Hamilton Ancestors

On the 1790 census for Bedford, Westchester County, New York, Mercer Hamilton is shown living with one female and one male under 16 years of age. Could this female and young male be Mercer's daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hamilton, and her son, John Hamilton Gregory? Mary Elizabeth Hamilton was married to John Gregory and they divorced around 1789/1790. She then married Isaac Wright. I've wondered where Mary could have been living during (and immediately after) her divorce and it's possible she was living with her father. Mercer's other two daughters were living with their husbands so it couldn't have been them and Mercer's wife, Elizabeth, died in 1787 so it seems plausible that it was Mary who was living with him.

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Generation No. 1

MERCER HAMILTON was born about 1738 in probably New York and died between 1790-1800. He married ELIZABETH BELDEN. She was born February 6, 1741 in New York and died January 10, 1787 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York.

Children of MERCER HAMILTON and ELIZABETH BELDEN are:

  1. ELIZABETH MERCER HAMILTON, b. December 31, 1760, New York; d. April 23, 1853
  2. MARY ELIZABETH HAMILTON, b. November 16, 1763; d. September 4, 1849
  3. CHARLOTTE HAMILTON, b. April 27, 1765; d. February 14, 1843; m. NATHANIEL SLAWSON

Generation No. 2

MARY ELIZABETH HAMILTON (MERCER HAMILTON1) was born November 16, 1763 and died September 4, 1849. She married 1) JOHN GREGORY, son of DANIEL GREGORY and HANNAH SMITH. He was born about 1752 and died about 1825 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. MARY and JOHN were divorced around 1790. She married 2) ISAAC WRIGHT around 1790/1791, son of ROBERT WRIGHT and JOANNA MOSHER. He was born January 1, 1764 and died between 1840-1850.

Notes for MARY ELIZABETH HAMILTON
MARY and ISAAC are interred in Dutchess County, New York.

Children of MARY ELIZABETH HAMILTON and JOHN GREGORY are:

  1. JOHN HAMILTON GREGORY, b. 1787; d. March 1863

Children of MARY ELIZABETH HAMILTON GREGORY and ISAAC WRIGHT are:

  1. DANIEL I. WRIGHT, b. about 1791
  2. CHARLOTTE WRIGHT, b. about 1792; d. after 1860 in Steuben County, New York; m. SAMUEL COLWELL
  3. BENJAMIN BELDEN WRIGHT, b. about 1793
  4. ELIZABETH WRIGHT, b. about 1795
  5. JAMES L. WRIGHT, b. about 1795
  6. ISAAC D. WRIGHT b. about 1797
  7. GEORGE WRIGHT, b. about 1805
  8. HAMILTON MERCER WRIGHT, b. about 1808
  9. WILLIAM WRIGHT, b. about 1809
  10. ABRAHAM WRIGHT, b. November 8, 1812, Stormville, Dutchess County, New York; d. about 1900; m. MARY WARREN
  11. SARAH WRIGHT, b. about 1814; m. DANIEL DOANE
  12. MARY WRIGHT, b. about 1814; m. NATHANIEL PERRY

ELIZABETH MERCER HAMILTON (MERCER HAMILTON1) was born December 30, 1760 in New York and died April 23, 1853 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. She married EZEKIEL HARRIS, JR., June, 1781 in New York, son of EZEKIEL HARRIS and MARTHA. He was born September 20, 1756 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York and died June 26, 1837 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York.

Children of ELIZABETH MERCER HAMILTON and EZEKIEL HARRIS are:

  1. FREDERICK HARRIS, b. about 1782, New York
  2. ABIJAH HARRIS, b. about 1784; d. February 25, 1864, Bedford, Westchester County, New York; m. MARY
  3. UNKNOWN SON, b. about 1785
  4. MARY HARRIS, b. between 1785-1790; d. after 1840 in Illinois; m. MORRIS SEELY
  5. JAMES M. HARRIS, b. about 1790; d. after 1840 in possibly Natchez, Mississippi
  6. LEMUEL HARRIS, b. about 1790; d. after 1860 in possibly Illinois
  7. JOHN H. HARRIS, b. about 1792; d. after 1860 in possibly Illinois
  8. NATHANIEL HARRIS, b. September 8, 1794; d. July 26, 1859, Bedford, Westchester County, New York; m. THANKFUL JONES
  9. WILLIAM MERCER HARRIS, b. 1799; d. 1848, Bedford, Westchester County, New York; m. CAROLINE HARRISON
  10. ELIZABETH HARRIS, b. June 27, 1799; d. December 5, 1885, Bedford, Westchester County, New York; m. NATHANIEL SNIFFEN
  11. THOMAS J. HARRIS, b. August 13, 1800; d. October 23, 1877, Bedford, Westchester County, New York; m. SARAH
  12. CHARLOTTE G. HARRIS, b. about 1801; d. October 17, 1846, Bedford, Westchester County, New York (never married)
  13. CAROLINE HARRIS, b. about 1806; d. December 15, 1828, Natchez, Mississippi (never married)

CHARLOTTE HAMILTON (MERCER HAMILTON1) was born April 27, 1765 in Westchester County, New York and died February 29, 1844 in Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut. She married NATHANIEL SLAWSON about 1783, son of ABRAHAM SLAWSON and SARAH CABLE. He was born about 1764 in Salem, New York and died after 1850 in Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Notes for NATHANIEL SLAWSON
He is shown on the 1850 census for Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut living with his daughter, ELIZABETH SLAWSON WARREN and her family.

Children of CHARLOTTE HAMILTON and NATHANIEL SLAWSON are:

  1. NATHANIEL SLAWSON, b. July 16, 1784, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; d. December 28, 1828, Charleston County, South Carolina; m. MRS. DOROTHEA M. LUSCOMB, February 22, 1806
  2. HAMILTON SLAWSON, b. December 8, 1791, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; d. March 22, 1873, Charleston County, South Carolina; m. MARY ANN ALBERGOTTI
  3. ELIZABETH SLAWSON, b. 1797, Connecticut; m. A. B. WARREN
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