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JAMESON, COL. SAMUEL, farmer; Sec. 30; P.O. Quincy; was born about six miles north of North Bend and west of Fort Washington (now Cincinnati, Ohio) in October 1800. His grandfather Jameson came from Scotland in 1756. His uncle, John Jameson, had command of the post at New York that Major Andre was turned over to when taken prisoner. His mother’s brother, James Rankin, crossed the ice on the Delaware with General Washington the night of the battle of Trenton, and was with Washington when Lord Cornwallis was taken prisoner. Her other brother, Wm. Rankin, was in Crawford’s defeat in 1782. Mr. Jameson’s father served in Wayne’s army three years, helped to build Fort Wayne, Fort Recovery, and Fort Defiance. His mother came down the Ohio on a little flat boat, with old Mrs. Benham and two other families (but having aboard only one man), and landed at Fort Washington in 1795, and there met her husband, who was mustered out of Wayne’s army. His Aunt Pattie, wife of Jas. Rankin, drew a pension about fifty years, and a portion of the time Captain’s pay. His father’s cousin, Mary Jameson, was the only survivor in a massacre sometime during Dunmore’s war, the balance of the family were all killed, and she taken prisoner, afterward marrying a chief called Hickatoo, by whom she had three children, and at the “big tree” treaty in New York was given a large reservation of land on Geneseo flats, on which she resided until her death. Mr. J. had two brothers in the war of 1812, and a brother-in-law, Daniel McDaniel, was in Hull’s surrender and Perry’s victory. Col. Jameson came to this county in 1843; was married to Miss Nancy Mars, who was born in Philadelphia and died in 1876. They had nine children. He has 160 acres of land, valued at $150 per acre; is Democratic in politics; was formerly an old line Whig.