Hamilton, John

Published: 02 Jul 2014, Updated: 20 Feb 2019
Page contributors: Catherine Lane, Andrew Millard, Teresa Rust

John Hamilton, #40 on George S. Stewart’s Captured at Dunbar list¹
Surname variations: Hamblton, Hamelton

IMPORTANT UPDATE! (July 2018)
According to Christopher Gerrard, Pam Graves, Andrew Millard, Richard Annis, and Anwen Caffell, Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650, (England: Oxbow Books, 2018),² on page 250, John is categorized as:

Probable [that he is a Dunbar prisoner transported on the Unity]

Hamilton, John. Residences: Charlestown, Concord MA. B.c.1634. D.1680. Probably from the Unity but a John Hanoman appears on the John & Sara which might be this man. [Exiles; DR; SPOWS; Ch.8]³⁴⁵⁶⁷

For explanations of the category, abbreviations and references see List of Dunbar prisoners from Lost Lives, New Voices.

First Generation in the New World

1. JOHN¹ HAMILTON, was born presumably in Scotland about 1634 and died at Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts before 5 Oct 1680.⁸ ,⁹ He married at Concord before 1668, CHRISTIAN EDWARDS.¹⁰

Biographical Notes:
John Hamilton TIMELINE

Children of John and Christian (probably Edwards) Hamilton:
2. i. JOHN² HAMILTON+, born at Concord in Mar 1667/68.¹¹
2. ii. JOSEPH² HAMILTON+, born at Concord on 9 Jan 1671.¹²

1. Stewart, George Sawin. The Bartlett Collection. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. /george-sawin-stewart-documents/ [↩]
2. Gerrard, Christopher M.., et al. Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650. Oxbow Books, 2018, p. 249. [↩]
3. Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn. Scotch Exiles in New England. 1922. Coll. 733 & 831, Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Portland ME. [↩]
4. Rapaport, Diane. Working List of Early New England Scots. 2015. [↩]
5. Stewart, George Sawin. The Bartlett Collection. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. /george-sawin-stewart-documents/ [↩]
6. “Dunbar Prisoners of War Profiles.” The Scottish Prisoners of War Society, Teresa Rust, 18 Feb. 2019, scottishprisonersofwar.com/battle_of_dunbar_pows_america/. [↩]
7. Gerrard, Christopher M.., et al. Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650. Oxbow Books, 2018. Ch.8. [↩]
8. Hamilton, Charles William, Genealogy of The Hamilton Family In America, (Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Company, reprint 1998), 8-9. “In the Middlesex Probate Records, Vol. 5, p. 312, there is recorded, “An inventory of the estate of John Hamilton, lately deceased.” No place or date is given but the dwelling house mentioned in this inventory, was at “Elm Brook Meadow [Concord, Mass.].” This inventory occupies the lower half of a page and the preceding entry is dated 1681.” “Therefore we can say it was entered after 1681, possibly, several years after that date.” [↩]
9. Charlestown court records of October 5, 1680, showing the assignment of the John Hamilton inventory to Henry Woodis.
   Dobson, David. Scots in New England, 1623-1873., (Genealogical Publishing Co., 2002.), 92. [↩]
10. Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.), 338. “HAMILTON, John & Christian _____: b [before] 1668; Concord” [↩]
11. Tolman, George. Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Concord, Mass.: T. Todd, printer, 1895), 14. (free Google eBook) “John, son of John hamelton & Christian his wife born 1. march 67. [16]68.²” “² County record says 68-69” [↩]
12. Tolman, Concord, Massachusetts Births, 16. “Joseph son of John hamelton & Christian his wife borne, 9th. Jen’ 1671” [↩]