Katherine Chambers

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68332168/catharine-chambers Tombstone pictured at findagrave says she died Jan. 28, 1820.

Katharine Hamilton

• Gender: Female
• Birth Date: 19 Nov 1737 Ballygaily, County Tyrone, Province of Ulster, Ireland
• Father: John Hamilton
• Mother: Isabella Potter
• Spouse: James Chambers

Family

Spouse: James Chambers (1743 - 1805)*

Children include

• Benjamin Chambers (1764 - 1850)*
• Charlotte Chambers Ludlow Riske (1768 - 1821)*
• Catherine Chambers (1775 - 1775)*
• Ruhannah Chambers Scott (1771 - )

Biography

From link to Egle, William Henry. Some Pennsylvania Women during the War of the Revolution. Harrisburg, PA, USA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1898.

Katharine Hamilton, only daughter of John Hamilton by his wife Isabella Potter, was born November 19, 1737, in Ballygaily, County Tyrone, Province of Ulster, Ireland. Her parents came to America in 1741, her mother dying the day of the landing of the vessel at New Castle, Delaware, September 25, 1741, and was there buried. Mr. Hamilton first settled near New London Cross Roads in Chester county, and some years later in the Cumberland Valley region. This was shortly after his second marriage, to Jean Allen, sister of a captain in the English navy. Katharine was scarcely ten years old when her education and care were committed to her foster mother. The latter proved faithful, and throughout the daughter's long life she ever spoke of her in glowing terms as a woman notable for domestic virtues and force of character. At the age of twenty-two, Katharine Hamilton married James Chambers, of Loudoun Forge. This was at a time when the frontiers were exposed to the marauding savages. The people lived in constant dread, and very frequently were obliged to seek protection in the forts and blockhouses. We, who live in the quiet enjoyment of property and existence, cannot fully comprehend the circumstances under which our ancestors lived—or comprehend the impending danger of the tomahawk or scalping knife—the destruction of homes and the ruthless desolation which tracked the march of the bloodthirsty Indian. Only a few years of peace intervened when the thunders of the Revolution reverberated through the Kittatinny valley. Outside of the Quaker and Mennonite settlements, patriotism was a leading trait among the people of Pennsylvania. [p.39] Especially was this rim case among backwoods-men who—as borderers and Provincial troops throughout the old French War, and the subsequent harrassing Indian wars, and as independent maintainers of their isolated position—were conspicuous in bearing the severest portion of the defense of their arms; and it is not surprising that the dream of independence floated through the popular mind ere its national existence was clearly apparent.

Links

• link to Catherine Hamilton in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Name: Catherine Hamilton Arrival Year: 1741 Arrival Place: America Primary Immigrant: Hamilton, Catherine Source Publication Code: 4971 Annotation: Date transportation ordered and intended destination. Includes crime and county where order was enacted. Extracted from Journal of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland, vol. 7 (1796). Source Bibliography: McDONNELL, FRANCES. Emigrants from Ireland to America, 1735-1743: A Transcription of the Report of the Irish House of Commons into Enforced Emigration to America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. 134p. Household Members: Name Relation Catherine Hamilton Source Citation Place: America; Year: 1741; Page Number: 40
• link to Catherine Hamilton in the North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Name: Catherine Hamilton Gender: Female Age: 82 Birth Date: 1738 First Marriage Date: 1763 Death Date: 1820 Spouse: James Chambers Child: Ruhannah Chambers Source Citation Book Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 148 : 1919
• Reinterred dec 4 1852 from Presbyterian burial grounds Cod complications of old age Parents john and Isabella hamilton Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Aug 5 2018, 5:49:17 UTC
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