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Family	Elizabeth Schuyler b. Aug 17, 1757, d. 1854
Children	1.	Philip Hamilton b. Jan 22, 1782, d. Nov 24, 1801
	2.	Angelica Hamilton b. Sep 25, 1784, d. Feb 6, 1857
	3.	Alexander Hamilton b. May 16, 1786, d. Aug 2, 1875
	4.	James Alexander Hamilton+ b. Apr 14, 1788, d. Sep 24, 1878
	5.	John Church Hamilton b. Aug 22, 1792, d. Jul 25, 1882
	6.	William Steven Hamilton b. Aug 4, 1797, d. Aug 7, 1850
	7.	Eliza Hamilton b. Nov 20, 1799, d. Oct, 1859
	8.	Philip Hamilton b. Jun 1, 1802, d. Jul 9, 1884

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HAMILTON, Alexander, statesman, was born in the Island of Nevis, West Indies, Jan. 11, 1757; son of
James Hamilton, a St. Catherine or Kitts merchant; and grandson of Alexander Hamilton of The Grange,
Scotland. His mother was probably a French lady, daughter of Doctor [p.49] Fawcett, a practising physician
of Nevis, and the divorced wife of a Dane named Levine; but may have been a Miss Lytton. She died in his
childhood and he was educated chiefly under the instruction of the Rev. Hugh Knox, a Presbyterian
clergyman, residing in Nevis and with whom Hamilton kept up a correspondence during his manhood. In
1770 the boy became a clerk in the office of Nicholas Cruger, a West Indian merchant, and he was soon
entrusted with the entire charge of the counting house. His description of a severe hurricane that visited the
island, published in a local paper, attracted attention to the literary ability of the young accountant and
friends decided to send him to New York and give him school advantages. He reached Boston in October,
1772, and having letters from Doctor Knox to persons in New York city, he repaired thither and was placed
in a preparatory school at Elizabethtown, N.J. He matriculated at King's college in 1774 and aided by a
tutor he made rapid advancement in his college course which was interrupted, April 6, 1776, by the college
buildings being taken for military purposes. In 1774 he visited Boston and there interviewed the leaders of
the Revolutionary movement and became a convert to the cause of the colonists. On his return to New York
he attended a meeting held in an open field in the interest of the Revolutionary cause and finding that the
speaker failed to grasp the question, or fire the assembled patriots, he mounted the platform uninvited and
althougth but a boy of seventeen made an eloquent speech in behalf of colonial rights that reached the
hearts of his listeners and accomplished the purpose of the meeting, to force a Tory assembly to declare
its position on the great question of the day. He soon after wrote anonymously two pamphlets: "A Full
Vindication" and "The Farmer Refuted," and so convincing were his arguments, that their authorship was
credited to John Jay and to other well-known patriot writers. The disclosure of the author's name placed him
as a patriot leader in New York. Early in 1776, although scarcely nineteen years old, he was given
command of an artillery company by the New York convention, and his thorough discipline made it the
model organization of.the army of General Greene. He was commissioned captain and at the battles of
Long Island and White Plains demonstrated such military ability as an officer that General Greene
recommended him as a staff officer to the commander-in-chief and he was appointed and commissioned
lieutenant-colonel in the Continental army. His position on Washington's staff gave full scope not only to his
military genius but to his ready pen, and he soon proved himself indispensable to his chief. He
diplomatically secured from General Gates, after the Burgoyne campaign, troops to re-enforce
Washington's army, and in the capture and trial of André was a prominent figure, holding interviews with
both André and Mrs. Arnold. His close friendship with Washington was disturbed, Feb. 16, 1781, when he
took hasty offence at a reproof from his chief and resigned from his staff. He then entered the field in
command of the New York artillery with the rank of lieutenant-colonel of state troops. At Yorktown he
pleaded a storming party that captured a British redoubt, and he was brevetted colonel. During the progress
of the Revolution he was a correspondent of Robert Morris and James Duane on the subjects of finance and
government. He suggested plans in these letters for establishing a national bank and for amending the
confederation of the colonies. While studying law in New York after the close of the war, he was named by
Robert Morris as Continental receiver of taxes for New York and he accepted the position. He greatly
prospered as a lawyer and as Tory sympathizers were excluded from practice before the courts his
clientage rapidly increased. His efforts as a tax collector disclosed the defects in the articles of
confederation governing the colonies. He was elected a delegate to the Continental congress that met at
Philadelphia in November, 1782, and was continued at Princeton, N.J., June 30, 1783. In congress he was
with the minority, and finding his efforts there futile he resigned and resumed the practice of law. It was not
till bankruptcy followed the financial policy of congress and secession threatened the compact of states,
that the people were awakened to the danger foretold by Hamilton in [p.50] 1782-83. A convention was
proposed by Virginia to be held at Annapolis in September, 1786, and Hamilton, seconded by Egbert
Benson, secured friendly delegates from New York, and attended the convention. Hamilton drew up an
address which, modified by Edmund Randolph, was agreed upon by the convention. It recited the evil
condition of public affairs and called for a new convention at Philadelphia, May 2, 1787. On returning to New
York he was elected in November, 1786, to the state assembly, and there opposed the Clinton party in an
unequal contest for a stronger central government. He was a delegate to the last Continental congress that
assembled in New York, 1787-88 and he succeeded in being named by the New York convention, the
minority delegate to the Philadelphia convention, which gave him a seat, but no control of his state. In a
speech of five hours before the constitutional convention he presented his theory of government. It called for
a president and senators for life and for the appointment of governors of the respective states by the
president. After delivering his speech he withdrew from the convention, only returning to affix his name to
the constitution as framed, Sept. 17, 1787. He then went before the people to obtain for the instrument a
speedy ratification. He was the principal author of the series of essays called the Federalist, advocating a
strong centralized government. In the New York ratifying convention which stood two to one against the
adoption of the constitution as framed, by skillful debate, adroit management and wise counsel he secured
its triumphant ratification. The question then came before the people, and at the polls the ratification was
not only confirmed, but the Federalists elected four of the six representatives in congress and the power of
the Clintona in New York was for the time broken by the young leader of the Federalists. He named for U.S.
senators Rufus King and Philip Schuyler, ignoring the Livingstons, and this was deemed a political blunder
on the part of the youthful politician, as it cost the Federal party the state in 1790 and secured the election
of Aaron Burr as U.S. senator. Washington was inaugurated President of the United States, April 30, 1789,
and on the organization of the treasury department in September of that year he named Alexander Hamilton
as the first secretary of the U.S. treasury, His work as secretary of the treasury was to establish public
credit, to restore business confidence and to open an era of commercial prosperity. He provided a system
of internal revenue, a protective tariff, regulated the currency, established a U.S. mint, provided navigation
laws, laws as to coasting trade and as to post-offices, and provided for the purchase of West Point for a
military academy, and laws for the management of the public lands. He courted the investigation of the
affairs of the U.S. treasury by his political opponents, and quieted their charges of mismanagement by
promptly showing his books. He maintained the policy of a strict neutrality during the French revolution and
defended President Washington in maintaining it. He opposed his fellow cabinet officer, Thomas Jefferson,
secretary of state, and contributed to the Gazette of the, United States: a series of letters condemning
Jefferson's financial views. This brought out the interference of the President who patched up peace
between the two statesmen. The trouble, however, broke out again, and in 1794 Jefferson resigned from the
cabinet and two great political parties took form. Hamilton remained and subdued the threatened whisky
insurrection in .Pennsylvania, accompanying the armed force to the scene of the riot, and on Jan. 31, 1795,
he resigned, as his salary as secretary did not provide sufficient support to a growing family. He returned to
New York where he resumed the practise of law and soon regained his position as a leader of the New York
bar. He continued to be an advisor of the President, suggested many of the thoughts of his speeches and
messages and helped to write his farewell address. His close relation to Washington suggested the same
position in the administration of John Adams who had received his earnest support in the election. Hamilton
named the commissioners to France and they were appointed, but when he wanted to be placed at the
head of the provisional army the President objected, and the friendship between the two was broken.
Washington suggested a compromise which the President adopted and in 1798 Hamilton was made
inspector-general with the rank of major-general, and was promoted commander-in-chief in 1799. This
however did not end the quarrel between the President and Hamilton and the Federalist party could not
concentrate their forces in the election of 1800. In New York Burr carried the state and Hamilton proposed
the revolutionary expedient of calling together the old legislature and referring the choice of election to the
people in districts. He also openly attacked Adams as unfit for the high trust of President and still illogically
counselled the party to support him. When the electors met, Jefferson had seventy-three votes, Burr
seventy-three,[p.51] Adams sixty-five, Pinckney sixty-four and John Jay one. This threw the election in the
house of representatives and before that body the Federalists, anxious to defeat Jefferson, favored Burr, and
Hamilton, recovering his political wisdom in time, used his influence in favor of Jefferson, his former enemy.
But with Burr as vice-president, dissension ruled the administration and Hamilton guarded his party as best
he could against the political intrigue of Burr. When Burr was defeated by Morgan Lewis in the election of
1803 for governor of New York he charged his defeat to Hamilton and their long continued quarrel
culminated in a duel at Weehawken, N.J., July 11, 1804, where Hamilton fell mortally wounded at the first
fire. He was married Dec. 14, 1780, to Elizabeth, daughter of Gert. Philip Schuyler of Albany, N.Y., having
first met Miss Schuyler while visiting General Gates on official business relative to transferring a portion of
his troops. They lived on an estate known as "The Grange" overlooking the Hudson river in the neighborhood
of Fort George, New York city. Here, after building a handsome residence, he planted on the lawn thirteen
gum trees in a single clump and named them for the thirteen states. The trees were still standing in 1900
but the house, removed to make room for the march of improvement, occupied but a single lot in the midst
of modern residences. Of their children, Philip, born Jan. 22, 1782, was graduated at Columbia in 1800 and
was killed in a duel with Eckert, Nov. 24, 1801, on the same field at Weehawken, N.J., where his father fell
before the pistol of Burr in 1804; Alexander, born May 16, 1786, was graduated at Columbia in 1804, was
admitted to the practice of law, was with Wellington's army in Portugal in 1811, captain, U.S. infantry,
August, 1813, aide-de-camp to Gert. Morgan Lewis in 1814, U.S. district attorney for Florida, 1822, Florida
land commissioner in 1823, real estate lawyer, 1824-75, and died Aug. 2, 1875; James Alexander, born
April 14, 1788, was graduated at Columbia in 1805, was brigade-major and inspector of the New York state
militia, U.S. district attorney for New York, 1829-33, LL.D., Hamilton college, 1861, author of
"Reminiscences of Hamilton, or News and Events at Home and Abroad During Three Quarters of a Century"
(1869), and died in Irvington, N.Y., Sept. 24, 1878; John Church, born Aug. 22, 1792, was graduated at
Columbia in 1809, practised law in New York, was lieutenant in the U.S. army, 1814, aide-de-camp on the
staff of Gen. W. H. Harrison, March to June, 1814, edited his father's "Works," published "History of the
Republic of the United States as traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and His Contemporaries"
(1850-58), and died in Long Branch, N.J., July 25, 1882; William Steven, born Aug. 4, 1797, cadet at the
U.S. military academy, 1814, U.S. surveyor of public lands, colonel of Illinois volunteers in the Black Hawk
war, removed to Wisconsin, and thence to California and died in Sacramento, Cal., Aug. 7, 1850; and
Philip, born June 1, 1802, was assistant district attorney of New York, judge advocate of the naval retiring
board in Brooklyn, and died in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., July 9, 1884. Alexander Hamilton's untimely death was
accepted as a public calamity and the popular feeling against Burr as the instrument of his death, drove him
into exile. Hamilton was buried in Trinity churchyard, New York city, where a monument marks the grave. A
statue was erected in Brooklyn, N.Y., by the Hamilton club. He received the degree of A.M. from Columbia
college in 1788 and from Harvard in 1792 and that of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1790, from the College of New
Jersey in 1791 and from Harvard, Brown and Rutgers in 1792. He was a regent of the University of the state
of New York, 1784-87 and trustee of Columbia college, 1784-1804. He was a member of the Massachusetts
historical society and of the American philosophical society and fellow of the American academy of arts
and sciences. His works, including 'the Federalist, his official reports and public writings were published in
1810 in three volumes. Francis L. Hawks edited his "Official and Other Papers" (1842): his son John Church
published in seven volumes his political and official writings in 1851; and Henry Cabot Lodge edited a still
larger collection of his "Complete Works" (9 vols., 1885). See also biographies by William Coleman (1854);
John Williams (1854 and 1865); John Church Hamilton (2 vols., 1834-40); Henry B. Renwick (1841); Samuel
M. Smucker (1856); Christopher J. Reithmuelllr (1864); John T. Morse, Jr. (1876); George Shea (1877-79);
Henry Cabot Lodge (1882), and "Bibliotheca Hamiltonia" by Paul Leicester Ford (1886). He died in New
York city, July 12, 1804.

BURR, Aaron, vice-president of the United States, was born at Newark, N. J., Feb. 6, 1756; son of
Aaron and Esther (Edwards) Burr. His father came of a distinguished stock and was president of the
College of New Jersey. His mother was a daughter of Jonathan Edwards. Both of his parents died
while he was still an infant, and from them he inherited a considerable estate, of which his uncle
acted as guardian during his minority. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1772,
and he was about to commence the study of law when the revolutionary war broke out. In July,
1775, he rode to Cambridge, Mass., and enlisted as a private in the Continental army, and for the
next five years he was a successful soldier. He accompanied Benedict Arnold to Canada, and in the
storming of Quebec displayed so much dash and brilliancy that he was made a major and given a
place in General Washington's military family. Owing to disagreements with Washington, however,
he was soon transferred to the staff of General Putnam, whom he assisted in the defence of New
York. In 1777 he was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and distinguished himself at Hackensack and at
Monmouth. For a portion of the winter of 1778-79 he was in command at West Point, and in
January of the latter year he was put in charge of Westchester county, at that time the most exposed
district in New York state. Although but twenty-three years of age, he displayed in this difficult
position such skill and valor that he won the admiration both of his soldiers and of the people of the
state. But in March, 1779, ill-health forced him to withdraw from the army and he sent in his
resignation to Washington, who in accepting it remarked that "he not only regretted the loss of a
good officer, but the cause which rendered his resignation necessary." Three years later he was
admitted to the bar at Albany, N. Y., and his success as a lawyer was as brilliant and rapid as his
success as a soldier. At this time he married a Mrs. Prevost, who is described as a very charming and
highly cultivated woman, the widow of an English officer. She was ten years older than Burr, and
had two sons, but neither of these facts detracted from the felicity of the marriage, in the first year
of which Burr's only child, Theodosia, was born. The following ten years witnessed the climacteric
of his happiness and prosperity. He was at the head of his profession, a leader in political life, happy
in his domestic relations at Richmond Hill, his beautiful mansion, the scene of a luxurious
hospitality, which had for its guests, besides the distinguished personages of the republic, Louis
Philippe, Volney and Talleyrand. In 1788 he was appointed attorney-general of the state. In 1791,
when he was elected United States senator by a Federal legislature, having in the meantime served
as a Republican representative to the assembly, he had but one rival as a lawyer in New York,
Alexander Hamilton. He was a skilful and adroit political manager, who understood how to hold and
use the balance of power in his own party (the Republican) by keeping in the favor of both the
Schuyler and Clinton factions, without swearing entire allegiance to either, and at the same time to
maintain friendly relations with his opponents, the Federalists. In 1794 Mrs. Burr died, and
thenceforth Aaron Burr centred the whole affection of his passionate nature upon his daughter,
then eleven years old. He personally superintended her education, and made her his companion, a
devotion which was repaid in full measure in later years. In the presidential election of 1800 he
secured the vote of New York state to the Republicans, and therefore the national
election—Jefferson and himself both receiving seventy-three votes, Adams sixty-five and Pinckney
sixty-four—being at this time "the chosen head of northern Democracy, idol of the ward of New
York city, and aspirant to the highest offices he could reach by means legal or beyond law." After an
exciting contest in the house of representatives, in which the Federalists attempted to elect Burr to
the presidency, and in which Burr himself has been accused of intriguing with them to elect himself,
Jefferson was made President and Burr became vice-president. For his alleged treachery, Burr was
deserted by his party. In 1804 he was the candidate of the Federalists for governor of New York,
and would probably have been elected but for the opposition of Alexander Hamilton, who had also
been instrumental in keeping him out of the presidency. This opposition, aggravated by certain
uncomplimentary epithets, which Hamilton is alleged to have applied to Burr, gave rise to quarrel
between them, which culminated in a duel at Weehawken-on-the-Hudson, July 7, 1804, Burr being
the challenging party. Hamilton was killed. As the news spread, it carried a wave of emotion over
the states and roused everywhere sensations strangely mixed. In New York the Clinton interest,
guided by James Cheetham, editor of the American Citizen, seized the moment to destroy Burr's
influence forever. Cheetham affected to think the duel a murder, and procured Burr's indictment,
which drove him from the state. Charges were invented to support this theory and were even
accepted as history. In the south and west, on the other hand, the duel was considered a simple
affair of honor, in which Burr appeared to better advantage than his opponent. Burr spent some
time with his daughter, who was happily and prosperously married to Mr. Joseph Allston, and was
living at her husband's estate in South Carolina, but later he returned to Washington and resumed
his duties as vice-president. His resolution and fortitude stood him in good stead; the loss of his
prestige and popularity did not affect him as it would have done a weaker man, and his active mind
had already formulated new courses of action. Failing in his effort to procure from the
administration an office suitable to his talents, at the expiration of his presidential term in 1805, he
made a journey through the southwest, in the course of which he developed what seems to have
been a scheme of empire dependent partly on conquest and partly on the secession of the southwest
from the Union. Just before setting out on this journey, he wrote to his son-in-law: "In New York I
am to be disfranchised, and in New Jersey hanged. Having substantial objections to both, I shall not
for the present hazard either, but shall seek another country." With forty thousand dollars, which
Blennerhassett put into his hands for that purpose, he bought four hundred thousand acres of Red
River land, with a somewhat doubtful title, as a rendezvous and base of operations, and then
proceeded to secure co-operators. He did this so successfully that many men of prominence at
Washington, as well as in the southwest, became implicated in the enterprise to a greater or less
extent. As nearly as can be judged in the lack of positive knowledge, this was the scheme: Burr was
to become ruler of Louisiana under British protection, in which capacity he would give validity to
the disputed land title; the western states were to secede from the Union, and join the new
government; Spanish possessions to the southward were to be conquered; then the enfeebled Union
of the seabeard states would fall to pieces. Burr would get an empire, and Blennerhassett fabulous
wealth in return for his forty thousand dollar investment. But before this elaborate programme
could be carried out, the American people became so suspicious and alarmed that President
Jefferson ordered Burr's arrest. He was indicted for high treason. His trial, which lasted from March
27 to Sept. 7, 1806, is one of the most remarkable events in American history. Chief Justice
Marshall presided. Wirt, Rodney and Hay took part in the prosecution, and Luther Martin and
Edmund Randolph in the defence. The presence and devotion of his daughter, then in the full height
of her beauty and intellectual power, awakened much sympathy and interest, and doubtless had an
influence in procuring his release. The jury brought in the following carefully worded verdict: "We
of the jury say that Aaron Burr is not proved to be guilty under the indictment by any evidence
submitted to us. We, therefore, find him not guilty." Later Burr and the principal conspirators were
tried for misdemeanor in fitting out an expedition against Mexico, but were acquitted on technical
grounds. Burr went to Europe in 1808, hoping to obtain there the means of making an attack upon
Mexico. It was a bootless mission, however, and after four years of disappointment and privation he
returned to New York, disguised and poverty-stricken, to meet the severest blow fortune had yet
dealt to him. A few faithful friends had scarcely welcomed him to their midst, when the death of
Theodosia's only child was announced to him; the faithful and grief-stricken daughter hastening to
greet her idolized father perished a few months later in a storm off Cape Hatteras. Burr, who
attained only moderate success in his practice in New York, after twenty-three years married, in his
seventy-eighth year, Madame Jumel, a French woman, a widow of means, but later he separated
from her. Burr was the most fascinating and brilliant man of his time. Perhaps no better summary of
his character has been made than that of Thomas Jefferson, who called him "a great man in little
things, a small man in great things." He is remembered chiefly for his adventures and misfortunes.
(See Life and Times of Aaron Burr, by James Parton; Life of Burr by M. L. Davis; Burr's European
Diary and The Report of the Trial for Treason) He died at Staten Island, N. Y., Sep. 14, l836.

Alexander Hamilton , 1st of Innerwick
M, d. circa 1454, #7616

Father

John De Hamilton of Ballencrief b. 1315, d. circa 1394

Mother

Elizabeth Stewart

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1st cousin 22 times removed of Alexander Prescott Bale.

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1st cousin 22 times removed of Taylor Jane Bale.

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16th great-grandson of King Egbert of Wessex "1st King of England".

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Knight.

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of Ballencrief

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Sep 15, 1381

Principal=Elizabeth Stewart

Death*

circa 1454

Family

Elizabeth Stewart

Child

Archibald Hamilton , 2nd of Innerwick+ d. Jul, 1488

Alexander Hamilton , 3rd of Innerwick
M, d. circa 1505, #7617

Father

Archibald Hamilton , 2nd of Innerwick d. Jul, 1488

Mother

Margaret Montgomerie

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18th great-grandson of King Egbert of Wessex "1st King of England".

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3677

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of Innerwick

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circa 1505

Family

Isobel Schaw

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Hugh Hamilton , 4th of Innerwick+

Thomas Hamilton , 1st of Priestfield+ d. circa 1537

Sir Alexander Hamilton 6th Earl of Innerwick
M, #7615

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James Hamilton 5th Earl of Innerwick

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Sir Alexander Hamilton 7th Earl of Innerwick+

Sir Alexander Hamilton 7th Earl of Innerwick
M, #7618

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Sir Alexander Hamilton 6th Earl of Innerwick

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Elizabeth Hamilton+

Alexander K Hamilton^1,2
M, b. Jul 11, 1835, d. Nov 23, 1901, #9034

Father

Alexander Hamilton b. Mar 10, 1792, d. Jan 28, 1851

Mother

Ann Maria Morrison d. 1871

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[New FTW Family File.GED]

[Alexandr.ged]

from Commemorative Biographical Record' rec'd from Norma Lawrence De c1994
'Mr. Hamilton, whose name opens this sketch attended the schools in P ineCreek
township taught by his father, and upon the home farm was reared to habits of
industry. A few years after his father's daeth, he accompanied the family on
their removal from Wayne to Pine Creek township, where he worked on t heRidge
farm until July 1861, when he enlisted at Jersey Shore, Lycoming Co. ,PA, in
Co. A, 5th PA Reserves under Capt. Ulman and Col. Simmons, of Harrisb urg.
After being mustered into the United States Service at Harrisburg, th eregiment
was assigned to the 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac, and with that command Mr.
Hamilton participated in the following battles: Gainesville, June 6 ,1862: the
seven-days fight at Mechanicsville: Gaines Hill, June 27, 1862, wher e hewas
slightly wounded by a ball striking him in the breast; White Oak Swam p,June 30
1862; Malvern Hill, July 1; second battle of Bull Run, August 29 an d 30;
Chantilly, VA August 30; South Mountain, MD, September 14; Antietam , MD,Sept
16 and 17; and Fredericksburg, VA, December 15, where he was again wounded, by
a ball passing through his left foot while trying to rescue a superio rofficer.
The regiment then went into winter quarters, and the following yea r Mr.
Hamilton took part in the battle of Gettysburg, PA, July 2,3 and 4, 1 863;
Williamsburg, MD., July 7; Wapping Heights, July 9; Bristow, VA., October 14;
Rappahannock Station, VA November 7; and Hope Church and Mine Run, bo th
November 1863. During the bitter cold of that winter he lost his hearing in
one ear, while several of his comrades were frozen to death. The nex tyear he
took part in the battle of the Wilderness, May 5,6,7,and 8; Spottsylvania, May
9,10,11 and 12; North Ann River May 23 and 24; and Bethesda Church, V A.,May
30. His three year's term of service having expired, he was mustere dout at
Harrisburg, June 14, 1864, and returned home.
In Pine Creek Township, Mr. Hamilton then engaged in agricultura lpursuits
upon a small farm, where he now resides, and in connection with gener al
farming, he has successfully engaged in tobacco raising. In 1880 h ebuilt a
comfortable residence upon his place, and has also a good barn, tobac cosheds
and a fine orchard. He also operates the Rogers farm, and is justl yregarded
as one of the most thorough and shillful agriculturists of the community. In
April 1879, in Pine Creek Township, he was united in marriage with Mi ss
Margaret Rogers, a native of that township, and a daughter of Mathe wRogers.
To them were born five children: Priscilla, born July 14, 1880; one t hatdied
in infancy: Bessie, born September 22, 1883; Matthew Stanley Quay, bo rnJanuary
7, 1887; and Robert Bruce, born September 27, 1893. Politically, Mr .Hamilton
is identified with the Republican party, and has served as presiden t ofthe
school board, of which he was a member for six years. The success th athe has
achieved in life has been due to his own efforts and the assistance o fhis
estimable wife, who has indeed proved a faithful helpmeet to him, an d nocouple
in Pine Creek township merit or receive in a greater degree the respe ctand
esteem of the entire community. Mr. Hamilton is as loyal to his country's
interests in days of peace as when following the old flag to victor y on
Southern battle fields.
I have to date no other information on Alexander K.
from Hamilton Bible - he was killed 23 Nov 1901 abt 11 am in the forenoon.[Alexandr.ged]

from Commemorative Biographical Record' rec'd from Norma Lawrence De c1994
'Mr. Hamilton, whose name opens this sketch attended the schools in P ineCreek
township taught by his father, and upon the home farm was reared to habits of
industry. A few years after his father's daeth, he accompanied the family on
their removal from Wayne to Pine Creek township, where he worked on t heRidge
farm until July 1861, when he enlisted at Jersey Shore, Lycoming Co. ,PA, in
Co. A, 5th PA Reserves under Capt. Ulman and Col. Simmons, of Harrisb urg.
After being mustered into the United States Service at Harrisburg, th eregiment
was assigned to the 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac, and with that command Mr.
Hamilton participated in the following battles: Gainesville, June 6 ,1862: the
seven-days fight at Mechanicsville: Gaines Hill, June 27, 1862, wher e hewas
slightly wounded by a ball striking him in the breast; White Oak Swam p,June 30
1862; Malvern Hill, July 1; second battle of Bull Run, August 29 an d 30;
Chantilly, VA August 30; South Mountain, MD, September 14; Antietam , MD,Sept
16 and 17; and Fredericksburg, VA, December 15, where he was again wounded, by
a ball passing through his left foot while trying to rescue a superio rofficer.
The regiment then went into winter quarters, and the following yea r Mr.
Hamilton took part in the battle of Gettysburg, PA, July 2,3 and 4, 1 863;
Williamsburg, MD., July 7; Wapping Heights, July 9; Bristow, VA., October 14;
Rappahannock Station, VA November 7; and Hope Church and Mine Run, bo th
November 1863. During the bitter cold of that winter he lost his hearing in
one ear, while several of his comrades were frozen to death. The nex tyear he
took part in the battle of the Wilderness, May 5,6,7,and 8; Spottsylvania, May
9,10,11 and 12; North Ann River May 23 and 24; and Bethesda Church, V A.,May
30. His three year's term of service having expired, he was mustere dout at
Harrisburg, June 14, 1864, and returned home.
In Pine Creek Township, Mr. Hamilton then engaged in agricultura lpursuits
upon a small farm, where he now resides, and in connection with gener al
farming, he has successfully engaged in tobacco raising. In 1880 h ebuilt a
comfortable residence upon his place, and has also a good barn, tobac cosheds
and a fine orchard. He also operates the Rogers farm, and is justl yregarded
as one of the most thorough and shillful agriculturists of the community. In
April 1879, in Pine Creek Township, he was united in marriage with Mi ss
Margaret Rogers, a native of that township, and a daughter of Mathe wRogers.
To them were born five children: Priscilla, born July 14, 1880; one t hatdied
in infancy: Bessie, born September 22, 1883; Matthew Stanley Quay, bo rnJanuary
7, 1887; and Robert Bruce, born September 27, 1893. Politically, Mr .Hamilton
is identified with the Republican party, and has served as presiden t ofthe
school board, of which he was a member for six years. The success th athe has
achieved in life has been due to his own efforts and the assistance o fhis
estimable wife, who has indeed proved a faithful helpmeet to him, an d nocouple
in Pine Creek township merit or receive in a greater degree the respe ctand
esteem of the entire community. Mr. Hamilton is as loyal to his country's
interests in days of peace as when following the old flag to victor y on
Southern battle fields.
I have to date no other information on Alexander K.
from Hamilton Bible - he was killed 23 Nov 1901 abt 11 am in the forenoon.

Birth*

Jul 11, 1835

Pine Creek Twp, Clinton Co, PA^1,2

Marriage*

after 1860

Principal=Dolly Armstrong¹

Death*

Nov 23, 1901

Pine Creek Twp, Clinton Co, PA^1,2

Family

Dolly Armstrong

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