bullet Mercy HAMLIN was born on 8 Sep 1757 in Connecticut, Sharon. She died on 24 Aug 1835 in New York, Rutland. Parents: Isaac HAMLIN and Mary GIBBS.

She was married to Raphael PORTER. Children were: Alarica PORTER , Olive PORTER, Perez PORTER , Asa PORTER, Raphael PORTER , Maby PORTER, Juliana PORTER.

bullet Mercy HAMLIN was born on 25 Mar 1753 in Massachusetts, Barnstable, Barnstable County. She died prob died young. Parents: Lewis HAMLIN and Experience JENKINS.

bullet Narcissa Y. HAMLIN was born on 4 Jul 1788. She died in 1867 in New York, New York City.(248) Unmarried Parents: Asa HAMLIN and Huldah BRONSON.

bullet Nathaniel HAMLIN(249) was born on 7 Jun 1739 in Massachusetts, Agawam, Plymouth County. He removed with his parents in childhood, from Wareham, Mass. to Sharon; and settled at Sharon Mountain, six miles east of Sharon Village. He was below the medium height; an active, businessman; owned and carried on a large farm; kept a tavern and store; his house was standing in 1852, then a solid structure. In the chimney was a marble slab bearing his name and the date of the erection of the house. He was appointed Ensign of the 3d Co. in Sharon, Oct. 1771; Lieut. In May, 1772; and 1st Lieut. June, 1776. The officers of his company were: Capt. Edward Rogers; 1st Lieut. Nathaniel Hamlin; 2d Lieut. Hezekiah Andrews; Ensign, Joel Hinman.

Asa, Cornelius and Thomas Hamlin were members of the company; it served in Col. Fisher Gay's 2d Battalion, in Gen. James Wadsworth's Conn. Brig. Of six Battalions raised in 1776, to re-inforce Gen. Washington at N. Y. and served at Brooklyn front, just before and during the battle of Long Island, Aug. 27, and in the retreat to N. Y., Aug. 29, and 30; and from N. Y. on Sept. 15, 1776. It was with the army at White Plains; time expired Dec. 25, 1776.

He sold the property at Sharon Mountain, and bought two farms at the Royal Grant, Herkimer Co. N. Y., which he gave to his son Erastus; bought a small farm near Sharon Village, where he died; Federalist. In 1813, he subscribed $140.00 to the church.

Inscriptions on their grave stones:
In memory of
Capt. Nathaniel Hamlin
Who died Dec. 27, 1818
Aged 79 years.

In memory of
Lucy, wife of
Capt. Nathaniel Hamlin
Who departed this life
Jan. 5, 1785
45 years of age.

Her placid eye bespoke a gentle mind;
A modest aspect and a temper kind;
Mild as the luster of an evening sky;
No cloud in motion and no tempest night,
Her's were the virtues of the social life,
The loving parent and the duteous wife;
She courted peace; may peace attend her still!
Attend her upward, to the heavenly hill,
Where sighs and tears and every care shall cease;
And joys refined to endless years increase.

In memory of
Mrs. Deborah, wife of
Capt. Nathaniel Hamlin
Who died March 7, 1817
Aged 53 years.

This is the largest family found in the descendants of James Hamlin.
Parents: Thomas HAMLIN and Ruth GIBBS.

He was married to Lucy FOSTER. Children were: Mason HAMLIN, Sylphia HAMLIN, Cynthia HAMLIN, Mason HAMLIN, Lucy HAMLIN, Nathaniel HAMLIN, William HAMLIN, Alanson F. HAMLIN, Asa HAMLIN, Archillus HAMLIN, Loren HAMLIN.

He was married to Deborah ST. JOHN on 5 Nov 1786 in Connecticut, Sharon. Children were: Julia HAMLIN, Erastus HAMLIN, Betsey HAMLIN, Richard HAMLIN, Philo HAMLIN, Francis HAMLIN, Sarah HAMLIN, Laura HAMLIN, John HAMLIN, Elizabeth HAMLIN, Timothy St. John HAMLIN.

bullet Nathaniel HAMLIN(250) was born on 20 Nov 1741 in Connecticut, Lebanon.(251) Alternate Birthdate: 29 Nov 1741 b. Lebanon, Ct., Nov. 29, 1741. A sketch of his life was prepared by his great grandson, the late Prof. Charles E. Hamlin; from which extracts have been taken. In 1759, he assisted in building boats at Albany, N.Y., and perhaps at Lakes George and Champlain, for Gen. Amherst's expedition.

From May 2, 1760 to Jan. 15, 1761, he served as private in Capt. Barachiah Bassett's Co. of Chilmark, Mass., in Col. Nathaniel Thwing's Regt. And served in Nova Scotia. As one of the garrison who, under the direction of a company of sappers and miners, sent out from England, blew up the fortifications of Louisburg, he participated in the demolition, which he used to describe; and which began June 2, 1760, was finished Oct. 8, or 17. He removed from Barnstable to Wellfleet, Mass. in May, 1763, probably because that place, largely engaged in fisheries, offered better opportunity for work on boats and fishing vessels. About that time the mother and younger children transferred their residence to Wellfleet; where the brothers, Nathaniel, Lewis, and Perez were for some years boat builders. He m. Dec. 5, 1763, Sarah Baker, b. Wellfleet, Feb. 27, 1743. They were members of the church, Wellfleet. They removed to Shrewbury, Mass., Oct. 14, 1772. He was drafted in the fall of 1776, to serve in the Rev. army, but having a family of five children, the eldest of whom was not eleven years old, he furnished a substitute. The certificate of that transaction reads:

"This may certify that Mr. Nathaniel Hamblin this day procured Mr. Benj. Baker to go to the servis at Horse Neck, in his rome, and excepted by me."
"Asa Rise, Cap'n,"

His eldest dau. Polly, in her old age used to tell of witnessing the passage of Burgoyne's army past her father's house in Shrewsbury, on the way from Saratoga, to Cambridge, Mass., in the fall of 1777. She described minutely, the peruliar dress and appearance of the Hessians. He removed to Oxford, Mass., April, 1778, where he bought land with buildings from Sylvanus Town; the deed specifying sixty five acres of upland and two parcels of meadow land, one of two acres, the other of two acres and forty five rods - both known as part of "Bell's Meadow," - was signed by Town and his wife before witnesses on May 30, 1777; but was not acknowledged before the justice of the peace - and therefore not delivered until Mar. 30, 1778. Warrants still in existence show that, for 1783-4, he officiated in Oxford as collector of state and town taxes.

He and his son Theophilus labored as house carpenters in Hallowell and Vassalboro, Me., during 1783-4. One of these jobs was that of finishing the interior of the town meeting house, in that part of Hallowell, then known as the "Fort Village," which became Augusta in 1797. Among his papers of this period is this receipt:
"Hallowell, 3 July, 1784"

"Rec'd on board sloop Hannah, from N. Hamlin, one hundred and one oars; which I promise to deliver to Capt. Edmund Hous of Boston, dangers of the sea excepted."
"Samuel Howard."

Theophilus settled at the Fort Village, and his father returned to Oxford.

His sons and daughters gradually removed to Hallowell, now Augusta, and at last the parents with the youngest child, Lot, came in 1795. At Augusta he found exercise for his great mechanical skill and ingenuity, not only as a house wright, but in making wooden clocks, spinning wheels and sleighs; his clocks on which his name sometimes appeared as, N. Hamlin, found their way to distant parts of Maine; thus, late in 1799 he took a load of "Movements" to the Penobscot, where, in the house of his brother Perez, he made cases, and sold the completed clocks to the neighboring inhabitants. The infant son of the brother, born the preceeding July was named for the visiting uncle. In 1708 he bought the house built by his son-in-law, Isaac Carter, at the corner of Winthrop and State streets, Augusta. On the gable of this house was a large dial, attached to a clock, kept in operation as a sign of his business. He sold this house to Kennebec county, January, 1829; and upon the lot was erected the same year, the present granite court house. Throughout his long life he was highly respected for integrity and manliness. Both d. Sidney, Me. he Jan. 19, 1834; she July 4, 1830.
Parents: Lewis HAMLIN and Experience JENKINS.

He was married to Sarah BAKER on 5 Dec 1763. Children were: Theophilus HAMLIN , Mary HAMLIN, Olive HAMLIN , Lewis HAMLIN, Sarah HAMLIN , Perez HAMLIN, Nathaniel HAMLIN, Lot HAMLIN.

bullet Nathaniel HAMLIN was born in 1773 in Connecticut, Sharon. Parents: Nathaniel HAMLIN and Lucy FOSTER.

bullet Nathaniel HAMLIN was born on 23 Jun 1780 in Massachusetts, Oxford. He died on 2 Nov 1780 in Massachusetts, Oxford. Parents: Nathaniel HAMLIN and Sarah BAKER.

bullet Nathaniel HAMLIN was born on 12 Jul 1799 in Massachusetts, Hampden. Parents: Perez HAMLIN and Sabra COBB.

bullet Olive HAMLIN was born on 2 Nov 1770 in Massachusetts. Parents: Nathaniel HAMLIN and Sarah BAKER.

bullet Olive HAMLIN was born on 11 Nov 1802 in Massachusetts, Hampden. She died on 22 Dec 1802 in Massachusetts, Hampden. Parents: Perez HAMLIN and Sabra COBB.

bullet Pamelia HAMLIN was born on 22 Feb 1790 in New York, Saratoga County. Parents: Lewis HAMLIN and Sarah HEWITT.

bullet Peleg HAMLIN Parents: Jonathon HAMLIN and Esther HAMBLIN.

bullet Perez HAMLIN(252) was born on 26 Sep 1755 in Massachusetts, Barnstable, Barnstable County. He died on 2 Jul 1835 in Massachusetts, Hampden. b. Barnstable, Mass., Sept. 26, 1755; m. Wellfleet, Mass., Mar. 25, 1779, Sabra, dau. of Elisha and Dorcas (Doane ) Cobb , b. Wellfleet, Feb. 8, 1763.

The Mass. archives show that he was on a pay abstract of Capt. Winslow Lewis' Co., for travel to and from camp at Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 13, 1776; prob. a corporal. It is traditional that he was a fifer at Bunker Hill.

He obtained a tract of land in Hampden, Me., from his brother Lewis, May , 1787; upon which he cleared a farm and lived there the remainder of his life; this farm in 1846 formed the south boundary of Hampden Corner, Me., occupied by Jedadine Herrick and others. Both d. Hampden; he July 2, 1835; she Feb. 13, 1850.

Obituary

Died in Hampden, on the 21st of July, 1835, after a short but severe illness, Mr. Perez Hamlin, in the 80th year of his age; this aged Pilgrim was one of the first settlers of this town, who cut away the trees and cleared the land where now stands the flourishing village of Hampden, Me. He was born in Barnstable, Mass.; came to this place forty seven years ago; and in a revival of religion here twenty four years ago, he and his wife became the subjects of converting grace. He lived to see his country involved in and delivered from the dangers and perils of two wars; and has beheld her advance from a colony greatly oppressed, to a mighty and happy republic.

At last he has closed his toils and laid down to rest; and what is most cheering to us all, and most consoling to his relatives is that he closed his eyes in peace and hope. He has left an aged wife, with whom he had lived about fifty seven years, and numerous relatives to mourn his sudden departure; but they have the colsolation of believing their loss is his gain. He went to the sanctuary all day on the Sabbath, and on Tuesday his departed spirit doubtless entered into the temple of its God on high. On Thursday his remains were committed to the dust to slumber till the morning of the resurrection. Peace to his memory.
Parents: Lewis HAMLIN and Experience JENKINS.

He was married to Sabra COBB on 25 Mar 1779 in Massachusetts, Wellfleet. Children were: Lewis HAMLIN, Elisha HAMLIN, Polly HAMLIN, Sally HAMLIN, Betsey HAMLIN, Perez HAMLIN, Sabrina HAMLIN, Nathaniel HAMLIN, Olive HAMLIN, Almira HAMLIN.

bullet Perez HAMLIN was born on 1 Oct 1777 in Massachusetts, Shrewsbury. Parents: Nathaniel HAMLIN and Sarah BAKER.

bullet Perez HAMLIN was born on 9 Apr 1794 in Massachusetts, Hampden. Parents: Perez HAMLIN and Sabra COBB.

bullet Perez HAMLIN was born on 15 Sep 1798 in Massachusetts, Wellfleet. He died on 30 Aug 1800 in Massachusetts, Wellfleet. Parents: Cornelius HAMBLEN and Ruth BROWN.

bullet Phebe HAMLIN was born on 30 Apr 1762 in Connecticut, Sharon. Parents: Capt. Jabez HAMLIN and Dorcas BARNES.

bullet Philemon HAMLIN was born on 2 Apr 1751 in Massachusetts, Barnstable, Barnstable County. He died prob died young. Parents: Lewis HAMLIN and Experience JENKINS.

bullet Philo HAMLIN was born in 1796 in Connecticut, Sharon. Parents: Nathaniel HAMLIN and Deborah ST. JOHN.

bullet Philo HAMLIN Parents: Capt Seth HAMLIN and Mary PITCHER.

bullet Polly HAMLIN was born on 14 Oct 1785 in Massachusetts, Wellfleet. Parents: Perez HAMLIN and Sabra COBB.

bullet Rebekah HAMLIN was born in 1786 in Connecticut, Sharon. She died on 5 Apr 1789 in Connecticut, Sharon. Parents: Thomas HAMLIN and Mary JEWETT.

bullet Richard HAMLIN was born on 1 Jun 1794 in Connecticut, Sharon. Parents: Nathaniel HAMLIN and Deborah ST. JOHN.

bullet Ruth HAMLIN was born on 24 Jun 1692/93 in Massachusetts, Barnstable, Barnstable County. Parents: James HAMLIN and Ruth LEWIS.

She was married to Samuel CROCKER on 25 Nov 1723 in Massachusetts, Barnstable, Barnstable County. Children were: Mary CROCKER, Noah CROCKER , Sarah CROCKER, Hannah CROCKER , Anna CROCKER, Joanna CROCKER .

bullet Ruth HAMLIN was born on 2 Dec 1736 in Connecticut, Colchester, Westchester Parish. She died on 10 May 1778 in Massachusetts, Lenox. Parents: Cornelius HAMLIN and Mary MUDGE.

She was married to Timothy TREAT on 13 Mar 1755 in Connecticut, Sharon. Children were: Timothy TREAT, Thomas TREAT, Ruth TREAT, Mercy TREAT, Cornelius TREAT, Ebenezer TREAT, Susanna TREAT.

bullet Ruth HAMLIN was born on 16 Jul 1745 in Connecticut, Sharon. She died on 30 Sep 1817 in New York, Amenia Union. Parents: Thomas HAMLIN and Ruth GIBBS.

She was married to Lieut. Jonathan FORD on 5 May 1765 in New York, Amenia Union. (253) By Rev. Ebenezer Knibloe Children were: Jesse FORD, Joel FORD, Jonathan FORD, Eliab FORD, Ruth FORD, Alanson FORD, David FORD, Prudence FORD, Ruel FORD, Joseph Gibbs FORD.

bullet Ruth HAMLIN was born on 10 Jul 1768 in Connecticut, Sharon. Parents: Capt. Jabez HAMLIN and Dorcas BARNES.

bullet Ruth HAMLIN was born on 22 May 1780 in Massachusetts, Wellfleet. Parents: Cornelius HAMBLEN and Ruth BROWN.

bullet Sabrina HAMLIN was born on 2 Aug 1796 in Massachusetts, Hampden. Parents: Perez HAMLIN and Sabra COBB.

bullet Sally HAMLIN was born on 29 Oct 1775 in Massachusetts, Pembroke. She was baptized on 26 Jan 1776. Parents: 2nd Lieut. Eleazer HAMLIN and Mrs. Sarah LOBDELL BRYANT.

bullet Sally HAMLIN was born on 19 Jun 1788 in Massachusetts, Hampden. Parents: Perez HAMLIN and Sabra COBB.

bullet Salmon HAMLIN was born on 5 Aug 1763 in Connecticut, Sharon. Parents: Capt. Jabez HAMLIN and Dorcas BARNES.

bullet Salmon HAMLIN was born on 16 Apr 1796 in Connecticut, Sharon. Parents: Thomas HAMLIN and Mary JEWETT.

bullet Sarah HAMLIN was born on 9 Jun 1632 in England. She was baptized on 6 Sep 1632. She died before 1647. Parents: James HAMLIN and Anne SCOTT.

bullet Sarah HAMLIN was born on 7 Nov 1647. Parents: James HAMLIN and Anne SCOTT.

bullet Sarah HAMLIN was born on 4 Apr 1711. Parents: Joseph HAMLIN and Mercy HOWLAND.

bullet Sarah HAMLIN was born on 20 Oct 1743 in Connecticut, Sharon. Parents: Cornelius HAMLIN and Mary MUDGE.

She was married to Gilbert GREGORY on 17 Feb 1773 in Connecticut, New Milford.

bullet Sarah HAMLIN was born on 30 Jan 1740 in Massachusetts, Barnstable, Barnstable County. She died Prob died young. Parents: Lewis HAMLIN and Experience JENKINS.

bullet Sarah HAMLIN was born on 17 Dec 1745 in Massachusetts, Barnstable, Barnstable County. She died prob died young. Parents: Lewis HAMLIN and Experience JENKINS.

bullet Sarah HAMLIN was born on 8 May 1748. Parents: Joshua HAMLIN and Mary LEWIS.

bullet Sarah HAMLIN was baptized on 1 May 1774. Parents: Amasa HAMLIN and Lydia UNKNOWN.

bullet Sarah HAMLIN was born in 1799 in Connecticut, Sharon. Parents: Nathaniel HAMLIN and Deborah ST. JOHN.

bullet Sarah HAMLIN was born on 29 Nov 1784. Parents: Asa HAMLIN and Huldah BRONSON.

bullet Sarah HAMLIN was born on 19 Aug 1775 in Massachusetts, Shrewsbury. Parents: Nathaniel HAMLIN and Sarah BAKER.

bullet Seth HAMLIN was born in Mar 1707/8. Parents: Joseph HAMLIN and Mercy HOWLAND.

bullet Capt Seth HAMLIN(254) was born on 9 Sep 1740 in Massachusetts, Wareham. He was baptized on 14 Mar 1741/42 in Massachusetts, Wareham. He died before 1796 in New York, Alford. Marriage recorded in church of Rev. Ebenezer Knibloe, Amenia Union, New York.

Notes on church of Amenia Union:

A religious society was early formed in the south west part of Sharon, near the Colony line, embracing inhabitants of Conn. and N.Y. The meeting house stood in Sharon, and was called the Round Top Meeting House, built before 1755. Rev. Ebenezer Knibloe was the minister for more than 25 years. He was a native of Scotland, and favored the Pretender in the revolution of 1745; on account of which he removed to America, and settled in the west part of Phillip's Patent, in Putnam County, N.Y.; two years later he removed to Sharon and gathered the church at the Corner. He was a prominant man and a good minister. He favored the British cause in the revolution, causing disaffection in his congregation, and his usefulness diminished. He d. Dec. 20, 1785. The meeting house was removed in 1786, to the site of the Presby. church, at Amenia Union, N.Y. [History of Sharon, Ct.]

The Oblong was a strip of land two and a half miles wide along the east line of N. Y., next to Conn. A church was located at Amenia Union, on the oblong, of which Rev. Ebenezer Knibloe was the first pastor; its records were well kept and still preserved, showing births, marriages and deaths of many of the Hamlins of Sharon and vicinity, and their descendants.

b. Wareham, Mass., Sept. 9, 1740; bap. there, Mar. 14, 1741-2; m. 1st. Sharon, Ct., Oct. 15, 1761, Mary Pitcher, marriage recorded in church of Rev. Ebenezer Knibloe, Amenia Union, N.Y.; m. 2d, Sharon, May 25, 1773, Submit Hyde, b. Lebanon, Ct., Nov. 24, 1742; he was then of New Concord, N.Y., and afterwards res. In Alford, Mass., where his name frequently appears in the early town records, sometimes as Capt. Seth Hamlin; highway surveyor, 1777; town clerk, 1783-5, he succeeded Dr. John Hulbert; Freemason; a Masonic pin - The All Seeing Eye, - once his, is in possession of his great grandson, Hon. Frank H. Hamlin of Canadaigua, N.Y.; his Masonic apron was many years at the home of his son Philo; among the assets of his estate was a sword, valued L5.

He was a Rev. soldier; Mrs. Currie, a great granddaughter relates that her grandfather, Elijah Hamlin, often told of the hardships of revolutionary times; what the woman and children could raise on the farm was sent to the soldiers; so careful were they of lights and fuel, that the garments made for the soldiers were done in the evening at some house where the same lights and fuel could be utilized by all; that his brother Philo and himself, young boys, barefoot, in winter, cut wood on the hillsides without coats, with only their sisters' skirts tied around their necks, with their arms slipped through holes in the seams; that once when the patriot army was retreating, there was a heavy snow, blockading the roads; which were cleared by the women; and when their friends had passed, shoveled the snow back to retard the progress of the enemy.

Speaking of Continental money, he said it became so depreciated, and the consequent rise in prices so great, that a punch bowl full of it would hardly pay for a dinner. He served in Capt. Wilcox's Co., in Col. Ashley's Regt.; enlisted for 3 years into the Cont. army; res. Alford, Mass.; also, private in Capt. Job Alvord's Co., in Col. William Shepard's 3d Mass Regt., for 3 years, returned by Trueman Wheeler, muster master of Berkshire Co., Mass., mustered between Jan. 20, 1777 and June 1, 1778, in service Aug. 15, 1777; also private same Co. and Regt., on return dated Jan. 31, 1778, res. Alford; also, private on Continental Army Pay Acct., in Capt. Learned's Co., in Col. Shepard's Regt. From May 25, 1777 to June 1778; he was app. Purchasing commissary in 1778, and remained in the service 12 months; also, private on a depreciation roll of Col. Shepard's Regt., to make good the wages for the first three years service in the Cont. army from 1777 to 1780; also, in a statement of Continental Balances, in Col. Shepard's Regt., certified May 12, 1780, enlisted for 3 years.

Augustus C. Hamlin, a grandson, of Bergen, N.Y., stated in 1871; that his grandfather was a staff officer under Gen. Washington, at the execution of Major Andre'; but Mrs. Currie, who res. with her grandfather, Elijah Hamlin, doubts this statement, and says she never heard her grandfather mention any such incident in his father's service, and thinks she would have heard about it if it had been a fact. His name appears on the records of Alford in 1793-4; but not later. It is supposed he d. there, before 1796. His widow survived him, and res. with her stepson, Elijah Hamlin, at East Bloomfield, N.Y., where she d. Aug., 1821, aged 78, and is buried there.
Parents: Isaac HAMLIN and Mary GIBBS.

He was married to Mary PITCHER on 15 Oct 1761 in Connecticut, Sharon. Children were: Eunice HAMLIN, Elijah HAMLIN, Betsey HAMLIN, Philo HAMLIN.

He was married to Summit HYDE on 25 May 1773 in Connecticut, Sharon. Children were: Seth HAMLIN, Leander HAMLIN, Mary HAMLIN.

bullet Seth HAMLIN was born on 20 Oct 1794 in Connecticut, Sharon. Parents: Thomas HAMLIN and Mary JEWETT.

bullet Seth HAMLIN was born on 10 Dec 1777 in New York, Alford. He died about 1798. Parents: Capt Seth HAMLIN and Summit HYDE.

bullet Silvester HAMLIN was born in 1776 in Connecticut, Sharon. He died on 2 Apr 1779 in Connecticut, Sharon.(255) aged 2 yrs 7 mos. Parents: Thomas HAMLIN and Mary JEWETT.

bullet Silvester HAMLIN was born in May 1778 in Connecticut, Sharon. He died on 23 Aug 1778 in Connecticut, Sharon.(256) aged 3 mos Parents: Thomas HAMLIN and Mary JEWETT.

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