Houston connection

[Mrchips]

Did you know that the Vice President Hannibal Hamlin's family had a 200 year history with the Houstons? A mere part of that history of the Houstons was that of ship building and slavery around the world.

They built ships in Glasgow and Liverpool England, and the generations grew by landing on the Chesapeake Bay and continued to build boats and shipping. The Chesapeake Bay linked the Potomac River and everywhere else to rivers all the way to Washington and branched off to Pittsburgh and easy access to Richmond. Roads were not good in those days. Rivers across the mountains linked all the way to the Ohio river as did slavery. The link across the mountains was policed by major Samuel Davidson Houston who died in an Irishman friend's tavern in 1753. The Ohio River bound by the free state north and the slave state south that of Kentucky where Abraham Lincoln was born. Incidentally Harriet Beecher Stowe crossed to and fro across the river too.

The Houstons were and brought across indentured servants and later black slaves from England and across the world and later the Huguenot invasion of Maryland made possible by Queen Mary.
Slavery included work on crops in the West Indies and the southern states and tobacco became the main currency, that produce was sold worldwide as was sugar.

I wonder Lincoln’s abolition of slavery and the introduction of paper currency if that wouldn't have a major influence on that trade including the railroads also built by slaves.

The Hamlins, Hannibal Hamlin had extended family too. Sugar had to be processed and sold to the world who where eager to buy ass was tobacco. The humble Hannibal Hamlin also had relations. One of these relations became the richest man in America. Used family to spread across America as the the land became available. That family as was the Houston spread far and wide. Obtaining land from the granted indentured servitude those families married on and the network grew and the fortunes made opened bank run by Houstons and relations. Examples are Houstons in Ohio, Illinois, and a Richmond family named Gray all related by intermarriage.

Those families from humble backgrounds suddenly opened banks.

Back to the Vice President he was purported to be from a humble farming family in Paris Hill who happened to be very interested in the theater and new and were close friends to the Booths over two generations.

The humble Vice President's extended family was that of the richest man in America married families to the Houstons before and after the assassination. That richest man in America and all subsequent branches of that family derived those riches from land produced crops originally from sugar from the slaves of the West Indies and then from corn crops produced from the lands from upper regions of America.

A close link to Abraham Lincoln was Bishop Raymond Ames whose wife was the aunt of Andrew Jackson Houston's wife. That wife’s mother was linked by family to two high ranking government official Houstons, too. All three were related to Abraham Lincoln's wife.

Maybe somewhere in the above you will see motive, access to Booth the reason for his escape route knowledge from the wives linking Houston, Hamlin, and the fortunes to be lost with Lincoln’s policies.
Sam Houston and Hannibal Hamlin were mere timeous pawns in a much bigger picture. Such is politics.