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From: "Gary Bushaw" <>
Subject: Re: [NYSTLAWR] HAMILTON of Ogdensburg Info
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:07:42 -0500
References: <1230006518.102782@rootsweb.com>


There is no St. Lawrence County Vermont, you must mean New York of which
Ogdensburg is a part of.
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Subject: Re: [NYSTLAWR] HAMILTON of Ogdensburg Info


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> Author: jkellison2008
> Surnames: HAMILTON CARPENTER
> Classification: queries
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> Message Board Post:
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> Thomas Hamilton died in 1879 in Ashville, Chatauqua County NY. An obit
> from the Jamestown Journal provided the basis for the information I gave
> you on his place of origin, ie Ogdensburg NY. In some of the NY census
> returns he is listed as being born in St Lawrence County Vermont. None of
> the family's surviving documents give us any details of his family or
> history prior to his arrival in Blockville NY in 1845. Family oral
> history asserts he was a sailor/carpenter on the Great Lakes and named his
> 3 sons after ships he worked on - Hendrick H, Henry Harrison and Hosea
> Orlando Hamilton.
> He married a local girl (Sallyette Carpenter)in 1846 but her family had
> come to the area from Dutchess County NY a generation earlier as part of
> the first settlers c.1814. The Obit claimed he served as sailor, mate and
> master before settling down.
>
> If you or anyone else reading these posts can point to any potential
> avenues of research re Thomas and his family besides those in your email I
> would appreciate the help, eg How many Hamilton families moved from
> Vermont and when?
>
> Many thanks for your prompt reply to my earlier post.
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