; married Henry Hudson Wathen April 14, 1798; born in St. Mary's Co., Maryland.

More About Mary Zeralda Spalding:
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Kentucky

More About Henry Hudson Wathen:
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Kentucky
Occupation: Farmer and Distiller

iii.

Eleanor Spalding, born May 25, 1775 in Maryland; died in Kentucky; married Basil Riney October 01, 1795; born Abt. 1767; died September 1824 in Hardin Co., Kentucky.

Notes for Eleanor Spalding:
After Basil's death, Eleanor sold the plantation which her husband willed to her and moved back to Washington Co., Kentucky, in the early part of 1828. There is no record of her death. The US census of 1850 shows that she was still living with her brother Richard.

		iv.		Richard Spalding, born 1777 in Maryland; died 1850 in Kentucky; married (1) Henrietta Thompson; married (2) Mary Charlton; married (3) Henrietta Hamilton July 25, 1801; born 1781 in Charles Co., Maryland; died December 03, 1815.
		v.		Thomas Spalding, born 1778 in Maryland; married (1) Susan Abell; married (2) Ann Shercliffe.
		vi.		Elizabeth Spalding, born July 28, 1781 in Maryland; died September 15, 1860 in Kentucky; married (1) Edward Spalding; married (2) John B. Wathen August 26, 1797; died Abt. 1804.

More About Elizabeth Spalding:
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Kentucky

		vii.		Benedict J. Spalding, born 1785 in Maryland; died 1870 in Kentucky; married (1) Eliza Elder; married (2) Elizabeth McElroy; married (3) Mary Hamilton January 14, 1805; born October 11, 1773 in Charles Co., Maryland; died August 04, 1812.
		viii.		Joseph Spalding, born 1786 in Maryland; died 1837 in Kentucky; married (1) Elizabeth Moore; married (2) Ann Abell; married (3) Teresa Moore.
		ix.		Catherine Spalding, born April 25, 1788 in Maryland; died March 19, 1871 in Kentucky; married Richard Forrest August 07, 1805; died 1837.

Notes for Richard Forrest:
Richard Forrest was prominent in the affairs of Marion County, Kentucky and was postmaster at Lebanon.

		x.		Ignatius Aloysius Spalding, born 1790 in Maryland; died 1851 in Kentucky; married (1) Jane Gray Pottinger; married (2) Ann Huston.
		xi.		Alethethaire Spalding, born 1793 in Kentucky; died July 14, 1833 in Washington Co., Kentucky; married Francis Simms November 17, 1810.

More About Alethethaire Spalding:
Cause of Death: Cholera

xii.

William Francis Spalding, born 1795 in Kentucky; died 1870 in Kentucky; married (1) Elizabeth Thompson; married (2) Behetheland Wathen; married (3) Polly Clements Hite.

956. Robert Edelen, died in Saint Anne's Church, Kentucky.

Child of Robert Edelen is:

478

George Edelen, born Abt. 1761; died Aft. January 11, 1811 in Saint Anne's Church, Kentucky; married Sarah Ann Edelen May 14, 1785 in Charles Co., Maryland.

      958. Edward Edelen, born 1717 in Newport, West Hundred, Maryland; died Bef. March 25, 1780 in Charles Co., Maryland. He was the son of 1916. Richard Edelen and 1917. Sarah Hagan. He married 959. Susannah Wathen.

      959. Susannah Wathen, born in Maryland; died Aft. 1790 in Maryland. She was the daughter of 1918. John Wathen and 1919. Ann Barton.

Children of Edward Edelen and Susannah Wathen are:

479	i.	Sarah Ann Edelen, born February 1763 in Charles Co., Maryland; died July 20, 1848 in Washington Co., Kentucky; married George Edelen May 14, 1785 in Charles Co., Maryland.
	ii.	John Edelen, born 1753 in Newport, West Hundred, Maryland; died October 06, 1803 in Charles Co., Maryland; married Monica Boarman 1780 in Bryantown, Charles Co., Maryland; born Abt. 1760.
	iii.	Edward Edelen, born 1750 in Newport Hundred, Charles Co., Maryland; died 1834 in Charles Co., Maryland; married Eleanor Boarman.

Notes for Edward Edelen:
Edward Edelen (c. 1750-1834) was the son of Edward and Susannah (Wathen) Edelen, and the grandson of Richard and Sarah (Hagan) Edelen, 2a. above. He was born near Newport Hundred in Charles County, where his parent's tract named "Assington" was located. He enlisted in the First Maryland Regiment on January 24, 1777 and was discharged on December 27, 1779. He was a Sergeant in General Smallwood's Battalion of the Maryland Militia. He probably saw action at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth.

In 1782, he was married to Eleanor Boarman and lived in Newport Hundred.

He inherited a portion of "Assington" from his grandfather, Richard Edelen. The tax list of 1783 shows he was seized of 364 acres of land near Newport, probably due to debt. Later acquisitions included a portion of "Boarman's Manor" and "Westwood Lodge", both lying on the edge of Zekiah Swamp near Bryantown Hundred. A few years before his death, portions of "Boarman's Manor" were deeded to his son George, and an unnamed tract of land was given to his grandson Benedict Joseph Edelen and daughter-in-law Elizabeth Edelen. Edward Edelen died in Charles County in 1834, leaving his wife one-third of the remaining property and with the remainder going to his daughter Sarah. A lot and tavern in Newport were passed on to grandsons, and other property to granddaughters.

*Portions of "Boarman's Manor" inherited by George Edelen and his wife Sarah (Jameson) Edelen have been handed down over the generations. "Sunnyside Farm" as it is now known, is currently owned by Vivian (Bounds) Edelen, widow of the late Edward Benjamin Edelen of Bryantown. Vivian is a well-known genealogist. Her family's farm has been recognized as a "Bicentennial Farm" in the state of Maryland since it has been continuously operated by the same family for over 200 years. Vivian's daughter Ann (Edelen) Boone and her husband Charles are proprieters of the "Wilshire Plains" Bed and Breakfast in Bryantown, a 1760 colonial farmhouse. Call 800-808-7773 for reservations if you are looking for a great base of operation from which to explore this region of southern Maryland.

Reference: http://www.ghgcorp.com/edelen/People1.html

iv.

Francis Edelen, born 1760; died 1830; married Sarah Thompson 1779.

Notes for Francis Edelen:
Francis Edelen (c. 1760 - 1830) was a brother of Edward Edelen. On July 8, 1776 he enlisted in the Flying Camp under Captain Belian Posey of Charles County. It is probable that he marched to New York and participated in that infamous battle. It is not known how long he served in the Continental Army, but in late 1779 he was married to Sarah Thompson by Fr. John Bolton.

His grandfather's will bequeathed to him the tract "Edelen's Admentment" in Charles County where they made their residence. The will of Francis Edelen provided his widow Sarah one-half of the property "Edelen's Admentment" and dwelling house, with the other half to go for the use of their single daughter Catherine and widowed daughter Mary. He died in 1830.

Reference: http://www.ghgcorp.com/edelen/People1.html

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