The Wallace Adam Hamilton Family Updated Feb 2008Updated February 7, 2008 |
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| Home page for collection of: Wallace (Ohio, Pennsylvania), Adam (Ohio), Hamilton, Tuohy, Straley Lancaster Co., PA and Jefferson Co., OH and South Carolina By Harriet E. Wallace http://www.iwallace.com/history.html Richard of Wales became known as Richard Waleys and eventually with changes over the years, the name became Wallace. The first tract of land granted to Richard was in Ayrshire and was eight miles long and three wide. Richard was the great-great-grandfather of the Scottish hero, Sir William Wallace. Our families of Hamilton and Wallace migrated from Ulster to establish Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1729. William Hamilton (d. 1781) was in Lancaster County by 1733. According to dates on his tombstone he was about 13 at that time. It is believed that he had three brothers, John, Hugh, and James, and two Sisters, Ann and Mary. Mary is mentioned in his will. All were born in Northern Ireland. He married Jean(Jane) McIlwain, and they had seven children. William Hamilton (d. 1781) was a land speculator and farmer and had extensive land holdings in Leacock Township. He died 17 October 1781 and his wife, Jean, and son, Hugh Hamilton, were his executors. When the Revolutionary War broke out, William Hamilton (d. 1781) was overage to be a volunteer, but his sons were ready to defend freedom and individual rights. James Hamilton, son of William, studied medicine with Dr. Shippen in 1774. He fought in the battles on Long Island, around New York City, and across New Jersey where he was taken prisoner of war. He remained in South Carolina after the War where he married Elizabeth Lynch, daughter of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from that State. Their son James Hamilton, served as a major in the War of 1812 and was elected Governor of South Carolina in 1830. He became known as "the Great Nullifier" He later moved to Texas where he fought in its war with Mexico. William Hamilton (born about 1747 and died 1840) served in the Revolutionary War. On the death of Hugh Hamilton in 1804 and Jean (McIlwain) Hamilton Wilson in 1808, William became successor executor of his father's estate. He married Maria Barbara ( ? ) and they had five children, among them, Mary, born about 1770 and died about 1861, and William, born about 1770 and died about 1870. In 1809 he decided that he wanted to join the members of his family who had moved west to Jefferson County, OH, and he turned his appointment as executor of his father's estate over to his nephew, John Hamilton, son of his brother, Robert. Soon after that William and Maria Barbara did move to Jefferson Co. and purchased land in Steubenville and Knox Township. In August of 1820 they gave son, James, land in Steubenville for $2.00. Maria Barbara Hamilton died soon after this, and on 18 January 1824 William married Mrs. Mary Drennan. They had two daughters, Sarah and Mary. After William Hamilton died in 1840 his wife, Mary, lived on the family estate the remainder of her life with daughter, Sarah, who had married Rutherford McClellan. Daughter, Mary Hamilton, never married, and she, too, lived with her sister, Sarah, until her death. William and Jean (McIlwain) Hamilton's daughter, Ann, married James Wallace. They lived in Lancaster County on land owned by her father. They had 11 children, among them Hugh, John, and William. It was William Wallace who married his cousin, Mary Hamilton, and eventually brought his family to Jefferson County. John Wallace also married a cousin, Ann Hamilton, daughter of Ann (Hamilton) Wallace's brother, John. William Hamilton (d. 1870), brother of Mary (Hamilton) Wallace, married Margaret Norton 12 March 1812, and they had five children. Mary (Polley) Hamilton and William Wallace were married in Lancaster County, PA. Four of their children were born in Pennsylvania, including William, James, John, and Hamilton. |
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