Rebecca Lee Hamilton

7-87. REBECCA BOATWRIGHT (VALENTINE MARTIN8, DANIEL7, BENONI6, JOHN5, JOHN4, JOHN3, ROBERT2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 01 Oct 1795 in Cumberland County, Virginia, and died 09 Mar 1874 in Cumberland County, Virginia. She married JOHN WASHINGTON HAMILTON 01 Oct 1812 in Cumberland County, Virginia. He died 09 Feb 1827 in Cumberland County, Virginia.

Rebecca Boatwright Gravestone Rebecca Boatwright Gravestone

Greenfield Cemetery, Rebecca Boatwright Hamilton Gravestone

Notes for REBECCA BOATWRIGHT:

Information concerning the children of John and Rebecca was received from Shawnda Kimmel. BIOGRAPHY: [David Rains quoting Shawnda Kimmel]: Children of John Hamilton & Rebecca Boatwright: Judith Anne Hamilton, Mary Washington Hamilton, Sarah Hamilton, Augustus Marion Hamilton, Louisa C. Hamilton.

Per the application that Rebecca filed for a pension based on John Hamilton's service in War of 1812, Rebecca states that she was married in Cumberland County.

The Civil War period must have been sad for Rebecca and her siblings. Sons of the brothers who went to Ohio were Union. Rebecca and her sister as well as brothers from Southwest Virginia had Confederate sons.

Greenfield Cemetery

Burial: Greenfield Cemetery, Goochland County, Virginia

The cemetery is visable on the hill. Rebecca and her daughter Anne have the tall stones. Rebecca's daughter Mary Washington Hamilton Ranson and her husband Alexander Ranson are in front of Rebecca and Mary Washington Hamilton Ranson's daughter Nannie Ranson Jenkins and husband William George Jenkins

The tall markers for Rebecca and her daughter Anne were cut from a little quarry that is to the right as you enter the town of Columbia about 7 miles to the west.

The cemetery appears to have been originally laid out for Archibald Bryce who built Greenfield before the Revolution.

Information Source: Roberta Anne Parrish Blomberg

CUMBERLAND CO., Census, 1810: 1810 -- pg. 141B, 7 up [Hampton, microfilm 68]: Valentine Boatright: Male: 0-10 yrs., 3; 10-16 yrs., 4; 26-45 yrs., 1. Female: 0-10 yrs., 1; 10-16 yrs., 2; 26-45 yrs., 1. Slaves, 6. 

CUMBERLAND CO., Census, 1820: [my John and Rebecca Hamilton?] 1820 -- pg. 3, 8 down [Hampton, microfilm 130]: John Hambleton: males: 26-45 yrs., 1. Females: 0-10 yrs., 3; 26-45 yrs., 1. Agriculture, 1.

CUMBERLAND CO., Census, 1830: 1830 -- pg. 194, 9 up [Hampton, microfilm 192]: Rebecca Hamilton: males: 5-10 yrs., 1; females: 0-5 yrs. 1; 5-10 yrs., 2; 10-15 yrs., 1; 15-20 yrs., 2; 30-40 yrs., 1. Total, 8.

CUMBERLAND CO., Census, 1840: 1840 -- pg. 33, 10 up [Hampton, microfilm 554]: Rebecca Hamilton: males: 15-20 yrs., 1; 70-90 yrs., 1. Females: 15-20 yrs. 2; 20-30 yrs., 2; 40- 50 yrs., 1. Total, 7; manufacture & trade, 4.

CUMBERLAND CO., Will -- Heir, 1849: wr.18 April 1849/pro.28 May 1849 -- Bk. 11, pg. 432-433 [VaStLib, microfilm 20]: Valentine Boatright: Negro man Monday be hired out and the earnings paid to daughter Rebecca Hamilton; at her death he be given to granddaughter Judith Ann Hamilton. Negro woman Cinthia select a home "among my Children; the one she selects, keeping her during her life. Exec.: friend V.C. Ryals. Wits.: Z. Talley, J. Ann Hamilton, Alexander Ransome, Robert J. Meador.

CUMBERLAND CO., Estate Appraisal/Accounts, 1849/1850: 28 June 1849 -- Will Bk. 11, pg. 515-516 [VaStLib, microfilm 20]: Valentine Boatright, estate: Appraisal of 3 slaves and 4 bonds totaled $1634.88, 1 July 1850: balance of $561.16 to be distributed per will.

Children of REBECCA BOATWRIGHT and JOHN HAMILTON are:

       i. JUDITH ANNE HAMILTON, b. Aft. 1812.

      ii. SARAH HAMILTON.

     iii. AUGUSTUS MARION HAMILTON.

      iv. MARY WASHINGTON HAMILTON, b. 1821.

       v. LOUISA C. HAMILTON, b. 1830, Goochland County, Virginia.

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