Name:    David Porter Hamilton

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Birth:    10 Oct 1792    Robertson Co, TN

Death:    17 Apr 1879    Gibson Co, TN

Father:    David Hamilton RS (1756-1841)

Mother:    Unknown Hamilton - unknown (-1792)

Marriage:    25 May 1820    Maury Co, TN

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Spouse:    Sibella (Isabella) Griffen

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Birth:    1805    North Carolina

Death:    1879    Gibson Co, TN

Burial:        Pruett cem

Father:    John Griffen RS (1752-1829)

Mother:    Jane Harden (-1840)

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Children

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1 M:    William Washington Nelson Hamilton

Birth:    1837

Death:    28 May 1889    Gibson Co, TN

Spouse:    Elizabeth Jane Clement

Marriage:    3 Jan 1865

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2 F:    Martha Hamilton

Birth:    1835

Spouse:    James Wilborn Allison

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3 F:    Missouri C Hamilton

Birth:    1 Jan 1842    Gibson Co, TN

Death:    22 Nov 1872    West Pointe White, Ark

Spouse:    Henry Milton Hamilton

Marriage:    16 Jul 1855    Gibson Co, TN

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4 F:    Illinois Cynthia Jane Hamilton

Birth:    16 Mar 1845    Gibson Co, TN

Death:    26 Apr 1896    Dyer Co. TN

Spouse:    Emerson Raiford Fulghum

Marriage:    4 Oct 1861

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5 M:    David Weakley Hamilton

Birth:    1825    Gibson Co, TN

Death:    bef 1860    Gibson Co, TN

Spouse:    Prudence Newhouse

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6 F:    Permelia S Hamilton

Birth:    1831    Gibson Co, TN

Spouse:    Michael Keenan

DAVID P HAMILTON, FROM THE TENNESSEE STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES MANUSCRIPT DIVISION, HOLDING OF TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

This was written in 1877

David P. Hamilton who was among the earliest pioneers of this County was born in what subsequently became Robertson County, Middle, Tennessee Oct. 10, 1792.  His father David Hamilton, was from Gilford County, NC and came to the Cumberland with Gen. James Robertson in 1785 and stopped on White Creek, near where Nashville was soon after located.  From here, the elder Hamilton removed to the section of County where the subject of this sketch was born; thence to Williamson County where it was a cane brake and there was but few cabins in the County.  His wife, having died the day after giving birth to young David, Mr. Hamilton had given him to his Aunt Hannah Porter with whom he lived until he was twenty two years of age.  In the mean time, young Hamilton had volunteered in the war of 1812-15, serving with the mounted riflemen commanded by General Coffee at Pensacola and at New Orleans.  Returning home he was married in 1816 to Miss Sibby T. Griffin, daughter of John Griffin of Maury Co. who served as a Captain in the Revolutionary war.  In 1822, Mr. Hamilton removed and settled on the farm where he now (1877) lives and has lived for fifty years, it being the first farm opened in the vicinity where Humboldt is located.  He is not only the oldest settler, but also the oldest man in this part of the County, being in his 86th year.  His wife is in her 66th year and enjoys excellent health.

Their early neighbors there were Davidson Waddell, William P. Seat, George Gentry, W. G. B. Killingsworth, Thomas Fife and Alexander G. Hamilton, all living between the Little North Fork and Middle Fork of the Forded Deer River.  Mr. Hamilton has been a farmer all his life and although he began life with nothing he had accumulated a handsome property by the beginning of the Civil war.  The emancipation proclamation liberated his slaves.  The Yankee Soldiers appropriated the horses, mules, hogs, geese, turkeys, chickens, corn and other personal property leaving him only his farm of 500 acres.  Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton have raised a large family of children, only two of whom are living.  They now live alone at the old homestead, active and sprightly for  people of their age and in the enjoyment of the good will and esteem of a large circle of friends and relatives.  Few are the people here about that have not seen or heard of “Uncle Davey” and “Aunt Sibby” Hamilton.

1850 CENSUS - GIBSON COUNTY TN - CIVIL DISTRICT #2 24 Sept 1850

#308 - D. P. Hamilton     34    mw     farmer        Tenn

    Siba            40    fw            NC

    Martha        15    fw            Tenn

    William        13    mw            Tenn

    Missouri         9    fw            Tenn

    Illinois             5    fw            Tenn

WAR OF 1812 ACT OF FEB 14, 1871

Brief of Claim for a Survivors Pension in the case of David P. Hamilton

Third Auditor reports that David P. Hamilton served in Capt. Robert Evans Co. Tenn. Militia from 28 Sept. 1814 to 1 May 1815.

State of Tenn. Gibson County.

On this 12th day of October A. D. 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid David P. Hamilton aged sixty two years a resident of Gibson County in the State of Tennessee who being duly Sworn according  to Law Declares that he is the Identical David P. Hamilton who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Robert Evins in the First Regiment of Tennessee Infantry Commanded by Col. R. H. Dyer in the war with Great Britain Declared by the United States in the 18th day of June 1812 for the Term of Three months and continued in actual Service in Said War seven Months.

That he has hereto fore made application for Bounty Lands under the Act of September 28th 1850 and received a Land Warrant No (not recorded) For Eighty Acres which he Has Since Legally Disposed of and Cannot now return.  He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Additional Bounty Land to which he may be entitled under the act approved 3d day of March 1855.  He also declares that he never applied for or Received under this no any other act of Congress any Bounty Land Warrant except the one above mentioned.

David P. Hamilton

State of Tennessee.  I. E. W. Ruines Clk Gibson County of the County court of said County do here by Certify that W. A. Allison Esq. whose signature appears to the within is and was at the date of signing the same enacting Justice in and for said county duly comissioned and qualified and that his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit an that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. 

In testimony I have hereunto signed my and affixed the seal of said county at offices in Trenton this 15 day of Oct. 1855. E. W. Rainey Clk.

When issued sent to David P. Hamilton Shiloh, Tenn

EARLY DAYS IN HUMBOLDT - AN INTIMATE STORY OF THE PAST (By G. Sharp Lannom Sr.) [no date provided]

In the southwest corner of Gibson County, Genn., or in what is at present the third civil district of the County, not more than thirty families were residing in 1857, the year when the townsite of Humboldt was surveyed and entered.

Of hose living in the immediate vicinity of the new town it was conceded that David P. Hamilton, grandfather of Wealkey and David P. Hamilton Jr., Mrs. Chas. Williams, Hugh, Will and Wilson Keenan, was the oldest settler.  very soon after the signing of The Chickasaw Treaty, in 1822, Davic P. Hamilton immigrated with his family, from North Carolina and settled and cleared the farm due east of Humboldt, now owned by M. F. Hamilton.

About three miles southeast of Humboldt, on the Trenton and Jackson road, resided another native of the “Tar Heel State,” Wm. Clement, who immigrated about the same time, or soon after, Hamilton.  Wm. Clement was the direct ancestor of Mrs. Sarah Mathews, her daughters, and grandchildren, of George and Ed Clement, of William, Andrew and Isham Clement.

James L. Blakemore was a few years later than Hamilton and Clement in taking up his residence in the new county, and the land upon which he settled continues in the possession of his son, Joe Blakemore, though the original homesite was south of the present residence.

The nearest neighbor of the infant community was Alex Vaughn, whose property joined the new corporation’s western boundary.  Vaughn died in the late sixties and all of hius descendants removed from Humboldt and its vicinity.

About half way between the new town and “Old Shiloh” Church were the home places of the father of N. A. Cresap and of Andrew P. Foster.  Nelson A. Cresap continues in possession of his father’s farm but has for many years resided on the site of the log house built by Foster.  Following the close of the Civil War, Andrew P. Foster eimgrated with his family to Arkansas.

Adjoining the old Blakemore place on the north, was the farm of James Crafton.  LIke Foster, and  others of the early settlers, Crafton was imbued with the spirit of the pioneer and moved on the Missouri with the exodus following the Civil War.  The present home of Joe Blakemore was built near the site of the original Crafton house.

The farm of Wm. Sommers, another native of North Carolina, joined the townsite on the east, but the Somemrs residence, a double log cabin, was about one quarter a mile from the townsite boundary.  Sommers was a very early settler and may have accompanied David P. Hamilton or Wm. Clement on the long journey from the Old North State.  About 1881 Sommers removed to Weakley County, Tenn.

Another old resident of the neighborhood east of Humboldt was James Smith, but the date of his immigration, and the place of his origin were never known to this writer.  Smith was the original settler on the farm known as the “Will Clement Place.”  Smith sold his farm to William Clement and moved to California in the Eighties.