NOTE TO THE READER: The following document was found in a box of old family papers, and has not been verified by me personally. The applicant, Stuart Walcott Hamilton is a relative from my grandmother's side (Margaret Hamilton Howard).

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--Liese Uptegrove-Ade'

OUR LINE OF ROYAL DESCENT

of

Stuart Walcott Hamilton

To the

ORDER OF THE CROWN IN AMERICA:

I, Stuart Walcott Hamilton of

         Orange, County of Essex, and State of New Jersey, desire to place on record amont the archives of the Order the fact of my lineal descent from Charlemagne, Emperor of the West, which is as follows, as may be more fully seen in the pedigree annexed, viz:-

        Charlemagne, Louis I, Emperor Charles, Louis II, Charles the Simple, Louis IV, Duke Charles, Gerberga Countess of Louvain, Matilda Countewss of Boulogne, Eustace II County of Boulogne, Geoffrey de Boulogne, William D. Boulogne Faramusde Boulogne and de Tingry, Sibille de Tingry and de Fiennes, William de Fiennes, daughter of William de Fiennes wife of Bartholomew de Hampton, Sir Reginald de Hampton, Sir Alexander de Hampton, Sir Reginald de Hampton, John de Hampton, Edmund de Hampton, John Hapden, Anne Hampton, wife of William de Puttenham als. Putnam, Nicholas Putnam, Henry Putnam, Richard Putnam, John Putnam Nicholas Putnam, John Putnam Thomas Putnam, Deliverance Putnam, wife of Jonathan Walcott, William Walcott, Benjamin Walcott, Benjamin Stuart Walcott, Benjamin Stuart Walcott, Elizabeth Walcott, the mother of the said Stuart Walcott Hamilton.

         And I the deponent further say that the above line of ancestry, and as set forth in the pedigree annexed, is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

(Signed)

Subscribed and sworn to before me

(Seal)

Mon. Ang. VI., 1017, also Charters Mss. Dept British Museum, Cartulary St. Josse, fo. 5 fo. 20.

Sym. Dun. II, 310 John of Hexam.

Pipe Rolls, 1156, 1173

Cart. St. Josse fo. 5, 20.

         The Royal Line from Charlemagne to Duke Charles is of common knowledge, and may be found set forth in any history of France of general reference work. The Ancestry of Matilda, wife of Eustace, County of Boulogne, will be found in a contemporary chronicle published with critical notes in Monumenta Germaniae. Domesday Book compiled in the reign of William the Conqueror (1086), and in the lifetime of the persons composing the three generations following Matilda, is authority for those generations, which are further confirmed by the reprinted archives, deeds, and abstracts given in the margin. Faramus of Boulogneis an historical character, and his descent is set forth in his charters, and in other legal documents contemporary with the lives of the persons most interested, (see references in the margin). The same is true of Sibilla de Tingry and her son. The Hampton pedigree is of date of 1579, and so far as possible to prove from printed records would appear to be authoritative, the only criticism being that there is a possibility of one generation having been doubled which in no wise affects the line of descent, and this pedigree is accepted by Lipscombe the careful historian of Buckinghamshire, and Edmonston in his magnificent work on the peerage as per references given in the margin. The Putnam line has been investigated by Eben Putnam and the published results have been confirmed in many important and minor particulars by later finds of deeds, lawsuits, etc., revealed by the publication of calanders and archives by the British Government. The fact that this family possessed lands in the parishes formerly the properties of these ancestors is in itself confirmatory of the pedigree. The search for Putnam ancestry included an exhaustive search of all probate records, feet of fines, lay subsidies, many series of close and patent rolls, and of parish registers, as well as Mss. collections in the British Museum and the Heralds College.

         The Walcott line is proved in every step by Wills, Deeds, Town and Church records down to and including Benjamin Stuart Walcott, and the generations since are a matter of personal knowledge confirmed by family records of the applicant, who can if necessary, obtain the legal certification of the same.

         The compiler of this pedigree presents it without any doubt of its credibility, and is prepared to defend the same.

         I, the undersigned, compiler of the above pedigree, say that I have carefully examined all the records herein quoted, and to the best of my knoweldge and belief the facts hereinbefore set forth are true.

(Signed) Eben Putnam

Subscribed and sworn to before me this ninth day of February, A.D., 1905.

(Signed) George Lemist Clarke,

Notary Public

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