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15. HAMILTON³ MCCLINTOCK (Hugh², Francis¹), (the author’s direct line ancestor), born 31 May 1771 in eastern Pennsylvania, probably present–day Perry County, which was formed from Cumberland County in 1820. He died 9 May 1857 in Venango County, Pennsylvania, and is buried in Plumer Cemetery, ⁶⁹ Cornplanter Township, Venango County. Hamilton’s name is sometimes spelled Hambleton, such as on his tombstone. Hamilton married circa 1795, probably in eastern Pennsylvania, MARY CULBERTSON, born 19 September 1773 in eastern Pennsylvania, probably in present–day Perry County or the Chadd’s Ford area of Chester County. She died 27 June 1863 in Cornplanter Township, Venango County. Mary is buried in Plumer Cemetery, Cornplanter Township.⁷⁰ Mary Culbertson’s parents were Patrick and Jane (McClintock) Culbertson—see also #12 of “Culbertsons.”

stone of Hamilton McClintock

Stone of Hamilton McClintock in Plumer Cemetery, Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania. The stone reads “Hambleton McClintock, Died May 9 1957 in his 86th year.” Photo taken by Karen G. Rodgers (Oil City, Pennsylvania) in 1994.
stone of Mertson) Mary (Culbertson) McClintock

stone of Mertson) Mary (Culbertson) McClintock

Stone of Mary (Culbertson) McClintock in Plumer Cemetery, Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania. Although not evident from this photo, the inscription was still readable in the 1990s: “Mary, wife of Hamilton McClintock, died June 27 1863, aged 89 years, 9 months, 8 days,” Photo taken by Karen G. Rodgers (Oil City, Pennsylvania) in 1994.

Hamilton died in 1857, and in 1860 Mary (Culbertson) McClintock was living in the Cornplanter Township household of Samuel Russell, age 35, and Charles Russell, age 34.⁷¹ Perhaps this Charles Russell was the Charles Russell who married Clair Tracy and had a daughter, Ethel, who married John L. McClintock (#198), son of Andrew Jackson McClintock.

Hamilton McClintock and Mary Culbertson were first cousins, their grandparents being Francis McClintock and wife Jane [—?—]. Hamilton and Mary apparently were married before leaving Sherman’s Valley, Pennsylvania (about half way between Lewistown and Shippensburg, near New Germantown, in present–day Perry County) for western Pennsylvania in 1795. They passed the winter in Fort Pitt (where their oldest child, Jane, would have been born) and came to Venango County the following spring.⁷² Hamilton’s claim, presumably a Holland Land Company arrangement, was 400 acres on lower Oil Creek, Cornplanter Township, both sides of the stream⁷³ (Map 2). In the early 1800s, living on one side of Hamilton was Francis Culbertson (a brother of Hamilton’s wife Mary—see #8 of “Culbertsons”) and on the other side, Nathaniel Carey.⁷⁴ Hamilton’s land was the site of much oil activity during the 1860–1870 oil excitement. Hamilton was enumerated in, or what became, Cornplanter Township through the 1850 federal census. ⁷⁵

From Bell (1890), page 647:

Hamilton McClintock arrived in the spring of 1796. He had removed from Sherman’s Valley, Cumberland county in the autumn of the preceding year and passed the winter in Pittsburgh, whence the journey was continued to the locality. He secured a tract of four hundred acres in the valley of Oil creek along Cornplanter’s reservation and embracing the site of McClintockville village. There was an oil spring on the tract, enclosed by an embankment cradled with hewed timbers, and from the twenty or thirty barrels of Seneca oil was obtained annually during the summer season. It was sold principally for medical purposes, at seventy–five cents or one dollar a gallon, and reinforced in a most acceptable manner the slender resources of Oil creek farms at that date. The maiden name of Mrs. McClintock was Mary Culbertson; they were the parents of the following children: Jane, Hugh, James, Ann, John, Isabella, Culbertson, Mary, Rachel, Elizabeth an Hamilton. Hamilton McClintock, Sr., was born May 31, 1771, and died May 9, 1857. He was an elder in the Associate Reformed or Seceder church at Plumer many years. He was the first assessor of Sugar Creek township after the organization of the county.

A similar biographical sketch of Hamilton McClintock is in Babcock (1919), page 365.

Hamilton was a constable in Sugarcreek Township⁷⁶ (one of the original three Venango County townships; Cornplanter was formed from Sugarcreek Township in 1833). Hamilton apparently was not on the 1805 tax list for any of the townships; he was on the first tax list (1834) for Cornplanter Township.⁷⁷ On 27 August 1839, the Venango County Orphans Court⁷⁸ appointed Hamilton McClintock guardian of William Fleming who was the young son of Hugh Fleming, a son of Ann (McClintock) Fleming— see #43 of "Flemings."

From Bell (1890), page 155, pertaining to the Bench and Bar section, namely the second session of court ever held in Venango County, 17 March 1806:

… The second case was ‘Res publica’ vs. Hugh Clifford, charged with assault and battery was tried the same day … by the following jury [including] Hamilton McClintock … after mature deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty.

This Hugh Clifford was not of my Clifford line. The first settler in the Reno (Sugarcreek Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania) area was supposed to be this Hugh Clifford, “an Irish Catholic and soldier in the War of 1812.”⁷⁹ This Hugh Clifford first appeared in Pennsylvania on the 1800 census for Butler County. Perhaps he was the Hugh Clifford who was on the 1790 federal census for Montgomery County, Maryland. He was on the Venango County 1805 tax list for Sugarcreek Township and the 1810 census for Sugarcreek Township. On 5 August 1811, he filed a Declaration of Intention in Venango County.⁸⁰ He possibly was related to the Martin Clifford who also appeared on the 1805 tax list for Sugarcreek Township. There was a Martin Clifford in the 1790 federal census, Tyrone Township, Fayette County and 1800 federal census for Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Hamilton McClintock [Sr.] was in the War of 1812. This is verified from an item received by Helene Rogers from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, dated 14 January 1974 and reported in Rogers (1973/1995). The item states that Hamilton was in the 132nd Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Dale. Hamilton was a Private in Captain Daniel McCombs’ Company [Third Company] and his tour of active duty included the period 2 January to 9 February 1814. The 132nd Regiment was made up mainly of Venango County men and its roster is listed in Bell (1890), pages 270–274. Hamilton’s name is not listed, but as indicated in Bell, the name of numerous men who served were not on the roster. Ensign Edward Fleming (#6 of “Flemings”) was also in the Third Company, as were John Rynd (#4 of “McCaslands”), Samuel Small (#1 of “The Captain Samuel Small Family of Jackson Township” in “Notes on Smalls” section of The Oil Creek Flemings of Venango County, Pennsylvania, with related families, Volume 2), William Story (#3 of “Storys of Cornplanter Township” section”) and Elijah Stewart (#1 of “The Elijah Stewart Family of Cherrytree Township” in the “Notes on Stewarts” section of The Oil Creek Flemings of Venango County, Pennsylvania, with related families, Volume 2). For other Fleming–line ancestors and known associates in other Companies, see "132ndregiment"

McClintockville

McClintockville showing log cabin of Hamilton McClintock McClintockville and log cabin house of Hamilton McClintock [Sr.]. From Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Drake Well Museum Collection, Titusville, Pennsylvania, with permission. The photograph also appears in Venango County Panorama. A Pictorial History of Venango County, Pennsylvania, page 151, ⁸¹ the caption reading in part: “The photo shows an older structure facing the bridge which was the original log cabin home of Hamilton McClintock, Sr., a pioneer settler of Oil Creek. Believed to have been built in 1796, the large two story section was later added. The McClintock House Hotel at the left was constructed in 1860. B. Gates Hazen and Hamilton McClintock, Jr., brothers-in-law, operated the hotel...”

From Babcock (1919), page 137–138

Seventy–five wells were drilled on Hamilton McClintock’s four hundred acres in 1860–61. Here was Carey’s ‘oil spring’ and expectations soared high. The best yielded from one hundred to three hundred barrels a day. Low prices and the war led to the abandonment of the smaller brood. A company bought the farm in 1864. McClintockville, a promising village on the flat, boasted two refineries, stores, a hotel and the customary accessories, of which the bridge over Oil creek is the chief reminder.

For more information on Hamilton McClintock and his children’s involvement in the oil excitement starting in 1859, see the Oil and Our Oil Creek Ancestors section.

Hamilton's name is spelled Hambleton in the 1800 federal census for Allegheny Township, and this is the spelling on his tombstone. Hamilton's will is recorded in Venango County Will Book 3, page 184, written 4 February 1843, recorded 5 June 1857.

… he gives his son, Hugh, $1. and the piece of ground in Mercer Co. “which he now occupies.” Sons James and Culbertson are given a 400 acre tract on Oil Creek in Cornplanter Twp. which they are to divide between them. Son Hamilton is given the land in Cornplanter Twp. “where I now reside” plus all the personal property. He is instructed to pay the various bequests subsequently listed to his sisters. Wife Mary is to have $50 yearly to be paid by three sons. The oldest daughter, Jane receives $1 and the property “which I gave her at her marriage and now in her possession.” [I can find no deeds pertaining to land; perhaps the property was personal property]. Daughter Isabella is to receive $1 and the property which had previously been given to her [Isabella, who married Joseph Anderson, died in 1846, after the will was written, but left issue; I could find no codicil involving Isabella’s children]. Daughter Mary is to have one horse valued at $40; daughter Ann one horse and saddle worth $50; daughter Rachel one horse worth $40 or money to that amount and daughter Eliza one bed and bedding, one cow and one horse worth $40 or money to that amount. “My son, Hamilton, is to give the back room in the house I now occupy to my wife Mary with sufficient furniture therein to be occupied by her natural life." The will was dated 4 Feb. 1843 and witnessed by Wilson H. Stewart and William Jack. The will was recorded 5 June 1857.

Some of the nineteenth century McClintocks, including Hamilton McClintock [Sr.] were members of the Presbyterian Reformed or Seceder Church. There is an indenture, written and recorded 21 March 1836, between Henry McCalmont of Cornplanter Township, of the first part, and Hamilton McClintock, William McCray and Abraham C. Prather, trustees of Presbyterian Reformed Church of Cherry Run congregation. For $1.00 Henry McCalmont sells lands to the congregation.⁸²

Seceders were people who “seceded” from the Presbyterian Church (Church of Scotland), starting in 1732. The main reason given for leaving the Church had to so with the Laws of Patronage (brought in by the British Parliament's Act of 1712), which pertained to the methods of appointing ministers.⁸³ The Patronage law permitted “patrons” of the Church, some being far removed from the Presbytery in question, to appoint ministers to the presbyteries. The Seceders believed that the “call” from the people should determine the choice of ministers, But there were numerous other reasons besides the Law of Patronage for seceding. In regard to the Law of Patronage, the Seceders objectives were achieved in the mid–nineteenth century when the British Parliament repealed the Act of 1712.

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Children of Hamilton and Mary (Culbertson) McClintock (with the exception of Jane, probably all the children were born in lower Oil Creek valley, Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania):⁸⁴

+	62	i.	Jane⁴ McClintock, (direct line ancestor of the author), born 13 February 1796, apparently in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; she died 1865; married Samuel Fleming.
+	63	ii.	Hugh McClintock, born 17 March 1798 in Cornplanter Township, Venango County; died 10 October 1878 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania; buried in Cochranton Cemetery, Wayne Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; married Jane Nelson..
+	64	iii.	James McClintock, born 4 June 1800; died 3 March 1855; buried Plumer Cemetery, Cornplanter, Venango County, Pennsylvania; married Louisa Reynolds.
+	65	iv.	Ann McClintock, born 22 July 1802; died 9 February 1868 or 1869; married Moses Davidson.
	66	v.	John McClintock, born 15 March 1805; died 20 May 1805 in Venango County.
+	67	vi.	Isabella McClintock, born 1 May 1806; died 15 February 1846; married Joseph Anderson in 1832.
+	68	vii.	Culbertson McClintock, born 16 May 1809; died 3 March 1855; married Sarah McKnight.
	69	viii.	Mary McClintock, born 12 May 1813 in Pennsylvania; married (first) [—?—] Shontz in 1835; married (second) William Nelson; born circa 1824 in Pennsylvania;⁸⁵ he was a brother of Jane Nelson, who married Hugh McClintock (#63). The parents of Jane and William Nelson were David and Jane (Milligan) Nelson—see under Hugh McClintock for their dates, locations and source. William was a sawyer and farmer. The family lived in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Children known from the 1850 and 1860 federal censuses, all born in Pennsylvania:⁸⁶ (a) female Nelson, born circa 1838 (not in subsequent censuses). (b) William Nelson, born circa 1843. (c) Mary Nelson, born circa 1846. (d) James Nelson, born circa 1848. (e) Hugh Nelson, born circa 1855. Also with the family in 1860 was William’s mother, Jane Nelson, born circa 1774 in Pennsylvania.
+	70	ix.	Rachel McClintock , born 11 May 1815; died 15 November 1894; married Benjamin Gates Hazen.
+	71	x.	Elizabeth McClintock , born 28 January 1818 in Cornplanter Township, Venango County; died 9 August 1872 in Meadville, Pennsylvania; married (first) Francis R. and; married (second) James Tarr.
+	72	xi.	Hamilton McClintock, Jr., born 19 January 1820; died 27 July 1882 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; married Mary E. Jack.

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