William Hamilton

1647 - 1749  (~ 101 years)

• Name	William Hamilton
  Birth	Mar 1647	Glasgow, Scotland   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1749	Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut   [1, 3, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I26497	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	5 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Gallatin Hamilton,   b. of Glasgow
  Family ID	F15851	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mercy Berry,   b. England
  Marriage	Abt 1682	North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island   [1, 2, 7]
  Children	1. Thankful Hamilton,   b. 1689
  Family ID	F15850	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Said to have come from Scotland in 1668. According to legend (which may be true in part, or in all), he was the first man to kill a whale off the coast of Cape Cod, for which he was persecuted by people who believed he could only have accomplished such a thing with the aid of evil spirits, resulting in his subsequent emigration to Danbury, Connecticut.

  
  

• Sources

  [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990. [S3509] The History and Genealogy of the Cornish Families in America by Joseph Edward Cornish. Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Company, 1907., place only. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015., year only. [S6059] The Ancestral Lines of Mary Lenore Knapp by Alfred Averill Knapp. Peoria, Illinois, 1947., year only. [S3509] The History and Genealogy of the Cornish Families in America by Joseph Edward Cornish. Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Company, 1907. [S6059] The Ancestral Lines of Mary Lenore Knapp by Alfred Averill Knapp. Peoria, Illinois, 1947. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015., says "ca 1668/75?".