Son of Theophilus Hambleton and Netty Powell.
Micajah "Micager" Hamilton is NOT THE SON of Micajah "Cager" Hamilton & Elizabeth Hamilton, but his brother, Jeremiah Hamilton & Anny Luyster. I have researched this family for over 30 years.

“Micajah Hamilton was born on January 10, 1797 in the area northwest of Fredericksburg, VA. The location of the home has not been specifically recorded, but references mention ‘near Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock’, in Culpeper County.”
[Doni's note:

Died: Shiloh Neighborhood, Union Township, Johnson Co., IN

Mercer Co, KY Deed Book No. 9, page 36, dated 10 Aug 1811 * Copy in personal possession.
      Shows Theophilus apprenticing his son, "‘Cager' Hamilton to Garret Cozine to learn the art of farming."
      Micajah was about 14.5 yrs old.

During his teens, while under the tutelage of Garret Cozine, Micajah was a wagoneer and drove a six horse team from Kentucky to the inland towns of the southern states.

KY Court Records, Mercer Co.1785-1830, FHC Film 851648, p252
      Micajah Hamilton/Elizabeth Lyster [Luyster] m. 17 Feb 1820
      Married by: Rev. Thomas Kyle; Copy of Marriage Cert in personal poss.
      Mercer Co. Marriage Bond:
      Micajah Hamilton and Elizabeth Luyster - Feb. 15, 1820
      Bondsman: Peter Luyster

"Making a Neighborhood", by D.D. Banta - Union Twp, Johnson, IN
      "In the summer of 1834, Micajah Hamilton, of Mercer Co. Kentucky, came to this county, and being pleased with the outlook entered 240 acres in section 26, and immediately moved his family out, but not to his new purchase. This did not take place till sometime in 1837, at which time the Hamilton family became identified with this neighborhood. Micajah Hamilton was of English extraction and Virginian by birth, coming from near Fredericksburg, on the Rappahannock. to Mercer Co. while still a boy. His early life was an eventful one. His father dying soon after reaching Kentucky, he was thrown upon his own resources, and while yet in this teems, became a wagoner, driving a six-horse trader's team over the mountains as the occasion required to the principal Southern inland cities. His wife was Elizabeth Luyster, another descendant of the New York Dutchmen, whom he married in his old Kentucky home ere he came to this state."

The Franklin Democrat, Franklin IN -Fri., 10 Feb 1905, pg 3
Shadows of the Past — Part I
      When Columbus discovered America in 1492, the steady yeomanry of England, Germany, Scotland, France and Ireland were ripe for change of home and to become emigrants elsewhere and to get from under the hand of oppression. Everywhere the yeomanry was the bone and sinew of those countries. They constituted the plain, common citizenship that bore the burdens of war and formed the bulwark of the state and defense of the kingdom. They felt those grievances and now was opened the outlet across mid ocean to the New World, where freedom would be to them and their children.
      The River Severn goes through one of the best parts of England. Its productive bottoms yield the products abundantly that sustain life. From this section of England came the ancestors of the subject of this sketch. In the seventeenth century the Hamilton family, in a colony in the sail-ship and shallops of those days, crossed the Atlantic and finding the mouth of the James River sailed up the beautiful stream and landed in the dark, green forests thence through the forest hunting a location for a homestead. There the fore-parents of Micajah Hamilton settled, built up a home and soon prospered.
      The fore-parents, Alexander and Arithela Hamilton, after clearing off the heavy forest on the Virginia home and building up a comfortable house, took the Kentucky fever. Rigging up the old-fashioned wagon with bows, sheet and green canoe bed, they started to the new state and, settling again, built up a home and were happy. To these fore-parents in Kentucky was added Micajah Hamilton, a vigorous and persevering boy, who rapidly grew in strength, and at maturity was a hardy strong man with an iron will that moved him on the right road of usefulness and success through life. There in his old Kentucky home he became acquainted with Miss Elizabeth Luyster, and in the old simple, but best way, they were united in the sacred vows of marriage.
      The young couple at an early date in life moved to Johnson county, Indiana, and settled in Union township. Again in the deep, heavy forest, with willing hands and united zeal, they built up a home soon and were comfortable. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton were not only good workers, but also good and worthy citizens. They were among the founders of Old Shiloh Presbyterian church, which is still standing in Union township. As long as they lived, with the Covert’s, the Young’s, the Banta’s, the Demaree’s and the Miller’s, they were true to their faith and Old Shiloh church lived. But with the scattering of those six old pioneer families, the church has closed, but the noble, old structure that has been the refuge of many thirsting for the bread of life, is a grand old monument and it tells its own tale of usefulness and help given to our township, Union, fifty years ago.
[Provided by Mark McCrady #47714241 and Cathea Curry #47339429]
[Doni's Note: Alexander and Arithela Hamilton may be our earliest ancestors in America, they are not Micajah's parents. This note is placed in just in case this article in given out to others. Do not transcribe without the note. Thank you - Doni Wright]

The Franklin Democrat, Franklin IN -Fri., 3 Mar 1905, pg 7
Shadows of the Past — Part II
      Seventy-five years ago the emigration from Virginia and Kentucky to Indiana was very great. The dense heavy forests of Indiana seemed to open their bosom of welcome to the steady, hardy pioneer family. In the lowly log cabin with all its primitive greatness and humbleness did the fore-parents live in peace of mind and contentment in their crude homes.
      …[unreadable]… At the age of manhood and womanhood they settled in life and kept apace with the parents. When settled in life, they reared a big worthy family of rugged boys and girls who kept population increasing and who were the sons and daughters of the age that laid the successful basis of government in all its departments.
      Take a retrospective view back to the founders of Old Shiloh church: The Winchester’s, Young’s, Hamilton’s, Banta’s, Demaree’s, Covert’s and Miller’s who colonized the southern part of Union township, built up homes, cleared off the heavy wood, built the church and took hold of the opportunities of that age with true devotion to home and family. Those old pioneer families passed on but everyone left the next generation that took hold of better opportunities and made a greater advancement in every respect. Only a small percent of that second generation is still living but enough to witness the great stride the third generation has made and is making in every occupation. The beautiful mansions, large well-arranged barns, the railroad, telegraph, telephone, electric car, R.F.D. mail and the modern invention of the farm and shop. God’s plans are man’s opportunities.
      We can only note in this the Hamilton family. Micajah Hamilton took an active part in township affairs and raised a large family whose history for worth and good citizenship is well known. To Micajah and Elizabeth Hamilton were added ten children viz: Mrs. [Nancy] Isaac Vandiver, John Hamilton, Mrs. [Martha] Rheuben McNutt, Mrs. Rachel Nelson [widow of Anderson Nelson], Mrs. Mary Young [widow of James Wiley Young], Robert R. Hamilton, Jas. Hamilton, Peter L. Hamilton, Wm. H. Hamilton, and Mrs. [Susan] John James Vandiver. All of these are living but the three last in this list. Three of these sons were in the late rebellion, i.e. Wm. H., Peter L. and Robert R. Hamilton. This is a remarkable family for long life. James, the youngest, is near 70 years of age.
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