General Notes

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His paternal grandmother, Ann Hamilton, came from Belfast, Ireland, at
the same time, and settled in about the same locality near Lancaster C
it y, Penna.  She
came to America with her brothers William Hamilton and Hugh Hamilton and
his sister, Mary Hamilton.
Her brother William Hamilton was the grandfather of the distinguished
Governor of South Carolina in Calhoun's day, who was known as the
Nullifier Governor, in consequence of his advocating the nul lification of
certain tariff laws passed by Congress, which he considered adve rse to
the interests of the people of the South.
A pretty full though incomplete history of the Hamilton family of
Lancaster Co, Penna, can be seen in Egle s Pennsylvania Genealogies in
"Notes and Queries" by Colonel Evans of Columbia .  The ancestors of the
Lancaster Co Hamilton family, of which-as stated-the grandmother of
the subject of this sketch was a member, came from Scotland to Belfast,
Ireland, when it became the refuge for the persecuted Covenanters.  Th ey
were part of the historical Scotch family of Hamiltons, one of whom was
ch osen as the husband of Queen Mary, and another as the husband of Queen
Elizabe th.  Family history and family tradition also teach that Alexander
Hamilton of revolutionary fame was also connected with this same family
of Lancaster Co Hamiltons.