Links to
sources of the material below:
http://www.talweb.com/redlimey/gene/hamrick.htm#PATSR
http://web2.airmail.net/b0001610/HAMRICK.wbg/
http://www.cmpu.net/public/jmckinny
http://www.ron.hamrick.net/toc.htm
And still another possible beginning!
Courtesy of J.R. McKinney http://www.cmpu.net/public/jmckinny
The HAMRICK name is noted for it's spelling variations..
The root name Amery or Amaury is thought to have been
brought to
The first written record of the name was in
William D'Amore b 1027 in
Hamrick variations of Amory, Emery, Amery, Ammory,
and Emmery were a distriguished
family and had Nobles at Court. They later spread to
'Amniner' in old Galic name
meaning "Freedom from Levity". It may have come from "O'hAmndhire" in
Hamrick, Patrick (~1684 - ~1764) - male
b. Est 1684 in ,,
d. Est Mar 1764 in ,Prince
It was the law at that time
that all males were indentured or served an apprenticeship until they were
twenty one. Patrick learned to be a Cooper or barrel maker. This was an valuable occupation as tobacco was shipped to
Where did Patrick and Henry
come from. Patrick is recorded as saying he was 'from'
There was a ship in the lower
Saint James harbor from July 10, 1699 to December 25, 1699 named "Squirrell of Bristol" It was a 50 ton Brigatine Ship built in Virginia in 1697 and was co-owned
by John Day.
It might be speculated that Roger,
Patrick, and Henry were deck hands and before the ship sailed on Christmas day
they decided to stay in
21 Jan 1725 Patrick Hamrick
was a witness, deed between Mary Raw to her on, Abraham Raw...proved 4 Feb 1725
King George County, VA Deed Book #1 p 230
17 Dec 1726 Patrick Hamrick of
King George County, VA and Margaret, his wife; Robert Ingles of Stafford County
and Sarah, his wife, to Samuel Skinner of King George County 100 A for 3500
pounds of tobacco. Land conveyed from Sam Coxe to
Robert Ingles in deed dated Oct 20, 1709. Land lying between Simmons + ye Gleabe land + Wm Bunbury. recorded
2 Aug 1734 - Samuel Skinner of
Hanover Parish, King George County to Patrick Hamrick of Brunswick Parish, King
George County...farm lett land for natural life of
Patrick Hamrick and Margaret, his wife, for tobacco payments. Recorded
10 Dec 1940 King George Book
E/1736/1742 page 132 E-224 Patrick Hamrick of King George Co. 118 A in Prince
William Co. Surveyed by Mr James Thomas the younger. Adj William
Davis. Winters Middle Br. Cuppers Cabbin
Br, of Buckhall, Richard Melton, Edward Graham, Roger
Day (now claimed by Hamrick) George Reaves, Thomas Davis.
1741 -
Patrick Hamrick on Prince William Co VA Voter Poll Dettington
Parish Tithable List.
From the Westmoreland Co., VA
Order Book 1678-1705, Part 4, 1703-1705 by John F. Dorman, Wash DC 1978 #from
page 236a {30 Aug. 1704] 'Francis Self did sweare
that hee had a good right according to law to claime lands for the importation of two persons into this
Colony, John Garner and Roger Day, and assigned them to Mr. George Eskridge.' (It was not unusal for
several persons to claim the same individual in obtaining Headrights)
If tradition is to be relied
upon, Patrick Hamrick arrived on the same ship with him. #
That appears to be a
reasonable inference that's often given to the use of the term
"shipmate" used by Patrick's neighbors when describing his
relationship to Roger many years later, long after Roger's death. # In addition
to being identified as Patrick's first cousin, Roger was said to have offered
Patrick an undisclosed parcel of land 'for life' if he would 'come up' into
Prince William County and settle on wilderness land for which he had recently
applied for a patent...
Patrick appears to have
declined to take him up on the offer and remained on the Tobacco
Shortly after Roger died in
May-Aug. 1725 his land deed was cancelled and the patent was passed to his
widow Elizabeth's new husband Henry McDonnac, who had
paid the composition fees.
In 1727, before receiving the
grant, McDonnac was required, at the request of
Elizabeth, his wife, to convey 260 of the 760 acres in fee simple to Elizabeth,
his step-daughter and Roger's heir.
In July of 1731, Henry found a
buyer for the 500 acres. This action may have been made as a forced sale due to
the action taken by the Court of Stafford County on
No evidence has been found
that Elizabeth, Roger's daughter, offered any objection, in 1739, to letting
title of her inheritance pass into the hands of Patrick Hamrick.
The facts are that Patrick
obtained the 260 acres of land that had been intended for Roger Day's daughter
Elizabeth. He accomplished this by establishing, in court, his status as the
rightful heir of Roger Day.
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THE HAMRICK AND OTHER FAMILIES
- INDIAN LORE By Margaret H. Hamrick 1939
The Hamricks
to
Until recently, no known efforts
have been made to establish through research the historical facts concerning
the early history of the family, and particularly, the ancestry of the Hamrick
family of West Virginia.
SETTLED IN
Patrick Hamrick obtained a
land grant from Thomas Lord Fairfax, December 10, 1740. The grant consisted of
118 acres of land in
In 1741, the Poll of Burgesses
of
The next year, 1759, he
created a new county from
The early Will Record Books
are lost from the records of
Tradition and history say that
Benjamin Hamrick of the American Revolution was a son of Patrick Hamrick. As
heretofore stated, the names of the twelve sons of Patrick Hamrick have not
been found among the available records.
(We now know that Benjamin, of
the Revolution, was the son of Benjamin Sr and Mary Sias. Benjamin Sr was the son of
Patrick Hamrick Sr. Patrick Sr and Jr each had 6 sons.) Patrick Sr-Patrick Jr, James, Robert,
Benjamin, John, + Joseph. Patrick Jr-Benjamin,
Patrick III, John,Samuel,
Charles, + Henry.
The records of Fauquier
County, of which Warrenton is the seat of government, disclose that one,
Benjamin Hamrick, was married and living in that county prior to 1773. That is
the date of the execution of the Last Will and Testament of John Sias.
John Sias
obtained a land grant of 639 acres of land from Thomas Lord Fairfax in Prince
William County, Virginia, in 1740,4 the same year
Patrick Hamrick obtained title to his land in
In 1779, the Last Will and
Testament of John Sias was admitted to record in
Fauquier County.5 That Will gave, "to my daughter, Mary Hamrick, five
pounds current money." At November Term of Court, 1779, an order was
entered summoning, "Mary Hamrick, wife of Benjamin Hamrick, to appear to
context the proof of the Will of John Sias."
As is clearly disclosed by
these records Benjamin Hamrick, married Mary Sias,
daughter of John Sias, and was living in
1 The records of the early
emigrants to
Ship "HOPE"
Registered owners: Benjamin Harrrison, William Byrd, James Cock. British Public Records Office,
These few pages from the
reprint of HAMRICK GENERATIONS, by Virginia De Priest [pages i, ii, iii,iv,v,vi]
"Please consider some pertinent
data: CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS, vol. III, page 109, 10 June 1706; Transportation
of Henry Hambrok, Patrick Anminer
and Roger Deg by Benjamin Harrison Jr., to Prince George County, Virginia.
Robert English, Thomas Hart
and Edward Graham gave depositions on 7 March 1739 as follows: That the (sic)
were "well acquainted with Roger Day and they often heard Roger Day
acknowledge Patrick Hamrick to be his cousin as they were children of brother
and sister, and were shipmates and that Roger Day gave Patrick Hamrick land for
his lifetime and assisted him in building, he having no other relation in this
country." These depositions were admitted to Court in
He was having children by
1715. He surely witnessed a will in 1719 in
1704, August 30th,
Westmoreland County, Virginia upon appearance before the Court In Open Session
(or before the Clerk of the Court) the Affiant, Francis Self did sweare that hee had a good right
according to law to claime lands for the importation
of two persons into this Colony, John Garner and Roger DAY, and assigned them
to Mr George Eskridge.
Benjamin Harrison was one of
the owners of the vessel "Hope" and also claimed Patrick. Benjamin
Harrison Jr who made a claim for Henry Hambrok, Patrick Anminer and
Roger Deg either was the "Hope" owner or a son who made "or
faked" a claim based on an importation several years earlier. The ship
"Hope" was in the harbor in 1704 but not in 1699-1700
S C Jones in THE HAMRICK
GENERATIONS, 1920 used the above data as the ancestors of the
S C Jones correctly identifies
Samuel Hamrick and Mary Hamrick as first cousins. Actualy
they were children of James and Robert Hamrick, sons of Patrick Hamrick Sr.
His knowing the data about the
Irish Hamricks makes you wonder why S C did not
relate Samuel and Mary Hamrick to their Irish cousins instead of the German
George. In Patrick's descendants who went to Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Georgia, and elsewhere someone has usually written that they were
descendants of a Patrick Hamrick from Ireland. Only in
The children and grand
children German George have been identified and no male descendant went to
There is some additional
unproven genealogy that suggests that Vikings came to
One of their descendants was
Duke William who invaded
The Amery Amaury
family were Nobles at four courts and were awarded
vast lands for their part in the Norman Invasion. After 1600 they started
drifting to
There is an old Galic name O'hAinmhire and a
derivative Ainmner that means "Absence from
levity". Benjamin Harrison recorded Patrick as Anminer
and his brother Henry as Hambrok again showing the
variation of the name. The Hamrick Crest says "Amore non Vi"
Title - Sr
Burial - Hamrick Fam Cem,Prince