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HAMILTON, DAVID (?-?). David Hamilton, early Wharton County settler and Old Three Hundred^qv colonist, applied for land in Stephen F. Austin's^qv colony in September 1825. At the time of his application he was twenty-seven and had just arrived from Pike County, Mississippi, with his wife, Dinah, and four slaves. He reported a son in the census of March 1826. On April 23, 1826, Hamilton signed an affidavit concerning Indian depredations. He received title to a sitio^qv of land now in Wharton County on May 9, 1827. In 1830 he was living near San Felipe.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (3 vols., Washington: GPO, 1924-28). Lester G. Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 1 (October 1897). Adele B. Looscan, "Harris County, 1822-1845," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 18-19 (October 1914-July 1915). Austin Texas Gazette, August 14, 1830.

Llerena B. Friend

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