Shirley -- I'm not sure. What I do know is that I can connect to William Hamilton bca 1770 found in 1830 Ohio Co., KY; however, I do not know who his father was. My lines are connected to William Coomes & wife, Jane Frances Unknown..... and the to Weddings, Brays, Hamiltons, Medcalfs, Harris, Roby, and therefore in some way to Robey Stewart. Here's the only documented Hamilton I can find on Cartwright's creek; he is by no means the only Hamilton in KY but the only one that specifically says Cartwright's creek. This abstract is found in the VA Patent Office as follows: Hamilton, Thomas. Publication 2 December 1785. Note Location: Jefferson County (Ky.). Description: 200 acres on the head of Cartrights Creek adjoining Joseph Hughes and Evan Shelby. Source: Land Office Grants Y, 1786, p. 49 (Reel 65). Among the nearly 2500 patents filed in that county between 1792-1785, other recognizable names in these abstracts filed in VA Patent Office are: Stephen Jarboe, Squire Boone, Jacob VanMeter, Jacob French, William Stewart, Benjamin Harden, Jesse Combs, Andrew Hynes [whose mother, Hannah Combs, m1 William Hines m2 James Barnes. Some lived on Soverns, a branch of Cartwright's Creek. On Salt River -- Charles Chinn, Isaac Hite, Jr., William Stewart, among others. There are nine KY patents filed in the VA Patent Office by Hamiltons between 1785-1792: William Hamilton [Sugar Creek - Lincoln County; William Hamilton [Pendleton's Premption, Fayette County]; Andrew Hamilton [Eagle Creek, Fayette County]; Andrew Hamilton [Licking near Mill Creek, Fayette County]; Andrew Hamilton [Silver Creek, Madison County]; John Hamilton [Cedar Creek, Fayette County]; John Hambelton [Above Elkhorne, Fayette County] ... and Thomas Hamilton above. Ernie In a message dated 11/10/2008 3:01:09 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, shirleymoller@verizon.net writes: Ernie, I'm not sure of the children of James. But this may help you some. Shirley Middleton Moller Migrated to Kentucky from Maryland in 1797. Settled on Cartwright Creek in Washington Co. Sources: P-033 ("Imprints 1608-1980, Hamilton & Allied Families") Page: 34-42 P-034 ("A History of St. Dominic Church & Catholicity in Washington Co., Ky.") Page: 126 THOMAS HAMILTON, a middling planter of Southern Maryland and one of the three sons of James Hamilton, left Prince George's Co., MD and arrived in Kentucky in 1797; he and his family settled on Cartwright Creek in Washington County. Thomas Hamilton was also a grandson of Alexander and Elizabeth Hamilton of "Spy Park" in Charles County and a first cousin of Leonard Hamilton (q.v.) who with his family settled on the Rolling Fork seven years earlier. This Hamilton family was founded by "a Scotchman" and "Irish lady" - both immigrants - who came to Maryland separately, arriving at Charles Towne, the old county seat of Prince George's Co., MD in the mid or late 1700's. Like many others, they had shipped out from the 'old world' on one of the ships, like the Thomas, which then served the tobacco trade and the import needs of the planters along the Patuxent River. The Thomas and one or two other ships from Whitehaven, an English port on the Irish sea, carried passengers including Scots from across the nearby Scottish border, from stops at Belfast (Carrickfergus), they also provided passage both for Scots and Irish from northern Ireland to the 'new world'. After a few years in Prince George's County, Alexander bought "Spy Park" in the Port Tobacco area of neighboring Charles County, and area with which the family became closely identified. Here all the children, five sons and one daughter, were reared. This Hamilton family, from its beginning was a part of the closely-knit Catholic community of Southern Maryland. In 1768, James Hamilton, the father of Thomas, with his family moved from Charles County to "Pitch Croft" in the old Mt. Calvert area of Prince George's County; in doing so he was settling in the area where 60 or more years earlier, his father and mother had married (1710), had two of their six children and lived for a number of years more before settling in adjoining Charles County (For more family background see "Leonard Hamilton"). Thomas Hamilton died intestate in 1808, apparently from a stroke. His estate was administered by Clement Hill, his son-in-law, who came to Kentucky in 1785 from St. Mary's County with his large family. At the time of his death, Thomas owned 600 acres of land and had a personal estate of approximately 1,000 pounds. He was buried on his own land, his grave site, of structured fieldstone, is a short distance out of Springfield and in recent years has been tended by Richard Hamilton of Bardstown, who is four generations removed from his Kentucky forefather. The considerable lineage "of Thomas" and his wife Ann Hodgkins (Hoskins) is from five of his six sons, namely, Walter, Alexander, Thomas H., Edward L. (a physician), and John Benjamin (also a physician). (Thomas's oldest son, Richard died, unmarried, a short time after his father.) The marriages of his sons allied the Hamiltons to Smith, Edelen, Hayden, Clements, Campbell, Vaughan and Saunders families. Thomas' four daughters, Mary (Polly), Elizabeth, Ann and Lucy, married into families, respectively of Hills, Smiths, Clements and Franeys. Of Thomas' sons, the most notable in nineteenth century Washington County was Alexander Hamilton (1788-1878) who was a well-to-do farmer, a merchant, a justice of the county court and a sheriff of the county for many years. His cenotaph topped with a cross still stands sentinel today over numerous Hamilton grave sites in old St. Rose Cemetery; around him are buried three of his four wives and one of his sons. Alexander's oldest son, Richard became a prominent farmer in the county and was first a deputy sheriff and then the sheriff of Washington County for many years. The lineage of "Thomas" scattered throughout the county is considerable; notably among them have been the number of doctors. Many in the lineage "of Thomas" as well as "of Leonard" look back to Washington and Marion Counties as the homeland of their Kentucky forefathers. 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