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With the migration of Mary Eliza Jameson Hammond to Tennessee, rather than Texas as O. W. Hammond proposed, the Jamesons continued their long itinerary of travels across the world. According to a book published about the Jamesons8.1, the itinerary seems to be the following:
The Jamesons were of Scottish parentage migrating to Ireland in 1619, but the first of our line to come to America was: Hugh who sailed from Londonderry, county Ulster, Ireland, on August 4, 1746 for Boston, Mass. He married Jane Barr (ca. 1753) and settled in Dunbarton, (then called Starkstown) New Hampshire. Their son Hugh was born in N.H. in 1764, and married Janet Brocklebank ( b. N.H.) and reared their family there and in Canandaigua, New York, where their son Samuel was born on May 22, 1789.
Samuel, as a grown man, migrated from New York to Jo Daviess County, in northern Illinois in time to get free land and participate in the Black Hawk War (1830-33). He served as a Federal officer during the conflict with the famous Indian chief and his warriors. He had located his land before its outbreak and returned to it after laying aside his musket. He secured it from the government, and ``there had not been turned a furrow upon it when he settled thereon.''
This land remained in the family until the 1970's
when Paul Jameson, son of Samuel C. Jameson died. Samuel C. Jameson,
son of Samuel and Matilda and known by our family as ``Uncle Sam''
farmed the land as long as he lived. The family farm lay to the west
of Hanover about one and a half miles, and the railroad passed
very near it. On the Platte Map of the township in 1873
Mrs. Jameson's land is shown as 126 
acres, laying to the
east of W. Dean and J. Craig, southwest of Hanover, between the
Mississippi River bottoms and the Apple River.
Samuel Jameson had three children (1817-28) by his first marriage to Rachel Hanby: Julia, John and Ann. Ann married a man by name of Dunn; in 1889 both John and Ann Dunn were living in California. In 1854, Samuel married for the third time, to Matilda Craig.