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John Hamilton, Thomas Baillies father-in-law, was born in 1801 in Paisley, Scotland. He was named after his father who was also born and raised in Paisley. He had one brother, Mathew, and two sisters,
one named Elizabeth but the name of the other sister is not known.
John worked during his younger days in the Paisley shawl factory and in 1824 or 1825 he was married to Anna Polson.
Their only child Elizabeth was born in June 1826, and in February 1846 she was married to Thomas Baillies who was
born in Ireland in 1814, but who resided in Glasgow until he went to Paisley to work as a cabinet maker.
Their daughter Ann was born July 18, 1848. In August, 1849, John and his second wife who was Margaret Reside,
his first wife having died in 1833, and Thomas Baillies and wife and daughter Ann, and Matt and Jim Weatherspoon who
were sons of John Hamiltons sister who was a widow, sailed from Liverpool for New York, and settled in Columbia County, Wisconsin, in October 1849.
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