Nansemond-James City County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Hambleton, John 1640 - 1711 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Patsy Martin jmartin465@tampabay.rr.com September 20, 2010, 3:55 pm original submission, March 28, 2009 : JOHN HAMBLETON WAS A """"GREAT GRANDFATHER"""" OF MINE. HE WAS BORN IN SCOTLAND, WE STILL HAVE NOT DETERMINED WHERE. HE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN THE SON OF JOHN HAMILTON FROM SCOTLAND , WHO WAS A PRISONER OF WAR FROM THE BATTLE OF DUNBAR (PER THE CURENT HAMILTON DNA SITE, ONLINE*) SENT OVER BY CROMWELL IN ENGLAND IN 1651, WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN AN INDENTURED SERVANT TO A ROBERT HOLT IN JAMES CITY COUNTY, VIRGINIA. HE WAS BORN IN 1640 & DIED APRIL 24, 1711 IN NANSEMOND COUNTY, VIRGINIA, WHERE THE WILL IS RECORDED HE MARRIED A CATHERINE (STUART,MAIDEN NAME) HOBGOOD, 1ST MARRIAGE NAME. THEY HAD 3 SONS...JAMES, WILLIAM & STUART & ONE DAUGHTER, MARY. HE ALSO HAD A STEP DAUGHTER MARY HOBGOOD. THEY WERE ALL MENTIONED IN THE WILL. A COPY OF THE WILL CAN BE FOUND IN N. CAROLINA WILLS VOL X11 PAGE 73, WILL WAS PROBATED APRIL 25, 1711. THE ORIGINAL WILL WAS BURNED DURING A FIRE & SINCE HE OWNED LAND IN SAREM SWAMP , NC , HE MARRIED CATHERINE IN 1706 IN NANSEMOND COUNTY, VIRGINIA. HIS WILL WAS WRITTEN & SIGNED FEB 1706. A RECORD OF HIS LAND CAN ALSO BE FOUND IN A BOOK TITLED " LOST VIRGINIA RECORDS' PAGE 203, IT SHOW JOHN HAMBLETON AS HAVING 200 ACRES IN NANSEMOND COUNTY, VIRGINIA. HIS SON WILLIAM B. HAMILTON MOVED TO WAKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, WHERE A COPY OF HIS WILL CAN BE FOUND IN THE WAKE COUNTY, WILL BOOK #2 PAGE 182, NAMING HIS COMMON IN LAW WIFE RACHEL DORMAN... THEIR CHILDREN KEZIAH,KAREN ELIZABETH ,ANDREW & STUART. RECORDED AUG 27,1786 AT THE HOUSE OF M LIVINGSTON IN MIDDLEBROOK, NORTH CAROLINA.RACHEL CHANGED THE SPELLING OF THE NAME HAMBLETON TO HAMILTON DURING THIS TIME. WILLIAM'S SON, STEWART (STUART) MOVED FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO MONTOGOMERY COUNTY, GA AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PER A BOOK TITLED" HISTORY OF DODGE COUNTY" (GA.) PAGE 220 BOTTOM OF THE PAGE TITLED "THE HAMILTON FAMILY" STEWART'S WILL CAN BE FOUND IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY WILL BOOK 1806,1832,-1863 PAGE 23 . STEWART SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR & THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HONORED HIS GRAVE BY PUTTING A MONUMENT UP ON OCT 14, 1915 NEAR KIBBEE, MOUNT VERNON , GA . THIS WAS FOUND IN "THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR" DATED OCT 14, 1915. THIS WAS HONORED BY THE DAR & THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. JOHN HAMBLETON 1640-1711 RESIDED IN THE UPPER PARISH OF NANSEMOND COUNTY, VIRGINIA JOHN OWNED LAND IN SAREM SWAMP, VIRGINIA AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH IN 1711, SOME OF THIS BECAME PART OF NORTH CAROLINA IN 1728 WHEN THE STATE LINES WERE REDRAWN.SAREM CREEK WAS CALLED COLE CREEK , IT IS PRESENTLY CALLED HACKLEY BRANCH . SAREM NORTH CAROLINA LIES ON HACKLEY BRANCH 3/4 MI. WEST OF BUCKLAND, NORTH CAROLINA. WILLIAM HAMILTON & STEWART HAMILTON MADE A WILL TO THEIR BROTHER JAMES HAMILTON (200 ACRES) ON 11-29-1728 ON LONG ISLAND,FOUND IN THE NORTH CAROLINA REGISTER BY HATHAWAY, VOL 2 PAGE 454 & DEED RECORDED IN CHOWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, DEED BOOK C-1, JOHN HAMBLETON 1640-1711 IS FROM THE FAMILY " WALTER FITZGILBERT DE HAMILTON" B 1275 IN SCOTLAND ( PER THE HAMILTON DNA SITE ON LINE (HAMDNA/EAnc.html) TITLED "EARLIEST ANCESTORS" OF THE HAMILTON FAMILY. JOHN HAMBLETON'S FTDNA CODE IS H-147 . THAT MEANS A LIVING ANCESTOR OF HIS HAS BEEN TESTED THAT LEADS BACK TO HIM. THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING SITE AS IT CAN BE TRACED BACK TO THE HAMILTONS IN SCOTLAND CALLED "THE HOUSE OF HAMILTONS" ALSO THE TOWN CALLED HAMILTON IN SCOTLAND & THROUGH THIS FAMILY IT CAN BE TRACED BACK TO THE "BEAUMONT FAMILY" FROM FRANCE. I DID A THROUGH SEARCH ON THIS & IT WOULD TAKE ME HOURS TO PUT ALL THIS DOWN. I AM , HOWEVER AT THIS TIME TRACING IT FROM SCOTLAND BACK TO AMERICA & HAVE GOT IT AS FAR BACK AS JOH HAMBLETON 1640- 1711 IN AMERICA... JUST HAVE TO TIE IT IN FROM SCOTLAND TO HERE, BUT AS THEY SAY DNA DOES NOT LIE. A LOT OF THE RECORDS WERE BURNED DURING THE EARLY WARS IN VIRGINIA, SO MAYBE THIS WILL HELP TIE JOHN HAMBLETON INTO THE NANSEMOND AREA FOR OTHER GENEOLOGIST & PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING RESEARCH ON THE NANSEMOND COUNTY , VIRGINIA AREA AND JOHN HAMBLETON. MY LINE TO JOHN HAMBLETON WAS STEWART HAMILTON'S DAUGHTER ROSANNA HAMILTON 1807--1850 TO JOHN GILLIS, THEIR SON DAN GILLIS MARRIED A MILLE (SCOTT) TEASLY, WHO HAD ROSANNA GILLIS WHO MARRIED WILLIAM J. POOLE, THEY HAD MY GRANDMOTHER ALMIRA POOLE , SHE MARRIED PRESTON, GUNN, THEIR DAUGHTER FLORA (GUNN) JONES (MARRIED RAYMOND JONES) WAS MY MOTHER. SO ROSANNA HAMILTON WAS MY 3RD GREAT GRANDMOTHER. MY NAME IS PATSY (JONES) MARTIN.BORN 3- 28-1948. ALL OF THIS INFO ON ROSANNA HAMILTON TO ME IS RECORDED IN ANCESTRY.COM UNDER THE "HARRISON & JONES FAMILY TREE" WITH CENSUS & LOTS OF SOURCES RECORDED WITH ME AS HOME PERSON. additional submission, contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Patsy Martin jmartin465@tampabay.rr.com September 20, 2010, 3:55 pm *It seems that my info on the previous John Hambleton 1640-1711 submitted in Mar 28,2009 was incorrect. He is not connected to the Jones/ Hamilton/ Hambleton family as I thought, through the Hamilton DNA site "Earliest Ancestors" nor to the H-147 ancestor as thought. It seems that I entered infomation incorrectly all the way around & I apologize for any & all my mistakes in the incorrect material.This was recently pointed out to me.