James Alexander Hamilton, Jr. - Children?

Franklin Hamilton

I don't think those records are correct about Anna. It says it was presumed...could have just been a fling or someone he relied on for money. After all, he was poor and orphaned. Others have written down that he was married to a woman named Courtney Bailey.

Check out Courtney Bailey.

Geni has an empty profile for Courtney Hamilton

What information do you have on her?

Found a little more.

http://www.dgatx.com/family/people/B-F-Hamilton/hs.html

"Alexander Hamilton had one brother, James Hamilton, whose son was Franklin Hamilton was the father of Benjamin Hamilton...." (4) Yoder (3 p85) also says that B. F.'s father Franklin was a nephew of Alexander.

Is Bishop B. F. Hamilton related to Alexander? Perhaps, but the Hamilton National Genealogical Society, Inc. says James Hamilton, the brother of Alexander, did not have a son named Franklin. (5) -- dg 2009 Nov 26

https://www.hamiltongensociety.org/alexander-hamilton/ Is their current site.

I’ve separated James Alexander Hamilton, Jr. (father of Franklin Hamilton) as a different person from James Hamilton, Jr. (brother of Alexander, and whose widow was Anna in 1787).

If evidence is found that he was Franklin Hamilton’s father, of course he can be re attached.

This is the origin of the claim:

Master’s thesis, Department of Church History, Phillips University, Enid, OK, May 1948, Provided by Russel Yoder (Kansas City, KS), son of Gideon Yoder.

The third Bishop to serve the four oldest living American Mennonite congregations of Central Kansas was B.F. Hamilton. He was born on July 4, 1825 in Philadelphia, PA.

The third Bishop to serve the four oldest living American Mennonite congregations of Central Kansas was B.F. Hamilton. He was born on July 4, 1825 in Philadelphia, PA.

His father was Franklin Hamilton, who was a nephew of Alexander Hamilton, and a personal friend of George Washington.

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Hamilton were members of the German Reformed church.

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There is no citation or description of “how” Franklin Hamilton was a nephew; and the Hamilton biographers are clear in showing that James Hamilton (brother of Alexander) apparently had no children.

I do recall “speculation” that James had out of wedlock children in the Virgin Islands but don’t have a citation handy, and that’s likely irrelevant to this Franklin. His descendants are Y DNA haplogroup 1-A.

Sorry, wasn’t clear enough about Y DNA test. Here’s more and better:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/g/a/gah4/HamDNA/EAnc.html

Y DNA results - Group A or I1-1 Hamiltons “ Benjamin Franklin Hamilton, b 1825 in Pottsville, PA, moved 1843 to Medina Co, OH, m 1845 to Elizabeth Nahrgang, in 1846 joined the Mennonite Church and moved to Williams Co, OH, where he resided until 1865 when he moved to Owen Co, IN, where Elizabeth died. In 1866 he married Catharine Holley. In 1869 he moved to Livingston Co, IL, and in 1883 to Cherokee Co, KS. He died in 1898 in Marion Co, KS.”