Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Robert Hamilton was born in Blevard, Scotland to William and Euphemia [Alston] Hamilton in 1783. Around 1807, he and four of his brothers immigrated to the United States and settled in Granville County, North Carolina, and in 1812 the brothers started up their own business. On December 15, 1834, Robert left the family business and traveled to the Red River area along the Texas-Arkansas territory line. He was elected one of the delegates to represent the Red River district at the Convention of 1836 to discuss the coming secession and war with Mexico, and there signed the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2nd. After the Convention, both he and George Childress were appointed to travel to Washington DC to get official recognition of the Republic of Texas as an independent country. On December 20, 1836 he was named chief justice of Red River County by President Sam Houston and began organizing the district's law department. How and when he died isn't altogether clear; evidently he died at the Pavilion Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 16, 1843, but there is some evidence he died in Red River County in 1845 as well.
Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Robert Hamilton was born in Blevard, Scotland to William and Euphemia [Alston] Hamilton in 1783. Around 1807, he and four of his brothers immigrated to the United States and settled in Granville County, North Carolina, and in 1812 the brothers started up their own business. On December 15, 1834, Robert left the family business and traveled to the Red River area along the Texas-Arkansas territory line. He was elected one of the delegates to represent the Red River district at the Convention of 1836 to discuss the coming secession and war with Mexico, and there signed the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2nd. After the Convention, both he and George Childress were appointed to travel to Washington DC to get official recognition of the Republic of Texas as an independent country. On December 20, 1836 he was named chief justice of Red River County by President Sam Houston and began organizing the district's law department. How and when he died isn't altogether clear; evidently he died at the Pavilion Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 16, 1843, but there is some evidence he died in Red River County in 1845 as well.
Bio by: Screwtape
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