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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Private / Civil Service
Author: William Morris Hammitt
William Hamilton born in 1746 in Hamilton Grange Scotland. He married Mary Margaret (Name Unknown) in 1766. He was killed in the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina on January 17, 1781.
He was a Private in Mill’s Troop H, Hampton’s Regiment, Sumpter’s Brigade; Stub entries to Indents Revolutionary Claims L-N,page 161.
History of Williamsburg Township by William Boddie, published 1923, pages 114-122-127-128, “Old Vouchers of Columbia, South Carolina.” Following statement of soldiers taken: James Hamilton, paymaster; John Hamilton, one of the keenest observers in Marion’s secret service; William Hamilton in list of soldiers from Williamsburg Township, South Carolina.
The following is taken from History of the Hamiltonsby Sarah J. (Barr) Adair as copied from The Waynesville Record; Vol. XXIX No. 34; Waynesville, Illinois; Saturday, September 2, 1911; copied by Janet L. Barr on March 4, 1981.
“The Hamiltons are of distinguished families of Scotch ancestry….William Hamilton, a soldier of the War of the Revolution, while on duty in the cause of American independence, received word that a pair of twins had arrived in his home. He obtained a leave of absence for a short time to go and see the little strangers. The twins were William Hamilton, Jr. and Nancy Agnes Hamilton. There was also another son, named James.
William Hamilton continued in the service of his country until his death, which occurred in the Battle of Cowpens, January 17, 1781, a soldier in the American forces under General Nathaniel Greene and Daniel Morgan. That William Hamilton, the soldier was a man of devoted patriotism, is attested by the bitter persecution of his family by the Tories during his absence from his home, while engaged in the duties of a soldier in country’s cause of . On two occasions, his home was entered by them and despoiled of its entire possessions, and one time even the clothes were taken off the infant twins and they were left without covering in their cradle.
A brother of William Hamilton, the soldier, (James Hamilton) was the father of Alexander Hamilton…that brilliant statesman, who was secretary of the treasury under the administration of President Washington, and served his country continually in many of the affairs of state until the time of his death in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804….”
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