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• Name: Robert HAMMIL
• Sex: M
• Birth: 1758 in Bushmills, Co Antrim, Ireland ^b
• Death: 7 Jun 1838 ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Hugh HAMILL
Mother:

• Letitia HAMILL

Family:
Marriage:

• Isabella TODD on 26 Jun 1802 .^m1
  
• Isabella TODD Death: 27 Dec 1850

Children:

1. Andrew HAMILL
2. Letitia HAMILL Birth: 2 Apr 1803 Death: 5 Mar 1883
3. Hannah HAMILL Birth: 27 Jan 1807 Death: 1878 in Trenton, New Jersey
4. Hugh HAMILL Birth: 27 Feb 1808 in Norristown, Pennsylvania Death: 1 Aug 1881 in Newark, Delaware
5. Elizabeth Nicholson HAMILL Birth: 10 Nov 1809 Death: 25 May 1885
6. William HAMILL Birth: 1811
7. Samuel McClintock HAMILL Birth: 6 Jul 1812 Death: 20 Sep 1889
8. Robert HAMILL Birth: 1814
9. Robert HAMILL Birth: 21 Apr 1816 Death: 15 Feb 1900

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Helm TODD p183],

place:

[Ref: Helm TODD p183],

parents:

[Ref: Helm TODD p183]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Helm TODD p183]

Sources with Information about marriage to Isabella TODD

date:

[Ref: Helm TODD p183],

names:

[Ref: Helm TODD p78],

child:

[Ref: Helm TODD p184, Helm TODD p378, Helm TODD p379, Helm TODD p380, Helm TODD p382, Helm TODD p383]

Research Notes:
In consequence of the troubles of 1798, Robert Hamill emigrated to Pennsylvania, converting his patrimony into Irish linen, which he sold in Philadelphia at a profit. With the proceeds he engaged in business as a merchant at Norristown in partnership with John Patterson, under the firm name of Hamill & Patterson. Patterson and Hamill were fellow countrymen; they emigrated to Pennsylvania on the same ship. After two years the partnership was dissolved; Mr. Patterson moved to Philadelphia, while Mr. Hamill conducted the business with great success until 1835, when he retired. His place of business was opposite of the site on which the Central Presbyterian Church was built, and his residence adjoined his store. In his social relations and his business transactions he was noted for uprightness and scrupulous integrity. Mr. Hamill was always active in promoting the welfare and growth of Norristown. He assisted in organizing the first fire company in the borough, and was one of the organizers and promoters of the old Norristown Academy, in Airy street, of which he was chosen a trustee in 1804, and became president of the board. He served in the Norristown Town Council for many years, and was at one time its president; he was also chosen Chief Burgess. In religion he was a zealous Presbyterian. When he setted at Norristown, he became a member of the old Lower Providence Presbyterian Church, of which he became a ruling elder in 1826. He had previously, in 1819, been chosen the first leading elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Norristown, of which he was one of the founders and most liberal supporter. There had been a ruling elder in the Hamill family in Ireland for more than a century before Robert came to America. [Ref: Helm TODD p184]

For three generations the ancestors of Robert Hamill were Presbyterian elders in the North of Ireland. As early as 1704, Neil Hamill was a delegate to the General Synod of Ulster with his pastor the Rev. Robert Neilson. In 1732 John Hamill was a delegate with his pastor, the Rev. John Porter, and in 1743 Robert Hamill went with his pastor, the Rev. John Orr. All of these represented congregations in the Presbytery of Colerain. Elder Robert Hamill was the great-grandfather of Robert Hamill of Norristown. [Ref: Helm TODD p184]



Pedigree of Robert HAMMIL
                   /-----Robert HAMILL
          /-----John HAMILL
 /-----Hugh HAMILL
|         \-----Annia DINAMORE
Robert HAMMIL
 \-----Letitia HAMILL



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