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HAMBLETON FAMILY HISTORY
Last Revised March 5, 2010
Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
Descendant of Annie Hamilton,
Granddaughter of David Hambleton
Even if the ancestry of John Alridge or Aldred or Allred is not established,
the ancestry of his bride, Lillie Ann Hambleton (a.k.a. Annie Hamilton), is
well known. Her parents were James and Grace Hambleton, and her grandparents
were David Hambleton and Annah Jaxson. Genealogists will easily find the
correct lineage, but with erroneous places of births and deaths which make
the story, at first glance, seem implausible. I have spent many hours
searching deeds, wills, court records, historical records, graveyards,
homesteads, and the internet, in order to document her ancestry.
In the Town of Rollinsford, County of Strafford, State of New Hampshire, at
the junction of Sligo Road and Pinch Hill Road, stands a historical marker
with the following inscription:
Et arma et virtus
Near this place lived
DAVID HAMILTON of WESTBURN;
born in the parish of Cambuslang,
Scotland, in October, 1620; captured
by Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of
Worcester, England, September 3, 1651;
brought to America as a prisoner
in chains on the “John and Sarah”
in the same year; settled near here
and married ANNAH JAXSON
of Lanark, Scotland; killed by
Indians on September 28, 1691
ERECTED JUNE 1963
The Battle of Worcester, fought on 3 September 1651, was the final conflict
in the English Civil War. The Scots were defeated by the superior leadership
and greater numbers of Cromwell’s army. It is estimated that only 700 of
Cromwell’s men were killed, compared with at least 2000 Royalist deaths.
About 270 Scottish prisoners captured at Worcester were bound in chains,
transported to America on the ship “John and Sarah,” and sold into slavery.
The ship sailed from Gravesend, near London, on 8 November 1651, arriving at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, in April 1652. Among the names appearing on the
ship’s passenger list are David Hamilton and Richard Jackson. The altered
spellings are minor compared to those suffered by the Highland clansmen, some
of whose lineages cannot now be traced. The name of David Hamilton also
appears on the list of seventeen prisoners who were sent to South Berwick,
Maine, where they were sold into slavery at a sawmill (ref. Scottish Prisoners,
1652, in “Ship Passenger Lists, National and New England (1600-1825),” Edited
and Indexed by Carl Boyer, 3rd, Newhall, California, 1977, pp. 154-157).
By the time the “Protectorate” established by Cromwell was overthrown and
the monarchy restored in 1660, most, if not all, of the Scottish prisoners in
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