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the “General Index to Real Estate Conveyances.” In 1782, Ninian Bell
Hambleton and his wife Ann sold 400 acres of land (Book 2, Page 57). His
name was actually Ninian Beall Hambleton (or Hamilton); he, his father, and
his brother Matthew, were outlaws (more on this below). Ninian Beall
Hambleton was born 28 November 1739 in Prince Georges County, Maryland, and
died 6 April 1831 in St. Louis, Missouri; his parents were Ninian Hamilton
and Margaret Lucas; his grandparents were Andrew Hamilton and Mary Beall;
his great-grandparents were Gavin Hamilton of Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
(christened 20 March 1631) and Elspeth Norrie of Edinburgh, Midlothian,
Scotland (christened 6 May 1638). They were married in Edinburgh on 10 June
1658, and they both died in Prince Georges County, Maryland. The lineage is
stated in an 1802 letter from Ninian Beall Hamilton from “New Spain, the
Province of Louisiana, St. Andrews District, Missoria River, Bonium Creek,
30 miles west of St. Luis” to his brother Horatio Hamilton in Stokes County,
North Carolina, who in 1803 purchased 57 acres of land in Randolph County
from another brother Archibald Hamilton (Book 8, Page 465). For the whole
letter see The Rev. Gordon and Delores Miltenberger, “Three Hamiltons of
Maryland: Gavin, Andrew and Ninian,” (Dallas, Texas, 1983, 42).
Many of the same first names (Beall, Andrew, Matthew, Gavin) appear in the
ancestry of Annie Hamilton, whose lineage is presented in a separate study
HERE Her father, James Hambleton, had seven brothers, one of whom was named
Bial Hambleton. Her grandparents were David Hambleton and Annah Jaxson of
Westburn, Lanarkshire, Scotland. David’s parents were Andrew Hambleton and
Jonet Crocket of Westburn, Lanarkshire; David’s grandparents were Matthew
Hambleton of Torrance and Jean Muirhead of Lauchope, Lanarkshire; and the
name Gavin Hamilton turns up many times in the ancient ancestry of
Lanarkshire. Westburn is located on the River Clyde, some thirty miles
southeast of Glasgow. While it might be difficult to trace both Hambleton
lines back to a common ancestor, they are quite obviously from the same clan.
As stated above, three of the Hambletons were outlaws. They were among the
thirteen “Regulators” excepted by name from a proclamation and general pardon
issued by His Excellency William Tryon Esquire &c., provincial Governor of
North Carolina, on 1 October 1768, which reads in relevant part:
“Whereas, Divers dissolute outrageous and disorderly persons have of late
frequently Assembled themselves together ... in a most riotous and unlawful
manner to the disturbance of the publick peace, audaciously attempting to
intimidate and deter the Civil Magistrates from doing their duty and
committing many Acts of violence contrary to Law being led on by some evil,
wicked and designing men. And Whereas the greater number of these Insurgents
... having submitted themselves by laying down their Arms, and imploring his
Majesty’s gracious Clemency, ... I do therefore out of compassion to the
misguided multitude (grant) unto them His Majesty’s most gracious pardon”
Excepted by name from “his Majesty’s gracious Clemency” were Ninian Hamilton,
Matthew Hamilton, Ninian Bell Hamilton, Harmon Husbands, and nine others.
The full text of the Governor’s Proclamation may be seen at
http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.html/document/csr07-0349
A brief account of the Regulators is given in the following pages.
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