Houston connection

[Mrchips]

Firstly thank you for asking. What bought me to this site was the love of history, and I have only been here in this site for a short period. As I originally said from an entirely different angle. Some of my responses will be off the top of my head as will this be. The reason being that I am a stay at home father aged 63 with a 3 year old daughter a miracle conceived by a cancer surviving 45-year-old wife who was told she now couldn't’t have children. Miracles I am used to. I experience them all the time. Enough waffling. Incidentally my 3-year-old is the reason for any grammatical mistakes, because I get plenty of interruption and do not get time to re read to correct them.

In answer to your question as I remember the Hamlins originally from London, England first came to Barnstaple, Me. then on to Paris Hill, Paris me as you said.

The time referred to was when Hannibal Hamlin was a teenager and left his home with his brothers to see if his theatrical interests were as strong. His father did hold theatrical events because of his own interests which guided his son thereto, and yes the father was a farmer. While Hamlin was away with his brothers his father wrote him a wonderful letter diplomatically persuading Hamlin to return home and subsequently after trying land surveying he was guided further into politics.

The Hamlin family originated in America with two brothers some 3 or 4 generations back.
Hannibal Hamlin's branch was as aforesaid however the other original brother branch was becoming the richest man in America and base in Buffalo, New York. He was nicknamed the “glucose king.” He and the Houstons intermingled over centuries bringing in slaves and processing and selling sugar worldwide.

Today eyebrow raiser ......
Around the middle of the 19th century and therefore around Lincoln’s death, both the Houstons and the Booths were intermarrying with ancestors of the current British royal family.