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Hamlin/Hamblin/Hamblen Ancestry

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Julia Catherine "Kittie" Tate Ramsey  [1849-1926] was the daughter of Elizabeth Hamblin  and Richard Calvin Tate.

Elizabeth B. "Betsy" Hamblin born circa 1820 in present day  Callaway County  or Montgomery County, Missouri, one of nine children of John Hamblen and Lucy Boone a daughter of John L. Boone and Mary "Pollie" Morris.  Elizabeth married Richard Calvin Tate.  She died in 1891 in Callaway County, Missouri.She and Richard Calvin Tate are buried at Mt.Horeb Church Cemetery on the Callaway/Montgomery County line.

John Hamblen,  [name changed to Hamblin or Hamblin  in MO.], born about 1793 In Halifax County, Virginia and died  in January of 1845. He is probably buried on his farm in Callaway County, Mo.

He and Lucy Boone were married in Shelby County, Kentucky . They  migrated to Missouri  before 1818. John is listed as a taxpayer in 1819 and 1819 in Montgomery County.  Because of three fires at the Montgomery County Courthouse, land records are not available. Callaway County court and land records revealed that they lived in he eastern part of present day Callaway County, which was taken from Montgomery County  November 1820.

John Hamblen had received a land patent which shows his name as Hamblen, but after he died intestate, the probate records used the spelling of Hamblin/Hamlin .John Hamblen was the second of nine children of George Hamblen and Bartha Arnold.

George Hamblen [2] born circa 1753/55, probably in Worchester County, Maryland,  and died ca. July 1845 in  Shelby County, Ky.

He married Bartha Arnold of Halifax County, Virginia in the 1780's.  Bartha was the daughter of William Arnold, Sr.  wealthy Halifax County Planter who died October 29, 1801. They owned land on Little Polecat Creek in Halifax County. George Hamblen was appointed Constable in Halifax County in July of 1803.They sold their Halifax County property in October of 1804 and moved west.  They were settled in  Shelby County prior to July of 1817, when George was again appointed a Constable  in Shelby County.

George signed his will in 1837, and it was probated in July of 1845.His will revealed property, real and personal, including the names of eighteen slaves. He likely is buried at the same cemetery as his wife, but no stone found for him.

His wife,Bartha Arnold  lived until the 15th of December 1949 and she is buried in the Hamblen-Allen-Davis Cemetery , not far out of Shelbyville, Kentucky.  Her tombstone reads: BARTHA/wife of Geo.Hamblen/BORN / Mar. 24, 1760/DIED/Dec. 15 1849.

No military records have been found for George, although his brother, Dant Hamblen enlisted March 9, 1776. He gave  testimony June 22, 1833, at age 77 concerning his enlistment- in which he said " At the time of my enlistment, I was living with my father, George Hamblen, in Charlotte County, Virginia, about 18 miles below the Court House"...... it continues with his military history through Valley Forge and his discharge in 1778.George Hamblen [1] is the last proven Hamblen ancestor- through the military records of his son,Dant Hamblen.

George Hamblen was born  ca. 172-25 and died about 1800.  He married Piercy Carey,daughter of  Jonathon andElizabeth Holloway Carey. George presented a warrant in Worchester County, Maryland in 1757 for ten acres of land which he named Hamblen's Folly;  in time he added fifty acres of vacant land and purchased another fifty acres from Solomen Carey, his wife's brother.

He sold this land, plus nother hundred acres in 1771 and moved south to Halifax County, Virginia where he purchased 258 acres on a branch of Difficult Creek. This land was sold in November of 1780, he also sold 370  acres of land in Charlotte County, which he has purchased in 1777.  1781, he bought land in  Pittsylvania County , one parcel of 300 acres and another of 354 acres. This land was divided and sold again in 1784 and. 1785.

There is evidence that he then bought land in Rockingham County, North Carolina in 1786, about 40 miles from their home in Pittsylvania County, Va.  He probably died in North Carolina about 1800.